From The It Had To Happen Sooner Or Later Department

[mojo-ris-in]

Well it seems that Kazaa has surpassed ICQ as the most downloaded program ever. The story follows:

LOS ANGELES (MAY 23, 2003) - Sharman Networks Limited today announced that Kazaa Media Desktop has become the most downloaded software, having overtaken the previous record-holder, ICQ, by reaching 229,xxx,xxx worldwide downloads. Kazaa Media Desktop is distributed without charge and enables its users to download more licensed content than any other application.

"The entire Sharman Networks team thanks users worldwide for embracing Kazaa Media Desktop," said Sharman Networks CEO Nikki Hemming. “Our vision from inception was to develop and prove a model for the distribution of licensed content.”

Kazaa Media Desktop’s download record comes at a key period in the peer-to-peer industry’s positive evolution, following the April 2003 ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that reinforces the legality of file sharing applications.

Licensed files, including music, movies, games and software are made available to users through Sharman Networks’ partnership with Altnet. More than 20 million licenses are acquired by Kazaa Media Desktop users per month. In 16 months of operation, Sharman Networks has shown that its business model is both sound and successful.

“Congratulations go to the entire Sharman team for an outstanding accomplishment,” said Hemming. “We will continue to innovate and deliver users the best possible experience, while expanding the choice of licensed content.”

Hemming credits the success of Kazaa Media Desktop to her team’s rigorous respect for user privacy and their focus on delivering users the best in usability, security, and speed.

Thanks to Slyck for breaking this story.
I don't really know what to feel about this. In a way I'm glad to see a P2P app get that honor but at the same time did it have to be Sharman Networks? I just don't know......Comments?

[ferrarimodena360]

aghh gr8 soon well have warez site for kazaa, sniffer, bomber , lol........dosent get any better

[Theinfamousone]

This has got to be old or something. Kazaa has FARRR exceeded everything else on download.com since I can remember. Not to mention, Kazaa has been around for longer than 16 months. I remember trying to download Pearl Harbor on it, and it turned out to be a fake... LOL. That was memorial day 2 years ago!

[isus]

obviously kazaa has reached a huge number of downloads.... but really, 229 million? err, that's from the beginning of time. from v1, to v2.1. probably all the beta's too.

kazaa is so fuckin old, and releases so many lame updates that lock you out of the network without it, that by having only 30 million people download it, 8 updates would give 240 million dl's.

and how many of those people use kazaa? only 5 million.

all that tells me is that kazaa sucks, bc so many people download it and then uninstall it ;)

[Induna]

“Congratulations go to the entire Sharman team for an outstanding accomplishment,” said Hemming. “We will continue to innovate and deliver users the best possible experience, while expanding the choice of licensed content.”

Wtf did they do? The only reason why Kazaa is so popular is through word-of-mouth. The program works so well thanks to the original Estonian programmers, nothing to do with Sharman except having a good eye for an opportunity to make a hella lot of cash.


And Licensed content? That doesn't even deserve a response.

[wingnut2600]

I submitted this yesterday heralding this as the day when they would reach 230 million DL's.

The number of Kazaa users online at one period of time is 5 million, but I would guess that there are at least 10x that many people that have the program on their computer and go on FastTrack very sporadically to find a particular song, or just search for 5 minutes then leave.

[Psilaxs]

Im happy, i still think for many things kazaa is the best there is.

I am happy for them, and wish them continued success, after all, without them I would'nt have nearly 15,000 songs.


:gj Sharman

[Ken17625]

Hemming credits the success of Kazaa Media Desktop to her team’s rigorous respect for user privacy

You gotta be kidding me........

[isus]

Originally posted by Ken17625
You gotta be kidding me........

lol... thats kazaa. nice and private, and totally secure. there are no viruses, no spoofed files, no misnamed/mistagged files, and they offer the most files and users ever.

if you can't smell the sarcasm, you are no longer entitled to be on zp. a secret piece of code within this message will sense whether you understood the sarcasm or not. if you didn't that piece of code will reformat you hard drive and melt your computer a puddling mound of plastic goo.

[Ken17625]

lol... thats kazaa. nice and private, and totally secure. there are no viruses, no spoofed files, no misnamed/mistagged files, and they offer the most files and users ever.

if you can't smell the sarcasm, you are no longer entitled to be on zp. a secret piece of code within this message will sense whether you understood the sarcasm or not. if you didn't that piece of code will reformat you hard drive and melt your computer a puddling mound of plastic goo.

I like pudding.

[Lamourlady]

yep, all the RIAA did, was turn all those unaware newbies out there, on to p2p.
hmmm, was it their master plan from the beginning and then swoop in for the kill, by then bashing and smashing all other p2p apps, and creating their own mammoth p2p file-"buying" app???
hey, did i already call them dirty basturds???

[DETROIT]

Kazaa has been around for a long time. People use this for easy operation. But as far as the reason it has more users and popularity is because of Random Nut and other co-creators of K++

Great Job!:fire :fire :fire

[isus]

Originally posted by Ken17625
I like pudding.

pudding is good.

[Theinfamousone]

Originally posted by isus
obviously kazaa has reached a huge number of downloads.... but really, 229 million? err, that's from the beginning of time. from v1, to v2.1. probably all the beta's too.

kazaa is so fuckin old, and releases so many lame updates that lock you out of the network without it, that by having only 30 million people download it, 8 updates would give 240 million dl's.

and how many of those people use kazaa? only 5 million.

all that tells me is that kazaa sucks, bc so many people download it and then uninstall it ;)

Isus, I thought you were a little smarter than a post like this. ICQ releases new versions all the time, betas and what not, matter of fact, it's been doing it for much longer thant Kazaa (atleast 2 years longer that I know of). As for *only* 5 million people using it. What you mean to say is, only 5 million people use it any given time. Say there are 30 million people with it installed. You'd be hard pressed to find any other program that has 1 out of 6 of the computers with it installed on being run at any given time. That's not bad.

[isus]

Originally posted by Theinfamousone
Isus, I thought you were a little smarter than a post like this. ICQ releases new versions all the time, betas and what not, matter of fact, it's been doing it for much longer thant Kazaa (atleast 2 years longer that I know of). As for *only* 5 million people using it. What you mean to say is, only 5 million people use it any given time. Say there are 30 million people with it installed. You'd be hard pressed to find any other program that has 1 out of 6 of the computers with it installed on being run at any given time. That's not bad.

well... forcing 30 million people to update is the thing pushing up the dl number.

i was just using 5 million as an example... i realize that the same 5 mil aren't on all the time.

[Theinfamousone]

It's cool, sorry, I was in a bad mood.

BTW

I'm interested in how Mac's do DV. My friend can burn a DVD from Quicktime DV (whatever format that is) in about 90 minutes!!! That includes encoding/transcoding process and burning! LOL, I made a video on my comp in Pinnacle Video Studio 8.5 and it took about 9 hours just to encode the freakin' thing to mpeg 2 on my Pentium 4 with the program set to high processing priority. Not to mention the burning process will probably take another half an hour. Now I'm willing to go with the idea that Mac processors are a little more visually adept, but wow, that's not even funny. Even in TMPGEnc, you won't be able to convert faster than real time as he was doing.

My theory is that it somehow when he "imports", the computer automatically imports in mpeg2. He just takes the quicktime ".mov" file from the media folder in the project for burning, it's really just a shortcut, so this is what I base my logic on.and then when it burns in iDVD, it is putting the video together on the fly.

That is probably why he has to render the video as he adds stuff, where on mine, there is no such thing as rendering because it simply adds the effects/transitions/text on the fly when previewing.

Does that make sense? Is that possible?