Does Imesh Connects to the KaZaAnetwork?
 

Trying to change the limited bitrate in Imesh a stumbled across a registry entry in HKey Local Machine/Software/Imesh/Client/Connectioninfo.

It is called Kazaanet!!!! Does this mean that Imesh is on the Fasttrack network as well?

The limited bitrate can be changed in HKey Current user/Software/Imesh/Client. Just change the value of limitbitrate to zero. (Just like KaZaA, Grokster and Morpheus!!!!)

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I guess FastTrack wants to hedge their bets in case their network gets shut down. Imesh sure has been resurrected though. They've gone from 50,000 to almost 200,000 users in less than a month.

A few weeks ago Kazaa did have an anouncement on their homepage about Imesh. Explaining the new users and such but it seems the message and the Kazaa homepage have both been changed since then.

haven't heard the imesh-kazza connection but by now it's common knowledge that morpheus "will connect to gnutella", according to ceo griffin. of course for what it's worth 2.0 was supposed ship in october (then december) for that matter, so who knows. even the stockholders are in the dark.

in my opinion, if 2.0 doesn't ship very soon it never will officially. the courts will see to that. while that doesn't mean it won't get out somehow, it'll never have the support of a working release.

they better get moving.

- js.

I just found the reason why the Kazaa homepage has changed. And oh yes you can now download their software again this link will explain.
http://www.dotcomscoop.com/article.php?sid=140

KaZaA Sells File-Sharing Software
 

Monday January 21 2:53 PM ET

KaZaA Sells File-Sharing Software; Downloads Resume
Audio/Video



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dutch Internet file sharing company KaZaA BV, which is facing a copyright lawsuit, on Monday said it had sold its KaZaA.com Web site and software to privately held Australian firm Sharman Networks Limited.

Along with the sale, KaZaA said Sharman will once again make the KaZaA media software, which lets users search and download music and video files, publicly available.

On Jan. 17, KaZaA BV said it suspended downloads of the popular software, pending a decision in a copyright lawsuit filed against it in a Dutch court. But users who already had the software were still able to swap files.

Included in the sale are the Web site, the KaZaA name and logo, as well as a license for FastTrack, a file-sharing technology that it licenses to other file swapping services, such as Grokster and Morpheus.

Terms of the deal were not made public, and further information on Sharman was not disclosed.

KaZaA and FastTrack were both founded and run by the same person: 35-year-old Swedish-born Niklas Zennstrom.

"The original brains behind Kazaa have moved on to develop new innovative software,'' the KaZaA.com Web site said on Monday.

The site also listed a copyright notice saying users of the software are bound by the laws governing copyright in their respective countries.

Downloads of the software were brisk on Monday. In mid-afternoon Eastern time, about two users downloaded the software each second, according to a ticker on KaZaA.com.

In November, a Dutch judge ruled that the company must stop its users from sharing copyrighted music files, but the company said it could not comply because its decentralized system did not allow it to know who its customers are.

KaZaA and other file sharing services have been named in a separate suit filed last fall by the trade groups for the music recording and motion picture industries.

The trade groups claim that the services permit users to download and trade copyrighted material without permission.

The Recording Industry Association of America grounded Napster the wildly popular music sharing software, in July with a similar lawsuit.

Major media companies have since moved to take advantage of the pent-up demand for sharing media files online. Sony Corp. and Vivendi Universal have backed an online subscription service called Pressplay.

AOL Time Warner Inc., Bertelsmann AG and EMI Group Plc have established a rival service called MusicNet

Not a lot more information, but the article will expire so I printed it here.