Shareaza is the bomb-diggity. Supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, and eDonkey networks, and works as a Bittorrent client - ie: you’ll pretty much not need another client at all. And it’s adware free, and open-source.
The difference here is, Bu’s just talking about file sharing. You were actively encouraging piracy of software. File sharing in and of itself doesn’t equal piracy. Bittorrent, for example, is used by several game publishers to distribute demos, and also as a distribution method for several Linux distributions.
It’s another p2p network, but is much more decentralized. The official bit torrent client is at the above page, but it is a bit limited, so there’s lots of enhanced clients around also:
I say there is no best. I use Kazaa (FastTrack network), bittorent, newsgroups and IRC.
The software I use is:
Kazzalite ABC [ Yet Another Bittorrent Client ] (for BT) Xnews for newsgroups
and last (and certainly not least) mIRC for IRC.
I almost never use Kazaa anymore (or any other similar P2P)
Bittorent ROCKS! It’s worth your time to figure it out.
You’d have to sign up for a newsgroup to use them, but they ROCK too. (I use www.buzzardnews.com, it was the only one I could find that accepted paypal)
and IRC also ROCKS (that’s a lot of rockin’)! It’s not user friendly, but once you get the hang of it you can find ANYTHING (I’m serious).
Wrong. Files served on IRC can be corrupt too, it’s just less common since it’s mostly geeks serving. Stability can vary too, depending on who you download from. But IRC is great, if you know where to look and don’t want anything too obscure, and don’t end up on a netblock that’s been given a bad name by idiots, hackers, and flooders.
[quote] Grokster Calls It Quits on Sharing Music Files
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 - Grokster, a developer of file-swapping software used to trade copyrighted music and movie files, said Monday that it would halt distribution of the software and cut off support for its associated network as part of a landmark settlement with the recording industry and Hollywood studios. The pact comes four months after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Grokster could be held liable for copyright infringement by users of its software, a decision that delivered a decisive victory for entertainment companies, particularly music labels, which have blamed widespread digital piracy for a worldwide slump in sales. . . [/quote] nytimes.com/2005/11/08/techn … kster.html
Bye bye limewire, kazaa, bittorrent, etc? Is it just a matter of time?
Just makes room for something new. I’ve never tried it, but I hear DC++ is the bomb.
Even if EVERYTHING somehow one day go shut down, we’d just have to do things the “old fashioned” way (ie. sneaking into movies, using tape decks, sitting on the grass outside of concerts, etc.).
(these are just the names of the networks, each network has many client programs to choose from)
Note also that bitTorrent and usenet newsgroups are not listed because they are hard to measure. However some estimates have bitTorrent using half the bandwidth on the internet. Just a matter of time… right… just a matter of time till Jesus comes back…
If I were in the USA and afraid of getting extorted by the RIAA or MPAA I would use the newsgroups, e.g. a giganews subscription combined with newsbin software. Here in Asia however it seems simplest to just use e.g. BitComet and eMule. Almost everything else mentioned above in this thread is lame by comparison (except Azureus). See the guides on slyck.com for further details.