Shareaza

If you've just returned and are wondering what happened, this will partly explain it. Others may choose to add in more of the details. The bottom line is the best P2P client is still running properly despite ongoing attacks. The bad guys always want to shut down good stuff if THEY aren't making millions off of it. We can take care of them and we can take care of ourselves.
Sharing files via P2P and BitTorrent is perfectly legal and this is about Freedom, the most important human right to fight for and what many in the past have felt it worthy to die for. The people who work behind the scenes on Shareaza and answer most of the questions in the forums believe in Freedom. The losers of the world may try to destroy our Freedom for their own personal or political agendas, but as you can see Shareaza Fights Off Attacks on Our Freedom.

News Item:
On June 11, 2009 the pantheraproject.net domain, where after the loss of shareaza.com, the project had its home, rebuilt and maintained by the Shareaza open source community members, based on free and volunteer contribution of all needed resources and contents, was sabotaged by William Shields Erwin, who had been the administrator of the community forum and posted by the name of 'Rhythm'. As a result of his actions the contents of the website have been changed to mimic the Discordia-owned Shareaza.com domain. On June 15, 2009 the forums were reinstated at Shareaza.SourceForge.net. The project core, software development and user support processes were maintained. The pantheraproject.net domain is no longer related to the Shareaza project and its community.

From Shareaza:
The latest version, released on October 1, 2008, is 2.4.0.0. The next version (2.4.1.0), a v2.5 release candidate, is planned for release around 1st October, 2009, followed by 2.5.0.0 in one months time.

From Me:
I call on everyone who reads this post to make a donation (that you can afford) to Shareaza. Do it right now, not tomorrow. That's how I feel. That's how a lot of us feel, I know.
Can someone help me put the link here -

Hari

Indeed.

A first-class program and a first-class group of people (some old and some new) always working to improve it.

I trust you'll let us know if and when donations are open. I'm just an ordinary user who thinks Shareaza is a whole lot better than all the other programs I've seen.
And I'm sure there's a lot of people who think Shareaza is a damn good program for managing all the P2P and BitTorrent downloads, and who would like to show their appreciation, especially now.

I pledge $20.

Hari

You can't donate to the Shareaza-project, but two of the developers are accepting donations (ryo-oh-ki and Rolandas).
Donations to the devs have nothing to do with the Shareaza-project, by donating to one of these you're telling those devs you appreciate their work in general.

You can donate to ryo-oh-ki by going here:
https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=354590

You can donate to Rolandas by going here:
https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.ph ... id=1089494

money is at the core of all our problems. We lost the domain the first time because we didn't have it, rhythm got involved because we had it, and he caved in to the pressures of discordia because they offered to give him more of it. It is for this reason that I do not think we should reinstate the "legal defence fund". We never did receive much money from donations after the first few thousand, and the money we had was not enough for what we wanted to do, so it was not really made proper use of. I strongly doubt that after someone has walked away with our donations money that anyone will trust us again. There is also the issue of who will hold the money, who will decide how it is used, who has access to it, and how do we protect those people from being seen as the owners of shareaza(because they are the ones making money from it). The project was running just fine without donations before, so why do we need them now all-of-the sudden.

If we need something specific then someone can put money towards the cause and we can set up a fund for that purpose only, gathering only the funds required. If we do this we also need to be completely transparent about what the money is being used for.

It is so much easier to just forget about the money!

Perhaps easier. And the easiest is just to do nothing.