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Kazaa-lite Shut Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-surprise-there dept.

atari2600 writes "Finally it has happened. Zeropaid is reporting that the Kazaalite K++ project has been shutdown by Sharman Networks. The project, which had been set up to block spy and ad ware within the Kazaa Media Desktop Program has achieved notoriety within the P2p world through its simplistic approach and success in reverse engineering the Kazaa application."

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  1. GiFT by marcelC · · Score: 5, Informative

    Who cares, there ae enough GiFT frontends for both linux and windows available which will give you the same functionality.

  2. Re:The K++ Network by cyberfunk2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uhm.. They shutdown K++ , the CLIENT, not the fasttrackk network...

  3. the story at slyck by real_smiff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Zeropaid /.'ed. Alternative article. Probably the original anyway.. zeropaid has a habit of ahem 'stealing' news.

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  4. Re:The K++ Network by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not only has Sharman Networks succeeded in eliminating nearly every major resource of Kazaa Lite K++, they are systematically forcing it off the network.

    How you ask?

    Recent upgrades to Kazaa clients (2.5 and higher) make them less tolerant with outdated or non official clients such as Kazaa Lite K++. Kazaa Lite is based on a version prior to 2.5, therefore a current supernode will not accept its shares. Although this will cause network headaches in terms of traffic, the client will not be able to participate or download off the main FastTrack network. This will effectively cluster and isolate all modified Kazaa clients from FastTrack.

    from http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=339

  5. Re:Oh Well, there not the first, there not the las by kryptkpr · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've said this before, and I will say it again. BT is not a good network for illegal content.

    It's efficient in distributing large files quickly, especially if lots of people want them. However, it does so at the cost of any and all anonymity.. It's trivial to find IPs of people sharing any file (just ask the tracker; it'll give you a FULL LIST), without even downloading the file/joining the swarm yourself.

    The MPAA at least has already begun sending DMCA-ish notices to ISPs stating "BitTorrent" as the network name..

    As I've also said before, Don't do things illegal in your country!

    (And if you want to do them, maybe you need to move to a different Country? God bless Canada and the blank media tax; I don't mind paying a little bit on every CD-R for a music piracy license!)

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  6. Re:Are you an RIAA spokesperson? by TwinkieStix · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work for a band merchandising company, and I can tell you that if you really want to give the band something for their work, buy their OFFICIAL merchandise. The merchandise linked to from their OFFICIAL web site. They get as much as 50% of the price you see on the screen, even if the merch company designed the logos and bought the materal to create it.

  7. Re:I was wondering by dnaumov · · Score: 5, Informative
    " Imagine if someone released a free product called "Windows Light" that was just like M$ Windows but faster and hassle free."

    Windows Lite.
  8. Re:Well crap. Help me with a new program by Aeiri · · Score: 5, Informative

    Overnet (formerly eDonkey)
    Games, Software, Keygens, Cracks, anything you can think of, just a little slow at beginning of download, but after awhile, downloads from over 100 sources at a time.

    DC++
    Games, Software, Keygens, Cracks, anything you can think of, just a little harder to use and overall slower, unless you use the 1stleg hublist (http://www.1stleg.com/PublicHubList.config)

    Soulseek
    Mainly for music. Search for artists, select lots of tracks, leave on overnight and PRESTO! Instant GIGABYTES of music.

    BitTorrent
    Use other sites to search for files, and download with this software.


    That's all I can think of right now, but that should get you started.

  9. Get your old versions here by santos_douglas · · Score: 5, Informative
    The excellent old version archive site OldVersion.com has old versions of the K-lite client, plus many other 'out of print' apps. It is unclear if the 'legit' Kazaa will be able to block access even by existing K-lite installs, anyone more knowledgeable care to comment?

    I could care less, I stopped downloading from it some time ago. Another /.er recommended iRate, which is quite good.

  10. Re:In other news... by dalutong · · Score: 5, Informative

    I assume that your comment is meant call gift-fasttrack "yet another kazza clone." It is not. What it IS is very worth your consideration.

    GIFT (http://gift.sf.net) is now a wonderful program that connects to Fasttrack (kazaa,) the old fasttrack network (openfasttrack), the opennapster network (old napster), and gnutella. When you do a search in one of the gift frontends you do a search in all of those protocols.

    The interfaces could use some polishing (i like giFTcurs the best), but I think gift has a tremendous amount of potential.

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  11. Re:DietK by joe_bruin · · Score: 5, Informative

    diet kazaa is an interesting product.
    it modifies the kazaa client at runtime, and therefore is not in dmca-trouble (the authors are rather careful about it).
    it suppresses ads, paid search results, and kazaa spyware. it also allows more than the limited number of searches, automatic re-searching for files, and other nifty things.
    the only problem with it, is that you need a full kazaa install, and therefore must install the kazaa spyware (which is then removed by dietk).
    i would recommend it.