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If you're thinking about downloading software from former well-known music sharing source, Audiogalaxy, DON'T. Now, their service has gone commercial, and the software you can download from them is infested with add-ware and spy-ware from companies like Gator and such.

Take my word for it.... DON'T!!!

The same goes for Kazaa. Even Kazaalite, which claims to have 'dummied' the .dll that puts up all this spyware, will allow popups. Most of the ads contain a virus or trojan.

I read an article about Kazaa a while ago, in a financial newspaper. They said Kazaa steals so much information from you, you don't want to know.

Actually I'd like to know. Never used Kazaa though.

Everybody should use Soulseek.

i use winmx?

Soulseek rules! Especially if you're into electronical music. I think Soulseek is the best filesharing program so far.

Also, check out Direct Connect++! The program allows you to access multiple hubs at the same time. The program is much better than the original from neomodus.

Actually, I gave the Kazaa example to illustrate how filesharing works.

All the filesharing programs I've hear of work alike. As most of them (or their transactions) are illegal, they do not care about your privacy either (cfr spyware).

yeah, full of v.d.

Soulseek is very cool - I had never heard of it untill I read this thread - Now I have installed it and is not disapointed. I have been able to find a lot of really cool music there, which isn't available on Kazaa or WinMX! Great

Thanks a lot!
Thomas

if one cared about one's work(now,let's not get paranoid nothing is 100% safe,i know..)one wouldn't use any file sharing program on the machine that one was using for music.....

Agree 100%.

Where's the logic if one's using file sharing while looking for a record company to publish your work!? Maybe publish it on your file sharing program?

This next page is very clear.

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/306476

We focused our research on vulnerabilities in audio and video players. The idea was to come up with holes in various programs, so that we could spread malicious media through the p2p networks, and gain access to the host when the media was viewed.
(...)
Our software worked better than even we hoped, and current reports indicate
that nearly 95% of all p2p-participating hosts are now infected with the
software that we developed for the RIAA.

Follow the link to read more.

Well. I did not get it all from that link. Did they produce hacker ware for RIAA? So they can go onboard on a PC, that has been on kazaa? Will they ever dare to use it?

Anyway, (almost) what ever they do to bust people from stealing music is fine with me. Want to be dishonnest (we will bring dishonnesty to you then )

hmm, read even more on
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030115S0005

That security focus article has been questioned a few times. Its unclear whether its deliberate FUD or something that is actually occuring and being denied since the required legislation to give media companies the 'right' to invade your computer has been delayed in most of the nations that would be concerned with this issue.

However, there are many companies doing similar things. Most simply run clients that search irc/ftp/p2p connections on your machine for contraband and 'report' you to your isp and RIAA/BMI/ACAP/etc. The biggest concern with this is that people can and often are disconnected by the more paranoid isp's without any recourse from their end. Guilty until proven innocent under the TOS of their provider. I recommend being aware of the TOS that applies to your isp's connection.

The biggest niggle i have is that the cost of online delivery is negligable when compared to even the $1-$2 (USD) cd's that are pawned on us for $15-20, and yet rather than seeing tremendous opportunity nothing has been done outside of the courts and a few small HIGHLY RESTRICTIVE pilot programs to curb the piracy going on. In a vacuum.....

This looks like complete bullshit to me. The tone of this gobbles email sounds so provocative and also the RIAA itself has denied this. What's more, how could downloading an infected file available on a p2p network be able to generate a back door that would fail to be identified by a firewall? The only way would be for it to modify the firewall app you are using... and that would also be easy to detect. what about hardware firewalls? These guys are clowns

If you wanna get rid off pop ups and so on use the http://www.crazybrowser.com enhancement for IE 5 or higher.

im a soulseek geek for ages now
is there a creamware user room i have missed?
If not, one should be created...