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Shareaza is a free cross-network P2P file sharing client,
widely used to download music from the net. Shareaza enables
you to download from the EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent,
and Gnutella2 networks. You should check local Copyright
laws before use.
Shareaza is a Windows–based peer-to-peer client which supports
the Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, and BitTorrent
network protocols and which can handle magnet links, ed2k
links, Piolet links, and the now deprecated Gnutella links.
Shareaza was originally developed as closed-source freeware
by Michael Stokes, and is now open-source under the GPL.In
late 2002, Stokes introduced Gnutella2, a reworked version
of Gnutella with many fundamental updates to the protocol,
and added support for it to Shareaza. Users of Shareaza
(along with Azureus and LimeWire) have frequently been targeted
in internet scams such as Etomi that demand a "membership
fee" for use of the software. (for the complete article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareaza)
As a client, Shareaza is a clean and comfortable P2P client
that takes little in the way of system resources. As a network,
Gntuella2 is certainly not as impressive as mega-networks
like eDonkey2000, BitTorrent, Ares Galaxy or DirectConnect.
But it is not designed to compete with such monstrous communities,
at least not yet. Shareaza appears to be a work in progress
and does have the advantage of being a full client without
any spyware/adware other restrictions. While Shareaza does
receive a mixed review, we conclude that we look forward
to the future of Shareaza and Gnutella2.(for the complete
review: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=573)
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