AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE

dmehus writes "America Online, parent company of Nullsoft, has pulled what it views as a controversial project called WASTE from Nullsoft's servers. This is not the only time it has stepped in to Nullsoft's doings. It had quickly taken down Gnutella, developed by Nullsoft co-founder Justin Frankel, and shut down an MP3 search engine. CNET's News.com has more details." For those not keeping track, WASTE was only recently released.

Don't worry, you can still get a copy of it

[fredrikj]

Just download it over WASTE.

waste copy

[Anonymous Coward]

anyone have a copy of the source code for review only? :)

Why is this news?

[zzxc]

The parent company *should* be hiring someone to empty nullsoft's dumpster...

I wish AOL would pull my waste

[gnu-sucks]

Seriously, why all the AOL bashing today? AOL has done a great service by going where the sun don't shine and manually removing the waste. Thats got to beat the age-old reach-around method...

isn't life funny?

[smd4985]

i downloaded waste off gnutella :) .

Eric Rudolph sez

[Saint Stephen]

It's all a big conspiracy by AOL and Microsoft to WASTE the GPL and WASTE all music pirates in one fell swoop.

Re:WHAT DOES IT DO?

[jeffehobbs]

It's code that gets itself mirrored on lots and lots of web servers.

~jeff

WooHoo!!!

[benjcorey]

Nullsoft's WASTE - BLAH, Blah, blah [slashdot.org]
Ho Hum, maybe I'll check that out sometime if I'm bored.

AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE [slashdot.org]
Unauthorized copy!?!?!?! Woohoo! Show me the mirrors!!!

Re:PULLED

[Dan-DAFC]

Please mod this up so my server survives.

Yeah, and you'd better mod this post up as well or I'll...er...kill a kitten.

Re:Mirrored

[Jucius Maximus]

"As linked from heise.de [heise.de]..."

The funniest thing about this story (which is written in German) is that altavista's babelfish translator translates "Nullsoft" assuming it's a German word into "Zero Often" .

Re:GPL - Source Posted

[sepluv]

www.god.com

God is a company?...that begins to explain a lot about the world.

hmmm...maybe www.god.gov or even www.god.net or www.god.org but .com?

Re:yeah biznatch

[meta.chris]

It the way that some rappers were speaking a couple years ago.
As per usual, the hipster white people pick it up and over-use it, ex post facto.

Cripes! Hold on for just a second...

[Qubit]

Okay, so I've got one of those DeCSS shirts and everything, but how in the world am I supposed to get a few thousand lines of source on a T-shirt?

And another thing: people ask me about my 'got DeCSS?' shirt all the time, but who's going to talk to me if my clothing says 'got WASTE?'.

-- puzzled

Re:GPL - Source Posted

[Anonymous Coward]

"So, if (for example) a Microsoft guy gives me a free copy of Visual Studio, they can't come after me for license fees later. "

Thats good to hear. I guess my copy of Windows XP is legit since billg2950 on IRC sent it to me.

Nice marketing ploy by AOL

[egg troll]

By "banning" this software, they've made WASTE the must-have of every l33t kiddie around. Look at this thread for how many mirror sites have sprung up. Everyone wants it.

This is publicity you can't buy! I'm sure AOL knows this. As soon as WASTE gets a critical mass of enough users using it, AOL will "give in" and release it officially again. The end result of these actions? WASTE suddenly becomes a hugely popular app and AOL didn't have to spend a penny in marketting.

Or then again, maybe I'm wrong....

Re:GPL - Source Posted

[jdray]

What, with the newly updated top level domains, I'd be looking for god.info.