Monday, March 21, 2005

Kazaa is fucked

I just started using Kazaa, and in my opinion, it is fucking garbage. At first I was really impressed when two files downloaded almost instantly. I thought, whoa, this is awesome. That thought evaporatd into the ether as soon as I tried to play them and nothing happened. Thankfully, I am not a rookie and I know where and how to locate codecs that make this shit work. The only codec that would play this stuff was on a Chinese military website. I thought "What the fuck?!" too. I don't know what the People's Liberation Army is doing ripping tunes, but I have serious doubts that they share the same taste in music. Maybe they are translating some of the tunes to get their soldiers pumped before they shoot people in stadiums. Who knows?

"Qui Zhe dei Fong, Xi Quey Go Ping, Zhao me Li Tao, Now I Leign in Brood!"

Who knows?

Another reason that Kazaa blows is the search results. My better-half requested this and that from me. So I type it into the search engine and the results I got were not only in left field, but well camped there as well. The search for "bridget jones diary" under "video" resulted in "Alice in Wonderland" by Disney, and a plethora of Porno movies starring Sylvia Saint, and a Duran Duran mp3.

To top all of this off, and as if that shit wasn't annoying enough, the amount of "Gain Corporation" pop ups is fucking ridiculous. Gain is just another information gathering firm that sells garbage like viagra and spyware remover to unwitting consumers and then sell any kind of information they gather to credit card companies, the government, Al Qaida, Satan, Tim Horton's, etc.

Three strikes and you're out. Kazaa is banished from my machine because 1) What they promise to deliver is crap and doesn't work. 2) Try finding anything you're looking for and you'll waste your time and 3) They are going out of their way to harvst your info and sell it to the Penis Enlargement Lobby in Washington.

Now, If anyone trys to jump to their rescue and say "But, hey man, if you get Kazaa Gold, everything is wayyyy better." I would just have to remonstrate what I said in language you can understand.