Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL

RageEar writes "Today it was announced that the latest version of Shareaza, a popular P2P application for Windows, was released under the GPL. Currently the source code is hosted by the Shareaza servers, but the announcement makes mention of the code becoming a project on Sourceforge. The binaries are still available for Windows only, but I imagine it is only a matter of time before a Linux port emerges."

a message from the riaa

[Anonymous Coward]

when you use file sharing apps the terrorists win

Wow

[Nascar_Geek]

And Worst Program Name of the Year goes to: These guys - for "Shareaza"

Linux port

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool, so finally I can get all the eyecandy and visual effects of Linux mixed with stability and performance of WinXP.

That's funny

[writertype]

Because every time my friend uses Shareaza, he tells me that there's quite a bit of other content GPLed there too: music, games, movies...

Re:Better?

[xsupergr0verx]

Very true, it's use of Gnutella is pretty lame. However, this is easily my favorite ed2k program and I adore the bittorrent throttling settings (I had a linksys card that overheated using BT once!)

Re:a message from the riaa

[the_riaa]

Stop speaking for us, idiot. [That's our job.] -the riaa

Re:Remote access

[garcia]

Checking your downloads and searches while out of town for a few days or at school. Very useful indeed.

Mostly for claiming that it was someone else that used your computer to do all that illegal downloading, not you. Right?

Re:a message from the riaa

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

when you use file sharing apps the terrorists win

No, the terrorists win if they can plant the bomb and the counter-terrorist can't disarm it in time, or if they can kill all the counter-terrorists.

Anonymous moderation

[Anonymous Coward]

-1, Spineless

Re:Wow

[tunabomber]

Yeah, but what popular filesharing app DOESN'T have a vomit-inducing moniker?

KaZaA - Might have been good, but then they alternated that case of the letters to make them look all quirky and fun.

Morpheus/Grokster - Embarrassing misuse of hacker lingo.

All the other *ster's - just ripoffs of Napster, which wasn't the greatest name to start with anyways.

WinMX - Oooh! That name is so creative! No other piece of software ever used the Win prefix in its name to denote that it runs on Windows!

eDonkey and its variants - now thats a dumb-"ass" name

Gnutella - named after a hazelnut spread with the approximate taste and consistency of crankcase sludge- with a "GNU" thrown in to keep RMS happy.

KCeasy - Is this a play on the name "Ken Kesey"? Even if it isn't, I believe these people were on acid when they decided they would add their software to the long list of open source apps with cryptic, semi-acronymical names. Yes, I'm talking in your direction, giFT.

Re:Wow

[JabberWokky]

All the other *ster's - just ripoffs of Napster, which wasn't the greatest name to start with anyways.

Yeah, but it was named that because Seth Green was taking a nap when Shawn Fanning stole the source from him (which all fit on a single floppy!).

--
Evan

ed2k link

[fasura]

ed2k://|file|Shareaza_2.0.0.0.exe|2617678|7e7dca19 e42f10d609e0aeddc7735d69|/

Re:It's NOT ANONYMOUS Filesharing ! Try these !

[42forty-two42]

Stop the Mpaa ! We have a right to checkout software before we buy.

A) You don't, and B) the MPAA make movies, not software. You're thinking of the BSA.

I only have one question

[WildBeast]

Does it have pr0n? :)