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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."
No spyware, uses Gnutella2, Bittorrent, and eDonkey2k network. Pretty killer little toy.
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Not too sure if this is what you were asking, but I think spyware is a non-issue with Sharezaa. This is from the PR:
"it made some important technical improvements, broke some new ground with an original P2P network, "upped the ante" with many of its competitors and probably contributed to the growing trend away from "heavy spyware bundling".
Not to be cruel, but what makes Shareaza so cool that someone would go to the trouble to port it when we already have gtk-gnutella (http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/) that supports Shareaza?
I know what everyone's thinking right now.
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d00dz! Build it for [Linux|*BSD|OSX]!
Either lots of recoding needs to be done, or if you're REALLY lucky, it'll build using Winelib.
I'd be interested to know if the latter works.
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Shareaza is definitely no better than Gnutella (LimeWire performs much better). Shareaza has a nice interface but downloads are iffy and the client is very buggy. Seems like the move to GPL is a desperate attempt to catch up to LimeWire (which has been open source for a while and making amazing strides).
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Now, hopefully, someone can fix the whacked out BitTorrent implementation.
It works okay, but the way it uses the temporary files is just wonky. It downloads everything into a temporary file and then splits or copies the file when it's completed downloading. While this is fine in theory, in practice the problem is that the act of the splitting/copying is heavy on drive use, slows the whole system down, and generally is a PITA to deal with. Furthermore this makes it difficult to use other BT clients with the files, if you happen to want to use a different client in the middle of a download. You have to manually split the temp file apart using a separate tool or manually create a temporary file for Shareaza to use for the torrent.
Why it can't use the standard create the files as you go method I don't know. I think it's because he just worked the protocol into raza using the existing codebase like the temporary files.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Before you consider trying Shareaza, have a peek at MLDonkey. A nice multi-interface multi-protocol project done in Python that supports all that Shareaza supports and more.
Shareaza doesn't do anything illegal. Doesn't contain any copyrighted code. There's no basis for a DMCA notice. It's just a P2P application, like many others that are also on sourceforge.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Last time I checked in it was built on .NET. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, but if it is, some serious revisions must be made before it's truly cross platform.
Try the following combination
Linux
SSH
screen
btdownloadcurses
Been doing it for ages........
You don't get busted for downloads, you get busted for uploads. The program has an option to turn off all uploads (even of partial files.)
Very useful for me, as in the last year I recieved two "friendly letters" from the BSA and MPAA respectively.
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Shareaza is heavily dependent on MFC libraries and so it will probably be a while before any ports pop up. For those wondering why anybody would want a port of Shareaza, well it has support for four file sharing protocols (Gnutella, Gnutella 2, ED2K, and Bit Torrent) and can simultaneously download parts of a file from each network as long as it has the needed hashes. So instead of running several clients to download all the files you want from different p2p networks, you can just use one program to do it all.
LimeWire is (and has been for the past 4 years) open source -- GPL'd and all.
It's far easier if they actually participate in the network and then watch who downloads from them.
:) ?
Wouldn't that make my downloads legal, since I'm downloading with the copyright owner's permission
What I think many people miss is that you don't get in trouble for downloading, but for uploading. They participate in the network and watch who's making stuff available that they own copyrights to
Just trying to clear up this (very common) misconception...
Shareaza wants to be the Gaim or Trillian of P2P, however they only support open-spec networks like edonkey, gnutella, and bit-torrent. From the FAQ on their Wiki
However if it can keep all of my bit torrent downloads in 1 easy to manage window with universal bandwidth management it may be worth it for just that.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
While I haven't looked at the source yet, the snippet of the project file you posted IS NOT an indication that it is written in .NET. This appears to be a plain old Visual C++ file. Visual C++ != C# or any other .NET language.
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LimeWire is a great Gnutella program but that's all it is (Shareaza supports four protocols) and it still lacks lots of features that Shareaza has like ghost ratings (tells people about bad files that you've deleted) and the ability to ignore ID3 tags while hashing (even if people change their ID3 tags, it will still have the same hash).
Also, Shareaza's Gnutella performence isn't too great because:
1) Its Gnutella code hasn't been updated much because Mike (Shareaza's creator) seems to want everyone to use 'Gnutella 2' instead and he's been busy adding lots of features into Shareaza.
2) Shareaza is only a Gnutella Leaf node and depends on other clients to be the Ultrapeers but most Gnutella clients started to give preference to their own kind (ie. LimeWire mostly only connects to other LimeWire clients) even though it goes against their own ideology.
If you are running Windows XP you can open TCP port 3389, or forward it to your machine from your router, and connect to it remotely using remote desktop (Terminal Services). The client can be found here . If you are using another OS or would rather use something more free try VNC. Personally I like Tight-VNC as it offers the ability to add jpeg compression.
I often use either of these to check my Bit Torrent downloads from work. Once you start using it you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Sometimes I find myself VNC'ing into a computer in the other room on my network at home just because sometimes I'm *that* lazy.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
No, it's not built on .NET, it's regular C++. It was programmed using Visual Studio .NET and uses MFC for the GUI.
SWT is definitely an option, the problem is that LimeWire would sacrifice the "run anywhere" beauty. There's LimeWire users on Windows, Linux, OSX, Mac Classic, OS/2, SunOS, etc.... Until SWT is ported to every platform, LimeWire's going to continue using Swing.
Another option is an abstraction layer between Swing & SWT -- there's some projects (SwingWT, to name one) that are doing that, but it's incomplete and LimeWire won't compile right now with it.
Swing is pushed to its limits (and sometimes beyond) right now with LimeWire, painting progress bars & icons on tabs, user-configurable change-at-runtime themes, tooltips & rowstripes for tables & lists, real-time statistics graphs, etc... a port to SWT (or an abstraction layer of SWT) would be a massive project.
freenet?
If we (SourceForge.net) receive a DMCA request, which doesn't happen often, we begin a process outlined in our Terms of Service. We don't remove the project forever, only for a length of 10 days after the project admin has submitted a DMCA counter-claim.
With the project 'PlayFair', the project admin never submitted a counter-claim...and hence the project was never restored.
BTW: We host many p2p projects on SF.NET today.
Pat-
Pat@sf.net
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> It's .NET source.
No, it is not.
> VisualStudioProject
> ProjectType="Visual C++"
> Version="7.10"
That's the version of the environment.
Shareaza takes account of this to some degree. It calculates all the various hashes and shares these with other clients on the Gnutella2 network. So if you search for some file and find a client on Gnutella2 with that file, you'll get all the various hashes for that file when you tell it to download it. Then it can search for and download that file across all the networks.
It also works with BitTorrent, to some degree. A lot of recent torrent making utilities have added support for Shareaza's method of inserting these hashes into the torrent itself (it's backwards compatible too), and using raza to download these torrents will let it search for and download from the other networks as well.
It can also do trackerless torrents, although that doesn't get a lot of use as yet. Download a torrent using raza and it'll send a search out on the G2 network for anybody else who happens to be downloading the same torrent, and they'll become BT sources for each other, no tracker needed.
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I don't Shareaza for download BitTorrent files. I just got used to the regular BitTorrent program. Also, I had to reinstall BitTorrent because Shareaza hijacked the settings and took over for it.
You will be severely penalized in Bittorrent swarms and moderately penalized in Emule/Edonkey in terms of a much slower download speed and/or longer queue waits (in ed2k)for not uploading.
Also, official versions of Shareaza do not allow zero uploads on the ED2K network because it's not allowed, and shareaza clients would be banned by other clients and probably by the servers as well.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
I've been using shareaza for two years and have never had spyware installed by it. You must be confusing it with something else.
I don't think you're right. The statement from him when he released it doesn't suggest this. In fact, he said:
Of course I still have some strong views on which direction Shareaza should be going, and what kind of features I want to add - but now that can be part of a bigger picture, rather than the only picture. [emphasis mine]