Topping other popular culture icons including Harry Potter, American Idol and Britney Spears among Web searches by millions of Yahoo users worldwide, the Kazaa file-trading music tool was the number one search subject of 2003, Yahoo reported this week. Pew Internet and American Life Project senior research specialist John Horrigan told TechNewsWorld that Kazaa’s pole position was likely due to popularity in the first half of the year, before the RIAA’s legal campaign began scaring users away from the free P2P file-sharing application.
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Kazaa P2P Music Tool Tops 2003 Web Searches
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 30, 2003 08:18 AMTopping other popular culture icons including Harry Potter, American Idol and Britney Spears among Web searches by millions of Yahoo users worldwide, the Kazaa file-trading music tool was the number one search subject of 2003, Yahoo reported this week. Pew Internet and American Life Project senior research specialist John Horrigan told TechNewsWorld that Kazaa’s pole position was likely due to popularity in the first half of the year, before the RIAA’s legal campaign began scaring users away from the free P2P file-sharing application.