Kazaa Lite

Kazaa Lite can refer to one of many third-party modifications of Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file-sharing computer program. These clients are unauthorized modifications of the Kazaa Media Desktop (KMD) application, which typically exclude malware and may provide additional features.

Background

The first unofficial modification of Kazaa became available in April 2002 and was downloadable free of charge. It was created by third party programmers by modifying the binary of the original Kazaa application. Third-party modifications of Kazaa became wildly popular, as they connected to the same FastTrack network as Kazaa Media Desktop, but didn't include bundled spyware or adware.

Timeline

Kazaa Lite

Kazaa Lite was originally created by Random Nut, Rocko, and Paul. It was shut down by Sharman Networks on December 7, 2003. The final version is v2.4.3.

Kazaa Lite K++

K++ was a memory patch / extension manager that was a part of the original Kazaa Lite made by Random Nut