It's just a folder that kazaa-lite adds where all the songs you download can be stored. When you go to burn the songs you downloaded you will look for "My shared folder."
It's where your music goes after you download. It gets put into that folder so everyone else can download that file from you. All you have to do is move the song file into another folder.
So what's the latest? Anybody gotten sued yet? I've got a, uh, friend who's been stealing a bunch of albums lately. He's not sharing, so safe?
What's to keep a record company from setting up a fake "user" name on some site and nailing you when you try to download some tunes?
True story. I work on the FSU campus as a researcher in the meteorology department. One morning, before work, I check my e-mail at home and see a message about file-sharing. I figure it's not concern to me - I don't do it, and definitely not at work! I get to work, and there's a sign on the cabinet coming in: the MPAA has notified FSU that someone had downloaded a copy of 2 Fast 2 Furious to a certain machine in the department and was potentially sharing it with others on the Internet. They demanded removal and verification of such immediately. The crazy thing? I had used the machine in question for a week about a month ago, and then the machine in question (well, the IP) was assigned to my supervisor, a well respected professor. Wasn't me, of course, nor was it her: it was someone who is visiting for the summer to work on the lab webpage and had been screwing around with various computers and dept. IP addresses. I think he got off easy by claiming innocence and skirting around things to the dept. sys admin, but I'm not one to judge. In any case, they said that gigabytes of data were coming in and out of that machine daily. I just think it's amazing that the MPAA has the technology to determine such things, unless they are sharing files and tracking IPs in an attempt to bait people while downloading. So, the whole moral of the story: if you're sharing files, watch out.
I don't share my files because I usually just delete them after I burn a CD. Hopefully this won't get me in trouble. Seems to me they should go after the people who actually upload music to their computers and then share them instead of the people who just download. Before the anti-downloaders start flaming me, I download a CD then listen at work for a few days. Then I decide whether or not to buy it. I've downloaded all of DMB's CDs and bought them all afterwards.
