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I'll give it a shot...

Back in days of yore, Kazaa was given away for free for people to download to connect to the fast track netword. Then someone came along and modded the program, and created kazaa-lite. This gave users many added benefits, and made getting files easier. But, the changes were freely available, and then a company took those changes, renamed them, "gave" them away on a website that required your email address, and they bundled a ton of spyware crap in (not that the regular Kazaa didn't already start out with enough of that as it was.

If you want to see the evil that is Kazaa Gold, it still exists, and can be found here... just don't download it =) forms of Kazaa Lite can still be found if anyone must use the Fast Track network... =) hope this helped.

If I post the links for Kazaa Lite downloads that Google had to remove here on Slashdot, will Slashdot get a takedown notice? If so, will Slashdot comply? Moderators, please mod this up so that it will show up in the Google/Google News search index!

a. http://www.kazaagold.com
b. http://mp3download.com
c. http://www.kazaalite.tk
d. http://www.kaaza.com
e. http://doa2.host.sk
f. http://www.k-lite.tk
g. http://www.kazaa-file-sharing-downloads.com
h. http://www.kazaalite.nl
i. http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm
j. http://www.kazaa-download.de
k. http://www.zeropaid.com
l. http://www.kazaalite.nl/downloads.htm
m. http://kazaa.infos-du-net.com
n. http://www.kazaa-lite.tk
o. http://www.kazaa-lite.info

Odd, when they make it public information on their website (whose URL isn't blocked out in the PDF file) and they don't have any other branches:

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, L.L.P.
15821 Ventura Boulevard
Suite 525
Encino, CA 91436
(818) 444-4500
(818) 444-4520 fax
info@biztechlaw.com e-mail

On a side note -- honestly curious, not meant to be trolling -- how is 378,000 results "a bit lacking"? And they only removed 14?

As for the blocked links, "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- L. Peter Deutsch (or John Gilmore)

http://www.kazaagold.com
http://mp3download.com
http://www.kazaalite.tk
http://www.kaaza.com
http://doa2.host.sk
http://www.k-lite.tk
http://www.kazaa-file-sharing-downloads.com
http://www.kazaalite.nl
http://home/hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm
http://www.kazaa-download.de
http://www.zeropaid.com
http//www.kazaalite.nl/downloads.htm
http://kazaa.infos-du-net.com
http://www.kazaa-lite.tk
http://www.kazaa-lite.info

I repeat, do not visit the above Kazaa Lite resources.

Idiocy likes this makes me thankful that I am boycotting television. Why subject yourself to mindless drek filled with awful advertising when you can have the Internet? The Internet is much better.

I even found a service called KaZaA Gold. It's like the KaZaA you leeches use, but it's legit. For just $1.50 a month, I can download all the content I want -- including Hollywood films.

Why can't Hollywood embrace the Internet, instead of trying to shut it down?

If it can be heard (audio), it will be recorded and it will be shared (not "stolen").

If it can be seen (video), it will be recorded and it will be shared.

Hi, I'm Seth Finklestein, famous cybersecurity expert. I'm here to talk to you about DRM: the silent killer.

Once upon a time, before Michael Sims became unconscionably evil, there were CDs, and they were good. Then along came MP3, and I was able to start boycotting CDs due to their high prices, instead showing my contempt for the recording industry by sharing (not "stealing") their product.

Then along came DVDs, and they were bad. However, DeCSS made them good, so now I can enjoy royalty-free, DRM-free entertainment from legitimate businesses like KaZaA Gold.

I predict that copy-protected CDs and DVDs will vanish. Furthermore, even if KaZaA Gold goes under, a replacement will come along.

With freedom and contempt,

Seth Finklestein.

If it can be heard (audio), it will be recorded and it will be shared (not "stolen").

If it can be seen (video), it will be recorded and it will be shared.

Hi, I'm Seth Finklestein, famous cybersecurity expert. I'm here to talk to you about DRM: the silent killer.

Once upon a time, before Michael Sims became unconscionably evil, there were CDs, and they were good. Then along came MP3, and I was able to start boycotting CDs due to their high prices, instead showing my contempt for the recording industry by sharing (not "stealing") their product.

Then along came DVDs, and they were bad. However, DeCSS made them good, so now I can enjoy royalty-free, DRM-free entertainment from legitimate businesses like KaZaA Gold.

I predict that copy-protected CDs and DVDs will vanish. Furthermore, even if KaZaA Gold goes under, a replacement will come along.

With freedom and contempt,

Seth Finklestein.

There's nothing good on TV. I stopped watching TV more than 12 years ago because of this fact. As a result, I propose that this bandwidth be used for Internet. As we all know, there is more value in just one web site than all the "American Idols" and "Survivor Amazon" clones put together.

Also, with Internet bandwidth coming down the pipes instead of those awful shows that I hate so much, I can fire up KaZaA Gold to legally download all the music, movies, and other audio-visual entertainment files that I am proudly boycotting. It's a good thing.

Your logic seems based entirely around the fact that simply because you're not paying the actors, directors, caterers and stunt men directly you have no obligation to pay for services rendered.

None of that money comes from DVDs. The evil Motion Picture Association of America ensures that actors make less than three cents per DVD sold. Do you care if Keanu Reeves gets three fewer cents?

Caterers get far less than one cent per DVD sold. Are you sad because they're getting less money? I'm not.

Would you use the same logic to download and use commercial software distributed only on CD-ROM simply because you boycott the CD-ROM format and own no CD-Rom drive?

Who the hell buys software any more? As a paid subscriber of KaZaA Gold, I have unlimited access to more than 50,000 software titles. Thanks to KaZaA Gold, I have gotten rid of my archaic CD-ROM drive and replaced it with a delicious 320GB hard drive filled with all the movies I want.

You're benefiting from someone else's time and effort. Someone put a lot of time into writing that software and yet you'd use that product without rendering any compensation for service rendered.

If I like a piece of software, I might send a donation to the person who wrote it. However, I as the consumer get to determine how much software is worth.

IANAL but I know that argument would get laughed out of any courtroom.

I'm anal too, but I know my way around a courtroom. As a famous cybersecurity expert, I have had to defend myself many thousands of times.

If you feel that you must boycott DVD's, then why the hell are you not buying the movies on video cassette?

Video cassettes are an obsolete technology. I can't play them on my laptop, and I sure as heck am not going to invest in obsolete magnetic media.

Furthermore, videocassettes are often protected with evil Macrovision "copy protection" which causes seizures in children.

Its like saying you want to boycott Cadburys chocolate, but then proceeding to shoplift a few bars of it from the nearest store.

No, it's not. If you steal chocolate from a store, then the store has been deprived of chocolate and loses money. When I liberate movies from KaZaA Gold, I am making perfect, bit-for-bit digital copies but the original source stays intact. This means that suckers like you can still spend upwards of $15 to buy poorly copy-protected DVDs if you so desire, and the companies lose no money. Who's dumb now? Not me. You're dumb.

I don't try to deny that I haven't downloaded a DivX or two in my time.. but then I do own over 60 legitimately purchased DVD's, and I do know that I was breaking the law when I downloaded those DivX files.

No, you're a thief. By boycotting DVDs, I am standing up against authority. Every DivX movie that I download from KaZaA Gold is a dagger into the heart of oppression. Every movie you download is something that you don't feel like paying for. There's a big difference. I'm a hero; you're just lazy.

IANAL but I know that argument would get laughed out of any courtroom.

I'm anal too, but I know my way around a courtroom. As a famous cybersecurity expert, I have had to defend myself many thousands of times.

If you feel that you must boycott DVD's, then why the hell are you not buying the movies on video cassette?

Video cassettes are an obsolete technology. I can't play them on my laptop, and I sure as heck am not going to invest in obsolete magnetic media.

Furthermore, videocassettes are often protected with evil Macrovision "copy protection" which causes seizures in children.

Its like saying you want to boycott Cadburys chocolate, but then proceeding to shoplift a few bars of it from the nearest store.

No, it's not. If you steal chocolate from a store, then the store has been deprived of chocolate and loses money. When I liberate movies from KaZaA Gold, I am making perfect, bit-for-bit digital copies but the original source stays intact. This means that suckers like you can still spend upwards of $15 to buy poorly copy-protected DVDs if you so desire, and the companies lose no money. Who's dumb now? Not me. You're dumb.

I don't try to deny that I haven't downloaded a DivX or two in my time.. but then I do own over 60 legitimately purchased DVD's, and I do know that I was breaking the law when I downloaded those DivX files.

No, you're a thief. By boycotting DVDs, I am standing up against authority. Every DivX movie that I download from KaZaA Gold is a dagger into the heart of oppression. Every movie you download is something that you don't feel like paying for. There's a big difference. I'm a hero; you're just lazy.

Please check my web site, www.sethf.com. I have posted untold thousands of words on the subject of Fair Use, and I am proud to say that I have untold gigabytes of movies that I have fairly and legally downloaded.

According to the law, which is cited on my web site, it is legal to download something if it causes no monetary harm to a company. For example, I'm boycotting DVDs, so I can't buy DVDs and I don't own a DVD player. Therefore, by downloading DVDs from KaZaA Gold, I am depriving the studios of no money whatsoever.

Honestly, I don't know why Michael Sims tolerates uneducated ignorami like yourself.

It's perfectly legal to post a DivX copy of a part of a DVD. That's called "Fair Use." If I feel that the material is good, and if I feel that DVDs are worth the price (hint: they're not) and if I feel like giving my money to Disney (hint: I don't) then I'll buy the disc.

In the meantime, I'll continue to use legitimate file-sharing services like KaZaA Gold and BitTorrent.

I "liberated" Down With Love off of KaZaA Gold yesterday, and I thought it was excellent. I'll let you download it if you sign up for KaZaA Gold using me (sethf@sethf.com) as a referrer.

As a famous cybersecurity activist, I find it laughable that people still pirate movies using a camcorder. I downloaded a rip of "The Matrix Reloaded" using KaZaA Gold yesterday, and I was shocked by what I saw. People were laughing, talking, answering their mobile phones (or as you Americans call them, "celly phoneys") and otherwise disrupting the movie that I paid KaZaA Gold for the privilege of downloading. I wrote KaZaA Gold an angry e-mail, and I will resend it in 5 hours unless I get a full refund for the movie I downloaded.

You know those "Flexplay DVDs" that critics have been receiving? I think that a very smart hacker like myself should just rip them immediately before they expire. Then they can sell them to sites like KaZaA Gold, so that famous cybersecurity activists like me can download them.

Thank you.