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Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the I-still-miss-napster dept.

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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  1. The reason? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Re:Got plenty of time? eDonkey may rock. by js3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Edonkey vs. other p2p networks by humberthumbert · · Score: 5, Insightful


    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...