The incredible disappearing Kazaa

It occurred to us recently that we never hear much anymore about peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa, the latter-day Napster (well, latter-day illegal Napster, anyway). Now we may have discovered why: Traffic to the Kazaa Media Desktop site is down 71 percent year-on-year, according to February data from comScore MediaMetrix. And another Kazaa property, Kazaa Lite, shows a traffic decline of 40 percent. Overall, peer-to-peer sites dropped in traffic by 36.8 percent in the last year, the study says.