- KCeasy
Infobox Software
name = KCeasy
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developer =Markus Kern
released = ?
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = ?
operating system = Windows
language = ?
genre =Peer to peer
license = GPL
website = [http://www.kceasy.com www.kceasy.com]KCeasy is a Windows
peer-to-peer filesharing application which usesgiFT as its 'back-end' foundation. KCeasy is free and open source software, released under theGNU General Public License . It currently supports the filesharing networksOpenFT ,Gnutella , andAres Galaxy .Originally, KCeasy included the giFT-
FastTrack plugin , to connect to the network used byKazaa andKazaa Lite . In April 2004, Kazaa copyright holdersSharman Networks threatened legal action against Markus Kern, the German author of KCeasy. Even though Kern maintains thatreverse engineering of protocols for interoperability is legal under German law, he removed the giFT-FastTrack plug-in in KCeasy version 0.12 (released 17 April 2004) to avoid a legal fight. The plug-in is still developed and available from a third-party website. Upgrading from previous versions of the software will not remove the giFT-FastTrack plug-in.A new Ares plugin for giFT was launched early March 2006 that supports the new Ares protocol for better connection. This new plugin is included by default in the latest version of KCeasy (0.18 released).
The latest version, KCeasy 0.19-rc1, was released on 03 February 2008. The author of the software indicated that he is unlikely to develop it further.
External links
* [http://www.kceasy.com/ KCeasy Official Webpage]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kceasy/ KCeasy Source Forge website]
* [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=453 "KCeasy Forced to Drop FastTrack (Kazaa) Support"] -(Slyck.com )
* [http://gift-fasttrack.berlios.de/ giFT-FastTrack plug-in homepage]
* [http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gift-ares/ giFT-Ares plug-in homepage]
* [http://sphere.chronosempire.org.uk/~HEx/openft-searching.html Effective searching on OpenFT]
* [http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gift-opennap/ giFT-OpenNap plug-in homepage (this plug-in is a work in progress)]
* [http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gift-edonkey/ giFT-eDonkey plug-in homepage (this plug-in is a work in progress)]
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