Dear sir,

if you do not like spyware, use kazaalite k++ version:

Kazaalite k++ home!

Wow...

you must have a lot of time.

I would use ad-aware:

http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml

Now we are learning for what are support forums good.

Morgwen

I think I want to change my answer. At first when I just started gnutella I really noticed a lack of swarming capabilities (and thus slower downloads) because of the lack of hosts. But since that point I have completely changed my mind as the quality and number of shared files on kazaa seems to have gone downhill. I think the RIAA might have actually managed to put the fear of God into the Kazaa people.

Anyway, now I'm inclined to say that the only reason Kazaa is so popular now is because its a bigger name between lusers, someone asks for a good filesharing program and everyone knows kazaa so they tell them that.

I think we forget another very simple reason: KaZaA is easier to use.

Searching for an artist and limiting to 196kbit/s can be implemented as an UI-feature. Phex has filter-options for that ( http://phex.kouk.de , or look in these forums), Acquisition allows you to set a minimum bitrate, but no maximum.

I think, a better UI would give LimeWire far more Users. Look at Acquisition on the Mac, it nearly has the monopoly in p2p here (aside from acqlite and some phex users).

Network performance isn't everything (though it is important).

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heh, actually, thats something I never even thought about. I use linux or BSD so I never even thought about how the UE on a windows box might be unsatisfactory for most clients since I'm inclined to prefer a harder to use but more customizeable client.

for os9 i haven found eny thing that is near as good as lime wire do y know enything whchis as good

Try out, if phex works: http://phex.kouk.de

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I really wish GTK-Gnutella would be ported to windows. It's my favourite Linux/UNIX client, and GTK has been ported to Windows for some time, so I think that that would pretty much rock.

After all, not all nerds out there are using Linux, and I'm sure many Windows-using nerds would really appreciate a client like GTK-Gnutella.

My opinion is the old press coverage of Kazaa, increased by its legal problems, caused by the fact that a single company controls officially the FastTrack protocol, whose development is not targetting users for users, but Kazaa's own business plan.

Due to that, they create a network that they want to control completely to avoid access by foreign servents, and they have a big influence on that network which is very attractive for the RIAA/MPAA/BSA alliances.

Well Gnutella is very popular now too, but it can be used very often for something else than what a servent developer would like. Gnutella is not controled, and this gives an advantage now to Gnutella, which continues its slow progression, with several good servents developed with public objectives, and now available without any spyware, adwarea or bundles like Kazaa, and supported correctly (I would not download one of those Kazaa-like copies: not sure about their content, and it is well know that it really creates a storm of settings in the network configuration, in installers, etc...).

Try to uninstall safely Kazaa, you'll regret it. The only safe option is to use the Windows XP system snapshot to come back to before its installation: the Kazaa installer writes things everywhere on the system, and will slow down its performance even when you don't use it.

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Where is the "People love to get lots of virus and malware loaded files" option?

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