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Old Aug 16th, 2003, 05:20 AM       
First, Kazaa Lite isn't a "lite version" of Kazaa, it's a free ripoff by people who were pissed off at Kazaa for including adware. And neither Kazaa nor Kazaa Lite contains any spyware; Kazaa Lite is a not-for-profit project, so its creators wouldn't have any reason to add spyware, and Kazaa has enough no-spyware guarantees that a thousand hackers would have them in court over it already. You download Kazaa Lite, you install Kazaa Lite, and you don't get any other programs with it. Yes, you can find out some info about other people's computers with it, if you have some extra software. No shit - it's a file sharing system, you're directly connecting to someone else's machine. But you can protect yourself from this with the aforementioned protection method. And there's no damn way it can be called spyware. Kazaa Lite has never made my computer crash or done anything worse than suck up some of my CPU cycles, and I am running a bastard copy of Windows XP that is the most unstable piece of shit I've ever witnessed. Get a clue.

There are, at any given time, at least a half a billion files available on the network shared by Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, etc. You can find nearly any program, song, movie, or maybe TV show that you're looking for, and there are few other places you can access such a huge library of material and nowhere as reliably (because there are simply more people using Kazaa). Of these, yes, there is going to be quite a bit of useless or harmful shit. Any file sharing network is going to have bogus files on it, that's why you have to have an average 8 year old's competence to use one safely. Anyone dumb enough to download any of the following is a stupid asshole who deserves to get a computer virus (among other things).

1. A PROGRAM that says it's porn. People who want porn search for images or videos, not programs.
2. Any program that's supposed to do anything useful that is 44k.
3. Any file with a sneaky double extention (.avi.EXE) if you don't know what to do with it.

Your first post! Weeee, you totally wasted it on eing an ignorant douche bag. The door's over there.
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