[BostonGuy]

The last I heard, Kazaa was ignoring a court order to shut down their network. There was an informative discussion about it last month here on Slashdot. The way I read that news clip, they are removing the ability to download their software, which would theoretically mean no new users (although there are mirrors everywhere). In fact, I just checked and they have indeed removed the download links from Kazaa.com. I'm using the client right now though, so it looks like the network is up for the time being...

[copyfight]

Thank you - that is excellent info - I read the same /. thread and that legally makes a lot of sense. It is brilliant on their part. But then they will have to stop taking fees from the ads, I would think. Thanks, this is exactly what we were looking for!

[cynwoody]

The way I read that news clip, they are removing the ability to download their software, which would theoretically mean no new users (although there are mirrors everywhere).

Theoretically. There are indeed mirrors. It appears the name of the installer is kmd.exe. A search on that name yields a lot of hits on 1.7mb program files.

But I wouldn't install it. It's rumored to contain spyware/adware. And there are alternatives that do not.