Wednesday, March 9, 2005

How much crap is in your P2P app?


A reader writes:
Interesting comparison by Ben Edelman of the bundle-ware and EULA payload of major P2P applications:

The study was commissioned by LimeWire, which proudly demonstrates that it has absolutely no bundle-ware.

eDonkey's EULAs fill 90 on-screen pages.

iMesh's EULA is 56 on-screen pages. (I assume this is the version of iMesh from before they shut down). v Kazaa's EULA fills 182 on-screen pages. The app writes 845 registry keys upon installation.

Morpheus shows you 44 on-screen pages of EULA for its bundle-ware, DirectRevenue.

LimeWire has no EULA and no bundle-ware. If you already have the Java Runtime Environment installed, it also has the smallest install footprint of any of the apps (cuz it's a Java application).

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