KaZaa Suspends Downloads

chill writes: "'Download Temporarily Suspended -- Download of the KaZaA Media Desktop software is temporarily and voluntarily suspended pending Dutch court decision on January 31. We apologise for the inconvenience. Please check back at www.kazaa.com for more information.' --- Both the Linux and Windows client downloads are offline. I wonder what the judge thinks this will do to the tens, if not hundreds of thousands who already have the software?"

Re:How does this solve anything?

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the point of suspending the download from their homepage?

Because a judge took a look at the binary executable and found that the byte values and/or their disposition in the executable is offensive.

What it will do

[ErfC]

I wonder what the judge thinks this will do to the tens, if not hundreds of thousands who already have the software?

It will get a story posted on /., prompting millions of users to simultaneously fire up their existing KaZaA software to see if the network is still up, thus melting the servers and shutting down the network...

Reminds me of a wonderful book.

[AMuse]

In the book "Microserfs", by Douglas Coupland, the writer muses (This was, by the way, in about 1993):

"Someday life will be nothing more than jail and shopping."

'Nuff said.

What a relief

[Dan Crash]

Well, that takes care of THAT! Piracy is finally solved. Move along now! Nothing to see here!

Re:even funnier

[dozing]

Or you can just open up your Kazaa client and download Kazaa and install it on your... Oh wait... I suppose if I don't have Kazaa I can't open it... So I open Morpheus and download Kazaa and install it... Oh, I suppose if I already have Morpheus there's no real purpose in installing Kazaa since the use the same network... What was I saying?

KaZaa MaNtraa

[guttentag]

The "communitieZ" topics at the bottom of their home page [kazaa.com] reads like a strangely appropriate twist on Apple's "Rip. Mix. Burn." ad campaign:

Discuss. Chat. Defend.

Wow

[J'raxis]

Well, it worked so well for DeCSS, didnt it? Didnt it?

Re:What to do:

[Com2Kid]

Solution?

Biometrics.

"Oh, what password officer? I just put my eyeball upto the retina scanner, my thumb on my fingerprint scanner and belch into my microphone and then hum Beethoven's fifth backwards. Then I say the list of woman I have cheated on my wife with."

Even if they tied you down to a chair and made you look in the retina scanner, pressed your hand on the scanner, and made you drink alot of carbinated soda, you could hopefuly plead self incrimination for the voice recognition part of the authentication. :)

Re:What to do:

[Anonymous DWord]

Or you could just cut off your thumbs and flush them down the toilet when you see the Gest^H^H^H^Hpolice coming. Poof! No password!

Re:kazza? good riddance.

[LegendLength]

The idea is to get people to share files not run away in fear.