Ambeli Namito
Wed, 01-07-2004, 07:38 AM
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (hiroshi @ Dec 31 2003, 09:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Ok. I'm gonna clear a couple of things up here. First thing:
Kazaa
Kazaa itself isn't illegal, but a legal passing has been made. Kazaa has now been reduced to the likes of Napster, where you now have to pay to access the network, and all media is filtered except for the media which artists agree to allow them to have on the Network. The filter is in by default in the program.
However, there are hacked versions of the program out there, such as Kazaa-Lite or K++. Kazaa-Lite has been allowed, but what i find really really annoying is that although Kazaa-Lite itself is a hacked version of Kazaa. The owner of Kazaa-Lite felt the need to harrass the creator of the Hacked version of Kazaa-Lite (K++), and take him to court. K++ is now illegal, and all websites which host the program, or search engines which link to the program, must take those links down or risk being sued by the makers of Kazaa-Lite.
However you can still find K++ on various other P2P applications.
Kazaa uses the FastTrack network, and as such is a Unique P2P application. However since the court passing of Kazaa, the network hasn't been as good as it use to. Instead of there being millions of possible Nodes in which to connect to, you now have to manually find hosts and add the decent ones to a list of favourites. This allows more flexibility, but there are so few nodes to connect to in comparison to how Kazaa use to be. Thus the search results is a little limited, and the network itself isn't as good as other networks such as the Gnutella Network.
The K++ Website has been moved to Here ('http://doa2.host.sk/'), but does not host the application.
2.4.0 of K++ can be found on a website Here ('http://www.aclantis.com/articulo.php?sid=2302').
However certain components of the K++ is out of date and won't work properly. Such as the IP Blocker, which is now unable to update from the PeerGuardian website. Updated versions of the various tools used in K++ can be found Here ('http://www.aldostools.com/index2.html').
Please note, the links i have supplied are not directly related to the K++ client, but rather link to a website which merely has the client hosted and talks about the client in spanish.
Other P2P Networks like Kazaa
If you're looking for the simple search method, rather than the hub, node method that Edonkey and DC and DC++ give you. Then you should try Shareaza ('http://www.shareaza.com'). This is a simple application which connects to 4 different networks, and gives you a powerful search tool for at least 3 of those networks.
It connects to the Edonkey2000 Network, the Gnutella1 Network, and the Gnutella2 network. You have the ability to manipulate the amount of Hubs or Leafs you connect to if you want, and which specific ones, or you can leave it on a simple mode where it connects to a default number and lets you do a search very much like Kazaa use to. The 4th network is the Torrent network. The difference between the Torrent network in this though, in comparison to all the others. Is that it uploads whilst you're still downloading, and thus ensures the maximum download speed you can get on the torrent network (Although sometimes it's still slow.)
The Edonkey network is slow in the fact you get qued a lot. Often even if you get past those ques by waiting, it might not download due to firewalls, or be slow because the user is being a bast. However on occasion once past the que stage it can be incredibly fast, but this isn't very often the case. The main thing about this network though, is the ability to locate ANY file you could possibly want. It's very good for finding those hard to find rare files.
The Gnutella Networks (1 and 2) are very good networks indeed. Much like what you use to use on the Kazaa network, but better. Very fast, and a pretty large community. The only downside to networks like this is that your search results may not be all that huge in comparison to say the Edonkey network or whatever. But persist and keep searching, and the chances are that if you find the file you want, your download rate will be a decent rate http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/happy.gif
It dosn't block those unwanted IP addresses unless you specify them. There is a security file in XML format to do exactly this for Shareaza, but is becoming hard to find. A link is located in the Privacy and Security section of the Shareaza network, but the link appears to be broken. Try making a search for "Shareaza Security File" in google or something if you want to try to find it. This will block fake downloads, various virus downloads, as well as FBI IP addresses etc. I would host the file myself publically, but my firewall wouldn't allow it.
And there you have it. o_o </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
You can't use that website cause i've already tried, it says that it doesnt' host that anymore and you can find it on Emule (whatever that is) http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/unsure.gif
Virtually, now it's almost impossible to get kazaa lite K++ unless you had the website already (which i did have, and lost it, in my mind) or you download it from version of kazaa (which is very possible because that is where my friend got it because when you first download kazaa lite K++, one thing i noticed is that one of the things you start of sharing with is the setup for it. So if you want it, you have to use another version of kazaa.