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riceboi
August 25th, 2002, 04:37 AM
Can Kazaa be shutdown? I thought it uses decentralize
file-trading networks? And how do the courts expect them to shutdown if they are found guilty of copyrights infridgements?
crackerjacker
August 25th, 2002, 05:36 AM
no, kazaa is centralized. kazaa controls there networks. its only decentralized in the *sense* they have supernodes.
notbob
August 25th, 2002, 07:24 AM
kazaa is not centralized--the thing that makes them vulnerable is the corporate entity in control of their protocol--sharmann/bde/altnet.

gnut as a protocol has no real "corporate control"--it operates under the gnu public licence--individual clients could be shut down by lawsuits, gnut as a whole can't be sued out of existence, so more clients will fill the gap
DigitalJunkie
August 25th, 2002, 07:59 AM
Kazaa is centralized, it own those servers that keep those supernodes & users list up to date! If, Kazaa shut down those servers, there won't be a Fasttrack network for all p2p clients that uses it.
notbob
August 25th, 2002, 09:08 AM
it doesn't matter anyway, because without their protocols, kazaa is gone servers or not--if sharman goes down, so do all the proprietary protocols, so kazaa won't run no matter what
wiggum
August 25th, 2002, 04:04 PM
Sharman do not control the protocol. That is done by ZennStrom under the name Blastoise Ltd.

Kazaa is centralized, it own those servers that keep those supernodes & users list up to date

Depends on who you believe. The RIAA internal memo on FastTrack said something to that effect but it is no means certain.

The encryption of the protocol is certainly controlled and altered by ZennStrom and co.
Morgwen
September 1st, 2002, 02:33 AM
Originally posted by DigitalJunkie
Kazaa is centralized, it own those servers that keep those supernodes & users list up to date! If, Kazaa shut down those servers, there won't be a Fasttrack network for all p2p clients that uses it.

In this case Gnutella must be centralized too but both are decentralized... yes its right if you shut down these servers it would be "almost" impossible to connect. How many networks do you know which donīt need a server (at least for the initial start)? There are NO.

Morgwen