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Kazaa Lite is an unauthorized modification of the Kazaa Media Desktop (KMD) application which excludes Malware and provides extended functionality. It became available in April 2002 and can be downloaded free of charge, and is almost as widely used as the official Kazaa client itself. It connects to the same FastTrack network as the KMD and thus allows to exchange files with all Kazaa users. It was created by third party programmers by modifying the binary of the original Kazaa application. BACKGROUND K++ Later versions of Kazaa Lite included K++, a memory patcher that removed search limit restrictions, multisource limits, and set one's "participation level" to the maximum of 1000. Some examples of the extra functionality available are:
REACTION FROM SHARMAN NETWORKS Sharman Networks considers Kazaa Lite to be a copyright violation. On August 11, 2003, they sent a letter to Google requesting that all links to the Kazaa Lite application be removed from their database. During December 2003 Sharman emailed the owners of all sites hosting a copy of Kazaa Lite, threatening legal action if it was not removed. Because of this, the program was for a while difficult to find on the web, and development of it stopped. As of mid-2005, the program is again widely available. It also remains available on the FastTrack network itself, where it can be downloaded with Kazaa or any other FastTrack client. There are rumours that new versions of KMD will prevent Kazaa Lite from connecting to the FastTrack network. In March 2005 Sharman Networks again sent a letter to Google requesting that all links to the Kazaa Lite application be removed from their database. As owner of the Kazaa IP and Copyright , Sharman eventually sued Kazaa Lite's developers and forced the shutdown of any Mirror Website containing the file. When a Google search is performed on "Kazaa lite", a message appears at the bottom of the page: In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results. Despite this, Kazaa lite still remains widely available online. CONFUSION ENCOURAGES CON ARISTS The confusion over the status of Kazaa Lite was exploited by the owners of the deceptively titled website {Link without Title} to sell subscriptions to a music download service unrelated to the Kazaa Lite application. Many other websites have also attempted to Scam people into paying for something that sounds like Kazaa Lite but is actually some other service which is already free. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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