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.'"

Comments

Re:Most downloaded by lazy folk

[Trolling4Dollars]

IRC is far better if you want to get a hold of some reallyh rare/unpopular stuff. The main problem with Kazaa and the like is that it mainly reflects the most pedestrian of tastes. Whereas IRC contains a lot more unusal content. As an example, when DalNet was still turning a blind eye to file transfers, I was able to acquire the entire first second and third seasons of Sliders. This program is as of yet currently unavailable in any format. However, I was able to download nearly all of the first three seasons and part of the fourth within the period of a month. They were also pretty good at keeping up with 24 and the Enterprise series. It was better than Tive because I didn't even need to remember to set anything. I'd just log onto an IRC channel and make the requests and get queud up with an FSERV. Was a thing of beauty... On the other hand you can't find ANY Sliders episodes on Kazaa.

Re:Kazaa is already dead

[jez9999]

I hate eMule. It seems to allow impartially downloaded files to be shared on the network, and even encourages this by showing you a bar for each file that illustrates which parts of the file the person has. When I tried to download a video from there, *nobody* had the whole thing, they all just had the same small snippets of it! What good is that? Any P2P client that encourages non-complete files to be shared is stupid, and should die.