To Kaaza or not to Kaaza

Pungay_Baaz_1 · April 16, 2003, 1:03am

Hello Friends,

I am thinking of joining a paid internet service to download songs. Kaaza.com is one of them. There is also MP3U.com

Does anyone have any experience with any of these or have a recommendation? I hope to download Desi songs as well, if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Faisal · April 16, 2003, 1:07am

Re: To Kaaza or not to Kaaza

I never knew Kaaza had a paid service as well. I mean, typically we hear about Kaaza as a free music-swapping site.

If you wish to join a paid internet service to download songs, then good luck. Do let us know how your experience goes. :k:

Pungay_Baaz_1 · April 16, 2003, 1:11am

I think kAzaa is a free file swaping program. But kAAza is charging $1.49/mo
for its services.

Mehnaz · April 16, 2003, 1:29am

I use Kazaa all the time and have never had to pay for their services.

If you do join, make sure you disable the ability for other users to have full access to your personal files or else they'll start uploading stuff from your computer.... talking from experience here!

Faisal · April 16, 2003, 1:45am

Ah! That explains it. Thanks for clarifying. :k:

Faisal · April 16, 2003, 1:49am

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by MehnazQ: *
If you do join, make sure you disable the ability for other users to have full access to your personal files or else they'll start uploading stuff from your computer.... talking from experience here!
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I think Kazaa has more problems than that. For starters, it loads spyware into your computer. I have to run Pest Petrol just to keep an eye on Kazaa. And then whenever I start Kazaa, it makes my Firewall go crazy. I have disabled all uploading (which is your shared folder anyway), and also I have disabled auto-start-up. When I need a song, I start it, and exit out completely as soon as its done. I guess, if someone can manage all these assorted "gifts", then Kazaa is good for personal use. Atleast till it lasts. I have little doubt, that sooner or later these music companies will come after it too.

Nadia_H · April 16, 2003, 2:49am

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oh no… The same thing happened with us. We had Kazaa, then uninstalled it for memory reasons (our comp was running low on memory).
A few months later, we started getting calls from our local internet service provider that someone was uploading huge amounts of data from our computer. This is one of the major internet service providers in our city, but it was causing them disruptions in providing internet access to others - cuz our one family account with them was hogging so much memory. It caused sooooooooo many problems, for everyone, not just us. gosh it was an awful experience. Alhamdulillah it’s been fixed now…but only cuz our computers crashed and so we had to reformat everything and install it new.

i miss not being able to download any music files i want from Kazaa, but the peace of mind that we have got in return - i can’t put a price on that.

mAd_ScIeNtIsT · April 16, 2003, 10:33am

Use KazaaLite. It's Kazaa without the spyware. And you can either disable uploads, or you can just move downloaded files out of your shared directory once the download is complete.

Mehnaz · April 16, 2003, 12:53pm

Oh gosh, what is this spyware???

I think my Kazaa is o.k. now after I had my little incident of having files uploaded from my computer. I disabled everything and set it so that I don't have the program start automatically. I don't store anything at all in my shared folder eventhough I disabled the ability for other Kazaa users to take stuff off of my computer.

Hmmm, I will take a peak at the settings when I get home to see if there is any spyware installed.

ch_and-be_ii · April 16, 2003, 2:37pm

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Faisal: *

I think Kazaa has more problems than that. For starters, it loads spyware into your computer. I have to run Pest Petrol just to keep an eye on Kazaa. And then whenever I start Kazaa, it makes my Firewall go crazy. I have disabled all uploading (which is your shared folder anyway), and also I have disabled auto-start-up. When I need a song, I start it, and exit out completely as soon as its done. I guess, if someone can manage all these assorted "gifts", then Kazaa is good for personal use. Atleast till it lasts. I have little doubt, that sooner or later these music companies will come after it too.
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OMG....thanks for the info!

PakistaniAbroad · April 16, 2003, 4:44pm

u shouldn't kazaa.. but you should kazaa-lite.

The_new_COOLDUDE · April 23, 2003, 1:35pm

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Faisal: *

Atleast till it lasts. I have little doubt, that sooner or later these music companies will come after it too.
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Doesn't matter if kazaa goes,there are plenty of other free file swapping softwares out there.How many will the music companies go after?

BoReD_iN_BrIsBaNe · April 23, 2003, 3:09pm

kazaa is goood :k:

Faisal · April 23, 2003, 3:27pm

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by The new COOLDUDE: *
Doesn't matter if kazaa goes,there are plenty of other free file swapping softwares out there.How many will the music companies go after?
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In case you didn't read about it... the Music companies have recently filed a law suit, not against the file-swapping company, but the INDIVIDUALS (a few of them) who had downloaded songs from there. If they continue to do that, that will slowly "kill" this thing, atleast in the USA. Those elsewhere can continue to swap, I guess.

shahzadqu · April 23, 2003, 5:37pm

if everybody start disabling uploads from Kazaa then wuts the use? we won't get anything from anyone then. i use kazaalite and don't have any problems with it. i also have firewall and it doesn't cause me probelms there either.

RT_Wolf · April 25, 2003, 3:50pm

I think the paid services is called Kazaa Gold. And Kazaa has a large base, I don't think that about 5% would really effect the downloads. They're leechers, and nothign can be done about that.