Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL

RageEar writes "Today it was announced that the latest version of Shareaza, a popular P2P application for Windows, was released under the GPL. Currently the source code is hosted by the Shareaza servers, but the announcement makes mention of the code becoming a project on Sourceforge. The binaries are still available for Windows only, but I imagine it is only a matter of time before a Linux port emerges."

Comments

a message from the riaa

[Anonymous Coward]

when you use file sharing apps the terrorists win

Re:a message from the riaa

[the_riaa]

Stop speaking for us, idiot. [That's our job.] -the riaa

Re:a message from the riaa

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

when you use file sharing apps the terrorists win

No, the terrorists win if they can plant the bomb and the counter-terrorist can't disarm it in time, or if they can kill all the counter-terrorists.

Wow

[Nascar_Geek]

And Worst Program Name of the Year goes to: These guys - for "Shareaza"

Re:Wow

[tunabomber]

Yeah, but what popular filesharing app DOESN'T have a vomit-inducing moniker?

KaZaA - Might have been good, but then they alternated that case of the letters to make them look all quirky and fun.

Morpheus/Grokster - Embarrassing misuse of hacker lingo.

All the other *ster's - just ripoffs of Napster, which wasn't the greatest name to start with anyways.

WinMX - Oooh! That name is so creative! No other piece of software ever used the Win prefix in its name to denote that it runs on Windows!

eDonkey and its variants - now thats a dumb-"ass" name

Gnutella - named after a hazelnut spread with the approximate taste and consistency of crankcase sludge- with a "GNU" thrown in to keep RMS happy.

KCeasy - Is this a play on the name "Ken Kesey"? Even if it isn't, I believe these people were on acid when they decided they would add their software to the long list of open source apps with cryptic, semi-acronymical names. Yes, I'm talking in your direction, giFT.

Re:Wow

[JabberWokky]

All the other *ster's - just ripoffs of Napster, which wasn't the greatest name to start with anyways.

Yeah, but it was named that because Seth Green was taking a nap when Shawn Fanning stole the source from him (which all fit on a single floppy!).

--
Evan

Linux port

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool, so finally I can get all the eyecandy and visual effects of Linux mixed with stability and performance of WinXP.

That's funny

[writertype]

Because every time my friend uses Shareaza, he tells me that there's quite a bit of other content GPLed there too: music, games, movies...

Re:Better?

[xsupergr0verx]

Very true, it's use of Gnutella is pretty lame. However, this is easily my favorite ed2k program and I adore the bittorrent throttling settings (I had a linksys card that overheated using BT once!)

Re:Remote access

[garcia]

Checking your downloads and searches while out of town for a few days or at school. Very useful indeed.

Mostly for claiming that it was someone else that used your computer to do all that illegal downloading, not you. Right?

Anonymous moderation

[Anonymous Coward]

-1, Spineless

ed2k link

[fasura]

ed2k://|file|Shareaza_2.0.0.0.exe|2617678|7e7dca19 e42f10d609e0aeddc7735d69|/

Re:It's NOT ANONYMOUS Filesharing ! Try these !

[42forty-two42]

Stop the Mpaa ! We have a right to checkout software before we buy.

A) You don't, and B) the MPAA make movies, not software. You're thinking of the BSA.

I only have one question

[WildBeast]

Does it have pr0n? :)