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  • 49 of 49 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    wampyrii

    1 Star EVERY KaZaA USER SHOULD READ THIS 05/04/2002
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages free stuff

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Its NOT free stuff

    ***SPYWARE, ADWARE, HIJACKWARE, FOISTWARE*** ***Your KaZaA experience isn't quite as free as it looks!*** Napster is dead, long live file sharing! But at what price? When Napster came along it introduced us all to a whole new world in which if you wanted to listen to music on your PC then you would simply download and install a tiny piece of software and it was there at your fingertips - better still it was 100% free. Pretty soon these files found their way outside of the PC onto mp3 players and of course we all know the story, the music industry, not too surprisingly got a little miffed at ... more
  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    coolchanty

    5 Stars Great way to gain free files 08/05/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages great way of getting free stuff, easy to install and use

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can take time to download (like anything I suppose), if someone logs out, you have to wait until someone with the stuff you are downloading logs back in and this can take forever.

    Kazaa.com is a website by which you can dowload, audio, videos and software on to your pc very easily. It is easy and straight forward to set up and install the software needed for downloading these files. It is a bit like Napster, which closed down unfortunately last year and I hope this one doesn't go too because it is great. I am logged in most evenings downloading a track or ten. This takes abot 10 - 15 minutes to install on your pc and then your ready to go. Go to www.kazaa.com and download the software to your pc and the you are ready to go. Once this is on your pc you can search for the ... more
  • 37 of 37 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    saintsfanuk

    5 Stars Much Better than Napster 10/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages No transfer errors, ability to download more than songs, you can pause the downloads when you want.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You might get unwanted porn up when you search.

    I Found this website about a month ago and boy was I glad to find it. I was reading through some opinions on ciao scouting about to see if there were any decent sites out there. I read this one opinion on Kazaa and thought ‘wow I like the sound of this.’ At this point, many of you are going ‘what the hell is he on about?’ Well the answer to this question is that Kazaa is just like Napster a program which you can download MP3 files from of your favourite songs or bands. Ok Napster does this so, what is the difference? Well since its court case Napster have had to filter ... more
  • 37 of 37 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Sarah_B

    5 Stars More Entertaining Than Battery-powered Adult Toys. 05/12/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages This is free software that will locate virtually any file you want.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sometimes people can abuse it by downloading MP3s and refusing to delete them after 24 hours (as per the current law).

    With Napster’s recent court-ordered shutdown (they are, I believe, re-vamping so that the file-trading server will be able to give royalties to the artists and record labels that produce the copyrighted software made available for download), other similar programs have experienced a growing trend. These include AudioGalaxy – a program that I find to be a bit difficult to use, not to mention time-consuming, as I often have to wait forever for it to connect. You can also, alternately, download directly from your Web browser: Again, I find this time-consuming, and often discover that ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Marechal_Grouchy

    5 Stars The last and best of the Napster offspring 16/11/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages a vast selection of all file types (none of which are copyright restricted), an intelligent downloading method that vastly increases download speeds, very easy to log in and get started

    Disadvantages Disadvantages can place a great strain on system resources and memory

    Ever since the downfall of Napster, I was constantly searching for an adequate replacement. My first valuable find was Gnutella, followed by AudioGalaxy, both of which I have reviewed. Before I came across Kazaa, AudioGalaxy was by far the best Napster alternative, with a wealth of audio files (which were reasonably unrestricted as far as copyright restrictions go), and fairly fast download speeds. Unfortunately, by the beginning of October 2001, I was not entirely satisfied with my latest Napster clone. AudioGalaxy’s selection of files was suffering increasingly from new copyright ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    johnnyg4

    5 Stars Napster eat your heart out 06/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages no errors

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    When an Impressive new site came out at the beginning of 2000 called Napster which enabled you to download music for free, everyone went wild. At school all I heard was Napster this and Napster that, as non-Internet user at that point I was wondering what they were banging on about. Near the end of 2000 I finally got the internet (which I love) the first thing I did was Download Napster. As a new user to the Internet I found Napster quite difficult to use. With the help of my friends I finally got to grips with it as I did that there was talks of it closing down (typical). But I found with ... more
  • 48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    craigy_baby_2000

    5 Stars Napster - the next generation 13/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great free access to millions of files, always users online, reliable

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can crash frequently, people have to upload off you, eats up the speed of your connection

    File-sharing has become a standard part of Internet practice for many users nowadays. MP3s are the new CDs and file transfer sites and machines are the new HMVs. People can download material which would otherwise be inaccessible, or extremely difficult to find, within seconds of searching for it, and have all their music located in one convenient spot for them whenever they want to listen to it. But with Napster, the main system used by millions of people several months back, pretty much out of the picture now, due to record companies sueing them left, right and centre for letting people ... more
  • 16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    thug_rappa

    5 Stars Calling all Napster users 25/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Read the opinion & find out!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    If anyone is still on Napster................... what is wrong with you? Have you not noticed yet that Kazaa has bettered Napster at everything? Kazaa has been introduced to the world and has been a great success among people that use it. You think for something this good you'd have to pay but it's free and The main difference between Kazaa and Napster is that the person you are downloading from can go offline and it just connects to someone else and downloads it off them instead of having to restart the whole download. It's also the same when you disconnect from Kazaa - when you come back on ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ILoveJackDaniels

    3 Stars The masses have spoken 23/02/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to install and use; Large community; Decentralised Servers

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Spyware; May soon become unavailable

    The internet ... ahh how we all love it. Since its inception it has become both a gargantuan library of every piece of knowledge imaginable, and a communication device the likes of which has never before been seen. There are, of course, many faces to the internet, and many users who utilise it each in their own unique way. Part of the power of the internet is its lack of a hierarchy. There is no all-controlling entity and no system of regulation with any power to change any one part of it. Peer to peer file sharing is one of the many results of this lack of control. A huge number of people ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    richardleonard

    4 Stars Let there be music... and the rest. 29/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great alternative to Napster

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can take ages to download a file depending on your Internet connection

    Writing an opinion on KaZaA without mentioning Napster would be very difficult - after all, it's virtually the same program, but much improved!! I've used this program for quite a few months now and, since I started, I haven't been able to stop searching to see what's available. At the time of writing there are currently 622059 users online - and a massive 355144Gb of data!!!! You can test the "service" directly from the www.kazaa.com website for 20 searches, after which you have to download the Windows version which allows you to share (or not) your own files - not just MP3's - also images ... more
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