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Kazaa Media Desktop (/ k ə ˈ z ɑː / ka-ZAH) [1] (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks.
This comparison contains download managers, and also file sharing applications that can be used as download managers (using the http, https and ftp-protocol). For pure file sharing applications see the Comparison of file sharing applications.
File sharing is a method of distributing electronically stored information such as computer programs and digital media. This article contains a list and comparison of file sharing applications; most of them make use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies. This comparison also contains download managers that
FastTrack is a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol that was used by the Kazaa, [1] [2] Grokster, [3] iMesh [4] and Morpheus file sharing programs. [5] FastTrack was the most popular file sharing network in 2003, and used mainly for the exchange of music MP3 files. The network had approximately 2.4 million concurrent users in 2003.
Grokster, along with Morpheus and Kazaa, are considered second-generation peer-to-peer file sharing programs. Unlike their predecessor Napster, these file sharing programs allowed users to trade files directly between one another, without these transactions passing through a centralized server. Because Napster maintained this fraction of ...
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It creates the impression that the Kazaa originally released as a p2p file sharing business still exists. it does not, the original software does not operate any service and the current business is not only fully licenced but successful. To keep on peddling stories about the past is just dishonestJorgspeck 02:16, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
In 2000, Zennström and Janus Friis co-founded Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing application. In 2003, with Zennström as CEO, the program became the world's most downloaded Internet software. After facing lawsuits filed by members of the United States' music and motion picture industry, Kazaa was sold to Sharman Networks.