Do you use kazaa? And do you know that your computer might be used without your knowledge?
This doesn't seem too cool. Is this old news? Why do people still use it?
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• Some Napster replacements — notably KaZaA, the most popular — are fitted with "spyware," which gathers information about a computer and its users. The information is then sold, often to companies responsible for spam e-mail.
One spyware company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment, revealed to the government last year that its software has been installed on the millions of computers running KaZaA. The company will have access to the unused computing power of those machines. Brilliant planned to rent all that untapped power to the highest bidder, once the network is switched on.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ehazard24.html
This doesn't seem too cool. Is this old news? Why do people still use it?
Quote:
• Some Napster replacements — notably KaZaA, the most popular — are fitted with "spyware," which gathers information about a computer and its users. The information is then sold, often to companies responsible for spam e-mail.
One spyware company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment, revealed to the government last year that its software has been installed on the millions of computers running KaZaA. The company will have access to the unused computing power of those machines. Brilliant planned to rent all that untapped power to the highest bidder, once the network is switched on.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ehazard24.html
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