For those of you who think that the developers of Kazaa, that P2P client application, have suddenly turned very compassionate to the rest of the human race and extracted the spyware bundled with the main Kazaa program, then such developers must think you're a bunch of fools! Well, especially those who use this version of the main Kazaa program! I'll tell you why in an instant, but first, let me explain something about spyware, spyware companies, and your use of independently modified P2P programs.
Well, since
fast internet connections have been continuously made more and more accessible to the most number of people around the world, P2P technology has been a very huge hit, indeed. With this, spyware companies have asked certain developers to integrate spyware in the core of their programs to monitor the surfing habits of the people who use such programs. This in turn gives them profits, since they sell the information they gather to those companies who make use of certain direct marketing strategies. Yes, these developers receive pay offs for such activities, but the people who use such programs usually find out about the spyware bundled with the P2P programs, and they stop using the programs as soon as they know of this.
But, the Kazaa developers find out that the Kazaa users of the world would go to various lengths just to use their program, and they in turn try to distribute more of this program around the world. You see, the
Kazaalite program is the work of independent programmers. They have extracted the spyware from the main program, and have released it as a free new version. This just tells the developers of the main Kazaa program that their product is still viable since these programmers have gone great lengths just to modify so as to continue using their program. For goodness' sake, stop using this program -- put a halt on the proliferation of spyware and direct marketing strategies by those companies who resort to these unethical systems!
