Kazaa shuts down Kazaa lite
Monday, December 8, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Kazaa's (ahem) "owner" Sharman Networks, has stood up the rights of intellectual property holders...well no, maybe just itself and taken steps to zap Kazaa Lite K++.
It seems that Kazaa gets much of its revenue from installing various ads and spyware programs on people's machines (or you can pay $30 to get rid of that). Kazaa Lite K++ bypassed all that so users to get to stealing software, music, and downloading porn faster.
Truly, a major...blow to pirates, warezers, leeches, and porn users everywhere. More info on The Register.
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Stu L Tissimus
Reply #23 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 9:51 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well, mine is still working fine...
Reply #23 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 9:51 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well, mine is still working fine...
Vanilla Ice
Reply #24 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 11:27 PM
Reply #24 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 11:27 PM
using it right now. tho kazaa (and k-lite) are best, there's still winmx, shareaza, dc++, ftp, etc...
it'll just be harder to find rare stuff like the 2pac - rap phenomenon 2 cd i'm getting right now.
it'll just be harder to find rare stuff like the 2pac - rap phenomenon 2 cd i'm getting right now.
d0p3y2k4
Reply #25 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 11:58 PM
Reply #25 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 11:58 PM
kazza sucks i never have liked it im not into anything with spyware in it i use other programs such as dc and winmx to share my music 
craeonics
Reply #27 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:00 AM
Reply #27 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:00 AM
froggy: Yeah, I figured that out... It could also have been plain old sarcasm, so I thought, "hell, why not".
craeonics
Reply #28 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:11 AM
Reply #28 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:11 AM
By the way, parasites or not, it has proven to be quite a powerfull medium. I'm sure there is a lot of potential (and problems) in this.
CoyoteMy
Reply #29 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:03 AM
Reply #29 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:03 AM
Well, when my local department store or Satellite TV service provides me with the ability to purchase japanese music legally, than I won't have a need for KaZaA.
I'm rather proud to be one of them "music" piraters you speak of. First off, if I like the artist, I always buy their CD. However, if there is just one song I like and I cannot find the CD Single in stores, than I'll just download it. Sure, there's iTunes, but they don't carry everything. They just cover the main crap everyone wants.
Bottom line, it's rediculous searching dozens of stores for one song when you can get it in ten minutes through illegal activity. Also, its rediculous that they expect you to use a service that doesn't carry every song you want not to mention stores that only carry specific music and only few copies of it.
Then you have those people that say "Well if you wait, iTunes will have it all." Well, when they have it all, then I'll quit.
Until then, the music industry will continue to lose money they deserve to lose due to their poor marketing.
I'm rather proud to be one of them "music" piraters you speak of. First off, if I like the artist, I always buy their CD. However, if there is just one song I like and I cannot find the CD Single in stores, than I'll just download it. Sure, there's iTunes, but they don't carry everything. They just cover the main crap everyone wants.
Bottom line, it's rediculous searching dozens of stores for one song when you can get it in ten minutes through illegal activity. Also, its rediculous that they expect you to use a service that doesn't carry every song you want not to mention stores that only carry specific music and only few copies of it.
Then you have those people that say "Well if you wait, iTunes will have it all." Well, when they have it all, then I'll quit.
Until then, the music industry will continue to lose money they deserve to lose due to their poor marketing.
Big Doug
Reply #30 Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:51 AM
Reply #30 Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:51 AM
Big Doug breaks down and cries because now I won't get as many service calls from customers asking me to fix their machines for them from all the trojans that have crashed their systems, and the viruses that they've picked up from downloading broken programs that Stardock (and most other software companies) work very hard on to produce for US. All they ask is we pay a fair price for that work.
...so concerning the death of KazaaLite? GOOD. Steal FROGBOY'S food to feed his kids? The BEST that will happen is that Frog would shoot ya in the back for it. (not that Frog would REALLY shoot anyone, of course...?)
I truly DESPISE file-sharing networks like Kazaa and Grokster. So the downfall of ANY parasite is good news. Those of you Warez freaks who think that stealing money (cause that's what it really boils down to) is a good thing...well, steal from ME and see what happens. I'd dog ya till justice was served.
...so concerning the death of KazaaLite? GOOD. Steal FROGBOY'S food to feed his kids? The BEST that will happen is that Frog would shoot ya in the back for it. (not that Frog would REALLY shoot anyone, of course...?)
I truly DESPISE file-sharing networks like Kazaa and Grokster. So the downfall of ANY parasite is good news. Those of you Warez freaks who think that stealing money (cause that's what it really boils down to) is a good thing...well, steal from ME and see what happens. I'd dog ya till justice was served.
jbschwi
Reply #31 Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:18 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:18 PM
We can't steal from you because you dont have programs worth stealing! 
Charles Barton
Reply #32 Friday, December 12, 2003 12:16 AM
Reply #32 Friday, December 12, 2003 12:16 AM
If Stardock has broken programs.....which you claim to DESPISE.....what the heck are you doing here in the first place? 
messybuu
Reply #33 Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:50 AM
Reply #33 Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:50 AM
It's definetly a step in the right direction. Hopefully, Kazaa will have to go down altogether soon, and piracy will be so annoying to do that only the biggest losers will do it (i.e. when only GNUtella and other crappy P2P services exists).
Duffman3030
Reply #34 Sunday, January 18, 2004 6:18 PM
Reply #34 Sunday, January 18, 2004 6:18 PM
I love K++. But i find it rather ironic that sharman wastes its resources shutting down sites that distribute it, while still leaving it on their network. when i formatted my hard drive i had install kazaa to download K++. Sharman needs to quit sticking their thumb up their butt like the RIAA, and they need to quit pissing and moaning about how people are stealing their stuff. Thats what the internet is for, the free distribution of information, files, etc. Its no wonder "piracy" has become so popular if you look at the prices developers are charging for their stuff. For example 3D Studio Max, the price is like $500. Why pay that when i can get it for free? I mean come on.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, December 9, 2003 8:26 PM