That alone is a good reason to keep the name. And hey, Shareaza is the name of the open source project, the community is not giving it up to scammers!

PS: for the security filters mentioned above, take a look at Shareaza forums, Security and Privacy topic.

Stupid

Chris Hanlon, a lot of people still using P2P networks, and shareaza is one of the very decent clients to use for those networks, but for torrenting, i don’t think so, it would really be funny to see someone trying to use it on private trackers.
public trackers ??, i don’t think so either, as it was mentioned shareaza doesn’t use the bandwidth you have like a normal torrent client, and the rate of the upload\download speed can be adjusted without affecting the important perament (upload), shareaza can suck all the resources from any private tracker without seeding back enough data ( **** you all who leechers and kiss my *** )

i’m sure all P2P users (which i’m NOT one of them by the way) are saying, thanks a lot for the REAL sharezaz team, keep the good work.

As for bogus files, at a first glance, search results include many bogus results, indeed. But there are easy ways to reduce spam: use additional parameters in your search. The example mentioned above, for instance, is probably a large video file, you can limit the search to results video files bigger than 400 Mbytes, which will instantly remove a great deal of spam. You can also use a spam filter which will block all .wma, .wmv and such DRM infected files along with some spammer IPs. Get the latest filter using this magnet link, then press F7 on Shareaza, click with the right button of your mouse on the window and select import to import this file. Finally, you can also check a result with the built-in Bitzi ticket feature, to see what others think of the file and contribute your own judgment for files you already have. Happy sharing!

PS: Thanks sharky for keeping your users informed about the so called ShareazaV4 distributed by the former homepage which got hijacked. For those who’d like to learn the whole story, see this post from one of Shareaza developers.