How ironic:

Today, 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.

Maybe Vanuatu-based (I am sure they have it really warm there right now) Sharman is out of money to pay its legal costs against RIAA :)

As far as I understand it, the application is no longer available...but if you already had it, then you can continue to use it.

Is that incorrect?

As far as I understand it, the application is no longer available...but if you already had it, then you can continue to use it.

Is that incorrect?

Probably incorrect. December 6th Slyck News (http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=339) was reporting that almost every mirror for Kazaa Lite K++ had been eliminated. They say Sharman went to each ISP of every website that hosted Kazaa Lite K++ and ordered its removal via the DMCA. Yet it would seem that even if the software is removed, since it uses a decentralised network it would still function. Well, read this.

"This is a gradual process," Slyck's Tom Mennecke told p2pnet. "It'll be at least a few weeks before the breakdown is complete."

Back to the Slyck report, "A representative of Sharman Networks spoke to us on the condition of anonymity regarding their current campaign to vanquish Kazaa Lite K++," it says. "Not only has Sharman Networks succeeded in eliminating nearly every major resource of Kazaa Lite K++, they are systematically forcing it off the network. How you ask?

"Recent upgrades to Kazaa clients (2.5 and higher) make them less tolerant with outdated or non official clients such as Kazaa Lite K++.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.

"Well, won't Kazaa Lite clients simply form their own sub-FastTrack network?

"Sounds nice, but no. Unfortunately, the developers of Kazaa Lite helped Sharman out tremendously by disabling the supernode function. Very few users who run this client are acting as supernodes. A decentralized P2P network with all clients and no supernodes cannot exist. 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. 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."

Ok, it seems Kazaa Lite is not entirely dead!

It was taken over by a new developer group who basically gives a f**k on what Sharman Networks says.

You can get the latest version (KazaaKLChat1rc1.exe) on the irc.klchat.net network in channel #KLChat!

Kazaa Lite V2.4.8 is released.

Changes in Kazaa Lite Resurrection 2.4.8 - 1/11/04
*Added AVIPreview 0.26a
*Added new start page
*Applied UPX compression to files
*Downgraded K-Sig to version 1.2.2 Build 5
*Miscellaneous changes
*Removed GSpot 2.21
*Removed VideoLAN 0.6.2

http://www.gerard.lyannaz.firstream.net/progs/klr248_en.exe
http://www.microsoulv3.com/klr248_en.exe

http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=klr248_en.exe


http://www.pcworld.pl/ftp/download/pc_2673/klr248_en.exe

I heard somewhere that the newest version of Kazaa Lite is filled with spyware. Is this true or am I just hearing voices in my head...again?

Kazaa Lite V2.4.8 is released.



http://www.gerard.lyannaz.firstream.net/progs/klr248_en.exe
http://www.microsoulv3.com/klr248_en.exe

These links are broken... Any chance you know of an updated link, or can post the same file?

http://www.mp3ebook.com/
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=kazaalite
http://www.kazaa-lite-download.net/
http://www.mpex.net/software/details/kazaalite.html
http://www.mariasearch.com/kazaa-lite.html
http://k-litetk.com/download/
etc
etc