Once the official Kz client became more popular, its developers used their ability to automatically update it, changing the protocol in February 2002 to shut out the Morpheus clients when its developers failed to pay license fees. Its initial user base was made up of users of the Morpheus program, a former client of MusicCity. Sharman is currently facing lawsuits by the RIAA, the ARIA and the MPAA. Yet, Kz's future when its legal status is in question seems to be dim. Consumer Empowerment sold Kz to several companies, including the Australian company Sharman Networks. This meant that where it was possible for Kz to shut down Napster, it was virtually unstoppable. Their company, 'Consumer Empowerment', developed a program which would replace Napster by following a dramatically differentiated path: the Kz relied on supernodes in order to index files, whereas Napster had a centralized index of files available for the downloading process. With the demise of Napster at the turn of the century, a new type of file-sharing technology emerged from the Scandinavians Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. The official client can be downloaded free of charge and is financed by attached adware. The Kazaa is commonly used to exchange music and movie files. It made its appearance in the end of the first generation of P2P networks (Napster shut down in July of the same year). The Kz and the FastTrack protocol were introduced in March 2001.
The Kazaa Media Desktop is a p2p file sharing application, using the FastTrack protocol. There will also be a final, overall score awarded, which will be presented at the conclusion. These points are based on our personal judgment since there is nothing objective to compare them with, nor are there objective tests that can be carried out.
We are going to carry out this review, dividing it into 10 sections, the qualities of the programs and the points awarded to them been compared at the end of each section. Although Kz is more popular than Lw, their history is very much the same. Kz has reached version 3.0 and Lw version 4.8.1. These two p2ps have been purchased by literally millions of users worldwide and thus proved to be the most popular and easiest to use so far. We decided to come up with a review which will compare the two topmost peer to peer (p2p) software programs currently available, namely Kazaa (Kz) and Limewire (Lw).
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