As of press time, this number had swelled to almost 18,000 MP3s. I get a lot of satisfaction from knowing I'm helping out a lot of users, tra-ding music and getting to know other users from around the world who have similar musical interests. To be honest with you, when it comes to the record labels, I feel they're swimming in cash. The BORGscript, as it is known, allows a MIRC user to set his or her computer up to serve files, get running statistics, and produce the song lists that users find and request songs from. That translates into about 2,000 to 3,000 unique user addresses each day.
People tend to sign in and out at different times of the day.
The traffic on the server is indeed prolific. Mega-BORG alone serves out over 7 GB of songs a day. A poll of his server statistics proves mind-boggling. Over 589,000 MP3's have been downloaded from his system, totalling somewhere over 2,000,000 MB of data transferred across his ADSL connection. The MTV generation has apparently been pushed aside by the MP3 generation.