Kazaa shuts down Kazaa Lite

[unclex]

Kazaa shuts down Kazaa Lite
By Jan Libbenga
Posted: 08/12/2003 at 12:02 GMT


This weekend users of Kazaa Lite K++ learned that almost every download site of the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing application had disappeared, including the links on its own home page.

Sharman Networks, the company behind the original Kazaa, approached the ISP of every website that hosted the program and ordered its removal on grounds of copyright infringement.

Kazaa Lite K++ is one of many light versions of the popular file-sharing program, but it wasn't developed by Sharman Networks. K++ was set up to offer a version free of the growing amount of spy and adware within the original Kazaa Media Desktop Program. In exchange for installing Kazaa Media Desktop without charge, the GAIN Network and Cydoor spyware will show you online ads. Remove these add-ins and Kazaa simply won’t work. Kazaa does offer an ad-free Plus version for $29.95, but naturally, most Kazaa users preferred the free versions widely available on the Web.

Although there are still plenty of sites where Kazaa Lite can be downloaded, the program may no longer function properly, according to Slyck.com. Kazaa Lite is based on a Kazaa version prior to 2.5. Therefore a current supernode (a computer that contains a list of some of the files made available by other Kazaa users) in the Kazaa Network will not accept its shares. "The speed of the application will pummel to the ground and (drive Kazaa Lite) out of existence," a user notes.

As expected, most Kazaa Lite fans are gnashing their teeth. Here is an attack from Slyck.com: "This latest act from Sharman punctuates a long history of hypocrisy that involves the protection of their own intellectual property rights, yet blatantly ignoring the copyrights of others."

Many Kazaa Lite users will probably divert to other Kazaa clones, such as GIFT, which connects to the Fasttrack, Openfasttrack, Opennapster (old Napster) and Gnutella networks. Still alive and kicking is also the Diet K add-in, which removes all spyware from the original KaZaA Desktop without crippling it. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34393.html :banned

[mladen]

There are better alternative's anyway such as Ares

http://www.softgap.com/

[shedsounds]

mines still connected ok, showing just under 4m users??

[CominAtcha]

It's definitely not available at many places though and I have noticed a drop in download speed.

Right. Can someone tell me some good alternatives then.....?

[mladen]

It's definitely not available at many places though and I have noticed a drop in download speed.

Right. Can someone tell me some good alternatives then.....?

I really dont see the point in making my post at the top if you only read the title and dont bother to read the other replies

[Lee]

Well i used it this afternoon, downloaded fine. No speed drops for me. You could use www.shareaza.com if you want to.

[CominAtcha]

I really dont see the point in making my post at the top if you only read the title and dont bother to read the other replies

Handbags at dawn?

I was after a number of altenatives and some constructive comment on each.

[Lee]

OK well, www.shareaza.com latest version is beta. soon the devs will be releasing a final version. The project is very good, a number of excellent features and you can connect to 4 networks all at once : eDonkey, G1, G2, Bitorrent.

[unclex]

ok = I never said it was the best # just giving some info

[marcode]

im glad, i hope kazaa dies a horrible death.. its a shit p2p.

[tam9]

Well kazaa is s h i t anyway. Use a real download client such as bittorrent http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...ttorrent&meta= <--- a list of clients there.

Regards,

Tam

[lizardo]

This news might have upset me a while ago but I never use Kazaa Lite any more. Yes there was an enormous range of stuff but the complete lack of any guarantee of quality just got too depressing. Since I've joined the DF Hub and also found Bit Torrent I've never looked back. BT has to be one of the best ways of file sharing I've seen yet, and really encourages sharing files rather than just leeching.

Lizardo

[2High]

im glad, i hope kazaa dies a horrible death.. its a shit p2p.

How can a couple of MB app that can get you pretty much any mp3 out there within minutes be shit? :nowords:

[CominAtcha]

Had a 'go' at Bit Torrent for the first time last night. Seems good for films, games etc. But music......?

[marcode]

How can a couple of MB app that can get you pretty much any mp3 out there within minutes be shit? :nowords:

its the scum of the internet, its the lowest common denomination of p2p software, its buggy, slow, its very subversive.. most newbs dont know its running most of the time when they think they have shut it down. k-lite was only around because the original came with so much shit included that noone wanted to use it.

plus because of its own popularity among people who dont know any better, its killed itself because now all the music/movie companies are pumping loads of fake files onto the network along with viruses you dont know wtf you are downloading any more.

i use winmx, once u know what your doing and have it properly set up its extremely quick for mp3s (and movies but id suggest bt for those) and i havent come across a fake file yet and ive never not managed to aquire something ive wanted.

[shedsounds]

Had a 'go' at Bit Torrent for the first time last night. Seems good for films, games etc. But music......?

Generally agree, Im bittorrent now for all my tv, movies stuff, games etc..plus recent albums, it depends what tracker you are looking at... but if its an odd track I need then Kazaa does the trick

[lizardo]

Marcode, any tips on how to get WinMX "properly set up", or any good sites that have any info. Tried it a while ago and wasn't having much luck with it.

Lizardo.

[Epiphany]

so whats the best one for music nowadays then? Preferably without spyware or cack like that. I'm still using k-lite cos i havent been arsed to change, but theres too much fake shite on there now

[CominAtcha]

Generally agree, Im bittorrent now for all my tv, movies stuff, games etc..plus recent albums, it depends what tracker you are looking at... but if its an odd track I need then Kazaa does the trick

What do you mean by 'tracker'? All I've done so far is downloaded a client and then clicked on a few links from sites I've found to download stuff.....

[marcode]

www.btfaq.com