I use Kazaa and i don't think it's wrong. It's not illegal to record a TV show and give a copy to your friend, as long as you do not profit from it. Do you think it's wrong to let someone borrow a book of yours? Is it wrong to give the book to someone permanently? No. Music is just another product like books, duct tape, anything else.
As long as nobody is selling them for profit(except the bands themselves)
Well I use kazaa. I dont think what i do is wrong because i'd never buy half the stuff anyway, so the producers arn't really losing any money anyway. Plus half the stuff i download i couldnt get in the UK anyway. I was a user of napster until it lost its fight against the big record companies ( i wasnt to happy at metallica starting the thing) and i think that the record companies should learn that if they destroy a large P2P network like kazza a new one will simply take its place like morpheus and winMX or kazaa, if they would work together with p2p to share the work at very cheap prices then everyone would be happy their just being greedy.
On a different note, i have to say im not to happy with the way kazaa is being run, i know the network operators need to make money but the adware they install is really bad for your system.
Just to keep the questions going... what do people think of users who don't share the files they download, i can understand users with 56k modems being hesitent to give up their connection but people with broadband should really be making more of a fair community where they make their connection available to more people after all since we can download about 10 times what any other user can, shouldnt we give 10 times back???
Nope im a very good kazaa user... unlimited uploads with 100% bandwidth, but on reading the kazaa information your rating is not based on how many files you share, but your average upload to download ration, and i havent turned kazaa on for a long time, if im downloading tv shows then i leave it on all night which explains why im usually super user, but since i've not had any TV shows in a while im at a rating of 32 out of 1000
Which computers could you use for that/ i only get like a 40meg space at PC cal so that wont work, but i can just share my files across my home network and boost my rating that way
We can't use Kazaa in uni because the Admin's have blocked it from even being installed. Direct Connect wouldn't work either I use WinMX instead, although I can never get any movies off there, the queues are always huge. I share songs and films with my friends in other universities as well though our webspace
What connection are people on? I'm on a 6mb/s connection in uni, but stuck with a 56k dial up at home. Apparently 8 miles from Cardiff is considered "too rural" for broadband
im on 512K at home (althought i tested the 1 meg for a few month during the trials but i cant really afford it right now) and i honestly have no idea what cons we have at uni, as far as i can tell i have access to atleast 3 different networks, a labarinth of network drives and more email acounts than i'd care to think about.
As for file sharing, most of mines is done via my home network and kazaa. I do download a lot of crap though (upto episode 60 of dragon ball z and still going) but i think its great that i can download music and put it straight onto a minidisk, it litrally takes minutes and i can have a brand new minidisk full of the latest music, "I LOVE TECHNOLOGY"
Doesn't anybody have access/run FTP's of music/films/software?
We usually get full music albums in one download, and always at 192bit rate. I get the odd track fron kazaa, but the quality I find to be very mixed and usual track quality is 128!
While music cd's are still close to £20 I struggle to feel guilty.
I have 4.9k/s at home on a leased line but 24 hrs which is better than dial up, damn India for not imroving
To keep it on topic for Andy
I use Kazaa, and I see nothing wrong with it, I mean the software prices are SO outrageous that too many users are compelled to pirate it I mean go out to a shop and ask for the price if 3dsmax 5 it's about 4000$ that's 500000 in Indian rs and I got my own PC for just 21000, sure they will catch all those who use p2p, but it will just take another form, it simply will never die unless the sw companies reduce the prices to an acceptable level
What's the point of buying a new computer if all you can afford is DOS?
End of rant
I find DC++ to be better for unreleased and rare stuff, but Kazaa I use when I am damn tired of connecting to each and every hub, and DC takes the filenames and not sizes, ie if u r downloading a data.cab which is 8000k then if u resume it will resume from another data.cab which is 2000k makes things frustrating....
i really dont think there is a problem with 128bit, thats CD quality in MP3, i burn all my music to CD or put it on Minidisk and no one can tell the difference between the music i have and an actual CD.
On the other hand when im downloading videos then i take as high a bit rate as i can get, cause its a real pane when the videos come in real low resolution.
Mine doesn't resume from different file sizes, only if you tell it to.
Also, re searching hub. Look for a program called MOSearch (or iits predecessor GLOSearch). Automatically goes through all the hubs and then tells you which to connect to.