i think the same users are still online but less are sharing
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i think the same users are still online but less are sharing
there are less users sharing thats the problemQuote:
Originally posted by shatteredillusions@22 July 2003 - 18:57
there are 4166259 people on kazaa right now as i speak but anyway there is normal fluctation in the network and also some people has left and went to other programs and some has left p2p for good but the majority is still there. Ever condisidered using winmx. I use winmx and kazaalite the ultimate combination
Kazaa is crap now,there are plenty of great ways to fileshare without the same old drone and limitations that kazaa has. ;)
I used to use kazaa for everything, I didn't even know about any other p2p appz, and didn't care.....but ever since like the end of last year, kazaa became virtually usless for images (CD images: bin, iso, nrg..) besides beeing riddled with tons of fake crap <_< so now I only use kazaa for the files that I can't find on any other network...but I still leave it open for ppl to upload (don't know for how much longer tho.....bunch of leechs downloading off me :angry: ) And I don't think there is one best p2p app today, the best U can have is a combination, like Bittorent, Shareaza, Soulseek and emule (Earth Station 5 looks like it's comin' strong, but it's still rather poor)
Anyway, I'm sure kazaa will be dead in a short while, but wich p2p app didn't or wont also die eventually? The question is for how long it lasts ;)
Well there is a pretty big loss of users for all filesharing programs atm..
It seems for a lot (i read somewhere over 1 million) that stopped by the media campaign from the RIAA... Well scaretactics are working for them.. <_<
Well the more sources... i also have that to lately... But see people ul at 50k from me while my ul ars 0,7k or like that.. ? That made me check the uploaders for a while.. about 4 hours... Well i'm not obsessed about leechers, but i think i hit 9 out of ten not sharing (some had just shared some shitty files like matrix reloaded:filesize 1kb :angry: ) I know still no prove the others don't share so i send pm's to them (cause of course i know about the tools hidding your shared files) but most people did reply... And gues what, no one was mentioning that tool... ? So my guess whe have farr less then that number of people online that really share these days.. :(
* but i need to mention i still have to switch to the latest version, maybe that will fix some problems :rolleyes:
rite now there only 3053978 users on which is quite horrible
but guess its da time of da day and the summer time as well
klite remains quite the essential for me
added with bittorrent and soulseek i do have a more than satisfactory combo for me...thinkin about adding mirc to my arsenal ...therz not much more u cud possible use without not being happy ...which i am even without mirc rite now B) ;)
no worries. we can still get files and songs almost with the same speed. thats all i care about. :P :ph34r:
The future of kazaa is in Sharman networks hands, if they introduce partial filesharing, anominity, error correction and some system to root out fakes either thought some rating or marking system they may totaly reverse and even make it more popular but there latest offering kmd2.5 doesnt, who knows if sharman even has the business sense to do this. :(
There's one thing I would like to add here, and you have to forgive me if I sound really really pretentious here. I want to get the point across here but I don't want to bore you.
I've got graduate degrees in Mathematics and Statistics, and I've seen lot of examples in nature and in technology where weird shit like what we are seeing on Kazaa these days is commonplace.
Notice that Kazaa-lite and other filesharing programs, as well as support programs like Speed Up, are always being upgraded. Every time one of these programs change, the overall behavior of the network changes. Also, every time one of these programs changes, the behavior of the user changes, which also changes the behavior of the overall network.
Now you as an individual probably do not change your filesharing behavior frequently, and you probably do not upgrade your software frequently, but if there are say 10 million users of Kazaa (which is a low number I think), then in aggregate there are perhaps a 100 thousand people upgrading or changing their software and changing their behavior EVERY DAY.
Under these circumstances there is no way in Hell that the Kazaa network will work exactly the same way from day to day, hour to hour, or even minute to minute! The strategy you used to get quick DLs last week may not work this week, but it may work fine next week.
Kazaa has the largest filesharing network, and as a consequence it has the potential to show the most chaotic behavior. Are other programs better? Well, once they get big enough they'll hit the same problems. Will Kazaa die? No way. As long as good people like the ones behind K-lite and K++ keep upgrading the software, Kazaa will last as long as filesharing itself lasts. As more people leave Kazaa, then Kazaa will run better and people will come back. So on and so on forever.
Okay -- end of preaching.
By the way, I set the accelerator options so that it only cycled through the first 3 items in my DL list, but twice as fast as the default settings. Of course I set it so that completed items were removed from the list. Then I set my total DLs to 3 and total ULs to 3. During the previous 12 hours I hadn't downloaded more than 20 MB. Five hours later I had downloaded 1.5 GB and finished off about 10 files -- and they were pretty obscure files. Will this work again? I have no idea.
See ya.
Like So Sue Me said, the network changes as people's actions change.
Many people have become leeches no doubt with the RIAA's many dubious announcements of suing anyone and everyone sharing quantities of MP3s gets around. Not that they are completely safe, as there has even been an instance of a leeching DOWNLOADING-ONLY user being busted for downloading a movie by MPAA. (And RIAA and MPAA no doubt contract to many of the same copyright scanner companies.)
Also, as more people get broadband and extra computers, more people are also getting software firewalls and routers -- which makes them INACCESSABLE to other firewall and router users UNLESS they make their firewalls transparent to
Kazaa and/or run KaNAT with port-forwarding if using routers.
Combined together, both will have an EXTREME effect on reducing apparent download speeds.
However users who are not firewalled (and find 'good' supernodes) may not notice any slowdowns at all... particularly if it's NOT MP3's that they're after!