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Old July 31st, 2007
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I realize this might be heresy, but I'm finding that there's so much junk out there on gnutella (at least for video) that it's almost impossible to sort out the good from the bad. Lately, I've gone after specific titles, used heavy filtering, etc, and still come up with nothing (at least nothing that will actually download).

On the other hand, every file I was trying to find I was able to get via torrents, and usually with blazing speed. This does not bode well for either Bearshare or Gnutella, especially when it comes to sharing video.
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BearShare is your best choice for cutting through the junk.
See How to spot and avoid fake search results for some tips.

Also, it is often better to go to Bitzi first and search there for files which get good
reviews. Armed with the exact file size you can customize a search in it's advanced
properties to exclude all other sizes.
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OR use Shareaza and preview the files with one click. Now that its working good, Shareaza is by far the best program. Doesn't matter what you're looking for. Same goes for Emule - about 1% of files are wrongly named. Only thw wmv files are generally fakes.
Another thing i've come to realise, Bearshare's search results are about a tenth of the size of Shareaza's. Search for Wakabayashi in Shareaza and it comes up 10 results or so and in Bearshare none. So for porn at least there is no comparison.

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OR use Shareaza and preview the files with one click. Now that its working good, Shareaza is by far the best program. Doesn't matter what you're looking for. Same goes for Emule - about 1% of files are wrongly named. Only thw wmv files are generally fakes.
Another thing i've come to realise, Bearshare's search results are about a tenth of the size of Shareaza's. Search for Wakabayashi in Shareaza and it comes up 10 results or so and in Bearshare none. So for porn at least there is no comparison.
Utter krap.
An insult to any of us who have been around to know the real street truth...
And, an absurd insult to someone of the knowledge, ability and integrity of AW

You got an icon of Mythical Mike above your trundle bed ?
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Old August 24th, 2007
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Imaginative reply but what choice to you have when faced with such overwhelming evidence? Tomorrow I expect I'll see Wakabayashi on Bearshare just to keep the deception going. That's a joke.
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Old August 24th, 2007
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Default Um, yeah, sure...

Sorry if I gave the impression I am new at this sort of thing. That is not the case. I've tried most versions of P2P that are out there, including Kazaa. To my knowledge, neither Kazaa Lite nor Kazaa Resurrection allow full unfettered access to Gnutella. I installed Lite some time ago, and uninstalled it a few days later. It took some very heavy duty AV software (of the Dept of Defense variety) to fully clean my system of the Kazaa vestiges.

I am also a registered Limewire Pro user, and have been for years. Bearshare is hands down better, and when it comes to locating music, it is almost always successful. For large video files, I've switched to bit torrent (uTorrent, specifically). The files are much larger (some in the range of several gig), and using torrent search engines, you can find most anything in a matter of minutes.

So, as far as Kazaa is concerned, thanks, but no thanks. Out of curiosity, do you work for Sharman?
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OR use Shareaza and preview the files with one click. Now that its working good, Shareaza is by far the best program. Doesn't matter what you're looking for. Same goes for Emule - about 1% of files are wrongly named. Only thw wmv files are generally fakes.
Another thing i've come to realise, Bearshare's search results are about a tenth of the size of Shareaza's. Search for Wakabayashi in Shareaza and it comes up 10 results or so and in Bearshare none. So for porn at least there is no comparison.


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Oddly enough, I just searched for Wakabayashi and got 157 results with 560 sources.
Must be sunspots. ;]

Kazaa is truly dead. It never was a gnutella servent (fasttrack is their proprietary network) and it
had virtually no defences against file corruption, which is why all the users started abandoning it
a few years ago.
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That's kinda what I'd heard, too (in addition to all the company's legal woes). Emule is also a joke. I'd heard that at one point, Fasttrack was part of Gnutella (or could at least access it), but thanks to one of the court rulings, the company had to block it.

Just ran a search on Wakabayashi as well (whatever that is)... 247 results, and 1535 sources. BS is currently running with both peers and leaves maxed, and a dozen uploads in progress. Guess Mr. Zcjtt95 does not know how to use BS.

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Unfortunately he's stuck in the ghetto of NTL, a third-world network masquerading as broadband in the UK.

The connection between FT and gnutella was Morpheus, and it was decidedly tenuous as
Morpheus was kicked out of FT, moved to gnutella, and was then sued out of existence.
IMO it was a good thing, as their software development was definitely below par at all times,
limited to piggybacking on other people's work and introducing new bugs every year.
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