My opinion is the old press coverage of Kazaa, increased by its legal problems, caused by the fact that a single company controls officially the FastTrack protocol, whose development is not targetting users for users, but Kazaa's own business plan.
Due to that, they create a network that they want to control completely to avoid access by foreign servents, and they have a big influence on that network which is very attractive for the RIAA/MPAA/BSA alliances.
Well Gnutella is very popular now too, but it can be used very often for something else than what a servent developer would like. Gnutella is not controled, and this gives an advantage now to Gnutella, which continues its slow progression, with several good servents developed with public objectives, and now available without any spyware, adwarea or bundles like Kazaa, and supported correctly (I would not download one of those Kazaa-like copies: not sure about their content, and it is well know that it really creates a storm of settings in the network configuration, in installers, etc...).
Try to uninstall safely Kazaa, you'll regret it. The only safe option is to use the Windows XP system snapshot to come back to before its installation: the Kazaa installer writes things everywhere on the system, and will slow down its performance even when you don't use it. |