The block reward was 500 every couple seconds at launch!
I don't know why you're acting like this is breaking news. I (and probably everyone else) knew something was fishy just by looking at coinmarketap when DRK came out. Vertcoin came out weeks before Darkcoin did, but the Darkcoin number in circulation dwarfed the coin count of VTC, while VTC cap is 80 million coins, and Darkcoin cap is 20 something million:
http://coinmarketcap.com/Right now it's 3.9 mil DRK in circulation vs 3.2 mil VTC.
The only explanation was some kind of flash mine.
The real question is, how do you compare coins like Darkcoin vs Heavycoin? One has an enormous flash mine, the other has an IPO + premine for similar amount. Which one is the least worst in terms of distribution? o_O