is a
Windows Peer-to-peer Filesharing front-end application which uses
GiFT as its 'back end' foundation. KCeasy is
Open Source software released under the
GNU General Public License . It currently supports the filesharing networks
OpenFT ,
Gnutella , and
Ares Galaxy . It used to support
FastTrack (and still can if you have an outdated version installed first, and upgrade the updates over that) but after some legal troubles FastTrack was dropped.
Originally, KCeasy included the giFT-
FastTrack plug-in, to connect to the network used by
Kazaa and
Kazaa Lite . In April 2004, Kazaa copyright holders
Sharman Networks threatened legal action against Markus Kern, the German author of KCeasy. Even though Kern maintains that
Reverse Engineering of protocols for interoperability is legal under German law, he removed the giFT-FastTrack plug-in in KCeasy version 0.12 (released 17th April 2004) to avoid a legal fight. The plug-in is still developed and available from a third-party website. Upgrading from previous versions of the software will not remove the giFT-FastTrack plug-in.
A new Ares Plugin for giFT was launched early March 2006 that supports the new Ares protocol for better connection. This new plugin is included by default in the latest version of kceasy (0.17 Release Candidate 1).
