Low Down on Rankbrasil Kasaa: What is it Really? By Anu Kool At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

If you are thinking that rankbrasil Kazaa is another version of the popular and lawsuit-burdened Kazaa from Sharman Network, then you might be in for a surprise. Although this application is also a P2P or peer-to-peer file sharing application; and that it works somewhat similar to Kazaa Lite; this software is more or less patterned with another programming platform called LimeWire.

One of the best indications that this application is not a Kazaa Media Desktop rip-off like so many of its namesakes, is that Rankbrasil Kazaa does not use FastTrack protocol, or does it gives its users the ability to share the same protocol service. In other words, Rankbrasil Kazaa users can only “share” music downloads with other Rankbrasil Kazaa users or other LimeWire users. This is a contradiction to all other Kazaa-named sharing applications that allows its different users to share files with one another, despite having different (legit or otherwise) versions of the P2P application.

What is LimeWire in the first place?

As state earlier, LimeWire is a P2P client as well, but this time, it uses the Gnutella network as a file sharing avenue. LimeWire also has a free software package and a pre-paid package. The former can be downloaded free of charge, while the latter asks for a fee that redirects the user to another file sharing application called the LimeWire PRO.

Unlike Kazaa though, LimeWire can run in most OS or operating systems including Linux-based systems, Mac OS X, and all forms of Microsoft Windows OS.

Why pattern this application with LimeWire and not with Kazaa?

Perhaps one of the best offered reasons for Rankbrasil Kazaa to pattern its software with LimeWire and not Kazaa is that the latter is already embroiled with so many controversies that Internet enthusiasts are simply finding alternative applications to use. Sharman Network has had its shackles raised on so many occasions already that the company had filed multiple actions against all other Kazaa named P2P applications and its distributors. So far, Sharman Network’s largest target has been Google itself. According to the software developer, the search engine company refused to put down other Kazaa namesakes that may be distributing unlicensed copies of the original Kazaa file sharing application.

With Sharman Network’s series of actions, the websites of Kazaa Lite, Kazaaa Lite K++ and Kazaa Gold had been removed off Google’s search engine results page for only a short period of time. However, software developers could very easily circumvent this problem by simply renaming the pre-packaged application into something else, like the new Kazaa Lite Resurrection.

Perhaps the developers of Rankbrasil Kazaa simply decided to do the prudent thing. They steered clear of all this altercations and chose to pattern itself with the more inconspicuous LimeWire.

Then why name it Kazaa, if it is not anyway associated with Kazaa?

Kazaa has almost become a universal language that means music peer-to-peer file sharing application. If you ask an avid World Wide Web user if he or she knows Kazaa, the answer would probably be yes. LimeWire has yet to achieve the same marketing status, although it is one of the most downloaded applications in CNET. So, in this regard, the use of Kazaa is more for marketing reasons that the software’s actual functions.

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