Kazaa-lite Shut Down

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."

thats one way

[Zed2K]

Well I guess thats one way to stop P2P usage. Destroy the only good kazaa client.

Don't worry

[einer]

You can still find it on Kazaa. Oh the irony.

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Still works for me...

[tinrobot]

My Kazaa Lite still works... I don't feel the need to upgrade anytime soon, so it's not going to make a huge difference to me. Heck, I'm still using Word 97.

Even if the Kazaa Lite website goes away, what's to prevent people from trading the old version of Kazaa Lite on Kazaa?

Re:But I am using it right now?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Where do P2P'ers go when they die"
"They don't go to heaven where the angels fly ..."

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Re:I DON'T CARE -- I BUY MUSIC LATELY

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus, you can show the artists you like (White Stripes, Strokes, Outkast) that you enjoy what they do.

Judging by the "music" you listen to, I can't imagine why anything over 96kbps is even necessary.

Re:I DON'T CARE -- I BUY MUSIC LATELY

[Anonymous Coward]

I've found that the time it takes to get good (192kbps+) versions of songs off of a complete album is much longer and expensive than simply shelling out 10 bucks for the CD at a music store.

I can download a 600 meg movie from other people on campus in about 15 seconds. I have also found this time to be way too long for it to be worthwhile. So, I just let my roomates download it.

Re:Create

[suwain_2]

You must be new here. You're not supposed to fill in all the steps; you use a ??? for one of them.

recursive

[QEDog]

You can still find it on Kazaa. Oh the irony.

You can find Kazaa on K Lite ++ too!

If(n==1){ Print: "Gotta love recursive jokes"}

Re:Oh Well, there not the first, there not the las

[Sevn]

Does running btdownloadheadless on a foreign shell account while going through an open proxy in brazil through your neighbors insecure wireless access point count as another country?

Re:thats one way

[gnu-generation-one]

"Well I guess thats one way to stop P2P usage. Destroy the only good kazaa client."

Of course, you can still get the kazzaalite application from any of the P2P networks, including Kazaa.

-1: ironic.

In other news...

[Afromelonhead]

There's a new Kazaa spyware-free client out called Fat-Free Decaffinated K!

Re:Oh Well, there not the first, there not the las

[neosake]

Well, I object to the stupid cd-r tax! I mean, I don't ever burn my downloaded music! Why should I pay the RIAA to burn my warez ! ;)

Humorous Video Clips? Highly suspect ...

[bryz]

I use kazaa k++ for perfectly legitimate reasons, such as finding beta patches to games or looking for humerous video clips.

Who's he trying to fool with "humorous video clips" We all know what he's really downloading.

Think of it like a pirate movie

[mcc]

When you watch a pirate movie, everyone's a criminal, and technically everyone's a "bad" guy, but still within the logic of the movie there are distinct people you come to think of as "good guys" and "bad guys".

Napster is the crazy, "bad but cool", immoral and greedy but gallant and kind pirate. His death scene is dramatic and gets you all pissed off at whoever it was who took him down. Afterward his crew scatters and his ship is sold off to some random merchant group.

Gnutella is the romantic, moral, and heroic pirate who fails either because of incompetence but because his own lack of cruelty (or, depending on how you look at it, his softness) is in the end exploited as a weakness.

Sharman Networks is the band of pirates which is just plain EVIL. They don't care about anything, they have no positive qualities, and despite the whole pirates-are-cool mentality of the movie, I mean, come on, they're just *evil*. Their leader, Kazaa, is bloodthirsty and cruel, and he killed his gallant and kind first mate Morpheus-- who is played by Orlando Bloom and who most of the audience had fallen in love with at that point-- in cold blood, out of pure envy and greed.

The RIAA, of course, is the stock British Navy captain, because even though he technically represents "good", and technically one supposes his job is to go around and save lives and stuff, you root against him anyway, because he's a slimeball, he's blatantly corrupt, and everyone who works for him was cruelly and forcibly conscripted into a hellish life of prison-like service to the navy during raids on passing ships which are not really (when you think about it) much different from the raids performed by the pirates.

I DON'T CARE -- I OUTSOURCED ALL MY MUSIC TO INDIA

[Anonymous Coward]

Instaed of listening to western crap (Britney & Co.) I get cheap CDs from India, and the music is much better!

Re:I DON'T CARE -- I BUY MUSIC LATELY

[gantrep]

It's more convenient to steal things without leaving my chair.

Re:In other news...

[dynoman7]

Don't forget about Low Sodium K too...

Re:I DON'T CARE -- I BUY MUSIC LATELY

[NanoGator]

"I've found that the time it takes to get good (192kbps+) versions of songs off of a complete album is much longer and expensive than simply shelling out 10 bucks for the CD at a music store."

So you spent $15 for 2 good songs and supported an organization who'll claim you are a thief when you rip that CD to your iPod. Yeah you found a brilliant solution there.

Re:The end of albums

[Anonymous Coward]

It'll be your Britney (et al) CDs with 2-3 "good" tracks and the rest filler.

Kinda like Britney herself...

Re:In other news...

[CastrTroy]

I was hoping there would be a low Potassium K.

ha ha... get it, funny, isn't it.

Shut down?

[Zone-MR]

So they have shut down the SITE used to distribute new k-lite builds. Now if only the authors could find some new way to distribute programs. Prefferably something decentralised and difficult to stop... hmmm... I know, how about the fasttrack network? ;)