[DMCA-Activists] Shareaza: Universal File Searching Client

[Seth Johnson]

> http://www.shareaza.com/

Welcome to Shareaza.com

Welcome to Shareaza.com, home of the premiere P2P program. The Shareaza 1.9
public beta is now available with eDonkey, BitTorrent and of course
Gnutella2!   Download it here (http://www.shareaza.com/download/).
 
Shareaza v1.8.9.0 Beta  30 May 2003 

The latest beta has a much improved easier interface, Basic & Expert modes,
a clean and powerful new home tab design, drastically improved performance
and fixes various bugs reported in pervious builds. Download Now and Discuss 

Shareaza 1.9 Bringing P2P Together

Help us test Shareaza 1.9! 

The next major version of Shareaza is here -- almost. As promised, the
Shareaza 1.9 public beta is available now. The mysterious two new networks
were in fact eDonkey2000, known for its efficient sharing and large file
selection, and BitTorrent, known for fast access to very new files. These
are now available in addition to Shareaza's premiere Gnutella2 network and
the legacy Gnutella1 network, giving you four P2P systems at your
fingertips.

These new network haven't just been tacked on -- Shareaza has been
redesigned as a true universal P2P client, able to take full advantage of
all the resources available to it. When downloading a file, it can be
swarmed from all connected networks simultaneously, automatically selecting
the best fragmentation and partial verification schemes! The new upload
system is extremely powerful, supporting complex user-defined queues to
optimise sharing the most important files first.

All interested users are invited to help test Shareaza 1.9. You can download
the latest beta here. Help us make Shareaza the ultimate file sharing
program!

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“The era of file-sharing applications competing on the merits of their
chosen network has passed.”

Since its release in July last year, Shareaza has come to be recognized as
one of the most innovative P2P applications, positioned at the bleeding edge
of new ideas and technologies. Until now, all of this energy has gone into
making Shareaza the “best Gnutella client”. Along the way Gnutella had to be
improved, so Shareaza developed and championed Gnutella2 – now the most
feature-rich (but not the largest) file sharing-network in existence today.

But “Gnutella” is only one of many networks, and the era of file-sharing
applications competing on the merits of their chosen network has passed. P2P
programs must compete on their own merits, on how good the application
itself is. Then users will be able to select the program they like best
instead of having to put up with something just to access the network they
prefer.

The next version of Shareaza represents a fundamental shift: Shareaza will
no longer strive to be the ultimate Gnutella client – it will strive to be
the “ultimate P2P client”.

Shareaza 1.9 will offer access to two additional P2P networks, both of which
enjoy substantial popularity, as well as the premiere Gnutella2 network and
support for the legacy Gnutella1 network. Following that, future versions
will offer an even wider selection of networks.

These changes will redefine Shareaza as a true “P2P client”, rather than
simply a “Gnutella client”. People will be free to choose Shareaza as their
client of choice without being restricted to only one or two networks.