Danni Ashe vs. Cindy Margolis in Download Fight

Sept. 8 -- It hasn’t escalated to the level of a Celebrity Deathmatch yet, but two of the Internet’s most downloaded women are sparring over who’s really the cyber-fairest of them all.

Danni Ashe, a nude model and founder of adult Web site “Danni’s Hard Drive,” was crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Most Downloaded Woman” in the world, dethroning Playboy actress, supermodel and now late-night show host Cindy Margolis.

“I knew all along I had more Internet fans than Cindy, but I was busy running my business and didn’t pay much attention to the hoopla,” gloated Ashe in a statement after the Guinness announcement.

But wait. Who really won — Danni or Cindy?

Guinness first bestowed the title on Margolis, who then touted it on her Web site. But then, the fickle record-keepers turned it over to Ashe after seeing research and data presented by Ashe and Alexa Research of San Francisco, a company that tracks page views and Web site popularity ratings.

This turnabout, of course, started a cat fight between the two babelicious blondes.

But now it appears there may be a happy ending for each. Guinness spokesman Neil Hayes says both of the buxom beauties won, but in different categories.

“In creating two new categories in the ‘most downloaded’ area, we aresimply responding to the different ways in which new media hasdeveloped,” he said in an e-mail statement.

“In this instance, a number of issues were raised by competing claims and the comparisons between them. Most of them focused on the fact there are two inherently different kinds of Web site: subscription-based [and] free sites.”

Hayes also said Guinness has made distinctions as such in the past. For example, he said, it has “employed similar distinctions between attendance records for free and paid-for concerts, and for print runs of free and paid-for books. All we are doing in this instance is taking our existing criteria into a new medium.”