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- autosovereign, on 12/06/2008, -8/+76Obligatory: ***** the riaa/mpaa
- DucoNihilum, on 12/25/2007, -0/+56http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/
- Rav33n, on 12/25/2007, -4/+57Torrents = P2P
- iruel, on 12/25/2007, -2/+43*****, this is the client i recommended to people who don't understand bittorrent to get them off of things like limewire. now my flock of computer illiterate friends will have more ***** that i have to deal with.
- JNudda, on 12/25/2007, -0/+33"A source close to this case has told TorrentFreak that Jonathan Nilson, the owner of the Shareaza.com domain has been contacted and he has confirmed that he has sold the domain to the scammers."
So was it sold or hacked? I'm confused. - mwrl, on 12/25/2007, -0/+32As of December 20th, "Shareaza.com" is mirroring "Shareazaweb.com" - A known scam site.
While we are working to resolve the matter, any help to contain this would be appreciated.
Relevant parties have all been contacted, however lawyers are involved and no new information or changes will be forthcoming until at least monday, or more likely after the holiday. It appears prudent at this time to move forward under the assumption that control of 'Shareaza.com' will remain lost, regardless of the eventual outcome.
Work on the offical Shareaza client has continued unabated among the core group of developers.
A quick update for version 2.3.0.0 is expected for the new year, before Windows 9X support is dropped.
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At this time the Shareaza.com destination is now controlled by iMesh/MusicLab LLC, an unauthorized Madison Avenue (New York) based company, with servers in Israel. MusicLab LLC previously acquired iMesh.com and Bearshare/Bearflix.com following lawsuits. It now appears the known scamsite Shareazaweb.com was a placeholder for the planned takeover of Shareaza, relating to another ongoing lawsuit.
It is urgent that people understand the software on these iMesh/MusicLab sites is suspicious, misrepresented, and illegal -breaking GPL and DMCA among other laws.
"ShareazaV4.exe" is a clone of the new compromised iMesh/Bearshare, and SHOULD NOT BE DOWNLOADED/INSTALLED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Please help make sure any links anywhere to Shareaza.com are changed to Shareaza.Sourceforge.net to avoid infecting a large base of users.
And please bear with us while making this transition. - inactive, on 12/25/2007, -6/+36yes...we know...you are smarter than everyone else.
Of course, for downloading single songs, I would have it with Shareaza before you even started your torrent. - CrankyHippo, on 12/25/2007, -2/+22My sprunger is going off. When they scam their way into solid gold death stars i worry
0011000011000100100100100111100111101 - inactive, on 12/25/2007, -1/+20Someone track them down. My shoe needs a new ass.
- Reziarfg, on 12/25/2007, -0/+18Or you could skip the pretty face and go straight to Unix/Linux. Seeing as that's what's running under the hood of OS X anyways and it hasn't really done anything new to security that wasn't already there.
- scabbers, on 12/25/2007, -0/+16"A contact of Jonathan Nilson is reporting that Nilson can neither confirm nor deny that he sold the domain to the scammers."
Well, if he didn't do it, he would deny it. So... yeah. - Enigmaxx, on 12/25/2007, -0/+16Yeah, o rly........No.6 on the Sourceforge Top 10 downloads, just 2 behind BitTorrent
http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php?type=dow ... - wifigod, on 12/25/2007, -0/+14Torrents are a P2P technology.
- netdroid9, on 12/25/2007, -1/+15I hope that was sarcasm. Because if it wasn't, then I think a little part of me just died inside.
The domain was hijacked, meaning either someone leaked the password or GoDaddy ***** up. The Shareaza server crashed as well, but that could've been a DOS attack or similar rather than a specific exploit. - danconia, on 12/25/2007, -0/+14I'd consider warning them if I were you...
- donnydarko, on 12/25/2007, -1/+15Shareaza was a torrent client as well as "normal" p2p
- Wilson, on 12/25/2007, -0/+12Limewire and Shareaza both use the Gnutella network, which is still going fairly strong last I checked.
- leszek, on 12/25/2007, -1/+11Why using Limewire when there is Frostwire ?
- blacksteve0, on 12/25/2007, -4/+14I had no idea people still used P2P networks like this. Wonder if Limewire is still up and giving away free viruses?
- ers35, on 12/25/2007, -1/+10Shareaza does not contain malware.
- molochi, on 12/25/2007, -0/+9I would have died trying to find part 234/1754 on usenet before I found it.
- nationalist, on 12/25/2007, -0/+8lol my first client
i thought seeding meant...hell i don't even remember - inactive, on 12/25/2007, -2/+10***** mapquest!
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -0/+8Yes because it's an excellent idea to send someone you hate a dump of your memory cache.
- Heembo, on 12/25/2007, -3/+10Get your head out of Steve Jobs ass and take note that with the massive rise in Apples popularity, Hackers have trained their sights on Apple in recent months - in a ever-alarming increasing rate. Sure, BSD is secure. But the Apple-specific layer on top of BSD is far from secure and is actually many years behind Microsoft. Say it with me - Mac tech is not yet ready for prime time Enterprise use.
- KhaaL, on 12/25/2007, -2/+9Someone suggested to roll out a DDoS attack against the site, and I think it's a damn good idea.
*volounteers my bandwith* - sickanimations, on 12/25/2007, -1/+8Shareaza isn't malware, jerk.
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -3/+10I would have it via usenet before you even knew you wanted it.
- Stryder81, on 12/25/2007, -1/+8I don't understand you doofs, I've used other P2P softwares ( like Limewire which is garbage ) and Emule, etc. And Shareaza ( when configured right ) is the *****. Yea I know it connects to Limewire/Emule servers also ontop of its own but you don't get the same garbage as you do with the standalones. To get the most of shareaza u have to leave the thing running for awhile ( like a day or 2 lol.
The main reason I have it is mainly because, literally anything you can think of can be found on it :-) - ozydingo, on 12/25/2007, -0/+6It couldn't be confirmed, but it looks like, at least the way I read it, that it was sold. That being the case, I think we can all join in a chorus of "***** YOU" to jon ***** nilson. If that's true anyway.
- alpharaptor, on 12/25/2007, -1/+7wow, steve jobs has done a great job convincing you that you want something expensive u really don't want or need.
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -0/+6I know of another site that SELLS access to dozens of programs that you can get for free, Shareaza being one of the programs on the list. I would not doubt it is platinumpartner.com we're behind this scam. Check out their list here:
http://theaffiliatenetworks.com/ - bakshi, on 12/25/2007, -0/+5You deserve to be infected by the Rage virus.
- sickanimations, on 12/25/2007, -0/+4and it still is! Shareaza is still fine, just the .com site has been sold from under their feet.
- sickanimations, on 12/25/2007, -0/+4Well yes, apparently people still like getting things for free. If you think torrents aren't p2p, then you might want to learn a little bit about them. G1, G2 and ED networks are much better for finding less popular, obscure and older content - stuff that you will not find on any torrent index... "Different tools for different jobs"
- ZzFDKzZ, on 12/25/2007, -0/+4Shareaza is still alive? Haven't used that in years.
- thushan, on 12/25/2007, -2/+6Dugg for the futurama reference:-)
- thushan, on 12/25/2007, -1/+4Your hilarious, you should do standup... or be Steves personal bitch.
If you want stability, security and scalability (tripple-S) you'd want Gentoo or CentOS, or if you prefer the BSD world, OpenBSD FTW. - trenchfever, on 12/25/2007, -0/+3use httrack and ddos these *****
- raynevandunem, on 12/25/2007, -0/+3True, eDonkey is slow as molasses, but I usually find rarer files on there, more so than the other networks.
Shareaza's Ed2k support was flaky that last time I used it, the search quality for both G1 and G2 has declined within the last year or so, and I've found better BT support on uTorrent.
However, I found the user interface for Shareaza appealing, and the personal profile system was, IMO, a first for a P2P client. I'd hate for something like Shareaza to go down, and hope that the stimulation of interest in it will bring alot more development and improvement for it once either this website is reclaimed or they move to a new domain. - inactive, on 12/25/2007, -0/+3 Why is it legal to misrepresent a product and instead substitute a harmful one in it's place? Software is the only avenue of human life where this considered normal and acceptable. If a food vendor tricked you into eating something that made you sick no one would stand for it. If a retailer tricked you into buying something that blew up and sprayed paint all over your house he would be in jail. But when a software site tricks you into harming your computer everyone accepts this as normal behavior.
If our government wont make this illegal what good are they? - Indemnity, on 12/25/2007, -1/+4I came to slap some since into this guy but I see I was beaten to it. Thanks!
- ozydingo, on 12/25/2007, -0/+3"A source close to this case has told TorrentFreak that Jonathan Nilson, the owner of the Shareaza.com domain has been contacted and he has confirmed that he has sold the domain to the scammers."
If that's true, it looks like Johnny boy himself is to be your foot's next ass. - dephrye, on 12/25/2007, -0/+3But it's SOOOOOO shiny!
- HornyFox, on 12/25/2007, -0/+2"sharing"
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -1/+3That's why baby jesus invented NZB files.
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -1/+3Whatever you do, don't tell them about usenet.
- KennMac, on 12/25/2007, -0/+2A really bad torrent client at that. Shareaza does not follow the BT protocol. It simply does whatever it can to get you the file(s) while hammering the tracker and peers, wreaking havoc on the torrent.
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