# KaZaA vs. WinMX

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 20, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201 "2003-06-20T16:30:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201/1 "2003-06-20T16:30:56Z")

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i’ve been trying to download mp3’s by artists including staind, disturbed, cold, and 12 stones - bands who have all put out defective mp3’s with loops or ones that just repeat the chorus for the full length of the song on KaZaA. so, with most of them, i cannot find the real songs (with the excpetion of disturbed, because they’re so popular, i guess). do WinMX users have this problem (or any other free file-sharing program)?

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201/2 "2003-06-20T16:42:41Z")

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…and this week’s nomination for “thread most likely to be closed before mod has even finished morning coffee”…

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**Author:** ![gypsymoth3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gypsymoth3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsymoth3)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201/3 "2003-06-20T16:48:28Z")

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yeah, i bet the mods rip music more than i ever do being online so much.

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**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201/4 "2003-06-20T16:50:13Z")

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Countdown to closedown…10,9,8…

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kazaa-vs-winmx/183201/5 "2003-06-20T16:59:43Z")

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**gypsymoth3** ,

Because of copyright concerns, we frown on file-sharing on this board. If you’d like to keep your posting priviliges, you will not do this again.

This is closed.

**DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator

[sub]_fixed typo_[/sub]