KCeasy

Screenshot of KCeasy 0.15-rc4
Maintainer:	Markus Kern
Latest release:	0.18 Release / July 17th, 2006
OS:	Windows
Use:	peer to peer
License:	GPL
Website:	www.kceasy.com

KCeasy is a Windows peer-to-peer filesharing front-end application which uses giFT as its 'back end' foundation. KCeasy is open source software released under the GNU General Public License. It currently supports the filesharing networks OpenFT, Gnutella, and Ares Galaxy. It used to support FastTrack as a default plugin but now you must download the fasttrack plugin from the giFT-FastTrack plug-in homepage. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 50 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: KCeasy ... In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... In their most general meanings, the terms front end and back end refer to the initial and the end stages of a process flow. ... giFT stands for giFT: Internet File Transfer. ... In their most general meanings, the terms front end and back end refer to the initial and the end stages of a process flow. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... OpenFT File sharing protocol From the giFT documentation at the giFT homepage: OpenFT is a file sharing protocol developed by the giFT project. ... Gnutella (pronounced: with a silent g) is a file sharing network used primarily to exchange files. ... Ares Galaxy is a peer-to-peer file sharing program. ... FastTrack is a peer-to-peer protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. ...

Originally, KCeasy included the giFT-FastTrack plug-in, to connect to the network used by Kazaa and Kazaa Lite. In April 2004, Kazaa copyright holders Sharman Networks threatened legal action against Markus Kern, the German author of KCeasy. Even though Kern maintains that reverse engineering of protocols for interoperability is legal under German law, he removed the giFT-FastTrack plug-in in KCeasy version 0.12 (released 17th 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. FastTrack is a peer-to-peer protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. ... Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as KaZaA, but now usually left as Kazaa) is a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. ... Kazaa Lite is a peer-to-peer file-sharing computer program. ... Sharman Networks is a company headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu. ... Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc. ...

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 .18, was released on July 17, 2006.

External links

• KCeasy Official Webpage
• KCeasy Source Forge website
• Slyck story about drop of FastTrack protocol

• giFT-FastTrack plug-in homepage
• giFT-Ares plug-in homepage

• Effective searching on OpenFT

• giFT-OpenNap plug-in homepage (this plug-in is a work in progress)
• giFT-eDonkey plug-in homepage (this plug-in is a work in progress)