Saw this over on Slashdot... RoadRunner Blocking Use of Kazaa An anonymous reader submits: "You should know that RoadRunner is quietly blocking the use of Kazaa in certain markets. Particularly in Texas, they have some sort of port scanner in place which scans for Kazaa activity and then disables use of that port, rendering the program completely useless. Grokster, iMesh, and all other FastTrack programs are similarly affected. Yet RoadRunner is not disclosing the practice in any way. Not only that, I'm troubled by the possibility of them arbitrarily choosing to block other programs in the future. If this becomes more widespread, they will have many angry (and former) customers." The poster provides these four links to forum postings with more information: 1. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3804108~root=cable,rr~mode=flat 2. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3775421;mode=flat;root=sware 3. http://pub45.ezboard.com/fmorpheusfrm1.showMessage?topicID=18.topic 4. http://pub45.ezboard.com/fmorpheusfrm1.showMessage?topicID=197.topic
Kazaa Lite has been up and down lately...I don't know if its cause of Road Runner. I stopped using Morpheus after it started acting up, probably caused by Road Runner.
I just started using kazaa (i'm using it now actually)-- my opinion is get whatever you can now because soon they will all be gone. Especially if they start going after users with large libraries (ie) lawsuits
kazaa is gay it has spyware. Try xolox or qtramax.. go to www.download.com to do a search of mp3 searchers
dang! that explains why my friends are having problems with Grokster in RR, I have DSL... I am about to get back on RR - this sucks! Does anyone else use the other ISP's offered by TWC now? It used to just be RoadRunner and now they have added AOL HighSpeed, STIC.NET, and Earthlink and the cost is 44.95 for any of the four. Will these new ISP's be similary affected, anyone used them? http://www.twchouston.com/internet/index.html
I use WinMX and LOVE it. It is hard to understand at first since there is really no help, but once you get it done, it is easy and cool. AND unlike Kazaa and others it has no SPyware or any other piggyback program, like BDE. If you have KAzaa, search your Drive for BDE. Brilliant Digital is installed whenever you install Kazaa and it uses your PCs processing power and combines it with thousands others for ITS use.
you can disable that option in the Kazaa settings by unchecking the "Do not function as Supernode" checkbox.
