Why Not Open The Source To Protect Kazaa? [Archive]

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rdx

07-16-2003, 03:08 PM

hi guys..

in the recent "war" of the industry against filesharing, why can't the kazaa lite folks open the source of kazaa? or haven't even they access to the real source? if kazaa were opensource, it were impossible for the industry to "restrict the usage" of the software - and dozens of alternative clients would appear.. and my dream of a linux based kazaa client (a good gui one) would be come true.. ;)

anyway, is this theoretically possible? and what do you mean to my theory, would it be better as open source?

hmm..

07-16-2003, 03:14 PM

we don't have any source code

Nevertheless, there is a Linux app that connects to FastTrack: mldonkey
But Kazaa Lite work fine on Linux too when you use WINE.

And the industry cannot shut down Kazaa Lite.

Kid1A

07-17-2003, 10:28 AM

Kazza Lite is the perfect answer, as no-one owns it or is responible for it

ninjamonkey

07-21-2003, 04:51 AM

does kazaa lite use the same network as kazaa?

chalkmongoose

07-21-2003, 04:54 AM

Yes. Kazaa Lite is NOT a different program in many aspects. In fact, it IS the same program as KMD 2.0.2, accept for the fact that the spyware has been removed and a loader has been written.

junkyardking

07-21-2003, 05:07 AM

If the developers had the source code kazaa lite would be far supior to what it is.

think Partial filesharing, error correction, anomity, chat and more

Arm

07-21-2003, 05:56 AM

Originally posted by Kid1A@17 July 2003 - 10:28
Kazza Lite is the perfect answer, as no-one owns it or is responible for it
Kazaa is far from perfect. <_<

God Hack

07-21-2003, 06:46 AM

Look here arm all kazza lite needs is a muti search feature and the partial dl system that edonkey.... that joke of a p2p program has then it'll the undisputed best P2P program out there. B)

Arm

07-21-2003, 07:16 AM

It's still not perfect. If it was perfect I could download something with only one source and not require multiple sources to find a file.

Yes Edonkey is a joke of a p2p system. How the hell do you use it anyway? :(

tiggersbowl

07-22-2003, 02:52 AM

emule is not all that bad. It might take a while to download things, but I have not yet seen a bunch of crap on there that is misnamed and have not found alot of viruses like on kazaa.

kAb

07-22-2003, 04:59 AM

you've gotta read k-lites disclaimer, its the funniest thing ever :lol:

Schmiggy_JK23

07-22-2003, 08:49 AM

where is it? i looked in pauls 2.4 klite version, and dont seem to see it

davt100

07-22-2003, 04:52 PM

the source code was on the forums about 3 months ago its probably still there but i cant remember where

07-22-2003, 06:16 PM

Originally posted by davt100@22 July 2003 - 18:52
the source code was on the forums about 3 months ago its probably still there but i cant remember where
that wasn't the source code of kazaa