Interesting Fact

[DarkBlizzard]

In the last 4 hours on Yahoo.com the word "Kazaa" is the 4th most searched word! The RIAA isnt ending Kazaa...its helping it! The RIAA is doing so much to shut down Kazaa that it acutually is only getting us more users. Their are two bad things though. 70% of Kazaa users do not share ANY files. so all of those files on Kazaa are ONLY 30% of our files. The other bad thing is that they are searching for Kazaa , and not Kazaa Lite. But thats better for us,they dont have the protection from Peer Guardian and other programs so they get caught first.

EDIT: Kazaa Lite is number 17 i think. :)

EDIT: Oops i had google.com at first, but i mean Yahoo.

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by DarkBlizzard@31 July 2003 - 08:19
But thats better for us,they dont have the protection from Peer Guardian and other programs so they get caught first.
the cannon fodder theory in effect here...

[Adster]

the RIAA are attention seekers and are doing a good job of it too <_<

[Arm]

Kazaa Media Desktop 2.5.1

Downloads: 256,863,904

Whoo that is alot. :o Sure beats the hell out of Napster. Is there a counter that can say how many times Kazaa Lite was download?

[Renegade720]

cant wait to see what napster 2.0 is set to bring...

[Switeck]

Originally posted by DarkBlizzard@31 July 2003 - 02:19
70% of Kazaa users do not share ANY files. so all of those files on Kazaa are ONLY 30% of our files.Even if 30% share, most of them only share a handful of files -- they often empty/remove their shared directories of all but the tiniest downloads... I see lots of people sharing only a couple MP3, TXT files, JPG/GIFs, etc -- with a combined shared amount of less than 10 MB.

We can&#39;t share everything to make up for the ones who share nothing. :(

[Renegade720]

yep, its a fucked up world huh

[DarkBlizzard]

Originally posted by Arm@31 July 2003 - 02:38
Kazaa Media Desktop 2.5.1

Downloads: 256,863,904

Whoo that is alot. :o Sure beats the hell out of Napster. Is there a counter that can say how many times Kazaa Lite was download?
i dont think there is 256 million users though.....i think thats for ALL of the kazaa versions put together.....so it doesnt beat the hell out of napster. Napster beats the hell out of it. :)

[bobfred]

[QUOTE]I see lots of people sharing only a couple MP3, TXT files, JPG/GIFs, etc -- with a combined shared amount of less than 10 MB

I share 496 files, totalling about 14 1/2 GB.
People should at least share what they download, like I do.
Anything that I download stays in My Shared Folder, except fakes.
People should realise that if we stop sharing, Kazaa will just disappear, and no one will be able to get anything from anyone.
The whole idea of P2P is sharing, not just downloading.

[VB]

Google is a much better search-engine.

When you search for "Kazaa", then Kazaa Lite related sites are listed as:

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[Switeck]

Originally posted by bobfred@31 July 2003 - 05:39
I share 496 files, totalling about 14 1/2 GB.
People should at least share what they download, like I do.
Anything that I download stays in My Shared Folder, except fakes.
People should realise that if we stop sharing, Kazaa will just disappear, and no one will be able to get anything from anyone.
The whole idea of P2P is sharing, not just downloading.You are an exception (to the average user -- which are mostly leeches) rather than the norm.

I try to keep my upload bandwidth as close to maxed out without causing web browsing problems as possible. I am sharing well over 10 GB on Kazaa right now, but it would take over a week at max upload speed for my connection to upload it all ONCE&#33;

Kazaa Lite K++ isn&#39;t so good for sharing 1,000&#39;s of files at once -- it bogs down as the number of shared files increases and probably crashes once download requests start coming in too rapidly. (ie: 100-1,000 a min or more.)

And it is impossible for many of us heavy-users to share as much as we download.

Even if I only download at ~13 KB/sec on average, factored over 1 day that&#39;s 1 GB. Over a year, that&#39;s 365 GB. In 3 years time, over 1 TERABYTE (TB). Needless to say, all my hard drives combined aren&#39;t big enough.

This is what I meant earlier when I typed:
"We can&#39;t share everything to make up for the ones who share nothing."

Something has to give -- if I have <1 GB free I either have to delete something from my hard drive (preferably after backing it up to CD-r...) or stop downloading.

It&#39;s not always an easy choice, but I am trying to save the &#39;rare&#39; stuff and am ditching the &#39;popular&#39; stuff. (Where I mean rare=hard-to-find, not rare=few people want it.)

WE must decide what files and ideas continue to be shared or die.
Not RIAA&#33; :angry:

[Tinny0001]

I&#39;m only sharing 4.09 GB. :ermm:
i&#39;ll go see wat else i can find worh sharing on my HDD :huh:


Tinny :P

[Switeck]

Originally posted by Tinny0001@31 July 2003 - 09:19
I&#39;m only sharing 4.09 GB.&nbsp; :ermm:
i&#39;ll go see wat else i can find worh sharing on my HDD&nbsp; :huh:If you&#39;ve already got a constantly-full uploads window, you&#39;re probably sharing enough... if not TOO much. :D

Are there lots of people sharing the same thing you are or very few?

[Tinny0001]

right now there are 3,605,046 user online on kazaa. 30 % of them 1081513 sharing 5,850,624 GB worth of file. if all of those share same amount of files that is 5.4 GB per person. F*#k thats low.


If you&#39;ve already got a constantly-full uploads window, you&#39;re probably sharing enough... if not TOO much.

Are there lots of people sharing the same thing you are or very few?

some of them are rare. although i do get constant uls most of them are movies.


Tinny :P

[DasScoot]

Originally posted by Switeck@31 July 2003 - 11:13

Kazaa Lite K++ isn&#39;t so good for sharing 1,000&#39;s of files at once -- it bogs down as the number of shared files increases and probably crashes once download requests start coming in too rapidly. (ie: 100-1,000 a min or more.)

And it is impossible for many of us heavy-users to share as much as we download.

Even if I only download at ~13 KB/sec on average, factored over 1 day that&#39;s 1 GB. Over a year, that&#39;s 365 GB. In 3 years time, over 1 TERABYTE (TB). Needless to say, all my hard drives combined aren&#39;t big enough.

This is what I meant earlier when I typed:
"We can&#39;t share everything to make up for the ones who share nothing."

Something has to give -- if I have <1 GB free I either have to delete something from my hard drive (preferably after backing it up to CD-r...) or stop downloading.

It&#39;s not always an easy choice, but I am trying to save the &#39;rare&#39; stuff and am ditching the &#39;popular&#39; stuff. (Where I mean rare=hard-to-find, not rare=few people want it.)

WE must decide what files and ideas continue to be shared or die.
Not RIAA&#33; :angry:
I&#39;m currently sharing 24508 files, 60+ gigs (of my 100 gig HD), and haven&#39;t had a problem. Although I must admit that while I keep a fairly steady upload, it&#39;s pretty rare that all 4 slots get used at once.

[mogadishu]

I used to be sharing about 1000 files.. then i deleted all my mp3s cus they were so unorganized. Now just sharing about 50 dvd rips and some software

[stonecold1203]

I can&#39;t share :&#39;(

Got a warning from my ISP :angry:

[Switeck]

Originally posted by DasScoot@31 July 2003 - 10:34
I&#39;m currently sharing 24508 files, 60+ gigs (of my 100 gig HD), and haven&#39;t had a problem. Although I must admit that while I keep a fairly steady upload, it&#39;s pretty rare that all 4 slots get used at once.24.5 K files and 4 upload slots don&#39;t stay busy most of the time is most odd...

You are probably firewalled/behind a router -- either that or your files are so obscure/obscurely named that few people download them.

With 4 upload slots and even 100 KB/sec upload speed, (and your upload speed is possibly only have 1/10th that) even if you&#39;re only sharing MP3&#39;s that are 5 MB or smaller you shouldn&#39;t have much trouble keeping your 4 upload slots booked.

Have you tried KaNAT if you&#39;re behind a router?