Kazaa Media Desktop Product Backgrounder & FAQ

Basic information about Kazaa and most commonly asked questions.

Kazaa Media Desktop is one of the world's leading peer-to-peer software applications.

It allows users to:

• Search and download files, including games, music, software, documents and videos.
• Play, view and use files.
• Access and trial premium quality files.

To download the latest version, go to http://www.kazaa.com

Kazaa.com is the website where Sharman Networks promotes and makes available the Kazaa Media Desktop application. The website also includes a guide for users and forms for feedback and bug reports.

What is Kazaa Media Desktop?

Kazaa Media Desktop (KMD) is the world's leading peer-to-peer software application, that allows users to search, download, organize and interact with a variety of files.

What is the Kazaa Media Desktop and Altnet Digital Rights Management solution?
Altnet's TopSearch technology was first launched as part of Kazaa Media Desktop in May 2002. Since then, content owners have had the opportunity to use this technology to promote, distribute and sell licensed content to users of Kazaa Media Desktop worldwide.

Since the launch of Sharman's digitally rights managed solution, Kazaa Media Desktop has quickly become one of the world's largest distributors of licensed content over the Internet with millions of licenses downloaded per month, including video games, songs, videos and software applications.

Does Sharman Networks have plans for a Mac (OSX) version of Kazaa Media Desktop?

Sharman Networks is actively evaluating the benefits of future versions of Kazaa Media Desktop running on other platforms such as Mac (OSX) and Linux.