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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. Re:eMule by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    They don't, most use eDonkey. This is slashdot and that line was just the manditory plug for some gpl'ed bullshit.

    eDonkey sucks. It's slow and I've never completed a download on it, even when it's "available" from like 100s of people.

    P2P sucks. Give me a good private ftp site any day.

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  2. It's good, but not perfect by Pilferer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I never used Kazza, so perhaps these problems exist with it as well, but here are some things that really suck about Edonkey/Overnet:

    1) Hardly any music. The other night I was looking for a Bjork album (that I own, of course!) and I got no results from a search. For being the biggest network, you'd think someone would have it.

    2) Fakes - lots of fakes. If you're downloading, say, Starwars Battlefront (why you'd be doing this unless you own it, I couldn't say!), you'd better get an AVI preview tool to make sure you're not actually downloading any German-midget public-facial porn. Because the odds are high that you are. I suppose renaming obscure stuff to "Windows Longhorn Beta" will spread the obscure files faster, but it's annoying.

    3) The search blows. Share Reactor was the solution - verified links (which fixed problem #2), but it got taken down. There needs to be some Freenet-like system that allows people to discuss the files in an anonymous way that the MPAA/RIAA can't take down. Also, a way to "vote" on files would be a nice feature.

    4) Slow. Really slow. I don't mind, but if you can find the file on Supernova/etc, the difference is night and day.