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1.6 Million PCs Track Popular P2P Clients

Posted by Zonk on from the good-thing-no-one-is-illegally-downloading-stuff dept.

Hodejo1 writes "'Big announcements' are often backed up by a dubiously small data set or not backed up at all. Big Champagne, PC Pitstop and Digital Music News joined forces to analyze 1,661,688 PCs to track 152 unique P2P clients quarterly from September 2006 to September 2007. The result is a definitive list of the most popular P2P software in use. Topping the list by a healthy margin is LimeWire. 'In September of 2007 LimeWire was found on 17.8% of all the PCs polled that month. With regards to market share — counting only those users with at least one P2P application on their systems — LimeWire held a 36.4% share, meaning one out of three P2P users has LimeWire on their system. These numbers are up slightly from September 2006 when LimeWire held a market share of 34.1%'. Meanwhile, uTorrent has made huge gains during this period soaring into second place and posing a genuine challenge to LimeWire."

13 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Sexist comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the article:

    "this technology is so easy a grandmother could use it"

    As a 48 yo grandmother, and C programmer, I find that offensive.

    1. Re:Sexist comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You still program in C? Holy crap, you ARE old!

    2. Re:Sexist comment by sm62704 · · Score: 1, Funny

      You got modded "funny".

      Damned kids!

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    3. Re:Sexist comment by Jerome+H · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't use an antivirus so... I'm faster than you with firefox ?

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    4. Re:Sexist comment by Snowmit · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm about to get myself thoroughly modded -1 Offtopic but this is the coolest craziest thing I've read all day.

      I *love* that there is a secret underground network of grandmothers sharing embroidery patterns on the Internet.

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  2. Limewire ... by BoredAtWorkWhatElse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well now we know that 36.40% of the polled PCs are infected with a real ecosystem of viruses.

    1. Re:Limewire ... by SoupGuru · · Score: 4, Funny

      Time to burn the latest AV tools to a boot CD and start making some house calls. Where do we get this list from?

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  3. uTorrent has made huge gains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The huge gains are going to be in RIAA lawsuits. Do your part to keep uTorrent under he radar - install limewire today.

  4. Re:The Headline is Garbage by snoyberg · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're new here, aren't you?

    And you must be new here.

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  5. Re:LimeWire? by mattpointblank · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Pirate schools"?! Do you go to HAAAAARRRRRRRRvard?

  6. Re:LimeWire? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, he went to M-aI-Tey!

  7. The first rule of Usenet is, by kEnder242 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dont talk about Usenet...

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  8. Re:Maybe the story is an advertisement. by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, Azureus is the most widely used Bittorrent client that is exclusively Bittorrent and begins with the letter "A".

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