Comments on: Reminiscing about Kazaa

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:14:20 +0000

LOL. Yeah, I was wondering why you were there in the first place. I don’t even have a theme for myself, I just write on stuff I like, but it often works.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:32:30 +0000

I lurk #AnimeBlogger for a reason, Mike~

I’ve been blogging on and off for years, only recently switched over to animeblogger.net though, like a few months ago or something. Sometimes it’s hard to be consistent – I’m still trying to find the right feel for my blog. I can’t find a nice theme, either. ;_;

I used to have a more C.C. type thing to the whole blog, but since I spam G00 stuff I decided to use the name Innovfailure (like Innovator) for now.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:11:17 +0000

Wait, you have your own animeblogger account, C.C?!

That’s so cool! Of course not, I don’t mind. I haven’t been around because of the final requirements for my graduation, but I’ll hang around there quite soon.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:52:18 +0000

Wow, christ I remember Kazaa… I used to get all of my Anime off of it, ‘cept I never used the original, just Kazaa Lite. I don’t remember when or why I stopped – I think I was off the internet for a while, and when I got back I just started using torrents.

Grats on being able to write a whole entry on something like this, I fail at blogging. lol
Mind if I add you to my blogroll~? I haven’t seen you around IRC in a while, but I suppose timezones can be blamed for that.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:41:14 +0000

Remember Kazaa Gold and Kazaa Gold Premium? They were merely rip-offs from Kazaa Lite with their skins changed, and people bought into it, paying $30 for some free software. I found that really funny.

I don’t know when the original software was shut down, though? I swear I was still using it early 2005, but I don’t know when it was shut down specifically.

Torrents rock, of course.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:35:36 +0000

Man, I remember Kazaa. Those were the days, until knock offs like Kazaa Ultimate or whatever promoted themselves, only to turn out to be spyware mania. Soon, even the original software got shut down. I manly use torrents and Limewire now, but those were the good old times.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:42:46 +0000

Really. But I think a significant part was also the rise of other, cleaner spyware programs like Limewire (which, despite of the prevalence of fake files, remains to be spyware-free). Even Kazaa’s employees refused to install Kazaa on their PCs. That was how much they knew Kazaa was bad.

Also, BitTorrent has grown to be a lot better and a lot more favorable. This reflection took place all because of my remembering a rogue anti-spyware program which I wanted to test.

By: Turambar

Turambar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:34:56 +0000

I think the biggest irony with alot of the older P2P programs was the fact that part of their decline was caused by competition from other networks whose own client was being distributed through the former.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:07:46 +0000

We eventually had to reformat out PCs as well. Kazaa really sucked, now that I look back at it.

By: Os

Os — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:23:15 +0000

I cant help you, but I can attest to the spyware. I wanted to get cable internet for my computer but it wouldn’t work because of all the crap from Kazaa. I ended up reformatting it cos it turned out I had 13 different viruses and one of them was named “Terrorist”. Good times.