Who ever said irony was dead?
Wondering if Kazaa Lite has a new version out? It's going to be somewhat more difficult to find out, especially if you didn't bookmark the page. If you do a quick Google search of Kazaa Lite, you'll see lots of pages that probably were closer to the bottom before. If you scroll down to the bottom though, you'll see the following notice:
In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 7 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.
Kazaa Media Desktop had decided to file a complaint against Google for linking to sites that infringe their copyright, and this would include Kazaa Lite. I could go into epic proportions about how this is an expansion of the DMCA and what the long term ramifications of this action are, but instead I just wanted to point something out that struck me as somewhat odd: Kazaa is claiming copyright infringement on a product that is used almost solely to infringe copyright.
Like I said, you could probably have a long discussion over the legal and social meaning to all of this, and I'd refer you to places where that conversation is taking place if you're interested. As a final note of irony on my part though -- perhaps the icing to the cake: by linking to the DMCA complaint, Google effectively gives everyone a list of all the sites that it removed from its search page, so you can still find the sites you want, albeit in a slightly roundabout way. Thus the whole exercise of filing the complaint is almost pointless given that anyone can still retrieve the information that they were initially looking for.
I wonder how long it will take for Kazaa to file a complaint about the complaint?
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