I’m a long-time Lphant user and still continue using Lphant because…

Even if you are lured to download Discordia’s Lphant 4.0 –and it deletes your temp folders– you can always uninstall Lphant 4.0 and re-install Lphant 3.51 and keep doing your P2P business as usual.

Nobody forces you to install Lphant 4 and stop using Lphant 3.51, they can *lure* you, *trick* you, *deceive* you… but not force you.

Lphant 4 uses the Discordian DRM-ed network, whereas Lphant 3.51 keeps using the eDonkey network, Kad and bittorrent, the same server list, the same trackers… Everything is still the same with Lphant 3.51.

The banners in Lphant tell you to download Lphant 4.0, but now you know they come from the Discordites, so you just ignore them.

Lphant.com has been taken over, but Lphant 3.51 survives at lphant.com.es and many other download sites.

If you like Lphant, you can still use Lphant 3.51, no problem, just as you can keep using the real Shareazaa.

If the original Lphant is no longer developed and becomes outdated in the future, there are lots of freeware alternatives waiting for you to discover them.

http://www.lphant.com.es/
http://savelphant.wordpress.com/

And stealing “for the win” if it means doing what’s right.

Get a life. Pay for what you use.

The same way artists make the majority of their money: touring. Don’t tell me that they get a ton of money from making albums, I’ve worked at a bar in a hotel and talked to several main stream artists, including Metallica and AC/DC. The majority of the money they make is from touring. Record companies make way more off their music than the bands, and the bands rarely see anything from lawsuits.

I fucking steal music all the time. But I buy CD’s from the ones I like. Of course, only at their shows or the sites they tell me to, but I still buy them.

Sorry for getting around you as much as possible, middle man.

Also, if they don’t run out of money soon, most bands are producing and distributing their music themselves, anyways. That means one way or another, the companies are fucked.

Rejoice!

it is alive and flourishing at sourceforge.net

obviously that would be illegal. SO DON’T DO IT KIDS

Who says nobody pays them? There is a rule that most serious fileshareers follow, if you like it buy it .

Bittorrent is simply what would happen If all the people in the world who had CD’s came into one room and started shareing each others music.

Like 41 said barely 10% goes to musicans, I’d prefer if each of the songs was sold indivudaly and recorded by the artist himself and none of the money was going to tose greedy talentless middlemen

It’s great that you think so much of the artists when the fact is they are lucky to get 10% of any revenue, most artists where making music prior to joining a label and most continue after leaving a label, obviously many times wiser although lighter in pocket.

It is pretty obvious that is what you are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oar9glUCL0

Nice, even have the MS CEO here at TF. Sitting in his ivory tower and I’m sure it’s hard to see the little people from that height.

STEVE when is enough ENOUGH. Start pricing your sh_t fair so everyone can afford it. And the funny thing is you wonder why the absolute monopoly you run gets targeted. Greed Greed Greed.

Easy, because all of the funds they get from the lawsuits go right back to the anti piracy outfits, not a single dime goes to the artists.

They are making up for lost income by suing customers, and now, entrapping them, and the money from the lawsuits, the money those poor starving artists lost, goes back to the company suing the customers, and isolating them.

It’s a never ending cycle, and will bring on the end of the music and film industry as we know it today, which is good. They are digging their own grave, lets give em a hand

Also, as Matthew Wright told, the real, open source Shareaza still exists at http://www.pantheraproject.net/

Eris appeared before me, and spake, saying “At the end of all time,
all the peoples of Earth will descend into the fiery pit of hell.”

And I asked, “Will following your commandments prevent this?” And
Eris spake again, saying “No.”

And I didst weep, for I knew then that I was doomed.

And Eris spake again, saying “Only kidding! I made that up.” I didst
say, “What?”

But Eris was gone, and I drunk from the Tequila bottle once again.

Fnord.