04-09-2002, 07:50 PM
Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa
A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own.
Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a California-based digital advertising technology company, has been distributing its 3D ad technology along with the Kazaa software since late last fall. But in a federal securities filing Monday, the company revealed it also has been installing more ambitious technology that could turn every computer running Kazaa into a node in a new network controlled by Brilliant Digital.
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Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing powerto help with other companies' complicated computing tasks.
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What the heck is up with this?
A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network of its own.
Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a California-based digital advertising technology company, has been distributing its 3D ad technology along with the Kazaa software since late last fall. But in a federal securities filing Monday, the company revealed it also has been installing more ambitious technology that could turn every computer running Kazaa into a node in a new network controlled by Brilliant Digital.
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Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing powerto help with other companies' complicated computing tasks.
(full article <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html">http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html</a><!-- m --> )
What the heck is up with this?