[Red Commet]

Taken from :http://www.macopz.com/goldop.html

I have word from one of the higher-ups on the KaZaA team that "We will make a mac version when we find any developer interested in making a Mac GUI based on our library."

Now, for those of you who are not in the know, KaZaA is basically just a more user-friendly (by now you're probably asking, "user-friendly, PC, same sentence? You MUST be ill.) version of the Gnu/Gnutella, etc. style of file-exchange system. The system is different from programs like Napster mostly by virtue of the fact that there is no central user database that the company is responsible for maintaining (I.E. they can never filter out content and ban users that have copyrighted materials).

It's much better then LimeWire...

http://www.kazaa.com/

[ 09-25-2001: Message edited by: Red Commet ]

[Angus_D]

What's Kazaa?

[macmario]

Now, for those of you who are not in the know, KaZaA is basically just a more user-friendly (by now you're probably asking, "user-friendly, PC, same sentence? You MUST be ill.) version of the Gnu/Gnutella, etc. style of file-exchange system. The system is different from programs like Napster mostly by virtue of the fact that there is no central user database that the company is responsible for maintaining (I.E. they can never filter out content and ban users that have copyrighted materials).

Now, here's where things really start to come together and get exciting! I have word from one of the higher-ups on the KaZaA team that "We will make a mac version when we find any developer interested in making a Mac GUI based on our library." Pretty exciting, huh? So, spread the word. If you are capable of the preceeding, or know someone who is, or even know someone who might know someone who is, PLEASE, contact us or go directly to KaZaA's website. You could play a pivotal role in bringing this excellent program to the Macintosh platform.

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[OwlBoy]

Its great for stealing movies.

-Owl

[mr_sonicblue]

It's like Napster, but does a better job at it. The main differences are:

- Kazaa uses high-bandwidth nodes to do searches.
- Kazaa automatically splits a download between multiple other users.
- Kazaa supports more media types and has a more powerful search.
- Kazaa somehow used voodoo to not get sued by the record industry.

Their library is C++ and a frontend for which could be constructed now more easily using the fancy-new Objective-C++ in OS X 10.1.

EDIT: Damn typos.

[ 09-25-2001: Message edited by: mr_sonicblue ]

[karbon]

Kazaa would definitely be a great app to have for OS X. It's so easy to use and have just about everything you can imagine from a good peer-to-peer client.

I'll praise whoever want's to port this thing. (and it shouldn't be especially hard, at least not for a light version)

[Fredrikp]

Go to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gift

The Kazaa/Morpheus daemon (which handles the network) runs on Mac OS X but can't get the java client to work. It would be easy to make a cocoa-client. I wrote a test app that sends a search query to the deamon and you get the file path like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ort/filename back, but I don't know how to handle the download thing.

There is a command line tool for download the files from multiple users but a UI would be nice.

/fredrik

[Red Commet]

Kazaa somehow used voodoo to not get sued by the record industry.

This is because it is an Dutch - Swedish company that's located in Amsterdam.
I guess thats the reason that nothing can be done, because here it's legal to copy or download something as long you own the original work and that's something that's hard to check.

[nonplussed]

I actually modified the java client giFTjava to run as a standalone Mac OS X app.

The thing is, the giFT applet uses a web brower to download, All of the mac browsers *refuse* to turn off security, hence "the applet" not working.

What I have now is an app that can do the searches on the Fasttrack network. I then paste the url into the browser and start ta' gettin'.

I'm no programming whiz, mind you, but I suppose I could either add a simmple http class to fetch the content from the url, or do a system call to a commandline app like wget to grab the content.

if I'm up to it, I'll give it a whack

[mreda]

So if I were interested in helping them put a front-end on a Mac version, who do I get in touch with? I couldn't find an applicable email address on their web site.

Matt

[conny]

Originally posted by Fredrikp:
<STRONG>Go to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gift

The Kazaa/Morpheus daemon (which handles the network) runs on Mac OS X but can't get the java client to work. It would be easy to make a cocoa-client. I wrote a test app that sends a search query to the deamon and you get the file path like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ort/filename back, but I don't know how to handle the download thing.

There is a command line tool for download the files from multiple users but a UI would be nice.

/fredrik</STRONG>

Göteborg är bäst. Fan att de skulle spela oavgjort mot AIK idag. Hur är läget i Göteborg idag? Regnar det? Jag gick på Chalmers för tre år sedan och bor nu i USA.

[Fredrikp]

&lt;conny&gt;
I göteborg skiner solen men det är inte mer än 10 grader. Går andra året på Chalmers nu.

/fredrik

[Red Commet]

So if I were interested in helping them put a front-end on a Mac version, who do I get in touch with? I couldn't find an applicable email address on their web site.

Matt

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