Shutting down Kazaa

An anonymous reader writes "There is an interesting wired.com article on the fight between the world's media corporations and Kazaa. The lengths Kazaa has gone to to keep itself immune from attack (incorporated variously in Vanuatu (where?), Estonia and Australia), seem to have largely paid off - until now."

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Kazaa vs eMule

[Anonymous Coward]

Kazaa is P2P for the non-power users...I urge everyone to try out eMule / eDonkey....file integrity is next to none other and speed is remarkably impressive (considering the chunk based downloading system). Check it out!

Re:Kazaa vs eMule

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll vouch for this. eMule is several times more reliable and useful than kazaa and gnutella/2. It's extremely easy to spot fakes on eMule. It's extremely hard for systems like overpeer to work against eMule. Sharing at reasonable speeds is also forced by the client; on kazaa you constantly get downloads in the .5k/sec-2k/sec range, on eMule this rarely happens, if you have more than 20 or so sources, you are pretty much guarenteed a fast download, even on files in the gigabyte range. Network exploits are also quickly taken care of by eMules open source developers.

Also for anybody who thinks the donkey network sucks, you have probably only tried the actual edonkey2000 client, don't use that one, it realy sucks, the author loaded it up with spyware and did a realy hack job on it (although he did a very decent job on the network protocol). Get eMule instead, it's GPL too.

Re:Kazaa vs eMule

[chabotc]

Incase some people do want to try out mldonkey (i would advice it), these links will allow you to hit the ground running:

downloads:
* edonkey2000: http://www.edonkey2000.com/ (official client page. Has a almost working linux client to.. windows client is good)

* eMule: http://www.emule-project.net/ (considered the best windows client. Also open source)

* mldonkey: http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/ (linux client, with GIU, Web & telnet interfaces. Considered 'best' on linux. Open source)

* cdonkey: http://cdonkey.suche.org/ (some seem to like it, i don't want to touch it)

Good content sites:

* http://www.sharereactor.com (between its own listings, and the content in the forums, this is a unbeatable resource!)
* http://www.filenexus.com (sharereactor 'competitor', much smaller, but does music)

* http://www.sharedfolders.net (place where ppl can share their own 'releases' and faborites.. some good stuff can be found there, but takes a bit of work)

Enjoy, and welcome to the donkey file sharing world ;-)

Re:Kazaa vs eMule

[bsharitt]

For the Mac users there's Jim, which is a giFT client. It can be found here. Binaries and all. I've found the network to be much better that Limewire and all those Gnutella clients, although there isn't as much content yet(that's why more people need to use is).

Vanuatu

[errxn]

I got curious, so I checked it out. It's a small island nation in the South Pacific. Here's a map, for the interested:

Re:kazaa

[edox.]

Diet Kazaa is much better than kazaalite you can change your nearest supernode[find a t1 or higher super node]. It has ip browser that show the ip address of the remote user. It blocks upgrade notice. You can customize ur kazaa remove the media bar, remove the menu bar etc.. all that kazaalite lacks

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Re:kazaa

[(rypto*]

Get it here Its worth endorsement

Re:Kazaa participation level

[Kaz Riprock]

Because of the intense bandwidth being consumed at universities across the nation for uploads and downloads thru the Kazaa ports, many schools are cracking down on fileswappers (not for copyright, but to keep the network traffic managable). In that way, a lot of college students will leech because if they spike the upload bandwidth, the IT police knock on their door and terminate their in-room connection. This has been covered here at slashdot before.