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Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program
Cody Watkins writes "Reuters has a story about Kazaa surpassing ICQ as the most downloaded piece of software (according to C|Net Download.com). 'As of late Thursday, the Kazaa Media Desktop application -- a file-sharing software that has drawn the wrath of the music industry by enabling its users to swap songs for free -- had been downloaded 229,150,955 times, as measured by Download.com.'"
I thought that record belonged to Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson...
Cydoor and BDE could soon announce that they are still beating Kazaa for the title of "Most-Downloaded Program", since they are also installed with many non-Kazaa programs as well.
(Memory a little hazy here! Fact nazis, prepare your guns!)
Kind of like how Doom was the most downloaded program ever durings its era...except for the unzip program that they distributed with the installer.
Anyways: Over 200 million spyware installations just from one program. That is a pretty scary thought, isn't it?
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At least 300 million of them were me doing sould1@foo.bar, sould2@foo.bar, sould3@foo.bar,
They should also check with the folks at Kazaa Lite, the Kazaa version without all those ads. Including this version they've probably already passed ICQ. Unless of course they already accounted for the lite version.
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Further, it is rumored that viruses or worms can be transmitted via sound files on Kazaa. I can't prove this in my humble capacity as a repairman. However, I would feel subjecting my computer to their site would be like sending the poor machine to a cyber orgy without condoms
Harpo Tunnel Syndrome--my wrist feels funny.
In other news kazaalite was beaten by the following program titled "Good evening, as you all know the royal family of Nigera is considered one of the wealthiest......."
http://saveie6.com/
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RIAA senior vice president for business and legal affairs Matthew Oppenheim has said: "Stealing is stealing. Piracy contributes to terrorism and eats away from the profits of the music industry, driving up costs for everyone." Industry analysts worry that in the future, software makers will not be the sole target of the behemoth's notoriously aggressive copyright defenses. Some have speculated that vendors of popular operating systems on which these software run may be next, and that hardware manufacturers may not be far behind. One of our anonymous correspondents wondered: "what happens if they decide to outlaw the internet?"
I'd have thought windows would be the most downloaded program (in order to make Kazaa work for instance) ...
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They may not do much advertising for themselves, but holy shit, they certainly DO do a lot of advertising.
That's only because people have to redownload it as they keep trashing their windows systems with Kazaa and all the spyware and malware it brings despite all the junk that people will actually download.
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Wonder if there are any reliable statistics showing which is the most downloaded mp3..
Wonder how many downloads Kazaa Lite has?
Kazaa is good in it's place. Recently I was trying to grab something on emule. It was stalled for days. Jumped onto Kazaa, and it was done in under 10 minutes.
Kazaa is good for episodes of recent shows. The late lamented Firefly, you can find them ALL on there, something which I haven't seen on any other service.
IRC is great if you're a "0-dAy w4rez d00d", but you have to deal with idiots running fservs with corrupted files, or fservs that boot you etc... IRC is too frustrating and has to be babysat a lot of the time (unless you find a really reliable server.)
Wonder how many times the RIAA downloaded Kazaa so they could say "look, it has SO many downloads" when in reality, about 3 people downloaded it:)
That pr0n and warez are the most popular downloads on the internet. In fact, for every download of Kazaa, there are are thousands of pr0n and warez downloads.
And that tells you why people are clamoring for DSL and cable modems. Which, in turn, raises interesting questions about the market drivers of the broadband infrastructure in the US.
"Pr0n, Warez Leading Drivers of Consumer Broadband Market"
Now *that* would be an informative Reuters headline.
The article and the claim state that Kazaa is on track to become the most downloaded free software ever, not the most downloaded piece of software ever. I think Microsoft bug fixes have that base covered.
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Bittorrent?? I cant figure out how the heck to make it work (actually cant be bothered once I look at the instructions).
Here's the deal. I use Kazaa to download and watch episodes of Friends
Until things get point and click easy with some of the software you've mentioned, I'm unlikely to use them.
I see the problem.. you're a Windows using girl! And so far all of the software mentioned in this thread is 'point and click' easy, with BT being probably the easiest.
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