KAZAA - WOULDN'T THIS WORK????

[UKantCMe]

ok, for people worried about getting sued by the RIAA, wouldn't this work???


In Kazaa's settings you tell it where to download your mp3z to. So to me, it seems like all you have to do is change this to an empty folder and store your mp3z somewhere else. This way you're not sharing any files, which is the whole issue right? Once you download a file, just move it to where you are storing the rest of your mp3z...

i know there is a setting to disable sharing, but i think this way is even better since no matter what, this "empty folder" is the only folder that kazaa can ever have access to.

to me, it seems like thats all you have to do and it will always look like you are not sharing anything.

anyone know why this wouldn't work???

 

[mustynutz]

damn we thinkin the same way.....thats what i ended up doing

 

[UKantCMe]

i know, but it seems so simple, i don't know why anyone would still get caught. it seems too easy, i feel like i'm overlookin something...

 

[Cranky]

The shitty thing is that if everyone does that, there won't be shit to download anymore........

 

[UKantCMe]

yeah thas true... and the harder to find stuff will probably be harder to find...

 

[Deep Thought]

Yes, this works. I aleady posted it as a solution when folks were asking.

 

[UKantCMe]

right on...

 

[Deep Thought]

My original post:

I run Kaaza Lite at home. To get around the prying eyes of the RIAA I simply move all my music (once downloaded and screened) to another folder altogether (that's not shared). I also dissabled the ability of users to lookup all my files. So if by chance the RIAA where to see anything in my shared folder (when anything was even in there), it would only be a handful of tracks at best. They're going after the cats who got a thousand or more, not me.

And my bad 'CMe, I posted this on Raptalk, not here.

 

[UKantCMe]

right on, i just wanted to know if anyone else had thought of this already, cuz it seems like a very simple solution.

 

[nefar559]

i thought the RIAA was going after people who are downloading, not sharing.

 

[Zer0.MediA]

Good work on the very old idea....

And it's the sharing they care about rather than the downloading.

 

[UKantCMe]

i didn't know it was an old idea zero. i never heard anyone else mention it before. i thought of it when the lawsuits started happening but i use irc, so i didn't even trip off it...

 

[Zer0.MediA]

I'm just fuckin' with ya anyway. But basically I don't know why people haven't been doing this in the first place. I don't want people dl'n off of me. I don't have the connection speed to waste, and why the hell should anyone have the option of knowing what I have?

I never kept anything in my shared folder...

 

[MizeryU]

wow i havent been don this since i got kazaa already since it uses all your bamdwidth when someone is uploadin your shit

 

[DubbC415]

already did it.

 

[Reptile]

i been doin that...sharing 0 files

 

[BornIIDie]

just turn off the file sharing option.

 

[PlanetZeroPat]

Ive been doing that since the napster days, I wouldn't be able to get half the shit I have now if I were to let people with 14.4k modems mooch off me, when I shared people would try to get 50 of my files at a time and freeze my computer, plus having to go to court over some dumb shit like file sharing is not somethin Im willing to do

 

[Deadly Game]

I been tellin folks to first of all make sure they usin Kazaalite...which has no adware or spyware so its safer and less annoying to use....it also has the ability to keep users from checcin out your files as Deep Thought mentioned....on top of that you use a fake email address.....move ya files out a ya shared folder or burn them ASAP.....if you do all that i dont see wtf they can bust you for......

 

[MeloTrauma]

Ive been doing that since the napster days

Yup.