Diet Kaza Beta 1 now available to all...read inside

[NudeEmperor]

You can find Diet Kaza beta 1 on Usenet on alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc. Please share it on Kazaa if you download it. Anything! absolutely anything to reduce the numbers of the fawning multitudes over at dietk.com trying to get Chip to give it to them. It's a depressing sight!

Chip seems to feel that it's not a good idea to have thousands of people running a beta version that doesn't work because "it'll give the program a bad name". This is ridiculous, especially given the fact that the old version of Diet Kaza no longer works properly anyway, with either Kazaa 1.7 or Kazaa 2.0. The real reason for withholding the beta is that there's a strange juvenile enjoyment about amassing a fan club of adoring 15 year olds. Baa! Baa! The sooner we get some competition in the market for 'multiple search' add-ons on Kazaa, the better for the dignity of 15 year olds and the P2P community in general.



NudeEmperor (a beta tester!)

[Udi]

Don't be so stupid!The reason why the DietK betas aren't public, and that's what Chip said, is that it is now known that Sharman Networks are watching DietK's development. It is pretty obvious that if Sharman gets to know DietK's 2.0 tricks, they'll do their best to block it, and that's what Chip is trying to avoid.
Just for your iformation - Sharman will sone release Kazaa Plus 2.0, for the price of $15, which will have no ads, and will allow the user to click 15 times on the "search more" button (only once on free version). That's why they already blocked DietK 1 Deluxe's trick to search more infinitely... With the release of Kazaa 2.0, this is no longer possible.
So Chip is waiting for the release of Kazaa Plus first, than he'll release DietK 2.0. And by releasing the beta to the public, you're just hurting the community and the whole network! we now have to face both RIAA and Sharman Networks! Let's not do those stupid things anymore!

[NudeEmperor]

This strange logic has permeated the Internet for years; a feeling that in some way a few 15 year olds on an IRC channel or a web forum can keep a piece of information or code between themselves! A feeling that slowing down the natural process of protection attempts and counter attempts is in the long term interest of the mass of Internet users.

Don't you think that if (and it's a big if) Sharman Networks were really afraid of this program that they would pose as a beta tester to get it? or just ask one of the 'loyal' beta testers for it (as I did!). Personally, I suspect they don't need the services of a spotty adolescent doing a bit of basic reverse engineering in an immature effort to amass a fan club, to point out the all too obvious flaws in their system!

And anyway, my interest is in the long-term future of P2P as a FREE service. The sooner Sharman close up all the loopholes in their system that they possibly can close, the better. The sooner they then try to charge for the 'Pro' version of Kazaa the better. The sooner they then find out that people are NOT prepared to pay in significant numbers the better. The longer it takes to do so the more time there is for a mass of users to accumulate on Kazaa, which will be all the harder (and therefore longer) to shift to an alternative free P2P network (if Kazaa, as a non-centralised network, isn't cracked).

It is inevitable (in the long term) that one big non-centralised, free of charge, P2P network will emerge to dominate file sharing. At the moment we have far too many systems with files scattered accordingly. It's just a matter of time, but there are ways the process can be accelerated and there is something we all can do. In my case it's distributing any tools that some naive authors, such as 'Chip', choose to protect (and, by the way, charge for!).

Chip and some others are contributing to speeding up that process but the problem is that they suffer from a form of myopia brought on by an understandable adolescent desire for power and recognition among their peers.

In the meantime I suggest that future beta testers of Diet Kazaa (or any other such tools) carefully consider whose interests they’re serving before they decide NOT to post the tools for all to use (either on Usenet or P2P networks).



NudeEmperor

[dr. damn]

Yet another reason that half-open beta tests are a poor idea is that you have idiots like this guy trying to spoil the entire thing.

[TFoS_Fan]

Personally, though I love using betas as soon as they are released normally, I think I will wait a bit on this one till I see all the features of KaZaA Plus v2. Chip is right to not fully release a beta yet.

[Crazy Horse]

Agreed my friend.

[Elistas]

Thanks! :tilted

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Thanks to people like u NudeEmperor Beta 3 has now been delayed for ages.