Saturday, June 18, 2011

Anyone that THINKS that this blog is NOT FAIR USE, Refer to these Examples!


Well,
As the threats and innuendo's pour in, I ask that you kindly refer to the Examples BELOW! I will certainly file a counter-notice to any DMCA takedown and have one of the most powerful and brilliant men in the world behind me now.

FIRST:
There is NO Advertising, Nothing in this Blog 
affects the market for the original material 
(Most of which has been unavailable
 to the public for several years). 
The sources are as carefully identified 
with Links as possible to the Original Material.
 All screen caps are analog captures. 
This is OBVIOUSLY News 
reporting and Commentary.

SECOND: 
My 400,000 loyal subscribers
 on YouTube will be delighted to support me
 if a problem should occur!


You may also want to consider how a Judge might be swayed by examples such as these;
( Particularly the Honorable Judge Patel whom I happen to admire!)
We have over a DOZEN Similar Examples! I'll be adding many others that are actually MUCH WORSE that these!
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN SIZE

Pig Latin Encoder software suggested in Napster Article above, as promoted in Previous CNET Screen Capture.
 As found on the "Internet Wayback Machine"

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A FULL SCREEN VIEW

Namester, another PROUD CNET offering as Promoted above in the CNET article recommending ways to Circumvent the Honorable Judge Patel's Order that Napster Filter out Copyright Infringing Music.
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE TO FULL SCREEN SIZE!

Of Courseeeeeee.....  These as well as 100's of other's appeared on most the Co-Branded Pages as Well!

We mustn't forget the CNET/ZDNET Maligned Senators! Here's a CNET Recommending that the Honorable Senator Orrin Hatch be sued for sponsoring a Bill to Protect Children.

Refer to this Link for troubling news regarding the P2P Software CNET Distributed
http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/documents/20040817153928-98690.pdf
READ this CNET/ZDNET Story of Children Exposed to PORN on P2P Networks
http://www.zdnet.com/news/new-bill-would-curb-p2p-companies/130647
ZDNET Story about the Government trying to create ways to deal with P2P Porn
http://www.zdnet.com/news/congress-mulls-new-p2p-porn-restrictions/128102
ZDNET "Kids Stumbling onto Smut on P2P Networks"
http://www.zdnet.com/news/congress-targets-p2p-porn/128083
ZDNET Congress threatens P2P Networks on Porn.
http://www.zdnet.com/news/congress-threatens-p2p-networks-on-porn/143947



CNET EDITOR QUOTE in above story "Allow me to Induce Myself" 
which is STILL LIVE on CNET today:

"I have a neat solution to the whole debacle, using this chain of logic:
The INDUCE Act makes an infringer out of anyone who "aids, abets, induces, or procures" someone else's copyright violation.

• This act is anticonsumer and anti-technology and, as such, has made its share of enemies.

• When people feel that a law is unjust, too broad, and makes no sense, they're more likely to break it.

• Therefore, this law will encourage people to trade more songs and purchase fewer legally.
Since it encourages copyright infringement, the INDUCE Act will be illegal--under the INDUCE Act.

• Orrin Hatch should be the first person sued if the bill passes, for inducing people to infringe on copyright."

The Article ENDS that Way, 

Allow Me to Induce Myself
http://web.archive.org/web/20040711194630/http://www.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5142741-1.html

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But can CNET claim NO MINORS ever used the Software? NO, they Published LETTERS from them!




NOW, Here is a REAL LETTER from a 15 year old girl submitted to CNET!

Unbelievable advice given to a 15 year old girl regarding problems that she had by downloading "Dreamweaver" from Limewire. Published as part of the "Spyware Horror Stories" series.

The girl ADMITS to having not only downloaded the copyrighted software "Dreamweaver" AND the anime movie "Teen Drama Queen" with Limewire but also admits that she also downloaded the JUST recently published "Harry Potter Book" from Bitcomet AND Bittorrent. Did the EDITOR'S even address the severity of copyright issue? HELL NO! They advised that she forget to scan the files and that they were happy she had gone legal by deciding to buy the "Real" software. They even thoughtfully made the words "BitComet" AND "Bittorent" live links so readers could jump to the download.com software download pages for each notorious p2p offering on Cnet.

( Although these are vintage FAIR USE Screen Captures, The article is STILL AVAILABLE today on Cnet.com!!!!!)

NOTE! CNET TOOK IT DOWN! I WONDER WHY? Here WAS THE link!

http://download.cnet.com/Spyware-Horror-Stories/1200-2023_4-5178025.html



That's okay, It's on the "Internet Wayback Machine" for EASY Viewing! ( the "Internet Wayback Machine" links are CLEARLY the exact same URL)


Teen Drama Queen on CNET's Download.com October 17, 2007
http://web.archive.org/web/20071017093724/http://www.download.com/Spyware-Horror-Stories/1200-2023_4-5178025.html

Same Article again on CNET's Download.com Oct 8 2008
http://web.archive.org/web/20081008141224/http://www.download.com/Spyware-Horror-Stories/1200-2023_4-5178025.html

Posting on 8/9/2007. Click on ANY image to Enlarge.




Read the Editor's Response. I can't believe they even published the Girl's letter as it was a pure admission that LimeWire, Bittorrent and BitComent were being used for VARIOUS copyright infringing purposes. It would have been a different story if the editor's responded. Your first mistake is that you MUST learn to Never use P2P File Sharing software to infringe copyrighted Software or Literary Works. That is stealing! Read this response. No mention of the 15 year old minor girl downloading that Anime Movie or that "Harry Potter" book. ( Harry Potter was NEVER available as a E-Book until AFTER this article was published on CNET).



This is a Screen Cap of the Actual Submission form from 10/12/2007 that was used to submit your "Spyware Horror Stories" to the Cnet Editors.
ZDNET Story about the Government trying to create ways to deal with P2P Porn
ZDNET "Kids Stumbling onto Smut on P2P Networks"

ZDNET Congress threatens P2P Networks on Porn.




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CNET Directs even More unjust Malice towards the Honorable Senator Orrin Hatch! (Below)
From ZDNET division of CNET

Orrin Hatch is cast as a Tyrant in this Parody and is ordering executions of Music Industry Individuals.
I do not have a copy of the CNET/XDNET Video promoted in this article . . . . . . YET!

Original HERE on the "Internet Wayback Machion"
http://web.archive.org/web/20000817044710/http://music.zdnet.com/features/mp3humor/p2.html

Click on ANY IMAGE to Enlarge Greatly!

Posted by OneCandleintheDark at 11:32 AM 6 comments

Monday, June 6, 2011

CNET's Virtual Online P2P Software Monopoly in the Early to mid 2000's

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE TO FULL SCREEN

Reach Millions of Users
By marketing with CNET Download.com and ZDNet Downloads, you have the opportunity to reach millions of consumers who are looking for a hands-on evaluation of your products before they purchase.

• 8.9 million average monthly unique users
Source: Nielsen NetRatings Q2 2003, US only. Include both CNET Download.com and ZDNet Downloads.

DETAILS AT END OF POSTING WITH LINKS SO YOU MAY VERIFY YOURSELF!

Week Ending April 3 2003 Most Popular Downloads
( JUST PC and Just CNET)
Kazaa Media Desktop 2,779,030 Downloads
ICQ Lite 620,073 Downloads
iMesh 395,573 Downloads


Week Ending June 16 Most Popular Downloads
Kazaa Media Desktop 2,439,826 Downloads
ICQ 572,665 Downloads
iMesh 436,119 Downloads



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.



Cnet had a virtual monopoly on the distribution of Software through the Largest and most visited Internet portals throughout the early to mid 2000's.

KaZaa, Morpheus, iMesh and Limewire were shilled by CNET/ZDNET from the pages of MSN, AOL, Excite, Netscape, AltaVista and perhaps as many as 100 others.

After the acquisition of ZDnet in 2000, the combined companies,
with an international presence in 25 countries, CNET Networks ranked among the top five international networks in terms of global footprint.

MSN's software section was a ZDnet featured section ( Look at this MSN page from August 2001)



AOL's Software Section was basically CNET's Site re-Branded as AOL! ( Look at this AOL Software Section Page from September 2001 and look at the iMesh Feature Article Description!)

In 1999 CNET formed an alliance with America Online to provide co-branded online computer buying guides. CNET paid $14.5 million for the exclusive right to provide these co-branded computer buying guides on both America Online & CompuServe for 2 1/2 years and to be the exclusive distributor of free software downloads on AOL.com.

Another agreement between CNET and RealNetworks resulted in Snap.com being used as the exclusive search engine to locate MP3 audio files and video files by users on all of RealNetworks' sites.

AOL CNET Most Popular Downloads PC Aug 18 2001 ( Screen Capped)

AOL CNET Most Popular Downloads PC Scour Napster AudioGalaxy Newtella Oct 30 2000
( Screen Capped)

AOL Cnet Napster Download Page Oct 30 2000 ( Screen Capped)

Aol Cnet Scour Download page September 29 2000 ( Screen Capped)

Aol CNET Audiogalaxy Oct 31 2000 ( Screen Capped)

AOL Cnet Top PC Audio Downloads April 9 2002 Morpheus iMesh LimeWire BearShare Grokster AudioGalaxy (Screen Capped)

Excite's software was ANOTHER CNET/ZDnet Exclusive! ( ZDnet's Logo is Clearly Shown)
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN VIEW


CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A FULL SCREEN VIEW




Zdnet News and Software Featured on the VERY Popular Search Engine AltaVista
( Google was in it's infancy if it existed at all yet)

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A FULL SCREEN VIEW

For anyone that noticed"Software Zone" on the list above, it was an internet video game software portal only with no P2P file sharing software that I could find.




Now look at the list of most popular websites from 2001-2007; NOTICE that CNET lost 95% of it's "Attention" as the various P2P software offerings were being sued out of existence!

These websites, MSN, AOL, Netscape, AltaVista, taken along with CNET's web traffic at the time, represented at least 50% of America's daily web traffic, if not the entire world's.

These distribution deals assured a virtual Monopoly on the distribution of such software offerings as Kazaa, Morpheus, LimeWire, iMesh, Bearshare, Scour, Grokster and at least 250 OTHERS!

Moreover, CNET's "Software Download Button" program assured that web traffic directly to the Notorious File Sharing sites would be sent to CNET's Download.com for the software, assuring this virtual P2P software monopoly.

CNET's and ZDNET's articles promoting online piracy were syndicated to websites around the world, possibly over 125 different websites, ( I'm still researching this, but it is STAGGERING!)



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
LOVING that CNET Article featured on the Front Page of Qtrax Max.

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








http://web.archive.org/web/20010308195149/http://www.mp3wolf.com/



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 ABSOLUTELY EXCEED over 1.2 BILLION downloads of P2P file Sharing software.


Most Popular Software Downloads
==============================
April 2003
Week ending April 01

1. Kazaa Media Desktop
2,779,030 downloads
2. ICQ Lite
620,073 downloads
3. WinZip
502,613 downloads
4. AOL Instant Messenger (32-bit)
425,787 downloads
5. iMesh
395,573 downloads
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April 2 2003 TIME 11:42:49
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LimeWire 2.9.8 Total to Date and Time 15,271,284

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April 5 2003 TIME 23:11:05
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BearShare 13,896 This Week, Total 18,185,931
KaZaa Download Accelerator 13,478 This Week, Total 91,714
Twister 13,417 This Week, 265,323 Total
LimeWire 10,940 This Week, Total 15,273,726
NeoNapster 10,651 This Week, Total 660,385
Kazaa Skins 9,186 This Week , Total 124,017
Gnucleus 8,177 This Week, Total 639,626
Wippit 6,258 This Week, Total 240,336
Swapper.net 5,774 This Week, Total 240,336
2 Find MP3 5,336 This Week, Total 1,103,653
MP3 Doctor 5,328 This Week, Total 203,810

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April 5 2003 TIME: 04:06:29
Shareaza 1.8 Total to Time and Date 340,842
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April 6 2003 TIME 00:59:41
BearShare 4.2.3 Total to Date and Time 18,192,329
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April 6 2003 TIME 01:33:17

NeoNapster 3.55 664,716 Total to Date and Time
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April 6 2003 TIME 00:37:33

Gnucleus 1.8.4 643,199 Total to Date and Time
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April 6 2003 02:47:18

2 Find MP2 7.8.2 1,107,838 to Date and Time
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April 8 2003 TIME: 14:33:33
Top Downloads PC Week Ending April 07 2003
Kazaa Media Desktop 2.762,799
iMesh 401,065
Morpheus 125,953
Grokster 89,249

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April 9 2003 TIME: 17:30:09
Blipster Total to Date and Time 34,589
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April 10, 2003 TIME 20:58:10
KaZaa Media Desktop Total to Date and Time, 212,775,647
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April 10 2003 TIME: 20:59:46
Grokster 1.6 7,515,103 Total to Date and Time
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Week ENDING April 13 2003 (Date of Crawl April 16 2003)
TIME: 00:15:22
Kazaa Media Desktop 3,257,317 This Week Total 214,428,194
iMesh 409,408 This Week, Total to Date 47,404,968
Morpheus 131,771 This Week, Total 110,527,438
Grokster 60,051 This Week, Total 7,525,298
Shareaza 29,148 This Week Total 378,263
Piolet 24,674 Total This Week, Total 329,053
KaZaa Download Accelerator 22,521 This Week, Total; 121,445
Ares Galaxy 20,420 This Week, Total 386,667
Xolox Ultra 16,156 This Week Total 2,092,275
BearShare 14,866 This Week, Total 18,209,339
SoulSeek 14,194 This Week, Total 215,004 Total
2 Find MP3 13,971 This Week , Total 1,123,496
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April 13, 2003 TIME: 20:24:51
Top PC DownLoads Listing 26-50
WinMX 41,999 This Week, Total 5,716,998
Diet Kazaa 39,106 This Week, Total 564,333
Shareaza 29,148 This Week Total 378,263
Net Pumper 26,464 This Week, Total 1,579,994
Piolet 24,674 This Week, Total 329,053

=================================


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April 14, 2003 TIME: 02:54:03
iMesh 3.1 Total to Date and Time 47,404,968
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April 15,2003 TIME 23:29:11
Top ALL PC Downloads
Kazaa Media Desktop 3,257,317 This Week, TOTAL 214,428,194
ICQ Lite 662,995 This Week, Total to Date 15,178,748
AOL Instant Messanger 450,797 This Week, 9,659,349 This Week
iMesh 409,408 This Week, 409,408 This Week, Total 47,404,968
ICQ Pro 2003a beta 398,003 450,408 This Week, Total 227,424,843
(Ad-aware) 183,916 This Week, Total 15,457,327
Trillian 146,185,185 This Week, Total 9,755,064
Morpheus 131,771 This Week, Total 110,527,438
Grokster 60,051 This Week Total 7,525,298
WS FTP LE ( 32 Bit) 56,177 This Week, Total 7,556,133


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April 16, 2003 TIME 00:15:22
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Kazaa Media Desktop 3,257,317 This Week, Total 214,428,194
iMesh 409,408 This Week. Total 47,404,968
Morpheus, 131,771 This Week, Total 110,527,438
Grokster, 60,051 This Week, Total 7,525,298
WinMX 56,852 This Week, Total 22,554,634
Shareaza 29,229 This Week, 378,263 Total
Piolet 24,674 This Week, Total 329,053
Kazaa Download Accelerator 22,521, Total 121,445
Ares Galaxy This Week 20,420, Totla 386,667
Xolox Ultra 16,156 This Week, Total 2,092,275
BearShare 14,866 This Week, Total 18,209,339
SoulSeek 14,194 This Week, Total 215,004
2 Find MP3 13,971 This Week, Total 1,123,496

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April 16 2003 TIME: 07:34:20
ICQ Lite Beta Build 1150 Total to Date and Time 15,364,189
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April 16, 2003 TIME: 07:22:37
Ares Galaxy 1.8.21 Total to Date and Time 392,436
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April 18 2003 TIME: 06:39:39
BearShare 4.2.5 Total to Date and Time 18,217,873
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April 23 2003 TIME: 13:44:59
BearShare Spanish total to Date and Time 25,667
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May 2003
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May 5 2003 TIME: 02:06:24
Xolox Ultra 1.56 Total to Date and Time 2,173,242
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May 23 2003 TIME: 3:38:06
SoulSeek 148 Total to Date and Time 302,460
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May 25 2003 Time: 16:45
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NeoNapster 299,661
Kazaa Media Desktop 229,896,640
Shareaza 1.8 504,877
Blipster 1.8 504,877
Ares Galaxy 1.8.1 502,744
Audio MP3 Find 1.1 45,635
FileFreedom 4.01 309,279
MP3 Searchprofi Pro SE 10,985
MP3 Media Monster 38,144
MediaBuddy 1.0 38,295
MP3 Search Tool 1.1 22,322
WinMX 5,991,308
FreeWire International Version 33,900
AtomWire 1.2.0.0 17,820
Planet MP3 Find 237,116
NapMX 3.0 Beta 2 115,213
Morpheus and Kazaa Enhancers 1.2 192,511
Swapper.net 289,890
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May 25 2003 TIME: 16:10:31
Kazaa Download Accelerator 1.02.2 Total to Date and Time 317,730
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May 25 2003 TIME: 15:58:51
NeoNapster 3,6 Total to Date and Time 744,482
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May 25 2003 TIME: 16:00:11
FreeWire 2.9.6 Total to Date and Time 583,429
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May 25 2003 TIME: 16:23:40
OneMX 1.06 Total to Date and Time 110,812
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May 25 2003 TIME: 16:41:10
Twister 2.0.8 Total to Date and Time 346,416
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June 2003
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June 1 2003 TIME: 18:17:33
iMesh 4.0 build 131 Total to Date and Time 50,609,935
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June 1 2003 TIME: 11:19:41
ICQ Lite beta Build 1150 Total to Date and Time 19,429,955
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June 1 2003 TIME: 15:43:17
Grokster 1.6 8,108,534 Total to Date and Time
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June 2 2003 TIME: 16:30:13
TOTALS For Week Ending May 25 2003
Kazaa Media Desktop 2,643,442 This Week, Total 230,309,616
ICQ Lite 611,899 This Week, Total 18,933,248
iMesh 512,972 This Week Total 50,175,597
AOL Instant Messanger( AIM) 407,634 This Week Total 12,159,485
ICQ Pro 2003a beta 336,656 This Week Total 229,499,804
Morpheus 236,592 This Week, Total 111,737,542
(Ad-Aware) 203,110 This Week, Total 16,675,713
Trillian 131,550 This Week, Total 10,568,299
Download Accelerator Plus 120,403 this Week, Total 35,128,299 Total
Grokster 80,687 This Week, Total 8,052,539
Diet Kazaa 55,530 This Week, Total 823,667


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June 2 2003 TIME: 21:35:35
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Kazaa 2.1.1 232,700,648
Morpheus 112,008,875
OneMX 117,911
SoulSeek 323,519
Twister 355,991
NeoNapster 751,958
Kazaa Download Accelerator 346,978
Xolox Ultra 2,248,157
Bearshare 18,313,438
iMesh 50,609,935
Kazaap 115,675
LimeWire 2.9.8 15,368,098
LimeWire International 58,498
Piolet 538,421
Beyond Search 11,177
Bearshare French 20,816
2 Find MP3 7.8.3 1,187,745
Freewire 2.9.6 588,909
QuickKaz The KaZaa Download Accelerator 7,266
MediaFinder 1.3 19 ( Nineteen) its Brand New
Wippit 1.o 260,546
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June 2 2003 TIME: 20:19:24
Morpheus 3.1 Total to Date and Time 112,061,243
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June 4 2003 TIME: 10:21:07
Top PC (Windows) Downloads

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June 4 2003 TIME: 20:14:50
Morpheus 3.1 Total until Date and Time 112,189,277
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June 4 2003 TIME:20:04:37
Xolox Ultra 1.56 Total to Date and Time 2,254,207
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June 4 2003 TIME: 19:50:46
Blipster Total to Date and Time 40,630
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June 4 2003 TIME: 12:00:42
Kazaa Media Desktop 2.1.1 Total to Date and Time 233,455,319
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June 4 2003 TIME:20:04:37
Xolox Ultra 1.56 Total to Date and Time 2,254,207
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June 7 2003 TIME: 23:14:08
LimeWire 2.9.8 for Linux Total to Date 426,597
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June 13 2003 TIME: 13:51:32
BearShare Spanish Total to Date and Time 31,093
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June 18 2003
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Beyond Search 3.3 13,720
Bearshare French 22,588
Bearshare German 569,344
Bearshare Italian 96,055
BearShare Spanish 31,292
10 Strike MP3 Scanner 1.4 22,338
NeoNapster 309,398
Shareaza 1.8 568,551
Blipster 42,566
Ares Galaxy 1.8.1 596,747
Audio MP3 Find 1.1 47,116
FileFreedom 4.01 309,550
MP3 Searchprofi Pro SE 12,263
MediaBuddy 1.0 40,750
MP3 Search Tool 1.1 23,093
WinMX 6,158,591
FreeWire International 2.65 35,332
Planet MP3 Find 5.0 238,045
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June 18, 2003 Time 04:44:24 Time
LimeWire 2.9.8 15,373,101 Total Downloads to Date and Time
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June 18 2003 TIME: 04:51:36
SoulSeek 148 Total to Date and Time 349,913
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June 18 2003 TIME: 04:26:37
FreeWire 2.9.6 Total to Date and Time, 601,974
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June 18 2003 TIME: 01:55:59
Swapper.Net 4.1 Total to Date and Time 306,648
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June 18 2003 TIME: 04:21:12
FileNavigator 3.6 Total to Date and Time 1,249,582
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June 18 2003 TIME: 04:36:25
Twister 2.0.8 Total to Date and Time 370,709
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June 19 2003 TIME: 16:09:17
FileFreedom 4.01 Total to Date and Time 309,551
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June 21 2003 TIME: 09:17:29
Shareaza 1.8 Total to Date and Time 576,243
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June 21 2003 TIME: 19:51:36
Piolet 1.05 626,382 Total to Date and Time
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June 23, 2003 TIME: 14:43:19
iMesh 4.0 Build 131 Total to Date and Time 52,262,345
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June 30 2003 TIME: 19:02:57
MP3 Search Tools by Downloads ALL TIME
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Wippit 1.0 286,128
FileTopia 3.04d 0
2 Find MP3 7.8.4 1,229,839
Kazaa Media Desktop 2.5 244,960,487 Total to Date and Time
iMesh 4.1 build 133 52,702,591
Twister 2.0.9 384,872
Blubster 2.5 3,390,046
LimeWire 15,431,150
LimeWire International 3.0.2 64,432
NeoNapster 3.61 788,987
Xolox Ultra 1.57 2,300,989
EarthStation 5 1.08 13,836
MediaFinder 1.3 3,944
Swapper.net 308,436
Morpheus 3.1 112,882,823
QuikKaz- The Kazaa Download Accelerator 2.0 87,129
OneMX 1.06 132,819
SoulSeek 148 367,880
FreeWire 2.9.6 607,903
BearShare 4.2.5 18,362,279
Kazaap 1.0 154,673
FileNavigator 3,6 1,250,984






Posted by OneCandleintheDark at 4:35 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

CNET's "Piracy Adventure Land" the "Cnet Music Center"



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?"


CNET Downloads PC Audio Landing Page Aug 1 2001
• Audiogalaxy Instructional Video
• Gnotella Review Featured on the Front Page

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A FULL SCREEN SIZE VIEW!


CNET Music Center File Sharing Smackdown FEATURED! August 1 2001

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A FULL SCREEN VIEW



The CNET "Music Center" Page, was on CNET.com, one of the "Most Visited Sites" on the Internet! Think of the "Search Engine Results" that would have been drawn by so MANY live links related to "Music" and "MP3". (See the Page again Below).

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE FOR A SUPER SIZED VIEW!



CNET Music Center Featuring an MP3 Insider "File Sharing Smackdown" using REAL Known Copyrighted Bands & Famous Recording Artists on the Front Page.
This one is from August 1 2001. ( There were several!)
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Still Live as of June 3 2011
Featuring these Artists and Bands as "Test Subjects". Can you spot a few that Likely have Copyrighted Material?
Britney Spears, The Strokes, Mogwai, Beatles, Run DMC, Stravinski, Leonard Bernstein, Randy Newman, Megadeth, Metallica, Pixies, Radiohead, American Analog Set, Miles Davis , Johnny Cash, Yo La Tengo, Rodan and Delgados.

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To view the complete CNET MP3 Insider "File Sharing Smackdown" article, you needed to click yet another link. ( These file sharing readers were suckered into millions of page views)
http://web.archive.org/web/20010912201731/http://music.cnet.com/music/0-1652424-8-6699285-2.html


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Archive.org, The Internet Wayback Machine Link

MP3 Insider, File Sharing Smackdown Posting Date 7/27/2001
Senior Editor Eliot Van Buskirk

In offices, dorms, and other high-bandwidth communities around the world, people are talking about which file-sharing service they like the most, now that Napster and Scour have been sued into irrelevance.

CNET Music Center's copy editor Brian Satterfield and I hunkered down to run a simple yet effective test on the top eight file-sharing applications. We ran searches for 18 band names using each of these clients, all of which are flourishing in the absence of Napster. According to CNET Download.com, the eight most popular file-sharing programs are: Gnotella, KaZaa, LimeWire, BearShare, Gnucleus, Audiogalaxy, MusicCity Morpheus, and WinMX.


I have carefully researched the Inline Links in the Above CNET "MP3 Insider" "File Sharing Smackdown" test. I have found the original linked pages as they appeared at the time on the "Internet Wayback Machine". I have reproduced those direct links below.

First Inline link was the word "Scour" It links directly to the Scour Office Assets Bankruptcy auction at Bankruptcy specialists; Cowan Alexander.

"now that Napster and Scour have been sued into irrelevance"

Scour Bankruptcy Auction ( Scour is Auction 11 near Bottom)

"we couldn't include Aimster in our testing,"

The Aimster Inline Line goes to the CNET Download.com Aimster Software download page;


"OK, enough of my nattering, on to the results chart."

The inline link "Results Chart" directs to the Results Chart for the "MP3 Insider File Sharing Smackdown" Date 7/27/2001


"the edge to Gnotella. It returned tons of results,"

On the Test Chart Page, the Inline linked word "Gnotella" directs to this Page "CNET Music "Find Music" "How To" Guide "Use Gnotella to Search Gnutella";


"The same goes for the folks who thought it was such a good idea to stamp out Napster"

The inline linked word "Folks" Directs Here, The RIAA's Website.




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I have included the extra links to show just how much traffic these Software offerings brought to the rest of CNET's Site. AND to potential Affiliate sales.

Actual Music Center Landing Page on August 1 2001

"Play Music" Link

"Organize Your Music"

"Find Music"

"Create Music"

"All Reviews"

"Top 5 MP3 Players"

"CD R/RW Drives"

"MP3 CD Players"

"Portable MP3 Players"

"Napster" inline word link goes directly to Napster CNET Download.com Page Aug 6 2001

Gnotella Link under Feature Goes to the CNET Download.com Gnotella Download Page

Gnotella "Hand Crafted" "Tutorial Link" goes here to a CNET Gnotella Tutorial

The Link "More MP3 Search Tools" Brings you HERE to the CNET Downloads top "MP3 Finders"

SongSpy Inline Link goes here to the Song Spy CNET download page

Link from word "POPULAR" at the top of page links to The "CNET Download.com's Most Popular Titles in PC Audio" Morpheus, KaZaa, Audiogalaxy, LimeWire, Gnotella, BearShare Etc.

Link from Word "PICK" Means the CNET Editor's top Picks! Today's Top Cnet Editors Pick is BearShare

The Live Link to the word "New Releases" are CNET's Newest Music Software Releases

MP3 Search Tools goes to the "File Sharing" Software. Notable three new versions of Bearshare.

Peer to Peer Exchanges Court Advisers Adware Spyware Cnet News August 2 2001



"Music News"( Hint, it's NOT about Hot new Bands and Recording Artists), Link goes here;

"Electronic" goes here;


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The Link and Front Page story that Took the reader to the "Get Started with Audiogalaxy Satellite" Guide.
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CNET's "Music Center" was the "Music Piracy Treasure Map"

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Another part of how CNET started Piracy! CNET Music Center ran a FREE MP3 Search Engine!


The "Top One Hundred Searches" Link still works Just fine.
( Notice the search bar below the top 100 results is "Pre-set to search for MP3's)


Now Click the ARTISTS Names and see Live DOWNLOAD LINKS embedded in the Search Results. ( The "Internet Wayback Machine" Crawler hit those Links to the top One Hundred Searches and Preserved the ACTUAL RESULTS for that day)

You didn't even need to leave the CNET MP3 Search.com search results page to download the songs. Simply right click to download! You didn't need to even leave the CNET page to download 100's if not thousands of songs as fast as your connection could manage. No Napster or file-sharing needed. No going to pop-up infested websites!

The Links blow still work fine! Just about every known recording artist showed up in the Cached "Internet Wayback Machine" Pages!!

Madonna

Shaggy

Gorillaz

Linkin Park

U2

Faith Hill

Nelly Furtado

Jennifer Lopez

Look at the tops of the results pages, They were grouped by "Fastest Sources"

NOW, One could argue that it was a "Dumb" search engine that blindly picked up MP3 + Britney and gave the results. That actually would be JUST FINE.

Except
A. It was "Pitched" as a "Free MP3 Music Finder" by CNET


QUOTE BY CNET EDITOR: "This one's a no-brainer; just query search engines with terms such as Beatles MP3, and you'll return lots of results, although most will be either irrelevant or unavailable. To make this slightly easier, CNET has put together its own MP3 Web search service, which lets you search directly on 11 different Web-based MP3 sites."

And these are those "11" different MP3 Websites; ( As the RIAA Shut them down one after another, New ones were simply added)

B. The instructions gave a specific copyrighted song as an example "Beck's Loser"



C. The "MP3 Finder" Search Engine landing page had "Preset Artists" to Click.
Those pre-set artists were "U2" "Madonna" "Britney Spears", Known Copyrighted Artists.

This persisted for 5 years from 2000 until 2005 as evidenced by the Links to the "internet WayBack Machine below"


CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. October 31, 2001

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. August 6, 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. October 4, 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. December 7, 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. February 10, 2003

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. December 4, 2003

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. February 12, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. April 4, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. October 10, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. December 4, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. December 8, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. February 6, 2005

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. March 5, 2005



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http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154358/http://music.search.com/top

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At the Bottom of the "CNET Get Started With "Hotfile" Page

Next Steps
"From Gnutella to Scour Exchange, we've got all sorts of file-sharing tips for you in the Find Music section of CNET Music Center."

Click the "Find Music" Link to go HERE! To CNET's Official "Find Music" resource Guide Page! LOL!


NOW! Look for the "Search for MP3's" Field and click the "Top 100 MP3 Searches LINK"


You will see "TOP 100 Searches Week Ending July 29, 2001", NOW, Click on Madonna!

STILL rolls over to the Original Cached Madonna Search Results, LOL!!!


"3pmmp3.com" rolls to this for the first :Madonna Like a Prayer" ( Tries to Start Instant Download, but no longer Functions)


"EMP3 Finder" Rolls over Here for Madonna "Like a Prayer"



CNET's Search.com Top 100 Searches Nov 8 2001

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. December 1, 2001

CNET's Search.com Top 100 Searches December 16 2001

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. October 31, 2001

CNET's Search.com Top 100 Searches January 24 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. February 13, 2002

CNET's Search.com Top 100 Searches June 1 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. June 6, 2002

CNET's Search.com Top 100 Searches August 2 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. August 6, 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. October 4, 2002

CNET's Search.com Top 100 Searches Oct 19 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. December 7, 2002

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. February 10, 2003

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With U2 Britney Spears and Madonna as Preset Searches. December 4, 2003

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. February 12, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. April 4, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. October 10, 2004


CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. December 4, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. December 8, 2004

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. February 6, 2005

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. March 5, 2005

CNET's Search.com Music "Search MP3's With "U2" "MP3" "Music" "Britney Spears" and "Madonna" as Preset Searches. March 5, 2005


CNET's Search.com MP3 Search March 2 2007 as Close to today as I can Find
No Longer has Madonna, U2 Britney Spears Etc.

CNET's Seacrh.com "Music Guide"
QUOTE: "How to get the best results from Search.com's Music Channel"
Find MP3s faster
MP3 files are hidden on computers all over the Internet, but very often the files have disappeared by time you find links to them. Top-ranked MP3 searches like Simon1, Oth.net, Astraweb, and 2look4.com find music that other engines miss. Search.com puts the best results from all these sources into one list of links. To find MP3s faster, select the MP3 checkbox in the Music channel before you type your query. Here's how we found the Beck song 'Loser':



Link to CNET's Music Center goes HERE

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