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I-Stream Targetted at 'business only', yeah right! (ads in KaZaA)

Ste.phen · 2002-06-09 10:37:52

Sorry if this has been covered already, I haven't been here in a while, and only had time to look through the last few days of posts. I seem to remember Eircom's justification of the price of I-stream included something about how it wasnt targetted at home users? Why, then, are they running ads on KaZaA, advertising it as…

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09-06-2002 11:37am

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Ste.phen

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Sorry if this has been covered already,
I haven't been here in a while, and only had time to look through the last few days of posts.
I seem to remember Eircom's justification of the price of I-stream included something about how it wasnt targetted at home users?

Why, then, are they running ads on KaZaA, advertising it as being perfect for high speed gaming?
(they even have the mouse!)

I don't have time to hang around and wait for it to come up, but i'm sure anyone that uses KaZaA will have noticed them at some point. (Right now i have an ad for some online casino)

Anyway, just thoguht i'd pop that in, please tell me i'm not going mad, that these ads do exist?

-Igy!

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#2 09-06-2002 1:28pm
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If the rest of Eircom had half as much brains as the marketroids and the linemen...

adam

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#3 09-06-2002 2:41pm
Tellox

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lol@high speed gaming
imagine hosting a jk2 server with a 3gig cap
can you say "unpayable bandwidth bill" ?

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#4 09-06-2002 2:50pm
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i dont think they mean for you to host a server but more that you can play on existing servers at 'high speed'

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#5 09-06-2002 3:10pm
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I'm just after witnessing that KaZaA ad. FFS :rolleyes:

KaZaA isn't exactly a business tool - "we're targetting at businesses" yeah fluppin' right!

Onling Gaming
Super Fast Email
Always on No DialUp
Flat-Rate Monthly Fee

and that f*~@ing mouse!! GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH :mad:

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#6 09-06-2002 3:10pm
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high speed gaming my arse, they have the technology so badly setup compared to other european operators that it's worse then ISDN for gaming.

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#7 09-06-2002 3:18pm
infomat

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Originally posted by Tizlox
lol@high speed gaming
imagine hosting a jk2 server with a 3gig cap
can you say "unpayable bandwidth bill" ?

The cap is a download cap.

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#8 09-06-2002 3:31pm
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heh heh, ya and games download and upload more that your average browsin and downloadin of pRon n warez or whatever ya be gettin! ... and specially if your one of them 'quakin' folks, always playin it

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#9 09-06-2002 3:31pm
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info, when people send you data while playing a game, its known as downloading data from other people, therfore killing your download cap.

a server with 20people = ouchies
jk2 uses a hell of a lot of bandwidth while playing on a server too, as do some other games

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#10 09-06-2002 3:45pm
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#11 09-06-2002 3:47pm
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Originally posted by daveirl
I know its way off topic but if you want to get rid of the ads and spyware try KaZaA lite http://www.kazaalite.tk

This man speaks the truth. go there. now. its the way forward.

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#12 09-06-2002 5:33pm
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It will remove the bundeled software but not the ads. Look at the "supertrick" section of the Kazaa Lite website to see how to remove the ads.

The ads on KaZaA are done through a 3rd party advertising company.

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#13 09-06-2002 7:02pm
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The ads were negver that annyoing until recently, when they started using flash animations which play sounds over whatever music you're listening to. They can be muted, but they still annoy me :P

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#14 09-06-2002 7:09pm
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there also on imesh

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#15 09-06-2002 7:25pm
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What I cant get over is how they call a download cap "A Flat Monthly Fee" .... ridiculous. Didnt someone recently say that the advertising authority was making them change that? It's still being said in those stupid little flash ads ... :rolleyes:

Oh well... next they'll be advertising "Broadband technology" as 2 tin cans and a piece of string!

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#16 09-06-2002 11:29pm
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"A Flat Monthly Fee" .... ridiculous. Didnt someone recently say that the advertising authority was making them change that?

Yes
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54174

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