p2pnet.net News:- Kazaa owner Sharman Networks will do literally anything to curry favour with the Powers that Be.

It and its partners Altnet, which almost single-handedly introduced spyware to the then unsuspecting Net community, and Brilliant Digital Entertainment are batting zero in their never-ending attempts to get into bed with the entertainment industry.

BDE and Altnet are currently trying to milk p2p developers with the ludicrous claim that they own the rights to the hash system.

Sharman’s latest self-serving ploy is to use its DCIA, which it largely funds and tries to pass off as a trade body representing the mainstream p2p operator community, to give George W. Bush a present.

The DCIA (Distributed Computing Industry Association) is ‘presenting’ the US president with a CD, “licensed for paid distribution via the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing channel”.

Needless to say, the CD was made by one of the DCIA’s members many (most?) of whom, it’s rumoured, don’t have to actually pay anything to join up.

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See:-
ludicrous claim - Altnet’s bizarre campaign, p2pnet, January 19, 2005
self-serving – Sharman woos Hollywood, p2pnet, June 19, 2004

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