Having always been a fan of music and needing to own the albums I wanted, downloading them for free online always seemed like a smarter option and easier on the pocket money. From a young age I was downloading music as my two older brothers showed me the ropes. Way back we had Napster, but once the lawsuits started coming in for them, my brothers scouted out Kazaa, spelt 'KaZaa'. It started out as a peer-to-peer file sharing application which almost instantly applied to music, soon becoming a very popular program to simply search a song and download it for free.
However, Kazaa didn't have any virus protection and months down the line, the odds were that you were more likely to download a virus instead of a song. Alas, the end of our usage of Kazaa, as well as our computer. Since using Kazaa, we steer clear from all file sharing programs on our computers and laptops, even avoiding downloading Limewire for all the years it was popular. I'd like to say now we're loyal online customers for the iTunes store, and we were for a few years, but that's not the case anymore. Kazaa was a big contributor to my family's collection of music and now it's good to see that it is still active for people in the USA as an online store. It seems to be the direction of all the new file sharing programs to hit the net. Once they face legal challenges, they become a legitimate source for purchasing music.
After stealing millions of users from Napster, the appropriated file-sharing app Kazzaa slowly learnt that you can't get away with giving out free music. As for the future of free online file-sharing, it's still easy, free music is still accessible. More and more file-sharing programs are coming out along with websites simply feeding us torrents. So the future is looking rather repetitive and I think there will always be a new program or site for free music. Who knows, with the progression of Facebook's photo and file sharing now, maybe one day we'll be swapping music online while social networking.
References
http://www.dailytech.com/Kazaa+to+Pay+100+Million+to+Record+Labels/article3535.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5220406.stm
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