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And if all the [commercial] networks start doing this then an OSS alternative will just take it's place. Check out http://gift.sourceforge.net/

And if you're stuck with Windows because you're stuck with applications or devices that aren't ported to Linux or BSD for x86, you can use giFT through KCeasy.

Nothing to see here. Let the "politicians" aka big businesses do whatever they want, while we can happily continue on our ways:

http://kceasy.com/

Of course it is, but I have yet to meet anyone in person who uses Limewire and is not a Mac user.
Have you met anyone using a giFT client?
Too bad the promenent Windows client dropped support for FastTrack/KaZaA (they got hit by a C&D by Sharman), but it still searches Gnutella (not as well as LimeWire, I have to admit) and OpenFT (my all time favorite network, although it's very unstable--if you can connect, it's great, giFT devs are reworking parts of the network code to fix some huge bugs, so good things might happen there).
Mac users get Poisoned (currently under a rewrite, but it's opensorce, supports FastTrack, Gnutella and OpenFT and has a nice fourm :) ). There are other clients, see the outdated list here. giFT is very nice, opensource (note: Xfactor, the other Mac OS X client, is NOT opensource, that's one of the reasons I stick with Poisoned), free, and supports major networks--it's pretty nice!

Can someone please submit this article to Slashdot's editors? Its been pending for a day and a half for myself. I've released this text into the public domain so feel free to reword anything in it.

I think its self explanatory but feel free to reply here for clarifications.

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Open Source Application Under Attack by Maker of KaZaA over Reverse Engineering

A story from Zeropaid indicates that maker of KaZaA, Sharman Networks, has sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the maker of GPLed software KCEasy because it interoperates with their FastTrack network. The creator of KCeasy says on the KCEasy website "I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself". A similar issue was covered by the Slashdot story Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case on the right to reverse engineer to create an interoperable network. Reverse engineering to be another on the list of rights that have fallen by the way side?

Can someone please submit this article to Slashdot's editors? Its been pending for a day and a half for myself. I've released this text into the public domain so feel free to reword anything in it.

I think its self explanatory but feel free to reply here for clarifications.

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Open Source Application Under Attack by Maker of KaZaA over Reverse Engineering

A story from Zeropaid indicates that maker of KaZaA, Sharman Networks, has sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the maker of GPLed software KCEasy because it interoperates with their FastTrack network. The creator of KCeasy says on the KCEasy website "I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself". A similar issue was covered by the Slashdot story Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case on the right to reverse engineer to create an interoperable network. Reverse engineering to be another on the list of rights that have fallen by the way side?

Can someone please submit this article to Slashdot's editors? Its been pending for a day and a half for myself. I've released this text into the public domain so feel free to reword anything in it.

I think its self explanatory but feel free to reply here for clarifications.

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Open Source Application Under Attack by Maker of KaZaA over Reverse Engineering

A story from Zeropaid indicates that maker of KaZaA, Sharman Networks, has sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the maker of GPLed software KCEasy because it interoperates with their FastTrack network. The creator of KCeasy says on the KCEasy website "I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself". A similar issue was covered by the Slashdot story Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case on the right to reverse engineer to create an interoperable network. Reverse engineering to be another on the list of rights that have fallen by the way side?

Kazaa alone can be held responsible for almost half of those infections I think.

That is why you uninstall Kazaa and install an open source alternative that can go into the FreeTrack network, Gnutella, and Open FreeTrack (Open FT), the alternative being: Kceasy and their sourceforge website. The only trouble I see with this software is that the developer went from 0.9 to 0.10 to 0.11 :p.

Also get rid of eDonkey and get eMule here or from their sourceforge website.

Poisoned is actually just a frontend (although a very good one) for giFT. There are Windows versions available too, such as KCeasy. But until giFT gets ed2k support, Shareaza is still the way to go.