I trust the new pool and Mercedes SLK suits you nicely ?

So how does it block (child) porn? Filters on the file names are useless of course. Is there someone who sifts through and watches each and attemots to watch every single file? What about encrypted files?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all against kiddie porn, but I can't help but think they're lumping in this claim to try and make the service look better than it is.

Just like many others, I dropped Kazza a long, long time ago.

Okay, how are they going to spot the file? Probably the same way antivirus programs spot viruses, some sort of digital fingerprint type thing. If it doesn't find the digital fingerprint, it moves on. So all the uploader has to do is figure out how to "mess up" the file so that the fingerprint is changed. When people download it, they will probably have some simple way(since they're human beings and not computers) to change it back to what they want. Heck, they could come up with dozens of ways of encoding and decoding and simply make it so someone has to scan a small amount of output to figure out which one is the key.

Literally millions upon millions of ways to trick this stuff. I guarantee it.

"Apparently they will be launching a live trial with an as-yet-unnamed Australian ISP within a month."

Oh great, since Australia is the only democratic country dumb enough to forcefully try and firewall their citizens from the Internet we now also get the priveldge of getting this rubbish tested on us too. 

Time to get my EU passport and get off this idiotic island. Our right to privacy is almost getting as bad as the UK's and now we're getting an ugly dose of American style moral conservatism.

Man, we're just a big old bunch of lab rats we Aussy Internet users are.

Predictablely, those regressive Australian ISPs are jumping on this. Though I have to wonder if they'll make any "sales" considering their extremely poor bandwidth transfer they allow users.

stopped using it back in 2004

KAZZA!!... Poof! Naked people on your screen!

KAZZA!!... Poof! There goes your security!

KAZZA!!... Poof! Your wallet is lighter!

Three strikes, and your computer is dead!

Then shock worry and shame sets in, isn't this the classic attributes & goals of terrorism?

Google for:

"brilliant digital entertainment" malware

It is Malware and has been around in various forms for years. Brilliant Digital Entertainment is nothing new at all.

I now trust Kazaa even less than I used to, and thats saying something. I trust the US Government and Microsoft far more than there cockmasters.

Avoid, unless you enjoy re-installing your PC.

Andy

Prepare yourselves, evil hackers & children of malicious intent will FUBAR this project.

Why? uhm...I don't really know, they just do.

Goodluck.