Kazaa is a file sharing system that allows you to share files with other users of the internet and you can even get the files needed from other users directly. For this the user has to download the Kazaa program and install them in their system. Once it is installed they can search for files in the system of the others similar users. If they want to share some files to other users, they can do so by placing the files that needed to be shared in the shared folders meant for this purpose. Earlier this kind of peer-to-peer sharing was done using Napster but that was using a different architecture and hence it went for some legal issues. The architecture used by Kazaa is a decentralized system where it allows the users to contact directly and share the files. In the Kazaa network some of the users are considered the super nodes based on the configuration of their system while others are considered as ordinary nodes. Search for a file would go up to 7 levels deep from a node. Once the file is located then that particular user who is having the file and the other one who requested the file would be directly connected.
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