Kazaa to be shut down?

darkpriest writes "According to this article on The Register, the file sharing software KazaA has been ordered to cease copyright infringment. They have two weeks to comply with the Judges ruling or face a penalty of $40,000 a day." CD: We've gotten a number of submissions about this, I had no idea Kazaa was this popular (must be all those a's in their name). I bet anyday that the RIAA will sue cisco for making routers that could be used to infringe.

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Xolox also down

[Anonymous Coward]

Xolox was probably my favorite, and now it has this message upon startup:

Dear XoloX-user,
Taking into account the latest law suits against p2p clients based on Fasttrack-technology (such as Kazaa), we
have decided to discontinue XoloX. As of the 1st of december, XoloX will be shut down and removed from
distribution sites. We hope everybody has enjoyed XoloX as long as it has been around and we want to use this
opportunity to thank everybody who made a contribution to its development. These last few days will give you
some time to finish your downloads and we advise you not to start new transfers. If you want to migrate to
another p2p client we advise you to visit the Zeropaid website (www.zeropaid.com) for orientation.
Thanks again and goodbye!
--Team XoloX--
Comments or suggestions? Please use info@xolox.nl

what about morpheus

[vikool]

what about morpheus..how is it that only kazaa gets affected...dont they connect to the same server???

vikas

FYI: They are NOT decentralized

[BinaryAlchemy]

They were when they started (Morpheous and Kazaa both use the FastTrack network). But they moved to a system where you must log on to a central server before you can join the network. Take a look at the giFT project for more info (they were an open source client before the network closed).

giFT Project

They are also working on a new version of the network they call OpenFT.