Where Have The Films Gone?

[Anon sir]

Why has nearly everybody stopped sharing films on Kazaa? You lot talk a good fight on here against riaa and mpaa, but when I go searching videos it looks very much like the troops have deserted. Probably the best way to stop this slight threat and mass hysteria is to stick a decent film or two in your shared folder and share, instead of throwing insults from the trenches. Couldnt one of you bright sparks figure a way to get a few new releases circulated to give things a kick start, difficult but not impossible, there are forty thousand of you.

[mic379710]

I don't think sharers have stopped sharing films, but have stopped sharing hulk,reloaded,pirates....etc as not to draw attention to themselves.I still share these new files but can understand others who don't.If you want these files why don't you just use bittorent.

[Proper Bo]

Or maybe it's because none of those mentioned films above are any good

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by Anon sir@4 August 2003 - 19:00
Why has nearly everybody stopped sharing films on Kazaa? You lot talk a good fight on here against riaa and mpaa, but when I go searching videos it looks very much like the troops have deserted. Probably the best way to stop this slight threat and mass hysteria is to stick a decent film or two in your shared folder and share, instead of throwing insults from the trenches. Couldnt one of you bright sparks figure a way to get a few new releases circulated to give things a kick start, difficult but not impossible, there are forty thousand of you.
have some patience geez

young men have NO patience nowadays

I spend 2 hours just to search one title

good results

[TheDave]

use DC++ its complicated and the admins are really strict but i havent come across a fake yet. i find its normally the first for new stuff aswell

[bigmaxy]

Get out now it's coming down!!! There's a nice little hub on DC++ for you.

Follow the light.

:rolleyes: :) :unsure: :D :P

[mic379710]

How can you possibly know who is using k-lite ?

[mic379710]

What I mean is nobody I know stays connected while reading and replying on the forum due to the bandwidth the program uses.I'm not complaining of course.

[mic379710]

Lucky you........Your adsl must be superior to mine.

[jeffonthego]

I agree with original post. Came back from a month's vacation a few weeks ago and the availability of movies (and other things) has noticeably dropped since June.

I had downloads in progress on various movies that haven't budged since I got back.

Have also tried new searches for movies and barely finding anything.

I like KaZaA but I'm going to have to start exploring other P2P options.

[MagicNakor]

Oddly enough, the total number of users on the network has gone down since June too.

Coincidence? I think not. :rolleyes:

:ninja:

[DasScoot]

While I'm on 56k atm, the last week of July I dl'ed 3 movies, took about 4 days which is pretty good. I've had faster, I've also had much worse. Two of them were 'classics' tho, and the third hasn't gotten much (any?) press in the US, so none of them were really high-demand.



Er...and you must be on 56k if you can't run Kazaa and read a website at the same time. :P

[harrycary]

Oddly enough, the total number of users on the network has gone down since June too.

That is crap, I have been monitoring the amount of users on the Fasttrack network. It hasn't changed considerable in the past 6 months. I've seen averages around 3.5 million+ all year long.

I believe that a lot of users are just not sharing and/or limiting the files they are sharing.

I also believe that a lot of you have gotten spoiled with pre-released movies and their over abundance this year. It seems everyone expects to find movies before or the weekend they are released. Well, the truth is these are anomalies (http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/a/a0320800.html).

Everyone should have some fucking patience and wait for these files to propagate the network.

It's either that or learn to use IRC, bittorrent, or newsgroups to get them.

[MagicNakor]

Funny, because my averages are around 2 million. It's down 1.5 million for me. So, yes, it has changed considerably. Remember that different areas of the world link up to different supernodes. Even if I'm jumping supernodes, I get only one other alternative.

:ninja:

[DasScoot]

I usually find between 3 and 4 million people online, depending on time of day/night. Haven't noticed any change myself.

[Icey]

get mIRC for the latest films

[serpico]

Yeah I can't find a single movie even the independant movies like an evening with kevin smith for some reason it's not working is it because of this riaa thing that is happning?

[HitchcockPossessedBudgie]

Kazaa is pretty useless for movies, in fact it's pretty useless for everything except music and porn. And I find that all the porn on Kazaa is tasteless and i would rather get an album rather than an individual song. Basically, I don't see why anyone would want to use anything other than DC++. I once tried sharing a copy of the movie Jacob's Ladder on Kazaa, and it was ridiculous, nobody was sharing the movie and so many people tried to upload from me that my internet connection stopped working. Decreasing the upload slots didn't help because it doesn't allow one person to fully download the file before switching to another person. Basically, you have no hope of introducing a new file into Kazaa unless you have a T3, and most people just introduce pop crap. For example, you can find the POS Halloween Resurrection on Kazaa, but not Carpenter's original masterpiece. Hell, you can't find any Carpenter movie with the exception of Ghosts of Mars, which is shit. If Kazaa could figure out a way to make it so that download speeds are semi-decent when you're not downloading from 20 people, then this wouldn't be such a problem.

[Renegade720]

3 days to d/l a movie? geez, takes me maybe 2 hours tops, and that's for a really long movie too :huh: thank god for the dsl