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VLC crosses 7 billion downloads (techcrunch.com)
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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 days ago

This is a meaningless metric: lots of people probably got it from sources they have no way of tracking (e.g. distro repos), others may be crawlers, etc. etc.