3,039,941! users?!

**mp3master1215** · August 23rd, 2004, 02:23 PM

I found this many users on kazaa just right now. How is this possible. How did they almost get back to there full potential like that. I dont get it!

**Deuce Up** · August 23rd, 2004, 02:30 PM

glitch in the matrix :tilted

**serrebi101** · August 23rd, 2004, 02:35 PM

it's 3,039,941! riaa bots and n00bies sharing fake files , and the few kazaalite people who are resisting change.

**Deuce Up** · August 23rd, 2004, 02:44 PM

lol :tilted serrebi brings us crashing back to reality!

**FrozenShadow23** · August 23rd, 2004, 03:01 PM

Donno, there's also a few users with their heads buried in sand and don't know there's anything better. I've met a few. I didn't know they even existed. You would think they were extinct, like dinosaurs....

**The Hunter** · August 23rd, 2004, 03:04 PM

There is the rare occasion that i still use it, but it is one hell of a rare file that i cant find elsewhere.

**muffenme** · August 23rd, 2004, 03:55 PM

:fire

2,656,870 on kazaa @ 23:58 GMT

:hole

**downloadalot** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:04 PM

All these people dissing kazaa make me smile. Fact is it is the p2p app with the most variety of mp3 - and things way are going there will not be another. Bittorent? get real! Sure I got all my Gangstarr albums in seconds and I am thankfull for that. But no way will I find my rare files on this network. All these new network are good, but only for popular files (wich is ok for a lot of people since they dont want anything else or know any better). oh no! my britney spear mp3 is fake bouhouhou!. P2p is just not what it used to be in the napster day where you could find almost any obscure track, not only american pop music. p2p is less and less attractive for people like me. The whole point of peer-to-peer was to discover new stuff and get music you wouldnt find in the store. Something that is getting harder and harder, and will just get harder when kazza go down. p2p is going downhill. Sad.

**crackerjacker** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by downloadalot

p2p is going downhill. Sad.

thats only if people allow p2p go downhill.
bittorent is nice
cheers

**downloadalot** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:12 PM

The way the bittorent network is structured makes it impossible to host anything but popular files. The more sophisticated your tastes in music are, the less attractive this network will appear to you.

**thongsai** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:13 PM

lol when kazaa goes down it will get easier to get stuff. the noobies will flock to networks with partial file sharing, global searchin and real hashin to keep the fake files to a minimum.

**The Hunter** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:23 PM

Aint that the truth.

**hawkburn** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by thongsai

lol when kazaa goes down it will get easier to get stuff. the noobies will flock to networks with partial file sharing, global searchin and real hashin to keep the fake files to a minimum.

Yet BitTorrent will stay the same. All real files, great speeds because the people that use it are more advanced and thus know how to manage bandwidth, and just an overall great experience when there's lots of users, yet they all have some computer sense.

**Gnidrologist** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:48 PM

All these people dissing kazaa make me smile. Fact is it is the p2p app with the most variety of mp3 - and things way are going there will not be another. Bittorent? get real! Sure I got all my Gangstarr albums in seconds and I am thankfull for that. But no way will I find my rare files on this network. All these new network are good, but only for popular files (wich is ok for a lot of people since they dont want anything else or know any better). oh no! my britney spear mp3 is fake bouhouhou!. P2p is just not what it used to be in the napster day where you could find almost any obscure track, not only american pop music. p2p is less and less attractive for people like me. The whole point of peer-to-peer was to discover new stuff and get music you wouldnt find in the store. Something that is getting harder and harder, and will just get harder when kazza go down. p2p is going downhill. Sad.

Completely disagree. You may have random luck in search for a rare file in kazaa, but all kazaa's flaws way overweights this.
From my experience the best network to find any rare music is direct connect. Soulseek's ok, but it's not getting bigger and usually conteins same old stuff from same old users.
In dc network there are so many hubs and there's lot of specialized hubs. For example, there's hubs dedicated to world music, jazz, blues, techno, trance etc.
I'm mainly looking for 60s,70s rock, rythm&blues, psychedelia and I have found a few hubs with maybe 60-100 users per hub, which has dedicated for this kind of stuff and there are gathered really serious collectionars with stuff so rare I even didn't know it could exist. Not to mention usual rutine of complete didcographies of more or less known bands. No way I could find a 1/1000000 of all that stuff in kazaa and not in soulseek either. So my advice if using dc, don't necesserely seek for biggest hubs, try to search a bit longer and find the one with the type of music/movies you're looking for. You'll find one for sure.
Oh yeah, and Winmx is absolutely the best for music videos. It seems that all the people with rare musicvids use exsclusively winmx which is mistery to me and not too appriciatable, because I hate that app (hoping for major improvements in new version which will never be released).

**Miniver** · August 23rd, 2004, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Gnidrologist

Completely disagree. You may have random luck in search for a rare file in kazaa, but all kazaa's flaws way overweights this.
From my experience the best network to find any rare music is direct connect. Soulseek's ok, but it's not getting bigger and usually conteins same old stuff from same old users.
In dc network there are so many hubs and there's lot of specialized hubs. For example, there's hubs dedicated to world music, jazz, blues, techno, trance etc.
I'm mainly looking for 60s,70s rock, rythm&blues, psychedelia and I have found a few hubs with maybe 60-100 users per hub, which has dedicated for this kind of stuff and there are gathered really serious collectionars with stuff so rare I even didn't know it could exist. Not to mention usual rutine of complete didcographies of more or less known bands. No way I could find a 1/1000000 of all that stuff in kazaa and not in soulseek either. So my advice if using dc, don't necesserely seek for biggest hubs, try to search a bit longer and find the one with the type of music/movies you're looking for. You'll find one for sure.
Oh yeah, and Winmx is absolutely the best for music videos. It seems that all the people with rare musicvids use exsclusively winmx which is mistery to me and not too appriciatable, because I hate that app (hoping for major improvements in new version which will never be released).

I agree, dc is the way to go for anything rare that you want with good quality. Fasttrack and gnutella can't compare. Winmx just sucks ass.