Because the developers currently working on Shareaza are NOT working on Panthera? Does that answer your question?

That said, years later isn’t it finally time to turn the page? He released the source code and left the project (unfortunately). Shareaza is now maintained by volunteers, and personally I’m pretty grateful to all these LimeWire ultrapeers I’m connected to, so I certainly don’t want LimeWire to go out of business :) If we don’t turn the page, it means /they/ win…

Maybe zab (LimeWire Developer) needs a new job as he will surely be unemloyed when LW goes down the drain after the court case.

iMesh are owned by a highly-secretive Israeli company. However they do have a NY, NY forwarding address that any good whois junkie could find if they wanted (I shall refrain from posting it in case TF censor me again, like with oinky’s holiday snaps, in which he looked FAT).

Fun times.

‘Panthera’ is an entirely new software inspired by the Shareaza wishlist, and is only one of several new projects being created by the Shareaza Community, not necessarily the Devs.

Suffice to say while contingencies are in place and nothing is going down without a fight, there is a wealth of proliferation happening quietly- Panthera is just the first to announce itself.

So I’m confused.

If Project Panthera is the REPLACEMENT for open-source Shareaza, why are you still developing for the 2.3.x line?

If if you’re continuing development of the 2.3.x line, why haven’t you switched project names yet?

You’ve lost the name Shareaza. It’s over. Time to move on. This happens all the time (Ethereal to Wireshark) and it just seems petulant to stick with the name “Shareaza”, when you KNOW it’s causing confusion.

The Limewire people immediately changed their project name to Frostwire, and that didn’t seem to create lots of problems.

BWAHAHAHA. How long until you exploit little children from third world countries to do you work?

In the beginning I used Napster. After that came Kazaa, followed closely by Shareaza and finally Bittorrent, the only P2P protocol I use at the moment. Shareaza was a good program during it’s reign. I never had any issues with it, at least until something better came along. Hopefully Panthera will become a worthy successor.

I’d have thought this would have been top of the priority list, not having a revamped media player… ho hum!

JF
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Well, here’s the exact URL: http://www.shareazasecurity.be/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1070
I particularly like the following part, and it’s not about Nilson this time: “Of note, one volunteer effectively withdrew from the project last year after a ranking iMesh contact offered him large sums of money to disrupt Shareaza”. The guy refused the money, as explained in a reply.

The moral of this story is not to entrust valuable domains to 3rd parties.

“Panthera” appears to have been filed for as a U.S. trademark pertaining to “Computer software for communications and downloads between peer to peer networks” by “Phoenix Holdings International LLC LTD LIAB CO ST.CHRIST-NEVIS The Edith L Solomon Bldg., Main Street P.O. BOX 636 Charlestown ST.CHRIST-NEVIS” on May 22, 2008 – anybody know who this is?

As for Shareaza being bloated, come on dudes, right now it’s running on 128 Mbytes on an old Pentium III with 0.5 Ghz along with Ooo and Firefox at the same time under Winblows Millennium. In all cases, even if you don’t like the app, this is a threat for all free, open source file sharing applications, not only Shareaza.

So I actually went and d/l the client.. Love the fact that it is ‘portable’ and hope it stays that way, first off..

It really doesn’t seem bloated at all, compared to the laggy operation of Shareaza. Pretty quick response in this sucker. Too bad it is still soooo Alpha.. Crashes a lot, unusably so. Hopefully the Aug. 25th release will make it more feasible.

On an unrelated note, would someone please track down the WordPress authors and beat them with a club until they finally fix this damn “You’re posting comments too quickly” bug???

How stupid are these guys?

Bittorrent capability as well as Edonkey capability has lagged several years behind current standards, such as decentralization and encryption.

Lack of current standards support meant that Shareaza users were completely locked out of eMule’s KAD network as well as most private torrent sites, even though Shareaza marketed itself as Bittorrent and ED2K compliant.

As a multi-network client, Shareaza had become such a poor performer on ANY network (except for its own G2 network) that no intelligent P2P enthusiast would even consider using Shareaza.

Neither Shareaza nor Panthera are bloated. They provide access to every network out there that has a reputation and they do it without fuss….

That said, I’ll probably still use the thing for the little files that sometimes aren’t easy to snag as torrents (and of course utorrent for torrents unless my bloat speculation is disproven).

That was my first thought too. Amazing that such an obvious question was overlooked. :(

It’s a great peice but it dwindled some time ago, lacking the basic needs of torrenters with only the other P2P networks being filled with spam.

It’s a graphic masterpeice for an open source app tho, great detail + simplicity.

You are by fact, no better then the people you call ‘thieves’. By your actions, you have said very clearly that Pirating is 100% OK by your company’s standards.

Welcome to the Pirate Ocean Discordia.

I look forward to this new project, I have been looking for a good multi-network client when I want to grab some files that I don’t feel like using bittorrent for, keep up the good work guys!

Looking forward to Panthera!
Gogo shareaza team, love the new rebranding!

So the 43 million downloads means nothing? It clearly has a following and the thing about it is that it has always been rather n00b friendly and so those new to p2p where able to get into it easily

i used to use shareaza a few years ago and it was a fairly decent client. and i’m sure it’s gotten way better since then, thank you very much.

and this pretty much shows a PRIME example of how american companies are in bed with eachother.