NEWS: Kazaa Hates Itself

GEEK: Kazaa Hates Itself

In court documents for the Australian recording industry's case against Kazaa over copyright infringement and questionable business practices, an interesting piece of information surfaced:

Kazaa's own employees hate the program. Well, the free version of it, anyway.

Of course, users can always pay $29.95 for the "adware-free" version. This doesn't stop Kazaa from bundling other things with the program, though...

Things like this are why Spybot Search and Destroy is one of my favorite programs.

kazza ruined my prevoius computer. so much shit came with it and slowed the thing down so much that i couldn't even use it.

LIMEWIRE...use free Limewire to download LimeWire Pro..

anyone know of a good spy destroyer for MAC ?

[Edited on Feb 11, 2005 by Racer_X]

kazzalite, free spyware free. I thought Kazza was kaput.

Kazaa infested my poor computer, resulting in much annoyance beyond belief.........it rendered it totally incapacitated. i FUCKING loathe spyware and adware......grrrrrr.......

adaware is my friend

win mx is what i use never had a problem

It opens when YOU want it to, pushing the X closes the program completely, the downloads aren't constantly being virus-searched, ect.

I love WinMx. It hardly slows my crappy dial-up, especially if I am just downloading one file. Kazaa used up the whole connection. I'm not shitting you guys when I say that it would take a page FIVE minutes to load fully.

i scanned a few times with search and destroy but there's some kind of DSO exploit that refuses to let itself be removed.
everytime i scan and choose to "solve problem" and scan again it's still there.

does anyone have any idea's , search and destroy says it allows websites to run code on my computer.

I use both K-Lite and WIN-MX. Win-MX is the bomb for geting MP3's!!! Both are ad and spyware free.

Employees of the company that owns Kazaa Media Desktop hate using the program because the accompanying software can slow their computers, the documents say.


...imagine that- the emploees at kazzaa are thinking, sentient beings just like the rest of us.

Kazaa blows - free music is great but i'd much rather buy new cds than ruin my comp. system.

Why does Kazaa even exist anymore? Bad program. So many better alternatives.
Even if you can get a "clean" version of Kazaa, good luck actually downloading the file you want. Ad companies spam Kazaa with fake videos that open web sites; piracy haters and bands spam fake songs and trial version of songs. Waste of time.

Don't mess with AdAware or Spybot, get the new Microsoft (GIANT) anti-spyware....it's 100X better, as I can attest to after having absolutely no spyware on my machine now.

Mmmm. Kazaa Lite is still on my comp, though I'm a big Soulseek/eMule fan now.

That's funny because I hate the program too. I use Limewire and I generally like it besides the fact that it slows down my other Internet related programs. But yeah, Kazaa was awful and I'm glad it's dead.

I've pretty much given up on those sorts of programs and given myself fully to torrents. I use BitComet a lot. The torrent scene took a bit of a hit after Suprnova went down, but there's still some sites out there. I like torrentreactor now, looks very similar to suprnova.

Kazaa can eat shit and die.

SHAREAZA!

*cough* Soulseek *cough*

Kazaa !? Kaza-hahahaah

Who needs Kazaa?

Well the employees are people too.

Why the hell would we need that for? Next you're gonna ask if there's any good virus software for the Mac.

hey, me too. anybody... what the hell is that? and how can i get rid of it?

and why do neither ad aware or spybot search and destroy detect the wildtangent thing that spyhunter finds but that i have to pay for the full version of spyhunter to get rid of?

these are not rhetorical questions. i do not want spyware on my computer.

mmmm. soulseek and bit torrents.

Boot in Safe Mode and run Spybot to kill the DSO exploit.

The reason they don't detect WildTangent is because WildTangent is neither spyware or adware. It's usually installed with a free game you downloaded from somewhere, and it does collect anonymous usage statistics, but they have a privacy policy concerning personal info:

When a company changes its policies and is no longer performing spyware-like activities, Adaware and Spybot generally remove it from the detection list.