EDonkey Claims Online Software Traffic

To be honest, I am actually not all that surprised to hear that eDonkey is still around and thriving, even in light of Bittorrent’s success. EDonkey has for the most part, never been much of a target for the music industry, well, that is until now…

EDonkey, a popular software program for sharing video and other large files over the Internet, now accounts for the biggest slice of online file-sharing, according to a study comparing the top four file-swapping programs.

EDonkey eclipsed BitTorrent for the top share of online file-sharing traffic, according to an analysis of such traffic by Britain-based research firm CacheLogic.

The study, conducted over six weeks beginning in June, only looked at the volume of data moving over the eDonkey, BitTorrent, Gnutella and Kazaa’s FastTrack file-swapping networks, not at how many individual users or files they had, said Nicholas Fraka, marketing manager for CacheLogic. They thus favored eDonkey and BitTorrent because of their use for larger files. [Read the rest]