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)."

It all makes sense now

[Anonymous Coward]

No wonder I can find so much David Hasselhoff stuff on edonkey.

So that explains the deterioration

[nurb432]

I've noticed a *drastic* deterioration of quality of content lately, having all those kazaa losers coming over would explain that.

Now, being #1, means the industries will start targeting ed2k and its associated clients next.

Greaaaat...

Re:Bittorrent

[Anonymous Coward]

What is bittorrent?

Re:It all makes sense now

[AresTheImpaler]

the real question is.. why are you looking for David Hasselhoff stuff on edonkey? That is just disturbing...

Re:emule?

[iamatlas]

emule...Who is the ass now?

Maybe you are. I don't know. What I do know is that donkeys are asses. Mules are, well, mules. And sterile. Cross species lovin' doesn't pay.

Great...

[Jim Ethanol]

Now thanks to that statistic the hired goons of the MPAA and RIAA will be trying to break the Donkey's legs.

"Knock, knock, who's there?
Goons.
Who?
Hired goons.
punch-beat-pummel-club-club-stab..."

crazy idea!

[teamhasnoi]

Why not take ed2k, rename it 200 times, make each version have it's own separate network.

Ideally, name them all profanely, such as fuckcock, shitcunt, ect.

That way, you make the **AA's press releases completely useless, the evening news won't talk about it, the networks are far less likely to be full of fake files, as there are too many to police.

Meanwhile, I will continue to use Shitwhorrent!

It works already!

RIAA hiring programmers!

[Anubis333]

It seems that the RIAA [riaa.org] is hiring programmers to 'alter current internal software suite ('AutoSue CopyProtector') to incorporate new networks and TCP IP protocols..'

Re:crazy idea!

[stratjakt]

Then everyone with Tourrettes (sp?) syndrome will start getting bogus takedown notices.

Re:Got plenty of time? eDonkey may rock.

[Colonel Cholling]

That's because the PS2 linux dev kit is warez.

Wow! You mean the eDonkey software is able to detect whether a given file infringes copyright, and automatically makes sure that those, and only those, files are incredibly slow downloads? That's better than anything the MPAA has!

Re:It all makes sense now

[Gaewyn L Knight]

He must be German!

(Excuse the SNL moment :})

Re:Bittorrent

[angedinoir]

Shh, on't-day ention-may it-bay orrent-te (ang-bay)

Torrent + Hacked Kazaa = Search Capabilities + P2P + Ability to Actually Download Stuff

http://www.trillazah.com

27 and a halfth generation anti-disestablished-de-interoperable-P2P systems

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Sorry I should lay off the crack!

Re:eDarl

[angedinoir]

I tried eDarl, but couldn't get it to work. Kept asking for a license fee for stolen code, but I didn't know what it was talking about, so I deleted it.

Re:It all makes sense now

[fireboy1919]

You know how it goes.

You look for a love song, and eDonkey latches onto that word and gives you files like
"People Germans Love.mp3"

Re:So that explains the deterioration

[Anonymous Coward]

Go trespass on a rednecks property and find out.

Re:It all makes sense now

[khrtt]

You look for a love song

You look for a love song?? Ehm..

Re:zOMG!!111 Teh 31337ster is YUO!!!!111

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me guess, you own an ipod..

Sure enough!

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/082504.asp

look at the headline "RIAA Steps Up Efforts Against Illegal File Sharers, eDonkey Users Among Those Sued"

I wonder why they included that.

Re:tastes change...

[Anonymous Coward]

Where else can you get that kind of scat? And before the people start whining about "compensating the artists," have any of you ever checked out what it costs to have a chick let you film her shitting on someone's face?!

~~~

Re:The reason?

[Sebadude]

Kazaa lite is available on eDonkey.

Re:It all makes sense now

[Anonymous Coward]

the real question is.. why are you looking for David Hasselhoff stuff on edonkey? That is just disturbing...

Maybe he was just searching for "ass" and "avi".

BTW I am German. Congrats to eMule, they made a fine client.

Re:Edonkey vs. other p2p networks

[halivar]

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.

Gotta admint; when I still used Kazaa I was one of thsoe folks. When I moved to BitTorrent I was at first concerned about the fact that people could download off of me while I was still downloading, myself. But I soon learned that the sharing is more than out-weighed by the benifits of being shared with. I take some small case of the warm fuzzies by helping seed other folks' downloads.

For some reason, it feels almost like not being a leech makes the sharing more legitimate (I said "feel", for the "property-ownership-is-God-you-communist-pirate" corporate shills that like the hang around /.; I make no claims as to the actual legality of my fair-use rights), as if somehow helping out in the sharing makes one less of a hypocrite in the whole copyright-infringement process.