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I must agree i have been thinking along those lines as well
id like to thinkthis place was sweet ............
having no ads here is a blessing(i hope not in disguise)
uploading files from your computer .........
maybe easy to log
why did the other forums shut?
this place is very attractive..........
are we not getting monitored? lets hope so
it is so easy not to trust things online these days
fucking corporations have bought it out wholesale
and you know what that means
i found this bit scary from the salon.com link TG posted:
The payoff might seem slim -- companies like Cydoor and Ezula pay 10 or 20 cents per download. But multiplied by millions, such pennies begin to add up to a revenue stream. And the parasites themselves become the gatekeepers of viability. Like spores of mold endlessly seeking the most popular new software applications, they grace the survivors that hoist themselves out of the Net's teeming shareware underground with cash and a certain level of endorsement. The more parasites you have, the more others regard you as an evolutionary winner. And while the relationship may be imperfect, few developers -- particularly in the white-hot peer-to-peer area -- expect a breakup anytime soon.

"Money has to come from somewhere," says Niklas Zennstrom, one of KaZaA's co-founders. "There are many people who think that everything on the Internet should be at no cost and free of advertisement -- but that is, of course, not the way that companies can operate."