The KaZaA interface is also more pleasing than the prosaic Napster version, looking like an updated Web browser, with clearly marked tabs for navigating around the software. Each group or artist automatically gets their own file, a nice organizational feature that Napster lacked. But the file also can be located from the “Theatre” window, where the software recognizes artist and song titles and files them accordingly. Once a file is downloaded, a user can play it directly from the “traffic” window of the transfer program - in Napster, this was called the “transfer” section. (This is done by right-clicking on the specific file, and selecting the proper sharing status.) All files are downloaded to the MyKaZaA file, which is placed on the user’s desktop as part of the software installation. With KaZaA, a user can individually select which files can be shared, and ones that aren’t available. In the Napster environment, the only way to prevent others from copying MP3 files was to disconnect from the Napster network, which also meant that the user couldn’t download any files, either. When a user logged onto the Napster network, the software did an inventory of all the music files a user had on his computer, and then let everyone on the Napster network know what those titles were. With Napster, users didn’t have any choice over which files would be shared, and which ones wouldn’t be offered for copying. One decided improvement in the peer-to-peer environment is the control developers have given users of the software.
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