The Kazaa software family which includes the Kazaa Lite family of applications, has been the single-most popular P2P file sharing program/system of all time even beating out the first versions of Napster.

Kazaa is widely recognized around the world as one of the best tools for users to download free music and movie files from P2P networks and it remains a very popular activity of internet users in homes or schools.

To use Kazaa, a person simply downloads and installs the software client. Kazaa clients communicate with various registration servers, using Internet protocols, to identify files for sharing or download. Unlike FTP and other client-server network designs, Kazaa does not utilize file servers per se. Instead, the Kazaa network (called FastTrack) simply holds peer registration information, and then brokers connections between any two distributed peer clients.

Millions of people use P2P sharing programs daily and that’s why many P2P file sharing programs exist. Some P2P software offers a larger user base and greater numbers of files to choose from such as Kazaa and some software better utilizes network resources and may be easier to use.