Sharman CTO "Our staff hate installing Kazaa"

Source: ZDnet

By Kristyn Maslog-Levis, ZDNet Australia
04 February 2005

An internal document written by Sharman Network's chief technology officer has revealed that the peer to peer provider's employees "hate" installing the Kazaa software because it has ill-effects on their computers.

According to a document entitled "Kazaa Technology 2004", written by Phil Morle, Sharman needs to be careful about installing too much adware on the user's computer upon the installation of the Kazaa software.

The document said the adware "slows down users' machines and can affect other activity such as browsing the Internet". Morle added in his statement "We are also adding increasing p2p networks to the users' machines. These are good value to users but they use more resources and create confusion for users as to what resources they are sharing and where this can be controlled."

Morle continued saying that these two issues could be reasons why Kazaa "lose users by over-stepping the mark" and that the company should base this by looking at how many employees at Sharman Networks refuse to install the p2p software.

"Consider how many people that work for Sharman Networks and its partners that hate installing Kazaa on their machine," Morle said in the document.

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