Kobe Bryant

Bryant spent much of his childhood in Italy, where his father played professional basketball, and speaks fluent Italian. Currently, other clean variants use an older core (2.02) and thus, K-Lite has some features that others will never have. Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a National Basketball Association player for the Los Angeles Lakers; he is also the son of NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant. K-Lite is also built off the new 2.7 core and is the only client in development. USA Today and Parade Magazine's 1996 National High School Player of the Year with a seasonal average of 30.8 points, 12.0 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 4.0 steals and 3.8 blocks per game. They also hope that since these clients use newer versions of the actual Kazaa program, they won't be affected by attempts to block Kazaa Lite from the network. to a 31-3 record and Class AAAA state title as a senior. The authors believe that these versions might therefore be legal.

Led Lower Merion H.S. These programs don't include any code by Sharman: they require the user to supply the original, unpatched Kazaa Media Desktop, and they execute it in an environment which removes the malware and adds some features. Named the 1996 Naismith High School Player of the Year. Other programmers produced K-Lite v2.6/2.7¹, and Diet K. Holds the Lakers team record for most consecutive free throws made at 43. These are slightly modified versions of Kazaa Lite. One of only two players to ever score at least 35 points in 13 straight games. After development of Kazaa Lite stopped, Kazaa Lite Tools K++ and Kazaa Lite Resurrection appeared.

One of only three players in NBA history to score 40-plus points in 9 consecutive games. There are rumours that new versions of Sharman's Kazaa will prevent Kazaa Lite from connecting to the FastTrack network, but as of mid-2005, this hasn't happened. Ties NBA record for most made 3-point field goals in one game with 12 versus the Seattle SuperSonics on January 7, 2003. It also remains available on the FastTrack network itself, where it can be downloaded with Kazaa or any other FastTrack client. Slam Dunk Champion: 1997. As of mid-2005, the program is again widely available. All-NBA Defensive Second Team: 2001, 2002. Because of this, the program was for a while difficult to find on the web, and development of it stopped.

All-NBA Defensive First Team: 2000, 2003, 2004. During December 2003 Sharman emailed the owners of all sites hosting a copy of Kazaa Lite, threatening legal action if it was not removed. All-NBA Second Team: 2000, 2001. On August 11, 2003, they sent a letter to Google requesting that all links to the Kazaa Lite application be removed from their database. All-NBA First Team: 2002, 2003, 2004. Sharman Networks considers Kazaa Lite to be a copyright violation. NBA All-Star: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. Later versions of Kazaa Lite included K++, a memory patcher that removes search limit restrictions, multisource limits, and sets one's "participation level" to the maximum of 1000.

NBA All-Star Game MVP: 2002. It was created by third party programmers by modifying the binary of the original Kazaa application. Three time NBA champion: 2000, 2001, 2002. It connects to the same FastTrack network and thus allows to exchange files with all Kazaa users. It can be downloaded free of charge, and as of mid-2005 is almost as widely used as the official Kazaa client itself. It became available in April 2002.

Kazaa Lite is an unauthorized modification of the Kazaa Media Desktop application which excludes adware and spyware and provides slightly extended functionality. For other FastTrack-compatible clients, see FastTrack. This section is limited to those programs which are based on the official Kazaa client. As a result of these additional components, CNet's Download.com site stopped the distribution of KaZaA in April 2004.

Malware installed by Kazaa includes:. Also, spyware detection and removal software has frequently failed to delete the code without special actions taken by the PC user. Since the allegations have surfaced, however, the code has been bundled into the main Kazaa software, and it is not possible to uninstall it. At one time, the part of the Kazaa code which was considered adware was an optional, though technically difficult not to install, part of the Kazaa installation.

Sharman, Kazaa's home company, claims that the products are adware and do not collect personal user information. Kazaa has, from early on, been accused of installing spyware or adware onto users' computers. There are over 1.5 billion files on the network totalling 26 petabytes, with about 1,000 downloads every minute. The number of users connected to the Kazaa network at any given time fluctuates between 1 million and 5 million users, with the average usually being around 3 million.

This is subverted by most of the unofficial clients and leaves legitimate third-party clients suffering. Kazaa uses a "participation level" system intended to reward participants who share much material with fast downloads. Many consider Kazaa to be superior to other file sharing programs because of its wide file selection and fast transfer speeds. While it is the P2P network with the largest installed userbase, it is worth noting that the Kazaa client installs spyware onto the user's machine, with potential security and privacy implications. It can be run on Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems with emulation software like WINE and Virtual PC.

Currently, Kazaa has been released only for the Windows operating system. The trial began on November 29, 2004, and closing statements are expected in March 2005. In February 2004, the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) announced its own legal action against Kazaa, alleging massive copyright breaches. An effort to throw out this suit was denied in January 2004.

Sharman Networks responded with a lawsuit against the RIAA, alleging that the terms of use of the network were violated and that unauthorized client software (such as Kazaa Lite, see below) was used in the investigation to track down the individual file sharers. In September 2003, the RIAA filed suit in civil court against several private individuals who had shared large numbers of files with Kazaa; most of these suits were settled with monetary payments averaging $3,000. That decision is currently under appeal to the US Supreme Court and a decision is expected in 2005. That lawsuit is still pending, although a recent judgement by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a related lawsuit against a similar FastTrack client Grokster appears to take away the basis for the US Kazaa suit.

However, in 2002, Sharman was sued in Los Angeles by the RIAA and the MPAA. A court of appeal in late March 2002 reversed the earlier judgment, stating that Kazaa was not responsible for the actions of its users. Consumer Empowerment responded by selling the Kazaa application to a complicated mesh of offshore companies, primarily Sharman Networks, headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu. In November 2001, the court ordered Kazaa's owners to take steps to prevent its users from violating copyrights or else pay a heavy fine.

Consumer Empowerment was taken to court in the Netherlands in 2001 by the Dutch music publishing body, Buma/Stemra. Like the creators of many similar products, Kazaa's creators have been taken to court by music publishing bodies to restrict its use in the sharing of copyrighted material. (Morpheus subsequently became a client of Gnutella.). However, once the official Kazaa client became more widespread, its developers used their ability to automatically update it, changing the protocol in February 2002 to shut out Morpheus clients when its developers failed to pay license fees.

Its initial userbase was made up of users of the Morpheus program, formerly a client of MusicCity. It appeared during the end of the first generation of P2P networks – Napster shut down in July of that year. Kazaa and the FastTrack protocol are the brainchild of the Scandinavians Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and were introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company Consumer Empowerment. The official client can be downloaded free of charge and is financed by attached adware and spyware.

It is also increasingly being used to exchange movie files. It is commonly used to exchange MP3 music files. Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as "KaZaA", but now usually left as "Kazaa") is a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. Altnet - A distribution network for paid "gold" files.

B3D - An add-on which causes advertising popups if the PC accesses a website which triggers the B3D code. Cydoor - Collects information on the PC's surfing habits and passes it on to the company which created Cydoor.