Please be Patient, and Check ALL these postings often. We are sorting out over 20,000 Screen captures representing thousands of research hours. The history of CNET/CBS Interactive promoting Piracy software is staggering. Over 1,000 different software offerings, Several hundred instances of mentioning copyright infringing uses, often with known copyrighted songs or famous band names. Although some of these pages are ten years old, you must remember that CNET has been distributing LimeWire software since at least February 2001.
We have substantial evidence going right up until the year 2011. Moreover, just since CBS bought CNET, they have distributed over 50,000,000 downloads of LimeWire alone! Over 250,000,000 downloads of LimeWire in Total.
Please, keep in mind as you review this evidence, "What was CNET's Intent?"
Good Lord! Shame on you CNET! Napster's body wasn't even cold yet!
Napster shut down it's service on July 27, 2001 in order to comply with a US Federal Court ordered injunction. Look at what CNET's Download.com had allowed to be offered a scant three weeks later!
Not only a "Napster" Clone, but one that had "Napster in it's name, "MyNapster". It garnered 40,087 downloads in it's first few weeks! Posted under the category "MP3 Search Tools", of course, just like LimeWire, KaZaa, Morpheus, Grokster, etc.
CNET's News.com reports a new software offering that mysterious appeared on the internet!
Here, a CNET News.com writer is "reporting" about a mysterious new software program that has appeared on the internet that allows "Napster" users to download ANY type of file, not just MP3 music files! Wrapster is presented as this new and scandalous software that is even reputed to be able to swap "Microsoft Windows 2000"!
Moreover, downloads from CNET's Download.com are first UPLOADED to Cnet's Upload.com and reviewed and tested for several days before posting for download to the public. CNET knew all about what the Wrapster software was for days before it "Mysteriously" appeared on the Internet!
Below, the next image is the same article continued. Notice how slyly the "iMesh" P2P software is brought into the article and compared to Napster. The "iMesh" live in-line link went right to the "iMesh" website, www.imesh.com. Guess which online media giant distributed the majority of all the iMesh software?
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Of course, Wrapster needed to show up immediately in the Napster "How tos" guide as a "Tip" on CNET's Help.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20010418030600/http://www.help.com/cat/3/825/855/725/tip/2637.html?tag=st.hp.ht.txt.tip
MP3 BUZZ Wrapster
http://web.archive.org/web/20000620141211/http://music.cnet.com/consumerelectronics/0-1577583-7-1582832.html?
What do you believe the CNET Download.com staff meant by "Share Copyrighted Material Safely"? And CNET had bought ZDNET a few months ago for 1.8 BILLION Dollars! This was not a radical teen or an idealistic College Student! This was one of the very LARGEST Multi Billion Internet Websites.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010526235109/http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1857922.html
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Of course, as with most software, the CNET Download.com's button was clearly on the front page of the "PeerGenius" website!
What do YOU think the Editorial Focus of ZDNET Music was from this List of "How To" guides as ZDNET was being sold to CNET for more than 1.5 Billion Dollars?
Also, look at the URL, GameSpot.com, ZDNET featured the "Music Center" on Gamespot. Why? To appeal to the historic target market of "Music Buyers", Teens? I'd image that a majority of these viewers were 13-15? Minors? Encouraging minors to commit downloading, copyright crimes? YOU DECIDE!
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Below, the next image is the same article continued. Notice how slyly the "iMesh" P2P software is brought into the article and compared to Napster. The "iMesh" live in-line link went right to the "iMesh" website, www.imesh.com. Guess which online media giant distributed the majority of all the iMesh software? 
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Below the official CNET Download.com "Wrapster" software download page is compared "Side by Side" with the CNET News.com article "Reporting" this scandalous new software to the world. Look at the DATES of posting for both!
Below the official CNET Download.com "Wrapster" software download page is compared "Side by Side" with the CNET News.com article "Reporting" this scandalous new software to the world. Look at the DATES of posting for both!"Wrapster" Software Download page: http://web.archive.org/web/20001018144013/http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10080-108-59953.html
Opps! The CNET News.com writer neglected to mention that CNET's own Download.com distributed the "iMesh" p2p software, and had done so for MONTHS! See below!
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Below is the Actual CNET download.com "Wrapster" software download page.
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Of course, Wrapster needed to show up immediately in the Napster "How tos" guide as a "Tip" on CNET's Help.comhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010418030600/http://www.help.com/cat/3/825/855/725/tip/2637.html?tag=st.hp.ht.txt.tip
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010418030600/http://www.help.com/cat/3/825/855/725/tip/2637.html?tag=st.hp.ht.txt.tip
MP3 BUZZ Wrapster
Before the "Big Breaking Story", it was a "Blip" on CNET's radar of interest.
At this Earlier Time, 2/22/2000, the only source of Wrapster was the creator's website. CNET had no distribution of the Software!
However, just as soon as CNET was offering "Wrapster" it became a HUGE and Scandalous news worthy event?
What do you believe the CNET Download.com staff meant by "Share Copyrighted Material Safely"? And CNET had bought ZDNET a few months ago for 1.8 BILLION Dollars! This was not a radical teen or an idealistic College Student! This was one of the very LARGEST Multi Billion Internet Websites.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010526235109/http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1857922.html
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What do YOU think the Editorial Focus of ZDNET Music was from this List of "How To" guides as ZDNET was being sold to CNET for more than 1.5 Billion Dollars?
Also, look at the URL, GameSpot.com, ZDNET featured the "Music Center" on Gamespot. Why? To appeal to the historic target market of "Music Buyers", Teens? I'd image that a majority of these viewers were 13-15? Minors? Encouraging minors to commit downloading, copyright crimes? YOU DECIDE!
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CNET Published this "MusicCity Morpheus" "How to get started with Morpheus" Guide in mid 2001. CNET went on to distribute and promote "Morpheus" after a CNET staff member admits "Red Flag Knowledge" CLEARLY!
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ZDNET File Sharing: Liberty or Piracy, The Loudmouth Geeks
"Stop me before I Share Again"
PAGE ONE
"Stop me before I share again"
File sharing has been all over the news lately. MP3.com has suffered a major defeat, Napster and Scour are under siege, and CuteMX pulled a "French Army" and surrendered before the fighting even really began. But the lawsuits of the RIAA and the MPAA can't stem the tide. On the contrary, like Xerxes flogging the turbulent waters of the Hellespont, they are simply displaying their hubris. The RIAA may very well succeed in shutting down Napster; the MPAA could crush Scour; UMG may run MP3.com out of business. But for every Hydra head they cut off, three will grow in its place. File sharing is here to stay, because people want it.
And God bless it. You can build a diverse music collection quickly with great downloads such as these. Digitize your LP collection with ease. Sample tunes before purchasing the whole CD, listen to old favorites, or just try something new for the hell of it. File sharing enables listeners to do all of these things with just a couple of clicks.
"Dave's Top 9 Ways to Break the Law"
Live Link Directs Here to Page Two of the Article
The LIVE Inline Link "Napster" Directs to the software download HERE
Inline Link "Scour" Directs to the software download HERE;
CuteMX Directs to the software download HERE;
Part Two Loudmouth Geeks
File Sharing: Liberty or Piracy?
PAGE TWO
"Top 9 Ways to Break the Law"
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Dave's Top 9* Ways For File-Sharing Music Lovers to Break the Law
(*Instead of Top 10, to avoid any problems with that other Dave's lawyers.)
9. Binary Boy It's a safe bet that more geeks than lawyers pay attention to newsgroups. Binary Boy Attachment Finder makes it a snap to find and retrieve movies, pictures, and of course, music from these eclectic message groups. However, the selection can be a bit, well, esoteric.
Live inline Link "Binary Boy" Directs to the software download HERE;
8. WinMP3Locator Skip sharing altogether and find your MP3s the old fangled way - via Web search engines. My favorite of the search-engine-based finders is WinMP3Locator, which removes duplicate results and verifies links. The process takes a while, but hey, it's still faster than Gnutella (see #6 below).
Live inline Link "WINMP3Locator" forwards to the software download HERE;
7. Aimster Aimster integrates with AOL Instant Messenger so you can share files with everyone on your buddy list. Now, what music industry lawyer could object to a little sharing among close personal friends? Oh, yes, Aimster allows grants you full access to the Scour Network (see #2 below).
Live inline link "Aimster" forwards to the software download HERE;
6. Gnutella If file sharing has a future, it's peer-to-peer, a la Gnutella. Bypass the central server with open source software like this, and there's nobody to sue, nobody to shutdown. One tiny catch: Lately the Gnutella network is hardly working. Increased network use has slowed Gnutella queries to a crawl.
Line inline link "Guntella Forwards to the software download HERE;
5. ToadNode Several client programs use the Gnutella network. Voyeurs should check out ToadNode, which features a search spy that monitors and displays all keywords sent through the system.
Live inline Link "ToadNode" forwards to the software download HERE:
4. FileTopia Take the Napster model, add integrated chat client and instant messaging plus strong encryption, and you have FileTopia. The community of users is growing quickly, and because the server is not in the USofA, it may take a bit longer to shut this one down.
Live Inline Link "FileTopia" Directs to the software download Here;
3. Scour Exchange Scour supports more file types than Napster, and you can search for media among the Scour community or the Web. All in all, it's just way too good for its own good.
Live Inline Link Scour Exchange Directs to the software download HERE;
2. Napster Limited to sharing MP3s, sure, but Napster still boasts by far the largest library -- excuse me, community -- of files, which makes it your best bet for breaking copyright laws big time.
Live Inline Link "Napster" forwards to the Software Download HERE;
And still the number one way for file-sharing music lovers to break the law. . .
1. Borrow your friend's CD collection and burn your own copies
Loudmouth Geeks
File Sharing; Liberty or Piracy
30 Million Napster Users Can't Be Wrong
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ZDNET Loud Mouth Geeks
File Sharing: Liberty or Piracy?
30 million Napster Users Can't Be Wrong!
Nice rant, Dave. I notice you didn't recommend what the recording industry should do to put a stop to this rampant lawlessness. Why not? Because it's WAY too late. The genie is out of the bottle, and all of the RIAA's attorneys will never be able to stuff it back in. So I repeat my original, unrefuted point: Whether it's fair use or illegal is irrelevant; it's here to stay. Period.
Even if by some catastrophe all of your Top 9 disappear, file sharing will continue. Try ICQ: Sending files of any kind is a snap. Before the Napster era, you could find whatever your heart desired on IRC or via FTP. That's still true today: CuteFTP even includes an MP3 finder. Or try most RIAA-toxic of them all, FreeNet. FreeNet is early in development and difficult to use, but it promises secure and anonymous transfer of information over the Internet. Game over.
You see Dave, we live in a democracy, where people can make the law. Unfortunately, it's often the case that big businesses (the recording industry, for example) can ramrod their interests down everybody's throats. But in this case, people like file sharing, and technology makes it easy for them to vote with their mice. That's what makes America great, Dave, and I'm not going to stand by while you badmouth the USA.
The music industry has to come up with a new business model or be relegated to the dustbin of history.
Live Inline Link "ICQ" Directs to the software download HERE:
Live Inline Link "IRC" Directs to the software download HERE;
Live Inline Link "CuteFTP" Directs to the software download HERE;
Live Inline Link "FreeNet" Directs to the software download HERE;
Link "MIRC" Directs to the software download HERE;
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ZDNET Loudmouth Geeks
File Sharing: Liberty or Piracy?
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LIVE Inline Link "CakeWalk Pro Audio" Directs HERE to a $429 Software Download!
Live Inline Link "Automated Composing System" Directs to the software download HERE;
ZDNET MP3 & Audio Landing Page Nov 19 2001
ZDNET MP3 and Audio Landing Page Oct 24 2001
ZDNET MP3 and Audio Landing Page Aug 1 2001
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This Image compares Download Totals for CNET Downloads and PC World. The Download totals of PC WORLD are NOT even one half of one percent of CNET's
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Another Popular software download site, SourceForge, was designed for professional software designers rather than the general public. The downloads were offered for download without promoting them for copyright infringing purposes.
Another Popular software download site, SourceForge, was designed for professional software designers rather than the general public. The downloads were offered for download without promoting them for copyright infringing purposes.CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN VIEW!
The next Page is a vintage screen capture of "Tucows" from the "Internet WayBack Machine" The downloads were offered in a VERY "Plain Jane" format and the P2P software downloads were not "Hyped" or "Promoted" for Piracy. The Tucows Category for File Sharing Software was under "Internet Utilities" NOT Mp3 Finders as CNET had chosen and promoted.
Moreover, The Tucows software download button often rolled off site for software from a third party server. The site was attractive, but sparse. Tucows focused much more on it's "Web Domain" business more than anything else.
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Of Course, CNET categorized P2P File Sharing Software in the "Mp3 Finders" Category, in spite of the fact the software was suitable for sharing many other types of files. When reviewed by CNET staff, the focus was, for years, only on the prowess of each P2P offering, such as Kazaa and LimeWire in procuring only MP3's and known copyrighted music.
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Of Course, CNET categorized P2P File Sharing Software in the "Mp3 Finders" Category, in spite of the fact the software was suitable for sharing many other types of files. When reviewed by CNET staff, the focus was, for years, only on the prowess of each P2P offering, such as Kazaa and LimeWire in procuring only MP3's and known copyrighted music.
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The Intent that P2P software being Distributed for Music Piracy can be plainly seen below. An "Mp3 Insider File Sharing SmackDown Test" is promoted in a banner across the middle of the "CNET Music Center" Landing Page.
The Intent that P2P software being Distributed for Music Piracy can be plainly seen below. An "Mp3 Insider File Sharing SmackDown Test" is promoted in a banner across the middle of the "CNET Music Center" Landing Page.The reviews of P2P software were often performed by the MP3 Insider. The focus of these "Smackdown" tests was the ability for each Software Offering to find and download copyrighted SONGS by such artists as "Madonna" "Britney Spears" "Randy Neuman" etc. These tests were performed against the most Notorious Piracy Software offerings such as Kazaa, LimeWire, ,Morpheus, Audiogalaxy, BearShare, Grokster, Etc
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ZDNET and Cnet were "Distributing from in-house servers" Literally 10's of MILLIONS of p2p Software downloads each and EVERY MONTH during this Time Period!
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ZDNET and Cnet were "Distributing from in-house servers" Literally 10's of MILLIONS of p2p Software downloads each and EVERY MONTH during this Time Period!
Bringing Tens of Millions of Page Views a Month. CNET and ZDNET Needed those Page views as they WERE LOSING 100's of Millions of Dollars in the Early 2000's. A Huge Layoff happened at CNET just as they began to promote the crap out of File Sharing Software. I imagine the reasoning was, File Sharing was viewed as Salvation!
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JUST LOOK at the Numbers of Downloads from the FILE SHARING OFFERINGS! This site was probably getting MAYBE 60 Million Unique Visitors a Month in 2002?
Read the Articles AT THESE LINKS for the State Attorney General of New York, Elliot Spitzer attacking the Adware Industry. With industry writers wondering if CNET was involved in Adware and Spyware.
The VERY SAME DAY that the New York Attorney General Publicly announces his "Anti Adware" campaign, CNET just happens to have coincidently decided to Ban Adware after allowing it to happen for so long. "We Listened" "We're in your Corner". THAT'S Crap! If CNET cared about the user they would have banned it in 2001! CNET of course offered a "Spyware Center" offering many downloads to get rid of the adware and spyware.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020929191022/http://www.musiccity.com/
Now, This Typical ZDNET Music Feature Article became the norm for years. ZDNET Distributed these articles both on ZDNET and Gamestop.com
"File Sharing is a Joke" Original article on both music.Gamespot.com and music.zdnet.com ( Links for Both Below , LOOK AT THE URL to tell the difference. All link to the "Internet Wayback Machine" Article Postying date July 20, 2000
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http://web.archive.org/web/20000817164508/http://music.gamespot.com/features/mp3humor/
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http://web.archive.org/web/20000901060410/http://music.gamespot.com/features/mp3humor/index.html
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http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044645/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/index.html
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http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044710/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/p2.html
http://web.archive.org/web/200011101246/http://music.gamespot.com/
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View these "Compelling" un-Biased Stories below,LOL, (ZDNET, CNET own GameSpot and Used it's URL Frequently, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!, Oh Yeah, maybe because KIDS are the Number ONE Customer of Music! LOL!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010401225109/http://music.gamespot.com/
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http://web.archive.org/web/200012052034/http://www.help.com/cat/3/825/855/hto/179/1.html?tag=st.hp.cat.bb
ZDNET Press Release Announces Equity Investment in I-Drive
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NEXT: Zdnet? Cnet? in the FILE SHARING BUSINESS TOO?
ZDNET was a PARTNER with SCOUR to offer FREE online Storage Space for Files uploaded DIRECTLY From Scour to the "ZDNet i-drive Online Storage System" and ZDNET and CNET promoted the Service SPECIFICALLY to do JUST THAT!
ZDNET Branded Idrive as "Zdnet Idrive"
DETAIL SHOT of CNET's SOFTWARE Button Embedded on Scour's Home Page Below in 2000! Click to Make LARGER!
CNET Downloads HOSTED the Software AND was the official Software Button on Scour's Site! OVER 250,000 Downloads in ONE WEEK! This is as the Lawsuit DRAMA Begins!
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Of course those 250,000 Downloads of Contributed to Scours Claims of 450,000 Downloads Each month from "Partners" CNET and ZDNET!
CNET's HANDY "How Tos and Tips Guide"! Cnet had these for Most of the Notorious File Sharing Downloads!
(More Page Views for CNET HOORAY! :) LOL Of Course Scour was REALLY Promoted!
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You cannot believe the spectacular support network of CNET Staff Moderated Help Forums, Phone in and Call in Web Casts and Web Radio shows for informed advice and generous guidance on how to use the VARIOUS P2P software offerings! Online Tutorials! How Tos and TIPS! Advice and Testing with copyrighted songs when the system gets shut down! WAIT! They did a SCOUR one like that when Scour Tanked!
So, the Department of Justice was Shutting Down FREEDRIVE! Huh, That Rings a Bell . . . . Oh Yeah!
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I Really think that THIS VERSION explains it better! LOLOLOLOLOLL
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The CNET Staff MUST HAVE KNOWN the RIAA and MPAA Lawsuits were coming! CNET Added this "Disclaimer" a month before the Copyright Suits were filed against the CNET and ZDNET Partner SCOUR!
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The Lawsuits from the RIAA and the MPAA Start Flying and CNET/ZDNET MUST have gotten caught up in it.
NOW CNET's Editor's Review of SCOUR Changes to VERY NEGATIVE and recommends two Legal ( At That Time) Options.
Of Course, they keep shilling for Limewire, Morpheus, Kazaa Etc.
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FULL REVIEW HERE! My What a Difference a Few Lawsuits make!
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Now the CNET's Download Page Announces that SCOUR is Shut Down! November 2000
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How Ironic! And CNET and ZDNET were Pitching Scour as a GREAT Substitute for Napster, of course, once the courts finally shut Napster down.
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HOW THOUGHTFUL! CNET Created a Help guide to FIND SCOUR Alternatives!
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CNET was the KING of affilate links to Sell Products! Were these all affiliate Links?
Apparently, myplay had an affiliate plan, I wonder if CNET knew? , hummm
It looks like NO Online Storage Site escaped the Mighty CNET! Was there affiliate money here too?
NO WAY! Cnet had a File Sharing Software test "Smackdown" to find which Current P2P Software Download would be the MOST EFFECTIVE at REPLACING specifically SCOUR and NAPSTER!
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How tight was Cnet Downloads AND these P2P File Sharing Companies?? The Official Cnet Downloads button was embedded on MANY of the Notorious Sites Landing Page! Sometimes there was only a plain button download link, as was on Limewire up until May 13, 2010 that brought the prospective downloader directly to Cnet Downloads.
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED button on Grokster 5/27/2002 ( Click ANY Image to Enlarge)
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED Button on Imesh 1/25/2002
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED Button TODAY on BitComet Landing Page (77 MILLION Downloads!)
Cnet Downloads Button on Qtrax Max Homepage 1/25/2002
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED Button Homepage of Bearshare 3/27/2002
Cnet Downloads Button embedded on Limewire in this Vintage Screen cap from 6/2/2001
Cnet Direct Link in the Morpheus Site. (See Following Image) Both Screen caps from 10/2002
When the would be downloader clicked the Download Button on the Morpheus Homepage shown above, the link took you RIGHT HERE to Cnet! NOTICE 100 Million Downloads, and that's just up to the screen cap date of 10/2002
Cnet Downloads embedded button on the Blubster Homepage 9/23/2001
Cnet Downloads Kazaa Download Button on the Kazaa Front Page
I will upload dozens of these vintage Images like these for Bearshare, Imesh, Morpheus, Grokster, and more. ( Well before the Settlements and Judges Orders). I just need the time. The download totals from Cnets own servers must WELL EXCEED over 1 BILLION downloads of P2P file Sharing software.
" More Pages Views" + "More Downloads" = "Keep Jobs".
The RIAA and Metallica were the Enemies of this "CNET/ZDNET Gravy Train" that they could NOT afford to LOSE! CNET was hemorrhaging Money in 2000-2002 as File Sharing Software was being "Ramped Up" to a primary Profit source.
Read this Article, CNET Lays off 10% of it's workforce in February 2001, THE VERY DAWN of the explosion in File Sharing!
http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-02-07/business/17587033_1_cnet-networks-internet-companies-revenue
CNET lost almost HALF A BILLION DOLLARS! YIKES!
The RIAA and Metallica were the Enemies of this "CNET/ZDNET Gravy Train" that they could NOT afford to LOSE! CNET was hemorrhaging Money in 2000-2002 as File Sharing Software was being "Ramped Up" to a primary Profit source.
Read this Article, CNET Lays off 10% of it's workforce in February 2001, THE VERY DAWN of the explosion in File Sharing!
http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-02-07/business/17587033_1_cnet-networks-internet-companies-revenue
CNET lost almost HALF A BILLION DOLLARS! YIKES!
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JUST LOOK at the Numbers of Downloads from the FILE SHARING OFFERINGS! This site was probably getting MAYBE 60 Million Unique Visitors a Month in 2002?
HEY! Remember guys! This is just from 2001 until 2002!
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AND LOOK AT THE IMAGE BELOW! OMG! 30 Million Downloads from the New Version of Morpheus ALONE in JUST TEN DAYS!? JUST TEN DAYS!
Was 50% of the Websites traffic Drawn just by Morpheus Downloads? I can't WAIT to see the Traffic Figures! AND they had the Morpheus Tutorials and "Tips and How tos" More Page View Traffic for CNET! Woo Hoo! :P
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Maybe the Tight Financial Times is what caused CNET to break it's solumn voe and distribute software with Spyware AND Adware?
Read the Articles AT THESE LINKS for the State Attorney General of New York, Elliot Spitzer attacking the Adware Industry. With industry writers wondering if CNET was involved in Adware and Spyware.NOW READ THIS! As the big Eliot Spitzer adware story broke, an industry writer suggested that CNET was Profiting from Kazaa ADWARE!
(May 2 2005)
CNET'S 2005 Response only found on "The Wayback Machine"
The VERY SAME DAY that the New York Attorney General Publicly announces his "Anti Adware" campaign, CNET just happens to have coincidently decided to Ban Adware after allowing it to happen for so long. "We Listened" "We're in your Corner". THAT'S Crap! If CNET cared about the user they would have banned it in 2001! CNET of course offered a "Spyware Center" offering many downloads to get rid of the adware and spyware.
The only former CNET employee I have spoken to said that "KaZaa" was the Program that kept "Giving and Giving" because one download of Kazaa was worth an Adware remover download and an anti-virus download. KaZaa guaranteed CNET's Download.com "Repeat Business".
We WILL find out if CNET allowed Adware from Kazaa and LimeWire because they were making substantial profit from the distribution. CNET claimed it was a COINCIDENCE that they banned Adware the exact same day the NY Attorney General Publicly launched his investigation.
We will find out if it truly "Was" a "Coincidence". LOL
Below you will see the actual "Music City Morpheus Home Page as Preserved at the "Internet Wayback Machine"
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http://web.archive.org/web/20020929191022/http://www.musiccity.com/Now, This Typical ZDNET Music Feature Article became the norm for years. ZDNET Distributed these articles both on ZDNET and Gamestop.com
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GameSpot Versions AND ZDnet Versions, (Look at the URL), Metallicaster Article January 16 2000
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http://web.archive.org/web/20001020225432/http://music.zdnet.com/features/metallicster/index.html
PAGE TWO
http://web.archive.org/web/20001001120112/http://music.zdnet.com/features/metallicster/page2.html
PAGE THREE
http://web.archive.org/web/20001012121900/http://music.gamespot.com/features/metallicster/page3.html
The Front Page of this Feature Article ( The Orrin Hatch Parody was on Page TWO)
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044645/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/index.html
GameSpot Versions AND ZDnet Versions, (Look at the URL), Metallicaster Article January 16 2000
PAGE ONE
http://web.archive.org/web/20001020225432/http://music.zdnet.com/features/metallicster/index.html
PAGE TWO
http://web.archive.org/web/20001001120112/http://music.zdnet.com/features/metallicster/page2.html
PAGE THREE
http://web.archive.org/web/20001012121900/http://music.gamespot.com/features/metallicster/page3.html
My GOODNESS! ZDNET was Sooooo Mean to Senator Orrin Hatch! I WILL find this video made by the ZDNET "Computer Stew" Team. There was not ONLY a lot of MALICE demonstrated by the CNET and ZDNET staff towards the Artists, but it extended to Lawmakers and Judges as well.
I must note: I am NOT including published articles, videos, songs, and other material that CNET and ZDNET produced that I feel is very disrespectful toward the Lawmakers and Federal Judges.
The "Internet Wayback Machine" actual Article Page featuring this screen capture!
The Article is titled "File Sharing is a Joke"
The Front Page of this Feature Article ( The Orrin Hatch Parody was on Page TWO)http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044645/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/index.html
These "Computer Stew" videos are ALL over the internet. These definitely survived the Ziff Davis sale to CNET and were not part of the separate sale of "ZDNETTV & ZDTV sale to Vulcan Media, ( Which is NOW G4 TV, Vulcan Media made out well in THAT Deal!) These remained on ZDNET beyond that sale.
I AM INCLUDING NO MATERIAL from ZDNET TV or ZDTV as I don't believe that it applies here. But either way, it was featured as ZDNET Editorial news.
The Link to the "Downloading Communism" Poster Feature
The "Napster Of Puppets" Link to the Lyrics and Song promoted in this ZDNET Story"
Link to the "Onion Parody" featured in this ZDNET Story "Kid Rock Starves to Death"
TroubleTown Cartoon is HERE, But the Image Fails to load for me. The Internet Wayback Machine may not have archived it.
The "Napster Bad" Animation still exists HERE on the Internet Wayback Machine
(NOTE: The CampChaos Folk are the Very Talented "SnarkRocket" Now!);
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"File Sharing is a Joke" Original article on both music.Gamespot.com and music.zdnet.com ( Links for Both Below , LOOK AT THE URL to tell the difference. All link to the "Internet Wayback Machine" Article Postying date July 20, 2000
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http://web.archive.org/web/20000817164508/http://music.gamespot.com/features/mp3humor/
Page One Black Format
http://web.archive.org/web/20000901060410/http://music.gamespot.com/features/mp3humor/index.html
Page One Blue Format
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044645/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/index.html
Page Two Blue Format
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044710/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/p2.html
FRONT Landing Page of Music.GAMESPOT.com
( Cnet and ZDNET OWN Gamespot.com),
ZDNET had a Music Section on Gamespot to Lure in the Kiddies ( You need to be Age 13 and Up to Join CNET and partake of the File Sharing Goodness!) Impressionable Youth Lured into the world of Media Piracy! Hook'em while they're young! Just like the tobacco industry" LOL!!
CLICK ON this FRONT LANDING PAGE FOR ZDNET MUSIC ON GAMESPOT to see SOME LURID DETAILS! LOL
http://web.archive.org/web/200011101246/http://music.gamespot.com/The Front "Landing Page" of ZDNET Music, Non-Partisan reporting at it's best! LOL
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Next: A Front Page story on music.gamespot.com that mirrors the music.zdnet site featuring AlbumWrap to Facilitate Sharing Music more effectively.
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View these "Compelling" un-Biased Stories below,LOL, (ZDNET, CNET own GameSpot and Used it's URL Frequently, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!, Oh Yeah, maybe because KIDS are the Number ONE Customer of Music! LOL!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010401225109/http://music.gamespot.com/
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CNET's notorious "Help Center", which I prefer to call "Music Piracy Boot Camp". This CNET "Help Center was heavily linked to from numerous pasges throughout the CNET Websites. Once here, readers were in "Music Piracy heaven". Tutorials! "How Tos and Tips!" recommendations fror alternative services when Napster and Scour were shut down. The list goes on and on.
Interesting editorial content for a Billion Dollar Internet behemoth like CNET! What do YOU think that the intent "Was" by creating "This" help center guide?
http://web.archive.org/web/200012052034/http://www.help.com/cat/3/825/855/hto/179/1.html?tag=st.hp.cat.bb
ZDNET Press Release Announces Equity Investment in I-Drive
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NEXT: Zdnet? Cnet? in the FILE SHARING BUSINESS TOO?
ZDNET was a PARTNER with SCOUR to offer FREE online Storage Space for Files uploaded DIRECTLY From Scour to the "ZDNet i-drive Online Storage System" and ZDNET and CNET promoted the Service SPECIFICALLY to do JUST THAT!
ZDNET Branded Idrive as "Zdnet Idrive"
Do not forget that ZDNET was ALSO an Investor in Ecircles ANOTHER online File Sharing System that used idrive to store MP3's ummmmm.... Files.
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Just an eCircles "Sneak Peak"! Click on the Image below to Enlarge!
Napster Software Download with "ZDNET idrive" Sideload Button right on ZDnet. The Same Button appeared on EMBEDDED in EVERY SCOUR Search Page!
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I Drive Cnet Storage Mini Review (Claims Investment)
Net Guide Enhanced Storage Sites CNET Recommends I Drive
http://replay.web.archive.org/20010615174313/http://music.cnet.com/music/0-1566074-7-1807892.html
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idrive.com CLAIMS 89 million Downloads a Month adds 450,000 accounts PER MONTH
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Scour and ZDnet Partners as Listed on IDRIVE Site
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Upload Files Directly from Scour to your Online drive Locker
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Scour's Website Showing Copyrighted Material GALORE!
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LOVE this ZDNet's Editor's review JUST BEFORE The Lawsuits are filed! A 4 Star Glowing Review! I Particularly enjoyed the part where SCOUR is described, In the ZDNET's Own Writer's Words, "A Facade of Legitimacy"!
ZDNET and CNET Pitched Scour HARD! Tutorials! Tips and "How To's" Hosted the Software!
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Just ONE of SEVERAL Handy Scour Guides on ZDNET, LOVE the Copyright Advice! Ending with, "NOW GO GET THOSE MP3's" LOL
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ZDNET Review TESTING the "Napster Clones" for the best Alternative just in case a Federal Judge Shuts NAPSTER down!
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Idrive in the News April 17 2001, Notice Most are CNET/ZDNET Affiliates! such as Computer Shopper
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Just an eCircles "Sneak Peak"! Click on the Image below to Enlarge!
Napster Software Download with "ZDNET idrive" Sideload Button right on ZDnet. The Same Button appeared on EMBEDDED in EVERY SCOUR Search Page!
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I Drive Cnet Storage Mini Review (Claims Investment)
Net Guide Enhanced Storage Sites CNET Recommends I Drive
http://replay.web.archive.org/20010615174313/http://music.cnet.com/music/0-1566074-7-1807892.html
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idrive.com CLAIMS 89 million Downloads a Month adds 450,000 accounts PER MONTH
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Scour and ZDnet Partners as Listed on IDRIVE Site
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Upload Files Directly from Scour to your Online drive Locker
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Scour's Website Showing Copyrighted Material GALORE!
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LOVE this ZDNet's Editor's review JUST BEFORE The Lawsuits are filed! A 4 Star Glowing Review! I Particularly enjoyed the part where SCOUR is described, In the ZDNET's Own Writer's Words, "A Facade of Legitimacy"!
ZDNET and CNET Pitched Scour HARD! Tutorials! Tips and "How To's" Hosted the Software!
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Just ONE of SEVERAL Handy Scour Guides on ZDNET, LOVE the Copyright Advice! Ending with, "NOW GO GET THOSE MP3's" LOL
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ZDNET Review TESTING the "Napster Clones" for the best Alternative just in case a Federal Judge Shuts NAPSTER down!
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Idrive in the News April 17 2001, Notice Most are CNET/ZDNET Affiliates! such as Computer Shopper
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CNET's Download Button Right on Scour's Home Page! Guess who distributed MOST of the Software! The Official Scour Site Rolled over to CNET Downloads! Where there were Lots of Articles about Scour! Tutorials to Use Scour, Tips and "How To's for Scour, AND a Scour Newsletter! Of Course CNET and ZDNET were INVESTORS in i-drive and knew that fans wanting unlimited file sharing space would love DIRECT UPLOAD BUTTONS to their online storage lockers! This partnership with Scour would Tremendously Grow the i-drive online Storage System.
CNET's Download Button Right on Scour's Home Page! Guess who distributed MOST of the Software! The Official Scour Site Rolled over to CNET Downloads! Where there were Lots of Articles about Scour! Tutorials to Use Scour, Tips and "How To's for Scour, AND a Scour Newsletter! Of Course CNET and ZDNET were INVESTORS in i-drive and knew that fans wanting unlimited file sharing space would love DIRECT UPLOAD BUTTONS to their online storage lockers! This partnership with Scour would Tremendously Grow the i-drive online Storage System.
DETAIL SHOT of CNET's SOFTWARE Button Embedded on Scour's Home Page Below in 2000! Click to Make LARGER!
CNET Downloads HOSTED the Software AND was the official Software Button on Scour's Site! OVER 250,000 Downloads in ONE WEEK! This is as the Lawsuit DRAMA Begins!
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Of course those 250,000 Downloads of Contributed to Scours Claims of 450,000 Downloads Each month from "Partners" CNET and ZDNET!
CNET's HANDY "How Tos and Tips Guide"! Cnet had these for Most of the Notorious File Sharing Downloads!
(More Page Views for CNET HOORAY! :) LOL Of Course Scour was REALLY Promoted!
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You cannot believe the spectacular support network of CNET Staff Moderated Help Forums, Phone in and Call in Web Casts and Web Radio shows for informed advice and generous guidance on how to use the VARIOUS P2P software offerings! Online Tutorials! How Tos and TIPS! Advice and Testing with copyrighted songs when the system gets shut down! WAIT! They did a SCOUR one like that when Scour Tanked!
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DETAIL of Department of Justice Article about Online Storage Lockers! Heaven's to Betsy! The CNET Staff Writer forgot to mention that CNET/ZDNET were Equity INVESTORS in I-Drive.com! Opppps!
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Full Department Of Justice Article Specifically Mentioning Idrive
PS: Why was ZDNET on Scour's Bankruptcy's Papers AS A CREDITOR for 50,000 plus dollars for "Web Distribution Services". What Exactly WAS that Service? Maybe an Affiliate Program profitting from new users? Was it a Pay Par Download Scheme? Was is "Doughnut, Coffee and Bagel money when the partners had a meeting?
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Full Department Of Justice Article Specifically Mentioning Idrive
So, the Department of Justice was Shutting Down FREEDRIVE! Huh, That Rings a Bell . . . . Oh Yeah!
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I Really think that THIS VERSION explains it better! LOLOLOLOLOLL
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The CNET Staff MUST HAVE KNOWN the RIAA and MPAA Lawsuits were coming! CNET Added this "Disclaimer" a month before the Copyright Suits were filed against the CNET and ZDNET Partner SCOUR!
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The Lawsuits from the RIAA and the MPAA Start Flying and CNET/ZDNET MUST have gotten caught up in it.
NOW CNET's Editor's Review of SCOUR Changes to VERY NEGATIVE and recommends two Legal ( At That Time) Options.
Of Course, they keep shilling for Limewire, Morpheus, Kazaa Etc.
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FULL REVIEW HERE! My What a Difference a Few Lawsuits make!
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Now the CNET's Download Page Announces that SCOUR is Shut Down! November 2000
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How Ironic! And CNET and ZDNET were Pitching Scour as a GREAT Substitute for Napster, of course, once the courts finally shut Napster down.
Who would have guessed the SCOUR, CNET and ZDNET's Partner in File Sharing, Would be the first to go.
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HOW THOUGHTFUL! CNET Created a Help guide to FIND SCOUR Alternatives!
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CNET was the KING of affilate links to Sell Products! Were these all affiliate Links?
Apparently, myplay had an affiliate plan, I wonder if CNET knew? , hummm
Look closely at this affiliate Program From myplay online storage for "Music".
It looks like NO Online Storage Site escaped the Mighty CNET! Was there affiliate money here too?
NO WAY! Cnet had a File Sharing Software test "Smackdown" to find which Current P2P Software Download would be the MOST EFFECTIVE at REPLACING specifically SCOUR and NAPSTER!
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How tight was Cnet Downloads AND these P2P File Sharing Companies?? The Official Cnet Downloads button was embedded on MANY of the Notorious Sites Landing Page! Sometimes there was only a plain button download link, as was on Limewire up until May 13, 2010 that brought the prospective downloader directly to Cnet Downloads.
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED button on Grokster 5/27/2002 ( Click ANY Image to Enlarge)
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED Button on Imesh 1/25/2002
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED Button TODAY on BitComet Landing Page (77 MILLION Downloads!)
Cnet Downloads Button on Qtrax Max Homepage 1/25/2002
Cnet Downloads EMBEDDED Button Homepage of Bearshare 3/27/2002
Cnet Downloads Button embedded on Limewire in this Vintage Screen cap from 6/2/2001
Cnet Direct Link in the Morpheus Site. (See Following Image) Both Screen caps from 10/2002
When the would be downloader clicked the Download Button on the Morpheus Homepage shown above, the link took you RIGHT HERE to Cnet! NOTICE 100 Million Downloads, and that's just up to the screen cap date of 10/2002
Cnet Downloads embedded button on the Blubster Homepage 9/23/2001
Cnet Downloads Kazaa Download Button on the Kazaa Front Page
I will upload dozens of these vintage Images like these for Bearshare, Imesh, Morpheus, Grokster, and more. ( Well before the Settlements and Judges Orders). I just need the time. The download totals from Cnets own servers must WELL EXCEED over 1 BILLION downloads of P2P file Sharing software.
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