Seriously, we’re just as surprised as you are. Not only is Kazaa somehow still in business, they’re also trying anything they can to set themselves apart from all the other digital music retailers you’d rather use instead of them. Now the property of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, Kazaa is setting its sights on bringing HD movie downloads to the masses (well, the masses that use Kazaa), and the Pre is where they’ve decided to make their stand.
According to a recent release, the Pre will be able to support user-generated videos and “HD quality movies”, but Kazaa’s PR team is being keeping mum about everything else. As it stands, it looks like over-the-air downloads are out of the question, but there’s no word on release date or partnerships with film distributors. In short, aside from the fact that Kazaa intends to use it to buck up the social media aspect of their service, we’ll have to wait and see what they have in store for the Pre faithful among us.
To be completely honest though, there’s something fishy about this release, lack of detail notwithstanding. It’s rare to come across a press release where they manage to spell the service’s name wrong, and they blithely throw in what you could only loosely call a testimonial by a “web hacker” who may or may not have died last year. Hopefully Kazaa came make good on their plans and bring a much-needed service to the Pre, but honestly – don’t hold your breath.
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/06/antitrust-apple-and-att-in-dojs-sights/
bye-bye iphone/att monopoly
hah, pre doesnt even have video recording, let alone HD
interesting but they’re on their last legs. If this doesn’t work they’re done.
Kazaa on a Palm device? Sweet, everybody party like it’s 2002!!
Non-effing-starter.
I thought Kazaa was dead as well until 6 days ago when I saw this ad on my site (see the link in my tweet):
http://twitter.com/besttechie/status/2423921918
I think it’s just SEO:
http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1105.html
The Kazaa that people liked is long dead.. this is just a digital store trying to sell you drm’ed content making use of the kazaa name.
Just say no. If you want free content. Use emlue, limewire, torrents.
If you want pay content Use itunes, netflix, amazon.com.
Give a pass to these junk site’s let them fade in to oblivion.
Wow, very cool indeed!
RT
http://www.be-anonymous.tk
Ah ah , Kazaa, the ultimate nest of spywares…
I was just about to say that with Amazon and YouTube already on the Pre it doesn’t make sense that there is room for more players.
Now if Sling wants to introduce a Slingplayer app – that’s a completely different story.
Yes install this app on your Pre to get it full of spyware and adware and to slow your Pre to a crawl.
It was my fault I wrote the Press Release. I work in the IT department with the developers of the new subscription service. There is an approved media player being released. I helped work on it. I got excited and being a bit eccentric thought the quote was funny. So sorry I did not mean to make any one get off sides. Not many people really have a clue what happened to Kazaa or what it would have been like to live through the transformation of the company over the last six years. I will make sure to get any future attempt at press releases signed off by company representatives.
just by the way. there is no spyware on kazaa.com but it takes so much effort to get that message out.
man people do care about kazaa…
look at where this press release appeared… i always wanted to be on mobilecrunch.com’s site… i am glad that i used my name now… =) hmm..
shout out to Elton Stewart the best Product Manager in the world..
you are awesome!!!
I thought Jonathan James was ahead of the curve and was a very interesting pick.