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Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tradition-of-heritage dept.

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.'"

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  1. Only the highest on download.com by robla · · Score: 5, Informative

    You'll note that the origin for this story is CNet, and that the metric that they are using is download.com (owned by CNet). Since Kazaa.com actually links straight to download.com, it's not surprising that they have the highest numbers on download.com.

    Over 335 million unique RealPlayer/RealOne Player registrations have been received by RealNetworks.

    Other software makers (who don't use download.com) probably also have numbers higher than Kazaa.

  2. Re:Value-added by sould · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's your value added Kazaa right here.


    Kinda works under wine too

  3. OSS and Windows by cjsnell · · Score: 5, Informative

    But, you see, OSS for Windows is catching on! Some of the most popular programs on Sourceforge are win32. Everything that you need for spyware-free commercial-free RIAA-free music and video sharing is available there, on sf.net. Here's a sampling:

    CDEX - a great MP3 ripper. Use with LAME for great, free rips.

    eMule and DC++ - very popular P2P clients

    BitTorrent - For large file sharing (movies, etc)

    VirtualDub - for video format conversion (DiVX, VCD, etc)

    Audacity - multi-track audio editor

    I could go on and on. Look at this list and all the win32 apps there.