Shareaza Stands Up To Scammers: “We’re fighting back!”
Written by enigmax on May 10, 2008After falling victim to a domain and brand hijacking, Shareaza is fighting back at the scammers, assisted by the Software Freedom Law Centre, the EFF and Richard Stallman. In further great news for BitTorrent fans, Shareaza will introduce improved BitTorrent support into version 3 of the application.
A lot of things have happened since the Shareaza domain was hijacked. Through TorrentFreak, the Shareaza development team gives an exclusive update on the current situation:
Dear friends and supporters,
The Shareaza Development Team would like to extend our thanks to all of you for your contributions towards our Legal Defense Fund. As you will remember, our project’s identity was appropriated late last year by the recording industry funded Discordia Ltd. shell company and handed over to the recording industry “approved” iMesh for commercial exploitation.
To that end, we are today announcing that we have legal representation and will be contesting the trademark application on our name and identity taken out by Discordia Ltd. After that, we’ll be looking to get our old domain back from the people who threatened, bullied and intimidated the team member holding it on the project’s behalf and who are now using as the gateway to their deceptive business model.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Software Freedom Law Centre, the EFF and Richard Stallman for their help and assistance in this unfortunate matter and also for their recognition of this new threat being faced by free software projects the world over.
If you’d like to help us in our fight to regain control of our identity, we welcome all donations to our Legal Defense Fund. You can use our ChipIn account here to donate safely.
So will this all be long, drawn out and very boring? Quite possibly. Are we going to sit back, lick our wounds and wait for the lawyers to sort it all out?
Heck no!
In fact, The Shareaza Development team is also announcing today that we’ve started work on Shareaza 3.0. Put simply, we’re not going to let the identity thieves slow us down at all.
Shareaza 3.0 will be a significant milestone in Shareaza’s long history. For a start we’re switching to the brand new QT 4.4 application development framework. This will allow us a lot more flexibility for a redesign of Shareaza’s network core, making the current Gnutella, Gnutella2 and ED2K networks more modular. We’re also getting rid of the deprecated MFC code to make 3.0 more plug-in friendly and many of the existing features our users know and love will also be re-built with portability in mind.
The even bigger news is that we’re scrapping our current implementation of BitTorrent and will be using the libtorrent libraries as our base for torrent support in the 3.0 release. Shareaza’s BitTorrent implementation is long overdue for a revamp and while many of it’s features were revolutionary at the time (Shareaza was the first client to experiment with decentralized torrents for example) the development team realizes that its time to bring BT support into line with the modern torrent scene.
Developers with some spare time and a desire to get their hands dirty playing with the new QT 4.4 on an existing code base are welcome to stop by our developers IRC channel for a chat.
Once again, we send our thanks all the Shareaza users and supporters out there and invite Discordia, iMesh and the recording industry monopoly to drop the trademark application and return our domain name before you embarrass yourselves any further. We’re fighting back!
Inquiries can be made via our forums here
Kind regards,
Shareaza Community
Previously: Victorious BitTorrent Tracker to Return
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83 Responses
Cool. Good luck to them.
Good news^^…
Haven’t heard anything in a while so was a bit worried. Mostly because of the precedent it could set if GNU GPL would actually be allowed to be violated (shrudders)
Very good news indeed. I assume they are using the Rasterbar libtorrent, not Rakshasas libtorrent? Anyway, both will bring Shareaza en par with most BT-Clients out there. BTW. Transmission released a new version lately, finally with IPFilter support.
link for irc isnt there. beside that, great news for p2p community.
Watch out guys, the katanas ARE OUT.
It is terrible what has happened to them. They work very hard on something, building up a reputation, then have others pretend to be them and attempt to destroy the reputation.
I don’t use Shareaza, though I have before, but the file sharing community and I completely support you and your fight against these terrible people.
Dont use their app, and prob never will but we have to stand up for the principle or the scumbags win, hence donation sent from ezee.se
Good luck guys!
http://www.ezee.se/
A bittorent site calling someone identity theives? Haa Haa Haaa!
You have no identity or content of your own! almost everything on bittorent sites is illegal stolen media. What goes around comes around! Tons of people are losing their jobs because of greedy bittorent sites! All bittorent sites will fall! Good for them and they will lose because karma is no joke!
It’s good to hear Shareaza is starting to fight back. Hopefully Discordia’s deplorable business plans will be put to rest.
Also, a troll in the first eight comments who isn’t even properly educated on the matter? I think that’s a new record.
[quote comment="381025"]All bittorent sites will fall! Good for them and they will lose because karma is no joke![/quote]
Derrr..?! Bittorrent sites? What in the hell are you talking about
to “torrent idiots”,
Shareaze is just a client, which allows you to share files with friends and other people. They have worked hard on that client, give it away for free, and there is no reason, why some morons could make money from other peoples work. I do programming myself too, so I know how hard it can be to create such big programs. So please shut up and write something creative next time, or write similar things to this one when you have got any information or experience on the whole thing.
“You have no identity or content of your own!”
Her they come the RIAA/MPAA sending their drone our way!
Hi drone! Just tell you masters to start running because we are comming for them with the pest killer.
We must eradicate the parasites they are because they are detrimental to our societies, our economies, our institutions and our cultures.
Start running too!
I was not using Shareaza now I do!
Good job RIAA! You are not fooling anyone with discordia! We know it is you and I will respond accordingly.
You are in trouble dudes!
[quote comment="381031"]It’s good to hear Shareaza is starting to fight back. Hopefully Discordia’s deplorable business plans will be put to rest.
Also, a troll in the first eight comments who isn’t even properly educated on the matter? I think that’s a new record.[/quote]
The assumption here is that job destruction is lower than job creation.
I’m not 100% sure on that. I’m not sure there is any research on it either.
But since WHEN was the RIAA/Record Labels really concerned about its value proposition to all its stakholders?! Only recently…thats the truth.
There is a tide of change, a new business model will emerge…
Times are changing…
[quote comment="381038"]there is no reason, why some morons could make money from other peoples work[/quote]
Like the music industry!
[quote comment="381080"]
There is a tide of change, a new business model will emerge…
Times are changing…[/quote]
so fucking true. riaa… etc. they dont care about artist or anything. its a rotten system who abuses laws and artist just to get more and more money. but money has become a goal for itself. i beg the leaders of big4, look down to the world. dont sit in your chair thinking how to break new money record. dont let the lawyers who are real pests on this world to make your decisions. you dont need more money. world is evolving. help spread the art. use your power that you use for destroying the “world of sharing” to make this world a better place. it is a way that this world is going to. dont make it such a bitter fight. use your power for good.
The useless middleman is being culled and I like it….!!!! hehe
Finally found out what the double A’s stand for asshole and asinine….
Like a useless asshole named bush once said, your either with us or against us… I would add that one way or another the people will win. It’s just a matter of time. The people will remember who was with the us and who was against us….
Your turn is coming Double Ass’s…
The your corpoRat nonsense will end…
Bittorent sites not only hurt record industries and hollywood. They hurt everyday people like myself who create video and music products for a living without help from corporations. i do not sell my work out to record or video industries an i finance and push my own videos myself.
Bittorent has allowed my creative works to be stolen and the bittorent site owners are very disrespectful when it comes to trying to remove my works from their websites. Most bittorent site owners do not even have contact information on their website. These greedy bittorent site bring in at least $5,000-$10,000 per advertiser.
Theives will be theives but they will not get away with it. what theives do unto people it will come right back on them.
Shareaza will lose everything as they have helped to destroy many honest businesses.
The pirate bay and all those other devil sites that encourage others to steal and make excuses will perish and be forgotten.
If you are reading this and have gotten this far, heed this warning.
Bittorent sites are evil and encourage you to trade your soul to the devil. You have been warned.
If you find many things going wrong in your life it is because stealing is bringing you bad luck.
it is not just corporations affected by bittorrent.
Families are ravished because those middlemen losing their jobs could be honest hardworking people.
The devil will always try to convince you he has gods knowledge. do not be fooled. this is not just about corporations as it affects everyone.
when someone close to you or yourself unexpedtedly loses their job you will take it seriously.
When you lose all that you have then you will not thimk it is so ok for these evil torrent theives.
[quote comment="381143"]it is not just corporations affected by bittorrent.
Families are ravished because those middlemen losing their jobs could be honest hardworking people.
The devil will always try to convince you he has gods knowledge. do not be fooled. this is not just about corporations as it affects everyone.
when someone close to you or yourself unexpedtedly loses their job you will take it seriously.
When you lose all that you have then you will not thimk it is so ok for these evil torrent theives.[/quote]
Its like saying Hitlers soldiers lost their jobs because Hitler lost the war..
I dont think anyone cares if the soldiers dont get paid.. Theres a million other income alternatives that are more moraly right to work with.
Helping corperations take over others peoples rights, fooling them into giving away everything they have should be criminal.
You cannot compare hitlers soldiers to copyright owners who work hard to create their works.
without creators amd copyright owners there would not be anything to download.
bittorent site owners arew like hitlers soldiers because they steal
and take way what is not theirs.
This is inspiration for all creators out there. We know that the devil is trying to steal our identities and our creations. Do whatever you can by any means necessary to keep your blessings. Never mind the ramblings of these selfish demons who want everthing for free because they are
“leeches!”
If you are proud of what you create
defend it at all costs, even death.
Never get discouraged. Pray for these evil torrent devils to be sent back to hell. Pray for the end of the pirate bay, and all torrent sites. We who believe in God must pray together and banish these demons.
Ungrateful people will always be ungrateful because they do not appreciate anything.
They complain that they are poor and cannot afford to buy ,but the truth is they are cursed because they have selfish spirits.
They will always be cursed so as long as they steal from others and try to justify it as sharing.
Bittorent is a deception to steal and it is going to lure a lot of souls to the devil if you do not heed this warning.
My my… quite a few shills from the record companies today, that too preaching :-0
You bastards should be the last ones to take gods name because you are heading down to meet the dude (ad drawn in comics) with a barbed tail, horns and lots of fire to roast your ass over.
Get an honest job, dont think of releasing one item and getting paid for it for the next 90 years.
Downloading is NEVER going to stop unless the net goes down… even if your prayers (to the devil) that torrent sites all disappear… there will simply be a host of other services to fill the void left by the torrent sites.
Your ass is grass, and WE (the people) are the lawnmowers.
http://www.ezee.se/ - LONG LIVE TPB!
I call a prayer to all creators that the devil will be banished from interfering with our businesses.
I am not a corporation.
I am a hard working creator financing my own talent.
Do your part creators. Open blogs fighting theft and piracy of your hard earned talent. Start webgroups to take down torrent sites that steal your creation.
Pray to God every night that he will manifest on earth and wipe out Satans devil torrents.
We must work together to destroy
this evil theft of our creation.
work together creators!!!
Do not fight alone!
The masses do not control your creation. You do! You do not have to give anything away for free like it is worthless. Creation is precious.
Pray and manifest God to wipe out all evil torrent sites my dear creators.
Pray with your heart and mind and connect yourself to the other creators affected by this evil bittorent abomination.
This is not about corporations.
Abolish these unworthy torrent sites
and conjure your blessings back to yourself.
Oooooh “satan’s devil torrents”. You nutcase.
Religion has nothing to do with the copying of files and creative works.
Every single one of your comments you have made here has made you look like a blinkered, preaching fool who is moaning because someone didn’t pay to see his work. Go die.
So basically you are saying “torrents are bad, m’kay”…
Seriously destinyfloodidiot, what have you been smoking?
On topic: I really hope they win this, Discordia shouldn’t get away with this. Power to the people!
“…we’re switching to the brand new QT 4.4 application development framework.”
WHAT?! Is that a *nix/Mac port of Shareaza coming sometime in the future? :) Cool!!!
Many are jealous because we actually have the talent to do new things.
Not everyone is made for a 9- to 5 job.
Especially not me.
You keep working your 9-5 while i keep creating and being blessed every day.
Your time is ending soon satan and all you leeching devils.
Spend your time downloading trying to be like us but you never will.
You have no purpose in life that is why you spend all day downloading. You are not blessed that is why you are poor.
You are selfish which is why you do not want creative people to be compensated.
You are a waste of flesh and a waste of space.
If Jesus were alive today he would be using BitTorrent.
Rofl, I download to be like you?
And I am not jealous of a brainwashed fool who does not even understand the concept of sharing and kindness.
justice stfu.
In the last 3 years I’ve watched more than 40 movies in cinemas at 5 euros per ticket each = 200 euros (not counting the times I paid for my gf)
I’ve spend over 250 euros going to concerts and REALLY supporting the artists that I like
And spent about 100 euros in games and 60 in official CD’s
There’s just to much I wanna watch, listen, play for my pocket. No one can afford it all at such high prices. Should I not enjoy the pleasures of life because a monetary problem? Don’t think so.
And I know many people if not most people are just like me when it comes to this.
I’m sorry. I forgot my medications today.
…& I like to play with poo-poo. Y’know, smear it all over myself - squish it around in my mouth - the usual sorta stuff.
GOD TOLD ME TO DO IT - so it must be ok…
so you like to steal?
That is the problem with you ungrateful people. You want what you cannot afford. You live above your means and steal whatever you do not want to pay for.
If you cannot afford it leave it alone or save to get it so you can have good luck and good energy in your life.If you think you are a pirate then you will suffer the fate of real pirates who have existed and met a hellish destiny.
This is not a fantasy or a game.
You are in a hell of a debt with bills and credit cards because you do not know control in your life and you do not have appreciation.
You are not blessed in life if you do not have appreciation in your life.
I do not even have a cell phone because i do not want an extra bill.
I just paid 139.00 for the full collection of wonderwoman on DVD and i love it and feel good about supporting the actors amd artists and salespeople in the stores.
I could buy 3 new cars if i wanted to but i will not.
I am creative and i am blessed.
I am blessed and happy and rich in life because i do not steal and appreciate whatever i have by purchasing it.
I have not had to go to a job in over 10 years.
I sleep during the day while ungrateful people are punished for their selfishness, working till they are tired to death on their jobs.
I am blessed because i truly share.
I buy. I enjoy. I live.
All this stealing over the internet
brings you poverty as the universe will take from you as you have taken from it.
complain that you are pooooor and you cannot afford to buy.
Don’t complain when you find your life is repeating a cycle of failure, debt, and depreciation because no one will ever appreciate you if you cannot learn to appreciate others.
You think you are entitled to everything but you do not entitle others to your own posessions.
“ will be using the libtorrent libraries as our base for torrent support in the 3.0 release. “
Should be nice. I like the libtorrent based clients. Try some of these if anyones looking to use clients other then the mainstream ones.
I have read good things about them. And it looks like it holds weight.
do not donate to shareaza.
They are demons meeting their karma.
Everything deceptive they are doing is coming back on them.
Leeches and vampires crying because they are getting drained
[quote comment="381284"]That is the problem with you ungrateful people. You want what you cannot afford. You live above your means and steal whatever you do not want to pay for.
[/quote]
That’s purely idiotic. Do you think if I don’t have the money to watch a certain movie or buy a CD the artist wouldn’t prefer for me to get their work by other means and watch it?
P2P is about the sharing of culture.
Alright then mate, im confused, do you believe in God? Or do you believe in luck and good energy and all that crap?
Because the way ive been taught, if you believe in luck, it implies that you think some things happen that God does not have control over. Are you actually able to change Gods plan for your life through some means of your own? And good energy and karma?
Damn man,Im not even gonna go into that…
Just to clarify my point, which you should also be doing i might add, all your talk about religion is contradicting itself, so therefore im gonna assume that your confused about your faith, OR your just pouring out some religious crap that you dont actually believe, but your hoping to guilt people that do actually believe into stopping sharing what they love with their mates…
Please, just STFU and leave.
sharing or stealing?
i bet you all are in cebt right now because you want everything and are willing to give your souls for it.
ungrateful theives.
[quote comment="381284"]That is the problem with you ungrateful people. You want what you cannot afford. You live above your means and steal whatever you do not want to pay for.
If you cannot afford it leave it alone or save to get it so you can have good luck and good energy in your life.If you think you are a pirate then you will suffer the fate of real pirates who have existed and met a hellish destiny.
This is not a fantasy or a game.[/quote]
This would make for a quite funny situation regarding the “Jesus split some fishes and some bread and gave it miraculous to thousands of people” stuff.
“NO! I won’t share this fish with you ungrateful people! If you cannot afford it leave it alone or save to get it so you can have good luck and good energy in your life!”
sheesh…
this not jesus situation
It is greedy torrent site owners making thousands in undue profit
plz disregard the last comments, I suck cocks.
[quote comment="381323"]this not jesus situation
It is greedy torrent site owners making thousands in undue profit[/quote]
prove it. give us some numbers
that the number 1 problem with ri++ mp++ they want live in the past and they fear the furture with filesharing . i have heard more underground bands i liked much better then the crap they signed i even bought there cds why to support the band. be honest don’t know why mp++ crys so much heck iron man made over Hundred Million dollars sound me like there not really hurting as bad as they claim there just using this stuff make more laws against us in goverment. i am glad they can’t kill torrent completly.
contact a torrent site like the pirate bay and ask them how much it costs to run some ads. at least $5000
ever wonder why torrent sites contain so many porno ads?
because advertisers pay torrent sites to display these ads.
Fools. It is not about the people.
You are just the foolish lures who upload the content while torrent site owners make tens of thousands in tax free profit.
You take on the bad karma while they
laugh at you giving your soul away.
They hold YOU responsible even though they provide the portal.0
at least $5000? is that US$? because last i checked, the pirate bay isnt hosted in the US, so therefore they dont really even care about US$.
and over what time frame is that $5000 coming in? is that a day? week? month? year? one off cost just to show the ad?
Long story short, i dont care if they get thousands of dollars profit, they are providing us with a service which i would be happy to pay for, which is more than i can say for the RIAA/MPAA.
Lol honestly i couldnt give a fuck about karma, damn hippie shit is what it is
I know you do not care about karma.
That is why you are a leech a vampire
and are badly in debt.
You are bit confused milly/flood/justice and all your other names.
The site owners make very little because of the costs of maintaining the servers and services… and we dont mind because they give us a way to share… if we couldnt upload to them, it would be harder to share, so we win.. if they are making a bit on the side.. very good, they deserve it for their troubles… plus the fact that we are screwing over the MAFIAA is just a bonus, but now that you have shown up… we can add another bonus for making a moron like you sweat a bit more for your money. But am willing to bet around 5 to 1 you are not really an artist but one of the shills from the content companies.
Sharing is caring and dont you ever forget that… because thats what motivates us, not all your money or greed that motivates you.
“That is the problem with you ungrateful people. You want what you cannot afford. You live above your means and steal whatever you do not want to pay for.”
Of course, we want the best and thats what has gotten humanity so far… we strive for the best, why should only the rich have the best? by getting music and movies for free.. we can spend that same money on making our life better, the content industries have more money than they can count..but want even more, for what???
If they care for their “artists” so much ask them to increase their pays and give them better contracts or setup an insurance fund, but by the last writers strike we saw just how greedy they are… didnt we?
http://www.ezee.se/
Hey! I just posted a long post… it didnt show up :(( no message that its in moderation either… TF, something wrong?
comments are being censored by TF
getting too hot in here!
the truth hurts!
see yourselves for what you are selfish leeches
[quote comment="381362"]comments are being censored by TF[/quote]
[quote comment="381365"]getting too hot in here!
the truth hurts![/quote]
[quote comment="381369"]see yourselves for what you are selfish leeches[/quote]
wow you know how to change your name on a completely anonymous comments section.
haha and as for the censorship, i think its more the amout of posts your posting from the same isp, torrentfreak is actually recognising you for the spam you are
The Shareaza team: We are today announcing that we have legal representation and will be contesting the trademark application on our name and identity taken out by Discordia Ltd. After that, we’ll be looking to get our old domain back from the people who threatened, bullied and intimidated the team member holding it on the project’s behalf and who are now using as the gateway to their deceptive business model.
It’s about time.
Between violating the GPL and applying for the Shareaza trademark under false pretenses, Discordia Ltd. never had a leg to stand on. Just the tiniest bit of legal action is enough to nail them clean to the wall, but until now, the Shareaza team was just sitting back and twiddling their thumbs going “ho-hum”.
It’s nice to see they’ve FINALLY decided to get up off their asses. Considering that victory has always been a forgone conclusion should they pursue a legal case, I can’t even begin to imagine why they dragged their feet for so long.
Better late then never, I realize. Still, though. Jesus.
[quote comment="381137"]i do not sell my work out to record or video industries an i finance and push my own videos myself.
Bittorent has allowed my creative works to be stolen [/quote]
Despite the fact that you’re a MAFIAA sockpuppet, and thus your sob story is a fabricated load of horseshit, I still feel compelled to say this; if you’re angry that people are sharing your creative work for free, instead of simply happy that it’s getting out there and being seen, then you don’t deserve a single fucking dime.
You deserve to die starving in an alley somewhere, and I feel pity for anyone that mistakes your work for carrying a shred of artistic value.
FYI, I hear that lying(“Tons of people are losing their jobs because of greedy bittorent sites”? LOL, indeed) is supposed to be a sin, so you really ought to drop your “torrents are the devil!” act. It makes you come off as a hypocrite.
You also come off as a hypocrite with your qausi-religious BS because you’re defending the MAFIAA, a world class cartel of thieving, criminal parasites who the real Mafia could take notes from.
Your inability to distinguish THEFT from FILESHARING(which is the process of duplication, ergo, not theft by any definition), on the other hand, simply makes you come off as having Down’s Syndome.
[quote comment="381337"]
ever wonder why torrent sites contain so many porno ads?
[/quote]
Because when you’re running a super-hightraffic torrent index, bandwidth isn’t free. Any more questions, there, shitstain?
I was messing around with torrents.
moved one over that was 70% done as a test. From one private site to the other. Where it had seeds.
I started it off with a libtorrent based client. Noted the speed. Then moved it over to the mainstream client as dictated by the private site. Fired it up and it ran at 100 k slower.
Same client settings,(no dht or the like) same seeds, same time frame only a few minutes.
The new Shareaza 3 if its windows friendly. And is libtorrent based torrent supported. Looks promising.
So fight those bastards. Win, and get your new client out to the public
Wow it’s troll city day. If only you’d used your influence for good, instead of er, badness!
Shareaza will be back, bigger and better. BTW dogsbodies, file sharing does not mean theft. You are the redneck thieves who don’t give a damn what is actually being shared. Sharing makes the world go round, not your selfishness and greed that ravages it. Your kind will soon learn the hard way what life’s all about when it all comes to an end and you lose everything, and haven’t enjoyed it for a moment. Enjoy your recession and depression too.
I would like to know what “artistic work” this sorry SOB makes. If he is so hurt that people are “stealing” his work then he obviously isn’t making much profit which means his “artistic work” is crap that no one is willing to pay money for. Its probabley just some sick snuff film.
Come on, you guys have seen trolls before haven’t you?
As far as Shareaza (come on, can’t somebody talk about them rather than ‘devil torrent sites’, which this article doesn’t even mention) I wish them the best of luck.
I loved Shareaza back in the day I hope they make a comeback!
As far as I know that the Shareaza was very slow in my old PC.Shareaza sucks.
I think Limewire is still standard in Gnutella Network.
Jobs come and go. The world changes and nothing is guarenteed. The music industry has had a lot more warning and time to change than most other industries that have calapsed throughout the history of business. These mega corporations that own the music, film and TV all in one have complete control. They hould be forced to split up. Artists might get paid more then when their music is used on films and TV ads. These companies think fuck them, we own their music so we’ll use it for near nothing. FUCK YOU RIAA.
what the fuck is with all the “devil” and “evil” language?
Man, I don’t a shit if it was the Devil himself that made the torrent: just as long as it’s a good one…
[quote comment="381025"]A bittorent site calling someone identity theives? Haa Haa Haaa!
You have no identity or content of your own! almost everything on bittorent sites is illegal stolen media. What goes around comes around! Tons of people are losing their jobs because of greedy bittorent sites! All bittorent sites will fall! Good for them and they will lose because karma is no joke![/quote]
kk this is not a site, it’s a bittorrentclient.
I suggest you lick your ass for some ideas before throwing them over here.
LOL why are people in first 25 comments using religion to bash bittorrent, haha. “Bittorrent sites encourage you to sell your soul to the devil” “pray these torrent sites get sent back to hell” hahahaha
Those admins came from their mums tums, not a fictitious burning inferno of damnation. OH SHI-! Did I just call your faith fictitious thus fake :O Pray to your superstitious God that he strikes those ‘evil’ sharing caring people down huh! Oh yeah there are ‘Christian Torrent Sites’ too that I’ve seen with copyrighted content on there too, oh snap!
The truth is that god is a weapon. How many people have been killed in the name of god. The religions are one of main cause of the genocides around the world for a long time. God is the real devil.
I wish Shareaza the best of luck.
[quote comment="381137"]Bittorent sites not only hurt record industries and hollywood. They hurt everyday people like myself[/quote]Wow, never seen bittorrent sites linked to both shareaza and religion (or your devel type invention of it).
I distribute a lot of professionally made video and audio myself, and use bittorrent to my advantage for that. It’s the best invention I’ve ever come across in my 42 years on this planet, because it saves energy and bandwidth cost, as well as enables me and my company to *become the media* myself, and have truly independent publishing capabilities. I would never have been able to do what I do, to have an audience as large as I have now, without bittorrent.
You might want to reconsider your statements, because they are not only false (and verifiably so, i.e. you are LYING), but you seem to have no understanding whatsoever about what the technology actually is, what part bittorrent sites play in it, and why all this has nothing to do with evil or religion.
In fact, I find it genuinely sad to see there are still human beings on this planet, actually using the internet, who are as retarded and underdeveloped as you seem to be.
Do some research first, learn how to use Google or other search engines (like torrentz.com, isohunt, mininova, thepiratebay etc.), because I’m pretty confident you will be amazed at what exactly is being offered by these search sites.
Honesty will last longer my friend, trust me on that.
P.S. I also use bittorrent to get my open source software.
#68
Well said bro!
@’justice’
If your work is good, put up a paypal ‘donate’ button, sell your AV work at a reasonable price, online, no DRM, and find a way to sell some related merchandise. Most of the people who like your stuff will take one of those options.
those who watch/listen to your stuff who don’t like it will then proceed to delete it, and not pay you anything.
Ironic that this all comes down to IP (Interlectual Property)at first glance.
However, most file sharing is based or should be on “fair use”.
So even file sharers believe in IP.
That’s why anonymous friend to friend file sharing is private and fair use.
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[quote comment="381440"]Wow it’s troll city day. If only you’d used your influence for good, instead of er, badness!
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I wonder how many of the trolls in this topic are in fact Discordia sock puppets?
Seems the last story on Shareaza here got them crawling out of the woodwork.
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@ Putin 08: No, we weren’t doing nothing. We did a lot actually. We kept everyone in the background so nobody could see with what kind of cards we played.
This press release was done to calm down the people who could have thought that we were doing nothing. A bit too late, as you proved ;)
Looks like the trolls are out from under their respective bridges in this comment section. Torrents are evil? Hah, try suing a single mother who works two jobs for $9,500 PER SONG. That’s pretty evil. Wait, that’s been done? Wow.
They have RMS, the EFF and the SFLC on their side. The SFLC used to be just a heavy legal guns wing of the FSF, but it’s grown a bit since.
iMesh is _so_ screwed now. I mean, g-zus, even if they were to win this is going to be extremely expensive for them and an “interesting example of a future case, thus we’ll do it on the cheap” thing for the good guys.
Has anyone found this Devil Torrent that I keep hearing about? I’d like to see what kind of content the Dark Lord is putting out.
Just as a reminder, the IRC channel is #shareaza at irc.p2pchat.net ( irc://irc.p2pchat.net/shareaza should do with Firefox and ChatZilla)
“torrent idiots”
you must be working for the riaa/mpaa/ifpi mafia. classic blackmail/shake-down tactics.
i’d bet they’re pulling a capone-style tax evasion with all the settlements they get.
suing for lost income my ass. irs should do a cavity search on theirs.
I use shareaza and I think it’s an excellent if dated effort at integrating the various p2p protocols.
Can’t wait for the new update.
As for all the record companies moaning about filesharing, your businessmodels are way outdated due to the advancement of new technology and changing public attitude towards media distibution. Get with the program!
If Apple can set up a succesful dl service why can’t you?
regards,
Guybrush Threepwood
Can someone get these Anon idiots’ IP Addresses?? Their lack of brains is…disturbing, to say the least.
And when I say Anon I mean torrent idiots, justice, destiny, other dumb shit.
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