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(for Feb.13/08)

We’re always chompin’ at the bit to test out the latest P2P file sharing programs. So here’s a few more programs to get you connected and help you find your junk.

LionShare v1.2

Looking for the latest movies, software and music to download? Great! But you won’t find them with LionShare. LionShare is strictly an academic concept of legal file sharing, and connects to other users through university accounts. Users can search and retrieve academic content from other LionShare users and many academic networks across the globe. Be advised that LionShare is not intended for anonymous filesharing - and it requires user authentication to participate in sharing of your own files. If academia is your passion, give it a whirl! Here’s the developer’s tagline:

LionShare is a secure P2P file sharing application for higher education, enabling legal file sharing for Penn State university and beyond. Find and share legal academic content in a secure P2P environment.

Features include: Buddy List (Instant Messaging), multi-user chat (with different channels), and “browse host” to find similar content from the same users.

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Aimini
Allpeers
aMule
Cabos
Clickster
Deepnet
eMule Plus
ExoSee
FileCroc
Fusteeno
Gnucleus
Jubster
Manolito
MasterMax
MLDonkey
Mp3Rocket
OFF System
OpenNap
ourTunes
P2P Muzic
Phex
Ruckus
Sigster
Speedy P2P
Swapper.net
TED
Tribler
WinMX
OUR PICKS

FileShareFreak is doing what no other website will do: We are actually testing various P2P programs under WinXP, and giving a personal review in our own words - not just some ‘cut/paste’ from the software publisher’s website. All programs were tested to be functional* in Nov./Dec. 2007, all are ‘Freeware’, and all are free of adware/spyware (unless otherwise noted). *Functional being that they connect to a network (with other users) and generate search results.

Also, we don’t include everything on this list. There’s only so many clones of Limewire and eMule we can handle! (Open source software often gets a minuscule makeover, bundled with third party adware, toolbar addons etc. and viola! a new product is born! - most of which we don’t include here). If you really want a complete list of available P2P software, visit www.download.com and search for “P2P program” or “MP3 finders” - you’ll be inundated with clones and the like. Know a good P2P program that’s not on the list? Try our Top Ten P2P page, or add one in the comments at the bottom.

Additionally, we wanted a list of P2P programs that contained variety. Most of these programs connect to their own network, or to multiple networks, thus diversifying the search results available in P2P. What point would it serve if we only included a bunch of programs that connected solely to the Gnutella network? - all of the search results would be the same.

NOTE: Keep checking back at this page, we add new P2P File Sharing programs regularly! Although these programs are adware/spyware free, most of these applications are not considered P2P safe (i.e. “anonymous” or “encrypted traffic” type programs), unless they are properly configured via the Proxy (SOCKS) settings internally.

BitTorrent clients are not listed here, since there are only about three BT clients that should be used anyways (see here). Moreover, the BTclient is not at all indicative of good search queries - this quality is ordained by the BitTorrent website hosting the .torrent files.

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A list of P2P Networks and Clients

A P2P Network is a network consisting of other connected users, implemented for file sharing and transfers. To access a P2P network, users simply download and install a suitable P2P client application. P2P clients require a network to connect to, in order to join all of the users to each other that are using the same client (or other network-compatible clients). A common example would be Limewire - when you run the Limewire program, it connects to the Gnutella network. It is through the Gnutella network that all Limewire users are connected and thus all available files and searching. It would be fair to say that the network is actually more important than the client program - remove the network and the client has nothing to connect to.

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Users require just two things: An Internet connection and P2P client software to connect you to the P2P network(s). This is a little easier than BitTorrent in terms of difficulty - as there are no necessary websites to visit or external files to download. Here’s a list of some of the available programs and which network(s) they run on:

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