Kazaa Employees Hate The Software

Digital Media Wire reports that "employees at Sharman Networks, distributors of the Kazaa file-sharing application, "hate" to install Kazaa on their own computers because of how slow it makes them run, the company’s chief technology officer wrote in document recently released in court, ZDNet Australia reported. The document came to light — against pleas from the company — during the major record labels’ Australian copyright infringement case against Sharman Networks, which seeks to shut the company down. The comment, from Kazaa CTO Phil Morle, referred more to the adware that is bundled with Kazaa, which "slows down users’ machines and can affect other activity such as browsing the Internet… Consider how many people that work for Sharman Networks and its partners that hate installing Kazaa on their machine," Morle wrote. The document also revealed that Sharman was aware of the potential legal backlash from its product. "Our competitors are taking risks legally, but delivering compelling consumer solutions. We need confidence in what we do and must take similar leaps of faith. eDonkey is not yet being sued and is in a strong position to out-innovate us," Morle wrote."