I believe this is the replacement for what was Napster back in the day.. Anyone use this or anything similar before? Are this types of P2P programs even worth it anymore?

I tried a few Kazaa clients a few years ago, and got nothing but spyware with them... quality of downloads was highly suspect.

The Napster age was like lightning in a bottle... I miss those days...

Get Soulseek.

Stay away from anything Kazaa.

limewire...i echo recoil in saying avoid kazaa

WinMX has been resurrected, and I've had good luck with them. Kazaa Lite was good while it was around, but I had so many problems with corrupted downloads I stopped using them.

I still use Kazaa Lite and its fine.

Insert file sharing flamewar in 5...4...3...2...1....

Insert file sharing flamewar in 5...4...3...2...1....

funny that I see this as I was about to post:

iTunes

Kazaa was decent but went downhill fast, very well known for spyware and all that...Kazaa Lite was a little better but they quickly went under fire and I don't hear of too many people using it. I rarely use these type of P2P programs anymore, but when I do, I use Ares.

I tried a few Kazaa clients a few years ago, and got nothing but spyware with them... quality of downloads was highly suspect.

The Napster age was like lightning in a bottle... I miss those days...

I had a similar experience. Kazaa seemed to work pretty good back in the day, say, 2003 or so. Shortly there after it went downhill and was all corrupted files and spyware. I have not touched it or installed it onto a PC since.

Kazaa in its day was a great way to download free movies where everyone wasn't wearing clothes, ya know, those kind of movies?

I still use it to get music, but I haven't used it in awhile. I recently downloaded Shareaza, which seems to be ok, I just have to get used to it.

Two points:

1. Defend it however you want, "file sharing" is stealing and it's wrong.

2. When I file share, I use LimeWire. Highly recommended!

Edit I stopped using Kazaa a lon time ago, I currently use Warez P2P. I only use p2p to find the odd song I need that I cant find elsewhere. MIRC is the best place for full albums and movies though.

fwiw, I went from Napster to Kazaa Lite to Soulseek to DC++

Two points:

1. Defend it however you want, "file sharing" is stealing and it's wrong.

2. When I file share, I use LimeWire. Highly recommended!

File-sharing is not stealing. However, some file-sharing is analagous to it (specifically, sharing copyrighted files that one party does not have permission to use and/or obtain).

Kazaa? Funny, because I finally got around to watching Purple Rain last night.

File-sharing is not stealing. However, some file-sharing is analagous to it (specifically, sharing copyrighted files that one party does not have permission to use and/or obtain).
Yes, yes, I know. But you just described 99% of the traffic on the big p2p networks.

I thought those days were long gone. It is all about BitTorrent technology these days. Why don't you use something like uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/) or ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/)?

limewire...i echo recoil in saying avoid kazaa

Yep, I echo Blades sentiments. I use Limewire and have no problem. Kazaa sucks.

Shareaza here.

Two points:

1. Defend it however you want, "file sharing" is stealing and it's wrong.



Unless you were actually using it to share large documents for school, which made the whole spyware thing annoying.

Unless you were actually using it to share large documents for school, which made the whole spyware thing annoying.

A) That's such a SMALL minority of what these p2p networks are for.

B) That's not what this thread is about using p2p for.