Altnet is a program that came bundled with Kazaa. The program, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, would display "related" songs and videos upon a user's search that were actually advertised songs that usually cost money to play. Denoted by their gold color as opposed to the traditional green for non-Altnet files in Kazaa, the downloads would come not from fellow Kazaa users' client computers, but rather from a localized content server paid for by the advertising companies. This article is about adware. ... Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as KaZaA, but now usually left as Kazaa) is a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. ... Niklas Zennström Niklas Zennström, born 1966, is a Swedish entrepreneur. ... Janus Friis (born in 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Like many programs bundled with Kazaa, Altnet has been labeled spyware or adware by many organizations and individuals. A large number of toolbars, some added by spyware, overwhelm an Internet Explorer session. ... This article is about adware. ...
Altnet, the controversial background application that runs as part of the Kazaa file-sharing service, said its "approved" content has generated 75 million downloads.
Altnet, which is owned by Brilliant Digital Networks, began asking users to share processing power and storage in addition to files in April of last year.
Altnet now says users have downloaded the "gold" files a total of 75 million times, including 18 million files that required users to pay for the content.
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