The version of Shareaza, called ShareazaV4, currently maintained by Discordia Ltd on Shareaza.com is totally FAKE. It can install spyware and gives you a non-real Shareaza.

You should only update at http://shareaza.sourceforge.net

The latest Shareaza versions (2.3.1.0 and above) has security fixes for this problem. Please update immediately!

Read more at:
Secunia - Shareaza Updates Notifications Security Issue
Heise-Security - Hostile takeover of Shareaza
TorrentFreak - Shareaza.com Hijacked and Turned Into a Scam Site
TorrentFreak - Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry
Nerd - Urgent Warning for Shareaza Users
Slashdot - French RIAA hijacks p2p application's website
P2PNet - Shareaza shanghaied

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WoW thanks...I almost got fooled

I have Shareaza 6.0 . it is by Discordia. Is it the fake one.

Thanks

The answer to your question is yes it's a fake one. As Neglacio states in his first sentence, Discordia is the fake one. Present version should be 2.4, not above 3.

Hey , just downloaded the real Shareaza and I must say that I like the fake one soooo much better. I love the player in the fake one. i might just reinstall it as I am having trouble getting downloads in the real Shareaza. Never did in the fake one It was more like iTunes. My most favorite player of all

Well , my real Shareaza was very short lived. Could not get it to downlload. gave only one result and then would not download the song. tried other song downloads and gave only a few results , then would never download. hey , I don't have time for such nonsense. I want something that works. So , i am right back with the "Fake" Shareaza version 6.

um ... so why did you post here? Did you do a clean install & remove the old preferences folder or let Shareaza use the Discordia Shareaza preferences. That in itself would most likely have not been good for the 'genuine' article.

You sound like a very patient person. I guess you don't share files either right? Just grab songs & run. Welcome to the Gnutella 'sharing' community btw.

And as for iTunes, well everyone has their favorites. I use iTunes, have since iTunes version 2, but these days the program been a little rubbishy. Forcing changes on users. eg: who wants files named 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 03 title.mp3
There used to be an option to stop this in preferences, but iTunes removed the option for the user to change it. Now there's only one way to prevent it.

I guess this d00d likes spyware....

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You sound like a very patient person. I guess you don't share files either right? Just grab songs & run. Welcome to the Gnutella 'sharing' community btw. Quote.


Yes I am patient because if I wasn't , I would tell you what kind of character you have. And lets just say . It would not be a good thing.






Nope. Did a clean install. Just did not work. Neither did Frostwire. i have tried Frostwire , poorf. Ares Poor Shareaza poor. Fake Shareaza fair but best one out of the three. i am beginning to thinkl these P2P software is not worth the bother. iTunes isd only 99 cents. Not bad for great quaility. i will probably just stay with iTunes. Never found a better one yet.

Well that's another funny preference. iTunes isn't great quality, it's decent quality. Also they really like their DRM and other restrictions. There are very few great "legal" download sites and by far the most of them are electronic music only. Sites like BeatPort, which sell 320Kbps mp3 and even in some cases proper FLAC for little more than your precious iTunes sells DRM cripled 192Kbps m4p files.

I prefer the real thing i.e. either the physical CD or a 1:1 copy of said CD.

Great quality? Pfft! Great quality is FLAC which is identical to CD quality, not in a commercial format that throws away information to help reduce it in size to 1/6 or 1/7 of original uncompressed size.

A VM member of these forums gave me a variation of the authentic Shareaza she adapted slightly. It connected easily, found files easily, downloaded easily.

Not all pc's are the same, even if you own several pc's, one p2p program can behave totally differently on one of them compared to the others even when the pc's are identical hardware & software. That's a fact of life. So choose what suits your system best. If you're happy with a spyware full program that reports all your shared files, other details about your system reported back to Discordia, then that's your happy choice. (I'm sure if the code was investigated many references to reporting back to Discordia would be found. I've seen this before.)

Glad it works for you. But as both a moderator & admin here when someone who uses a SCAM version of a program posts here, appearing innocent initially then gives the 'go' pro thoughts about the scam version, then yes I was suspicious, thus my comments. As far as a moderator's suspicion can go, you may well work for Discordia, perhaps even a marketer for them. It appears you did not come to these forums for help, but to boost Discordia's reputation, pretending Discordia's (spyware) version is superior.

We do not support scam versions of any program here at Gnutella forums. That's always been the policy here. Whilst we might give advice to help solve problems, we'd also suggest getting the real thing.

iTunes have changed. It now has DRM free music.

iTunes may have some DRM free music, but unfortunately still in crap quality. 224Kbps m4a unless I'm very much mistaken. That doesn't even come close to great quality.

Try comparing one of those releases to the same one on a physical CD in a proper audio setup, and I'm sure you'll find a difference.

I remember when they posted blind tests of DRM music vs. "higher" quality DRM free music and I could hear the difference. Unfortunately I could also very easily hear the difference between their DRM free music and an actual 100% copy of the songs.

Yes that is true. Apple decided against DRM, hoping other online music companies would follow suit. But online iTunes music quality is still much lower than can be obtained from CD.

Have you listened to very loud music through a single wall? The wall filters out several of the frequencies & quality. Music sold online is roughly basically the same. m4a/mp3, etc. drops all frequencies above 15KHz & below 10 hz. Changes the actual structure of the music by adjoining similar frequencies, dropping some frequencies & boosting others, changing the music shape; this can be seen when comparing original with mp3/m4a audio bandwidth frequencies on a spectrograph.

No way is it crappy quality. Some of the junk I downloaded on those crappy P2P software downloads , i would not even have. Some was not even by the real artists. Quality was terrible. iTunes sounds like a symphony compared to that crap.