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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

>I don't think any of these people think DRM can't be circumvented; they just know that the content providers want it

And so, rather than letting them starve, and having them eventually succumb to market will (or simply disappear -- either way is good), Apple just gives in and lets them have whatever they want so they can make a quick buck?

Remember the phrase: "Spare the rod, spoil the child".

That's *all* we need. A petulant child of a corporation, but instead with the power to crush lives.

I've said it before and I'll say it again... Please don't disable sharing on Kazaa or other networks. It degrades the quality of the network and makes you a leech, and many people will simply refuse to let you download from them because you're not sharing anyway. If enough people refuse to share, the network becomes *useless* because nobody is there from which to download. It kills the point of peer to peer file sharing.

If you're looking to be protected from the RIAA, there are other ways to give you a layer of security. Kazaa Lite K++ (download at OldVersion.com, v2.4.3 is likely the one you want) includes an IP Blocker extension built on the PeerGuardian database of blocked (read: RIAA) IPs, so the RIAA under normal circumstances cannot scan you. Admittedly it's not perfect, but it's better than using the spyware-filled, vulnerable official version.

WTF, did we get taken over by the greedy whinny selfish brats at various piracy supporting sites?

Actually, Kazaa has this retarded way of just hashing a few 300 kbyte blocks of any file, to speed up the hashing process. So it's perfectly possible to have two different files that Kazaa sees as the same file.

Read more here.

anonymous filesharing

Article mentions Blubster,Filetopia and ES5.

RIAA is going after your IP number.Kazaa is not protecting you. Be aware.

Good luck.

Why not use compression survivng steganography to hide the reviewers name throughout the film.

The studios have tried watermarking films, but two problems happened: critics became so annoyed by the watermarks that it affected their reviews, and the pirates still managed to detect and remove these "Cap Code" watermarks.

and prosecute them under the MDMA.

You mean "DMCA or NET Act." MDMA is a drug sold under the brand name Ecstasy.

Klite blocks computers thought to be used by riaa.

Yes , you must use proxy to be anonymous.

more here

use blubster, filetopia, or es5.com for anonymous filesharing.

OUT.

That after all the things that have gone on (i.e. a exploitable "function" that is a "mistake" by the programmers who claim to have a secure application, threats, etc) I noticed a lot of people are quick to go right back and download the new version.

For example in a post here by gd_nimrod (appropriatly named I say) supports them because they MUST not be the RIAA and because give their users FREE MOVIES. Thus they must not have questionable motives, or intended to do anything with this "bug." One could say they are doing a good job of social engineering, but given how bright their user base is this is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel with a bazooka.

Just like email attachments, you tell someone all the bad things that can happen, yet they still go and open them anyway.

This is wrong, why are we going to focus so much on computer crime when we have violent criminals killing and raping people, and priests, corporate criminals, etc who all deserve more time. We dont have enough space in the prison and the FBI does not have enough time to go after every script kiddie. This is almost as stupid as this article which links kiddie porn to P2P http://zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/10022003d.p hp

Macs can do P2P, too..

Humm, from your writing style I am guessing you come from this site.

Go back to crying with your fellow clue depraved thieves about how the RIAA is "t3h ghay," you are sticking it to "the man," using what ever abusrd reasoning for justifying your stealing, and how evil the lables and the artists are for wanting you to pay for music instead of stealing it.

The radio is still free...

Not for long.

Zeropaid.com has a Busted section as was prevously mentioned on Slashdot. They also tout some software called Fakeroo that puts wrongly-named child porn images on the Gnutella network.

I'm not sure if I agree with this and I certainly don't like the Zeropaid site but the RIAA's finding are meaningless when people are doing this.

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

It would amuse me to see them try to sue every person in the country.

Do your part and visit: zeropaid.com to load up on ammo.

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.

The funny thing is, I noticed they demanded one additional site to be taken down, in addition to all the Kazaa Lite hosts: www.zeropaid.com.

I'm not sure what your definition of "valid" is, but I did a quick check over at the site, which is a file sharing news site, and there was no actual Kazaa Lite software onsite. Instead, the software download link pointed to one of the sites mentioned in the DMCA takedown demand. In other words, looks like they weren't just going after the biggest sites that had the software, but a site that even only linked to the software site. In otherwords Google had to remove a link to a link. I'd say that's going a bit far beyond what even the DMCA thinks is valid.

Wrong, MD5 dosen't calculate all of the file after the first 300Kb.

Source

An interesting article at Zeropaid.com. But has anyone here actually tried the software? It sounds too good to be true... Any personal experiences would be interesting.

Who would have thought that the German constitution has had this law suit thrown out of court and protect a company while blatantly created a program for copyright violation, while the US constitution allows a collage student to be sued for his life savings by the RIAA for simply creating a search engine.

moron

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/0910200 2e.php

Summary:

Dslreports maintains an anti-spam forum, which discusses spam-fighting techniques. A recently registered user, AntiSpamCard, posts to the forum advertising its spam-fighting product, AntiSpamCard. This violates the rules of the forum, so another user, AmeritechTech, looks up the domain registration information (registration service: RegistryFly.com). It is full of false information (mostly na, na, na filled in everywhere). AntiSpamCard claims that false info is RegistryFly's fault. Further investigation leads AmeritechTech to believe AntiSpamCard are, in fact, spammers. The evidence:

- Privacy statement on antispamcard.com states that they have an opt-out policy on receiving info
- Domain listed as unwelcome here and here

From these sites, AmeritechTech discovers that antispamcard.com and putamericatowork.com are both owned by Brad Heckman in Palm Beach, FL. IP address for antispamcard.com seems to be within a block assigned to Crescive, Inc. (not to be confused with some car company), which is also mentioned on antispamcard.com. The host for this block of IPs is traci.net. Traci.net has a strict anti-spam policy. Name servers also appear to be owned by Brad, and hosted by traci.net. Registration of the domain names of the name servers also has na, na, na filled into most fields. Putamericatowork.com turns out to be hosted by aitcom.net, which has a very strict anti-spam policy. AmeritechTech also claims Brad owns spaminsurance.com, but I'm not sure why. IP in the same block (which it is) and identical layouts (can't check, antispamcard.com /.'ed), I think.

After various emails to the various hosting companies, antispamcard.com and spaminsurance.com magically have valid registration information. AmeritechTech also gets an email from Brad from igpbrad@hotmail.com (remember that email) saying the registration info is updated. Antispamcard.com registered to Brad, spaminsurance.com registered to Chad Deckard. Same guy? Associates? Who knows, but there seems to be a link (in later posts, this is contested by "mystery poster" Ry2k, but the link seems pretty strong). Hunting around for Chad Deckard stuff turns up claims on this board that he's associated with a scam to sell Kazaa "Gold", which is really just Kazaa Lite, but with a 9.95 price tag, plus it harvests your email. The site's still up, but I couldn't repeat the behaviour claimed by the message poster (posted back on Sept. 11, 2002) that takes you to infogeneratorpro.com, which seems to be the site registered to Chad. Also conspicuous is that Chad's name shows up on putamericatowork.com, a site owned by Brad (link). Also VERY conspicuous is that Brad emailed from igpbrad@hotmail.com, i.e. InfoGeneratorPro? Maybe a coincidence...

Some more looking uncovers other domains in Chad's name: infogenerator.com, usub.net, and finder-network.com. This is along with spaminsurance.com and infogeneratorpro.com. About this time Ry2k shows up to claim that Kazaa Gold was just a client of Chad's, and when Chad found out what they were doing, the account was eliminated. Ry2k claims to be a former employee of Chad's, and warns the forum of tarnishing the good name of legitimate businesses in their persuit of spammers. I go to bullet mode, as it's getting late, and I'm tired:

- Reverse look-ups on contact info for antispamcard.com produce a fax number registered to infogenerator.com.
- Domain name servers (safeidentity.net) for antispamcard.com has contact info updated to Crescive, Inc.
- Someone points out that RegisarFly.com may be shady, something about "using CNAME for their MX records". Maybe someone can fill me in...
- google groups turns up complaints about spam from

"The Chad" claims to be a "business savant." On his chaddeckard.com site. It's got to be idiot savant because part of his business sense had him trolling p2p forum as part of his master plan. If I want blood, I don't turn to stones, and if I want money, I'm not turning to people who make a habbit of not paying for stuff. I'll leave that business to the check cashing places and repo-men.

Apple is selling 125,000 files per day. It will take them 366,641.528 days or 1004 years to sell that many files with iTunes.

Apple has achieved these numbers because there is no viable p2p competition. On windoze there are alternatives to crippled files and paying.


Actually Apple has achieved these numbers in spite of viable p2p competition. Acquisiton being one example which works pretty well.

...Because it shares files, but doesn't search for them. It's also best when used with files larger than an MP3, and when more than one person is downloading the file at the same time.

If you want to see the next Napster, try WinMX, or Shareaza, or any of the "lite" versions of the various P2P sharing systems you can find at ZeroPaid.com. They're much more suited to trading stuff, rather than people helping each other downloading particular files.

And yeah, BT can help sites trade pirated music and movies and whatever, but the web pages the .torrent files are stored on are fixed targets, much like Napster was, and are susceptible to the RIAA/MPAA/SPA dropping on their asses.

The system is broken, hardcore. Now if you release open source software you are aiding terrorists? Ever since the "Stella Awards" I've always wondered where America was going. Criminals can sue the people they are robbing if they get hurt. Then the RIAA starts prosicuting fans. When it comes to Microsoft ... you name it. It seems we are justblowing up the world! The funny thing is CHILD PORNGRAPHERS can - I'd link to the story, but news.com took it down, actually got off because his computer was hacked into, and he didn't get a search warrent, but not the RIAA!! If that bill passes they won't need a search warrent, just look up legal hacking on google...you'll get tons of links on it. Oops I'm off the subject. If we are all on the same page, and reading the same stuff, then we all know what the other guy can do. So why would open source be so bad, and as far as documents ... there are documents for everything

If Shareaza is ECM'ed somehow, I would suggest everyone write clients to return false hits to flawed BearShare clients that point to content stating that Vinnie is acting like a dick.

Here's what happened today on the Gnutella Developers Forum

Vinnie says Shareaza is damaging the Gnutella network. Well, his own words are blackening the public's view of ALL Gnutella developers. He himself should be banned from Gnutella, period.

Consider this: most people do not visit the GDF group. So when Vinnie makes an ass out of himself, most people just see his words, and assume that he represents all the other Gnutella developers. People see Vinnie flaming, spewing insults left and right. What are people supposed to think?

Vinne, it\'s alright to make points such as "Shareaza is flooding the network with requests." But when you say things such as "YOU ARE A F#$@ING MORON YOU GODDAMNED SON OF A WHORE," you have gone way past the line.

"I've tried being civil"
If such behavior is what you define as civil...

"I suggest other developers "
Wait, Vinnie, you make it sound like you represent the WHOLE Gnutella community. However, this statement makes it sound like there hasn't been a complete agreement yet, and that this is more your own personal opinion. Has an official decision been made or not?

"YOUR CLIENT SUCKS A BIG FAT DONKEY'S DICK!"
So this is what Gnutella developers are like? Freely bashing other people's work and insulting them when all they have done is try to improve the network. I guess I'll make sure to avoid Gnutella developers at all costs, they sound nasty. Or maybe it's just Vinnie.

Last question: why have I not negatively responded to Adam Fisk? Because he has been civil. You have not.

Zeropaid

has 12 P2P apps for Linux, 17 for Mac and 55 for Windows. If Kazaa were stopped you could still search Fasttrack using Imesh, Grokster or Morpheus.

I recommend Soulseek for music.

eDonkey and eMule (which uses the eDonkey network), both linked to from ZeroPaid use a hash of the file itself for indexing. You can change the file name but as long as the file itself doesn't change there is no problem. It's unlikely that you get junk on the eDonkey network as long as you're getting a file with many sources.

As noted here Jackie still want it regulated by some regulatory agency or congress.

Anyone else not surprised by this?

Overnet released their command line client for the mac. It is great. If you do not fear the terminal, then use Overnet. Overnet is compatible with the edonkey dllinks. You can find the available files with their corresponding links at Sharereactor. Just type "dllink" in overnet and paste the link from sharereactor to download the file. There is no fancy GUI yet, but I'm sure that when this gets bigger, it will have one. I highly recomend this application, but be warned of it's lack of gui. For other file sharing information I recomend zeropaid. Although they don't have the latest mac software, and they are mainly M$ users, they can give you a general idea of the programs available for download.

All they have done is bundle applications that are free and from what I can tell the only programing that they have done themselfs is adding a front end.

The stolen software is as follows:
Smart Ripper
DVDx
VCD Easy/CD-Maker
PowerCDR

"This is not the network you're looking for." Well, P2P networks get to live as long as they stay hidden enough for the in-the-know only, once they get printed on the front page of newspapers the RIAA lawyers will just have to follow the trail of the 13 year old N-Stink fans. It's all in the balance, they need enough users to have good content, but not too many that they start showing up in the RIAA radar.

KaZaA seems to be thriving, there's eDonkey, Gnutella, and numerous others.

or KDX, Carracho (or however the heck it's spelled) and all the ones listed here

Well, lets look at Kazaa.

It's website is in English. It's software is in English, and it does not have a Norwegian version of the software and probably never will. Take a look at their Languages page. It doesn't even have plans to open a Norweigan version of their software, but yet they want to release it in Spanish, French and German? Spanish is basically the second most spoken language in the United States, not Norway. Now, if we take a look at the most common languages in Norway, we can see here and here that hardly anyone speaks English in Norway. Most speak, um, Norwegian (most common dialect is Bokmål).

So, as we can plainly see, Kazaa is targeting the US demographic, not Norway/Denmark/Estonia. Yet their servers and establishments are in Denmark? Why? It's to gain marketshare and profit from the American people, yet not contribute the US. In fact, they're taking money away from the American government. There are no US taxes on the products, so your basically throwing your money away. (Yes, Money, there is now "Kazaa Plus" which costs $$$). Kazaa's advertisments target US customers, it's product is made for US customers and it's only intrest is in the US customer base.

Kazaa is obviously not interested in P2P technology or it's future. It stole Gntuella's technology spec and re-wrote it. Kazaa also has Network Supernodes (dedicated nodes, always on) and other centralized components. So if you took those away, expect drastic changes in performance. The RIAA has pretty much presumed Kazaa was built just like that for a while. Kazaa is all about money. Take away the money, watch the developers flee. The "developers" of Kazaa have already started up similar companies. They know Kazaa will be shut down eventually, and of course they need to keep making their un-deserved millions.

Kazaa will eventually be shut down, even if it means Jennifer Gardner running out of an exploding building in the Netherlands.

Is it really as decentralized as it's touted to be?

Is it really as decentralized as it's touted to be?

Funny how this is coming from someone who codes the very software used to illegally rip and copy audio streams. Hows it feel having piracy bite you in the back? Its like when K-Lite.tk Sells Kazaa Lite Deluxe at a profit, then complaining when people download it for free. Here we have a free software, Kazaa, written to make money off piracy via ads, stripped down to not display ads --the Lite denotation--repackaged and sold as a Deluxe version. Notice the irony here, eh?

As of August 2002, the PSS Security Team has not been able to determine the technique that is being used to gain access to the computer.

Of course they are not able to determine the technique used to break in. First Microsoft complains about bug reporters telling people about problems, HP threatens to sue, and now they're complaining that no one is telling them? Why should they?

Full disclosure is a good thing!

The latest versions of limewire use hashes from a specification called HUGE that probably defeat this type of posioning attack. You can check out a recent interview with limewire team here. Go here if you want to download the code or check out the dev docs(Which are pretty outdated).

Click here to access this thread on Zeropaid.

Here's the Zeropaid news comment on this headline: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/0709200 2f.php