News: FastTrack Use up 70% in 2 months

[wiggum]

Recent research was carried out by Belmont on the aftermatch of Morpheus leaving FastTrack. According to the report ...

*FastTrack has grown by 70% in the last 2 months
*Morpheus use has slipped 68%
*The report is suprised with the lack of public knowledge on spyware and belives that streamcast Networks will soon launch a much better software client but that they will find it difficult to get back old users.

The article (with some errors) is here:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/01/020501hnkaaza.xml

[MusicMan]

But it will probably be declining very soon, with KaZaA new client, lawsuits, and the threats against KaZaA Lite.

[BuzzB2K]

Originally posted by wiggum
*The report is suprised with the lack of public knowledge on spyware

I think this quote speaks volumes as to why the vast majority of users will just go along with whatever KaZaA does\says...

The lawsuit is not an issue again till October 1st...

But the matter of KaZaA Lite is where they could hurt themselves... They have already shown they have more control over the network then they want known and if they start working to block particular clients again it just shows even more control...

Anyway I think it will be months till any real decline becomes evident, and in the fileshare program world that is a lifetime...


:mellow Buzz

[wiggum]

I agree there is very little to stop FastTrack in the short-term...

*The paid version is 6 months away.
*The next stage in the lawsuit is also 6 months away.

Even in the medium term...

*If they loose the court case, this should not effect kazaa because Sharman Networks are not been sued.
*The paid version will be run side-by-side with the free version.

IMO, The worlds largest p2p network, is just gonna keep growing and growing in the short to medium term.

[BuzzB2K]

Originally posted by napho@napsterites.net
It needs an oxygen tent and life support systems now.


"By compiling and measuring data available publicly to P2P program users, Bailey said Kazaa on average had 1.4 million users logged on at any given time during April. That is a jump of 69 percent over February, when roughly 830,000 users were simultaneously logged onto Kazaa on average.

Meanwhile, usage of Morpheus, once the largest peer-to-peer network, has gone in the opposite direction, according to Bailey. In February, the Morpheus system had 1.08 million users simultaneously on average. By April, Morpheus usage had dropped by 70 percent."

StreamCast has no one to blame but themselves for this situation. Morpheus has become more of a "P2P clown" rather than a presence in the P2P community, as a P2P application like iMesh is taken more seriously. We've been promised Morpheus 2.0 for almost 2 months, however StreamCast continues to use an outdated Gnutella client. At the very least, StreamCast could have kept up with Gnucleus, and resolved many of the bandwidth issues that have been driving Morpheus users away. If StreamCast has any consideration for its employees or its future, they should upgrade their software or become a permanent joke of the P2P community.

http://www.slyck.com/newsmay2002/050202a.html