Kazaa Rumor
 

I am looking for someone who can confirm, deny or if someone else has heard this rumor. If you empty out your Kazaa shared folder and it still lists you as hosting a single file it means you've downloaded a ghost program from the "powers-that-be' (RIAA, etc.) and they are tracking your downloads and a possible candidate for a subpoena. Who's heard this and does anyone know if its true? Thanks

This reeks of an urban legend spread by RIAA-sympathizers. I'd say it's the result of sloppy programming in Kazaa. Mine lists incorrect numbers all the time. It's probably the hidden index.dat file in the folder.

/me bets on rumor. Kazza IS shitty programming.

Sounds fairly far fetched. I use kazaa a fair bit and have never come across any ghost program.

I wouldn't give the RIAA that much credit. Plus, if they got you to DL something that did something shady like that, it could be grounds for a lawsuit.

My guess is that its no more than a rumor.

i call bs

i bet its real :cool:

Bug.

Also, RIAA isn't going after Joe Filesharer. They are slapping subpoenas on people with huge volumes of shared content on colo servers.

Why do they attack Kazaa and not IRC, dont pirated files/warez usually begin on IRC, then move onto Kazaa.

And does TFP consider Kazaa downloads warez?

It's probly just a bug. My friend had the same thing happen to him, now he is all paranoid about using Kazza. Now he's only using IRC.