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This post is titled Kazaa Lite Shut Down by author SoulJah.
Document source: http://www.peerguardian.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2311.
Been reading the threads on Slashdot about this (thanks to my Opera news reader) and it's safe to say that people are not happy about this. Now I don't know if the current version of K++ will still work on the FastTrack network in the near future, but the consensus is, well, it would... Just remember to change your username on there... (Which I totally forgot to do, until now...) Some are even considering switching networks, switching to MLDonkey (way fuckin' hard to figure it out... Don't believe me? Try Google it, download it and e-mail me if you can get it up and running...), or the new emerging network, BitTorrent (way hard to find a specific thing, but the download speeds are amazing, as some have claimed...) Me? I'll just use K++ for now, be a file leech, immediately moving those files to other locations, on a removable harddrive... That should just screw em up for a while... If all else fails, I have my DoD (Department of Defense) -spec data eraser... It's something called Eraser, very light program, integrates into the shell, and it's fast to boot... Well it takes a while to *Completely* erase, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, (7 passes... Yes, I am paranoid) a 100 meg video file, but it gets the job done without hassle...
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 This post has been edited by JFM on Dec 7 2003, 02:49 PM |
Been reading the threads on Slashdot about this (thanks to my Opera news reader) and it's safe to say that people are not happy about this. Now I don't know if the current version of K++ will still work on the FastTrack network in the near future, but the consensus is, well, it would... Just remember to change your username on there... (Which I totally forgot to do, until now...) Some are even considering switching networks, switching to MLDonkey (way fuckin' hard to figure it out... Don't believe me? Try Google it, download it and e-mail me if you can get it up and running...), or the new emerging network, BitTorrent (way hard to find a specific thing, but the download speeds are amazing, as some have claimed...) Me? I'll just use K++ for now, be a file leech, immediately moving those files to other locations, on a removable harddrive... That should just screw em up for a while... If all else fails, I have my DoD (Department of Defense) -spec data eraser... It's something called Eraser, very light program, integrates into the shell, and it's fast to boot... Well it takes a while to *Completely* erase, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, (7 passes... Yes, I am paranoid) a 100 meg video file, but it gets the job done without hassle...
Posted by SoulJah at 7:03:00 AM
