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Kazaa switches sides to fight pirates and porn
KAZAA has become a P2P poacher turned game keeper and invented new technology with the music industry that it claims will eliminate the illegal sharing of pirated content and child porn over peer-to-peer networks.
Kevin Bermeister, who was sued for millions by the music industry between 2004 and 2006, is now chums with Michael Speck who ran the music industry's case as the head of its anti-piracy arm, Music Industry Piracy Investigations.
Together they have formed an outfit called Brilliant Digital Entertainment which runs software on internet service provider networks that enables the " instantaneous conversion of infringing activity into legitimate content transactions".
Basically, when an ISP's customer uses a file sharing program such as LimeWire to, for example, search for a pirated music track, they are only given search results containing legitimate versions of the song and are given the opportunity to buy it instantly.
The ISP is encouraged to take part in the cunning plan because they get a cut of the revenue, and the charge is added to the customer's monthly internet bill.
Apparently they will be launching a live trial with an as-yet-unnamed Australian ISP within a month.
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Prepare yourselves, evil hackers & children of malicious intent will FUBAR this project.

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

Goodluck.
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
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?
stopped using it back in 2004
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.
Man, we're just a big old bunch of lab rats we Aussy Internet users are.
"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.
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.
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.
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