He said he's seen few problems with Kazaa Lite's interoperability with the Fast Track network. Shaun Garriock - a university student in Scotland who runs the website and discussion forum where the software is available for download - has seen over 80,000 downloads of Kazaa Lite in the three weeks since the site went live. However, Kazaa Lite's removal from has done little to stop interest in the software. Kazaa had been removed from the site on April 4, after CNet determined that its failure to more clearly disclose the third-party software bundled with Kazaa constituted a violation of the site's terms of service. Sharman Networks did take the step of asking that Kazaa Lite be removed from CNet's popular site.

The release of Kazaa Lite comes at a time when Sharman Networks was already in the midst of considering whether to take legal action to stop sites like, , and, which dupe Internet users into paying money for the Kazaa Media Desktop and other file-sharing programs (the vast majority of such programs are widely available for free). The latest version of AudioGalaxy required users to install spyware which irked some users, many of whom turned to unauthorized versions of the program that come without third-party software, like AGStreme, Sputnix, MacSatellite and DopeFlish. This kind of spyware controversy has happened before. WinMX has since gone on to use the Napster protocol to create its own file-sharing network that survived the subsequent shutdown of the Napster network. Napster's meteoric rise in popularity to 80 million users was in part due to programs like AudioGnome and Rapster -– programs that weren't controlled by Napster but allowed users to access its network. While Sharman is upset with the situation, it's these open networks, like Kazaa Lite, that have allowed file-sharing to grow.

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