Kazaa Lite K++ defunct.....

[Steven Burn]

Just found this over at alt.internet.p2p

Speaking with RatFaced, one of the Kazaa Lite forum moderators today and
our contact at K-Lite, I have uncovered news that the Kazaa Lite K++
project has been shut down by Sharman Networks on grounds of copyright
infringement.
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.

However, the program infringed on the copyright of Sharman Networks, the
company that now own and program the Kazaa Media Desktop application, after
the purchase of the code and copyright in 2002. The FastTrack (Kazaa)
network is financed through advertising systems, which Kazaa Lite K++ does
not include, and so was seen as a threat by the owners.

Sharman have threatened legal action, and ordered that the offending
content be removed from the official Kazaa Lite sites, including
http://www.kazaalite.tk/ which now contains no reference to the existance
of the application.

RatFaced said that the decision was ´Ironic, that Kazaa is complaining
about copyright issues, especially as K-Lite ++ stands for everything that
Kazaa CLAIMS to stand for... but fails to deliver.¡

We will perhaps never see Kazaa Lite again, but we can hope that users will
remain aware of the spyware that is hidden inside the Kazaa application,
which is used to finance the creation of the software.

eMule and WinMX offer spyware-free alternatives to Kazaa.

JFM
PeerGuardian.net News Team

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[Ionizer]

Just found this over at alt.internet.p2p

We will perhaps never see Kazaa Lite again, but we can hope that users will
remain aware of the spyware that is hidden inside the Kazaa application,
which is used to finance the creation of the software.

Just moments ago, I was able to download KL++ 2.43e from
http://www.kazaalitedownload.tk/ If Sharman is able to block KL users from
the network however, I suppose it will be of no value. I'm currently using
KL version 2.1.0, based on Kazaa 2.0.2, and am able to connect.

Regards,
Ian.

 

[Iain Cheyne]

Sharman have threatened legal action, and ordered that the offending
content be removed from the official Kazaa Lite sites, including
http://www.kazaalite.tk/ which now contains no reference to the existance
of the application.

I was wondering why I could not download it when I was there today!

All the more reason for me to stay with Shareaza, which does emule,
bittorrent and Gnutellas 1 and 2. kazaalite.tk now say emule "is the best
filesharing program at the moment."

 

[Steven Burn]

I downloaded Kazaa Lite K++ from www.kazaalitedownload.tk or was it
kazaadownload.tk?, can't remember which...... but anyway, the article is
balderdash, Kazaa Lite works great )

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[D.R]

The article says that the software no longer
can be downloaded. It doesn't state that any
versions already downloaded and installed won't
work anymore. They will. People will find
alternative ways to distribute the program
until Sharman find a way to block it from the
network. If you already hav Kazaa, then sweet.

The irony is, that Kazaa Media Desktop is used
by 99.9% of it's users TO infringe copyright.
To stop KazaaLite from being distributed under
the grounds of infringement of Sharman's
copyright is a double-standard.

I downloaded Kazaa Lite K++ from www.kazaalitedownload.tk or was it
kazaadownload.tk?, can't remember which...... but anyway, the article is
balderdash, Kazaa Lite works great )

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 07 Dec 2003, D.R wrote

The article says that the software no longer
can be downloaded. It doesn't state that any
versions already downloaded and installed won't
work anymore. They will. People will find
alternative ways to distribute the program
until Sharman find a way to block it from the
network. If you already hav Kazaa, then sweet.

The irony is, that Kazaa Media Desktop is used
by 99.9% of it's users TO infringe copyright.
To stop KazaaLite from being distributed under
the grounds of infringement of Sharman's
copyright is a double-standard.

Rubbish: there's a *huge* difference.

Kazaa is no different to a cassette recorder or a video: its users can
use it for legal stuff, or they can use it for illegal stuff, but the
that doesn't change the nature of the thing itself as a product: it
was written as proprietorial code, and it gets copyright protection.

People who didn't like Kazaa had two legal options: either don't use
it, or write their own version.

But KazaaLite *didn't* write their own version: instead, they
illegally pirated somebody else's program, and produced a cracked
version of it.

So now it wasn't the just the *users* of KazaaLite who were pirating
stuff -- it was the code-crackers and warez merchants of KazaaLite
*itself* who were pirating the program so that the users could pirate
other people's stuff.

KazaaLite has no moral claim at all: it's warez, pure and simple -- an
illegal, cracked version of somebody else's proprietorial code.

 

[Lester Horwinkle]

The article says that the software no longer
can be downloaded. It doesn't state that any
versions already downloaded and installed won't
work anymore. They will. People will find
alternative ways to distribute the program
until Sharman find a way to block it from the
network. If you already hav Kazaa, then sweet.

The irony is, that Kazaa Media Desktop is used
by 99.9% of it's users TO infringe copyright.
To stop KazaaLite from being distributed under
the grounds of infringement of Sharman's
copyright is a double-standard.

Precisely ...

"Be nice to me. And screw you."
-- (Don't squeeze the) Sharman --

 

[Tiger]

Precisely ...

"Be nice to me. And screw you."
-- (Don't squeeze the) Sharman --

When morons agree...

 

[omega]

Harvey Van Sickle <[email protected]>:

Just found this over at alt.internet.p2p

I have uncovered news that the Kazaa Lite K++ project has been
shut down by Sharman Networks on grounds of copyright infringement.

[...]
People who didn't like Kazaa had two legal options: either don't use
it, or write their own version.

But KazaaLite *didn't* write their own version: instead, they
illegally pirated somebody else's program, and produced a cracked
version of it.

[...]

Thanks, guys. I'd not voted on anything in the acceptable/unacceptable
thread - but now I'll head over there. You've made this issue easy to
decide.

 

[Adam Leinss]

When morons agree...

Only a moron would believe that most of the Kazaa/P2P traffic is legal!

Adam

 

[Tiger]

Only a moron would believe that most of the Kazaa/P2P traffic is
legal!

When morons assume...

 

[Iain Cheyne]

The article says that the software no longer
can be downloaded. It doesn't state that any
versions already downloaded and installed won't
work anymore. They will. People will find
alternative ways to distribute the program
until Sharman find a way to block it from the
network.

Sharman already have a way to block it from the network.

www.slyck.com/news.php?story=339

"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."

It's definitely time to move over to Shareaza. Using the Fasttrack network
helps Sharman, which helps spyware.

 

[Jordan]

Sharman already have a way to block it from the network.

www.slyck.com/news.php?story=339

"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."

Great find Iain!

Thanks.