History
Kazaa and FastTrack were originally created and developed by Estonian programmers from BlueMoon Interactive and sold to Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (who were later to create Skype and later still Joost and Rdio). Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.
Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity, but once the official Kazaa client became more widespread, Kazaa developers used its automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol in February 2002, when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees. Morpheus later became a client of the gnutella network.
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