Kazaa Lite shut down

radiospan · 07-12-2003 12:10pm #1

The download locations for Kazaa Lite have been removed from the internet by Sharman Networks (owners of Kazaa) on the grounds of copyright infringement.

Kazaa Lite still connects and downloads for me, but this is from slyck.com:

The effects of this extermination is already taking place, as search times and connection times are deteriorating compared to K+ (the legitimate spyware/adware free version of Kazaa.)

As time progresses, the Kazaa Lite K++ client will become so unusable that its populace will be driven off the network.

More here: http://www.nvmax.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?num=1070727057

Creamy Goodness · 07-12-2003 12:14pm

still connects and downloads here,

maybe they will never get turned off.

anyway there are plenty of other file sharing apps that don't have their software full of spyware

vibe666 · 07-12-2003 12:23pm

nasty buggers aren't they.

not being funny, but this is a major pot > kettle > black thing if you ask me.

the single largest forum for illegally exchanging pirate software/music/games/movies shutting down someone for stealing their software.

oh the irony!

MrVestek · 07-12-2003 1:37pm

If you guys are looking for a good very moderating file sharing ap, go to google and type in burst bit torrent. then when that's all installed go to www.novasearch.net to find whatever files you want. It's not really a fully fledged file sharing ap, it's more of an IE plugin kinda thing. You'll figure it out. Anyways the files on that are top notch, none of the fake kazaa bullsh!t.

radiospan · 07-12-2003 2:01pm

BitTorrent and eMule are the best alternatives, IMHO.

I don't think the mods will allow that link, though.

irishgeo · 07-12-2003 7:40pm

Originally posted by vibe666
nasty buggers aren't they.

not being funny, but this is a major pot > kettle > black thing if you ask me.

the single largest forum for illegally exchanging pirate software/music/games/movies shutting down someone for stealing their software.

oh the irony!

Never thought of it like that.

vibe666 · 08-12-2003 9:07am

If I had broadband again (and I will sonner or later when the price is right) I'd be usinng eMule myself. tbh, I won't use Kazaa now on principle. it's been crap for quite a while now, and I've been looking for an excuse to change to something better.

incidentally, I was one of the people who got Morpheus shut down over the security issues with it. I wouldn't have done it if the people at Morpheus had taken the issue seriously, but even after I showed them evidence that it was sharing things that it shouldn't have been (I spotted someone downloading a spreadsheet with company accounts on it, but stopped it beofre it was completed)they tried to tell me it was a one off glitch. then I heard things on one of the 2600 newsgroups, so I contacted a guy at the BBCi website and showed him screen grabs I'd done to prove my story, and told him how to replicate it himself and a few days later they ran the story on the website, and a couple of weeks after that Morpheus was gone.

Kind of a claim to fame anyway.

I'm fairly sure I have a mail backup on a CD somewhere with the emails on it from both Morpheus and the guy at the BBC if anyone is interested (although I doubt it at this stage, it's very old news).

MrVestek · 08-12-2003 9:40am

Actually it'd be interesting to read those, pass them over if you will. But erm, i just went to the morpheus site and it's still available to download.. so how exactly did you 'shut it down'?

radiospan · 08-12-2003 4:26pm

vibe666 might mean Morpheus in it's old FastTrack form (like Kazaa).

OfflerCrocGod · 08-12-2003 4:27pm

Vibe change your sig to point to http://www6.cd-wow.com.hk/ or similar 5/4/2 work aswell I think; otherwise your link leads to a dead end and plain com.hk sometimes leads you to a .ie or .co.uk.

Cabaal · 12-12-2003 11:49am

Oh and now there banning kazaa-lite from the normal kazaa network.
I can just see the death of kazaa coming, no harm really.
Making money off of people trading copyright material its evil, atleast Bittorrent and DC++ don't do that.

DiscoStu · 12-12-2003 11:53am

still over half a billion files to chose from here :rolleyes:

vibe666 · 12-12-2003 8:14pm

i'll have to go through my old mail backups i have on cdr to find them, so it could take some time to dig them up, but i'm pretty sure i still have them.

yeah, it was the fasttrack version, back when morpheus was almost beating kazaa on the downloads front.

basically, what it was, was that if you were sharing individual files or folders that were in the root of a drive, morpheus was sharing all the files in the drive regardless of if they were shared or not (even if you manually removed them from the shared list).

anyway, i'll see what i can dig up.

btw, i was using kazaa lite on wednesday night in an o2 wireless zone, and was getting a steady 2mbps downstream alsmost constantly. i can imagine it'll gradually die out once more people upgrade to the newer kazaa version and kazaa lite runs out of supernodes. b ut it'll probably go before too long.

Agent Smith · 12-12-2003 8:33pm

dame you vibe66......

vibe666 · 12-12-2003 9:03pm

Originally posted by agent smith
dame you vibe66......

for what? would you rather i'd left it so that anyone could download your private stuff? there's enough trouble on the net with identity theft as it is, we don't need something thats making it worse handing out peoples stuff freely do we?

Agent Smith · 12-12-2003 9:05pm

hey man my pc's open access.... ( except for my "private" folder....)

vibe666 · 12-12-2003 9:52pm

and that was the whole problem. your *private* stuff would have been shared along with everything else, and for some people that would mean credit card info and maybe business/customer details too, which wasn't good at all.

12-12-2003 11:58pm

Fair dues to ye vibe.

Question, Is Emule spyware and adware free? seems like a good p2p network so far...

irishgeo · 13-12-2003 12:33am

Originally posted by DiscoStu
still over half a billion files to chose from here :rolleyes:

same here

Töpher · 13-12-2003 12:46am

600,000,000+ here

Safe to asume 5,999,999 of them are porn of some sort tho!

Ebonyks · 13-12-2003 2:39am

Found this in the Kazza-Lite help file.... :ninja:

Around February 24th, 2002, Morpheus users discovered that they were no longer able to connect to the FastTrack network. The MusicCity camp claimed their software was attacked, however the explanation turned out to be quite simple - Morpheus failed to pay their bills. Hence, Kazaa terminated the agreement between the two companies and released version 1.5 which shut Morpheus out for good. Now the only remaining FastTrack clients are Kazaa and Grokster.

Kazaa Lite shut down

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