Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey

I(rispee_I(reme writes "According to the network population stats at slyck, FastTrack (home of Kazaa) is no longer the most populous filesharing network. Top honors now belong to edonkey, a network of German origins. (Most edonkey users connect with emule, a gpl client for Windows)."

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The reason?

[Anonymous Coward]

At least in my personnal circle of friends, the reason why Kazaa usage stopped was the effective killing off of Kazaa lite.

Re:Got plenty of time? eDonkey may rock.

[js3]

edonkey has an interesting race to the bottom characteristic. If you give it all your bandwidth you will end up sharing 5-10 times the size you originally intended to download. So any emule user with a clue will cap his upload bandwidth, which makes everyone else slow. Edonkey may be the place to find stuff, but it's not the place to download large binaries.

Edonkey vs. other p2p networks

[humberthumbert]

The reason I use ed2k (through the emule client) is that the community is by and large really into file-sharing, NOT file-trading. Hence, you can readily find years-old material for download. In pristine uncorrupted condition no less.

P2P networks like Bittorrent and DC++ have an air
of "grab all you can and go offline, fuck the other guy" attitude that I really detest. Not to mention that they're only really good for brand new releases...

Re:Edonkey vs. other p2p networks

[line.at.infinity]

In any network, the net total uploaded is always equivalent to the net total downloaded, so all P2P networks has the same leech to share ratio (1 to 1). Bittorrent isn't very good for file diversity though, IMHO. It's easier to share 40 gigs of esoteric files on traditional P2P networks, while for BitTorrent you'd need to run 400 simultaneous connections to servers running trackers just to make visible to the world four hundred 100 MB files that have trackers.

A main point...

[theamarand]

...and the main goody that you can extract from all of this is that P2P is a genie out of the bottle.

Regardless of "who's on top" or "who's bigger than whom," the fact that there are multiple, competing and viable peer-to-peer sharing platforms, should give most open-minded people a good, winning feeling. Fair use is a great thing, and some folks resent paying for four or five different forms (records, eight-track, cassette tapes, CDs, Music DVDs, digital MP3s) of the same exact song, piece of software or movie; simply because the old medium type was retired, or because the old media reached the end of its short useful lifespan. Wouldn't it be nice to buy a song, and have the right to listen to that song...forever?

Yet, I digress. The media companies have, for too long now, held the consumers and the actual artists responsible for the art-form in question, hostage. The artists aren't losing the vast majority of their profits on P2P...it's the large corporations that take the lion's share of the end product that ends up with losses. I say turn all media digital, and have us pay for only the individual songs, videos, or whatever piece of work you actually like, and get rid of the rest of the album filler...and associated over-head cost. I'll bet people would like that a lot...and I think that P2P integrated with a useable, small cash payment system, is going to really hurt the greedy media companies, while helping bring more of the end profit directly to the artists responsible.

Re:Got plenty of time? eDonkey may rock.

[real_smiff]

you can start downloading with nothing shared and as soon as you complete one chunk your download becomes an upload to anyone else who needs that piece - in fact because you're only uploading that one file you'll get a better rating with the people who have it than you would if you were sharing many files, and this your download will complete faster.

the credit system has now been secured, you can see the docs for details. hash stealing (credit theft) was a problem for a while, no longer.

eMule is not an elitist network at all, it's the opposite. unlike DC++ etc. it requires very little user knowledge or share material. it does however take some time in some cases. it is fine for people who only want one album every other week. start it up, get your album, quit the app. in the time between the download finishing and you noticiing, on average you've done your bit for the network.

this is all based on real experience using eMule. you should try it, it's got so popular for a reason.