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[Neon]

A company that fought net piracy by adding fake files to file-sharing networks is being closed down.
Overpeer led efforts to battle the rising popularity of file-sharing networks such as Kazaa.

The company tried to make it hard to find high-quality versions of pirated media by flooding networks with fakes holding adverts or garbage.

Overpeer's owner Loudeye said it was looking for a buyer for the assets of the loss-making subsidiary.

Reduced impact

Overpeer came to prominence in 2002 when it was regularly being used by music and movie makers to dilute the number of copies of popular songs and films on file-sharing networks.

By making it a chore to find a good copy of what users wanted, Overpeer hoped to force people to turn to legitimate download sources.

In a financial filing, Loudeye said the ratings systems that many peer-to-peer networks had introduced to give users information about authentic and fake files had reduced Overpeer's effectiveness.

Explaining the decision to close Overpeer, Loudeye said in a statement with industry regulators that the subsidiary had lost a major client in mid-2005 and it had steadily been generating less and less cash.

The closure of Overpeer would help Loudeye cut its own operating costs, it said.

[ShadowFox]

Kazaa is dead and gone, Now It's limewire and Torrents... Kazaa died in umm 1999, maybe sooner, my memory is vague

[patman174]

I hate kazaa, I have worked on peoples computers as recently as in the past 3 months that still had kazaa on it and was being used. They asked me what was causing so many viruses to get on there machine and i replied one word "Kazaa" It has absolutly nothing worth while on it except viruses. Im not going to complain, cause it keeps me busy LOL.

[Visentinel]

HaHaHaHa ! =D sweet

Hopefully other company's like starforce start to see the Futility of fighting Piracy

GoGo the PiracyBorg

[Neon]

LOL, i do think that we gotta have some stuff free, anything that's good usually costs a fortune

[ShadowFox]

Yeah, and we are poor and pathetic, we need free to keep us alive

[A4U]

its their own fault, people will always support piracy somewhere, if there is a way there is a will (reversed the saying on purpose)

[RedInferno]

KW13, on Dec 14 2005, 07:40 AM, said:

LOL, i do think that we gotta have some stuff free, anything that's good usually costs a fortune

EBay! :cowboy:

ShadowFox, on Dec 14 2005, 07:52 AM, said:

Yeah, and we are poor and pathetic, we need free to keep us alive

LOL, poor an pathetic, that's me.....check the ditch...

[ShadowFox]

red... you said it, we just agreed