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tw · 01-02-2003, 10:10 PM

KaZaA, Morpheus and Audiogalaxy appear to be the biggest music exchange services. KazaA is particularly gaulling to the RIAA since written by three programmers in the Baltics under contract from someone in Scandanavia, then sold to an organization on a Pacific island with management in Australia - or something like that. If I have numbers correct, something less than 10 million songs a day are exchanged by KazaA alone.

However, a distributed software exchange appears to have some weaknesses. It leaves your computer exposed to network hackers. Details of where this can be avoided by properly setting a computer are unknown since I was not impressed by the technical background of those who claimed to have been hacked.

01-02-2003, 10:10 PM	#8
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	KaZaA, Morpheus and Audiogalaxy appear to be the biggest music exchange services. KazaA is particularly gaulling to the RIAA since written by three programmers in the Baltics under contract from someone in Scandanavia, then sold to an organization on a Pacific island with management in Australia - or something like that. If I have numbers correct, something less than 10 million songs a day are exchanged by KazaA alone. However, a distributed software exchange appears to have some weaknesses. It leaves your computer exposed to network hackers. Details of where this can be avoided by properly setting a computer are unknown since I was not impressed by the technical background of those who claimed to have been hacked.