Aug 19, 2002 05:45 PM
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(Updated Sep 10, 2002 10:44 PM)
After the demise of Napster I was despondent to find another place of the web where in I could find and Download music and my choice of artists, having tried various MP3 searches a friend of mine on the net (we play chess online often & share similar tastes in music) suggested me to try KazAa.com to find great music which wasn't available anywhere else or you had to pay to access that music. I downloaded the KazAa Media Desktop and ever since have been getting access and sharing music, videos, movies, documents, software with people on line.
How it works: KazAa works on the principle of P2P (Peer 2 Peer) sharing, i.e. when there is someone else on line who is willing to share his/her collection of MP3 etc. and you would also like to hear or watch you can download that particular thing using the KazAa Media Desktop.
In the past 3 months I have made up an unenviable collection of all my favorite artists and movies by sharing files. It is so amazing and easy to use. If you want to search for a particular song invariably you will get hold of it on KazAa.
You ALSO HAVE THE OPTION OF NOT SHARING ANY OF YOUR FILES. (Those worried out hacking can rest assured that even when you are downloading from another person your files on your computer is safe from other people). Those you have slow connections will definitely have to wait for their downloads to finish as some of them can be up to 11.2 MB but people with Cable or DSL connections will be able to complete faster downloads & like Download Accelerator you can find more sources to download the same file from thus making it faster as simultaneous connections make it faster to download. It also has the facility to resume downloads and chat with other people (another option which some users turn off). Overall it has very good user control options for limiting what kind of material you want to share with other people and if you don't wan to share you are in a position to cut other people off, but I think that is against the whole principle of P2P.
There are other sites like Lime Wire but I found that the availability is much greater in KazAa, then any other file sharing network, as files from Gorkster & Gnute, File Shareing etc are also available to users. If you are only interested in Music another such P2P share is called Blubster.com wherein only MP3's are available. For those who want easy access to rare and previously costly music or video's this is a great way to acquire some of your favorites. I am hooked onto it... Try it out, if you want access to some great and rare music along with the latest videos and files.
Searching and downloading MP3’s and MPEG files was never easier. KazAa has paid the big music corporations for access to their artists music, overall a very good software with far reaching effects on how the internet can be used (misused) in the future!!
