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==History== The FastTrack protocol and Kazaa were created and developed by [[Estonia]]n programmers of BlueMoon Interactive headed by [[Jaan Tallinn]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.starmus.com/team/jaan-tallinn/|title=Jaan Tallinn « STARMUS Festival|language=en|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref> the same team that later created [[Skype]]. After selling it to [[Niklas Zennström]] from [[Sweden]] and [[Janus Friis]] from [[Denmark]], it was introduced in March 2001 by their [[Netherlands|Dutch]] company Consumer Empowerment. It appeared during the end of the first generation of [[Peer-to-peer|P2P networks]] – [[Napster]] shut down in July of that year. There are three FastTrack-based networks, and they use mutually [[Software incompatibility|incompatible]] versions of the protocol. The most popular [[Client (Computing)|clients]] on each are Kazaa (and its variations), Grokster, and iMesh. For more information about the various [[lawsuit]]s surrounding Kazaa and [[Sharman Networks]], see [[Kazaa]].
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