Rumours are starting to fly now that a dirty take-over of Shareaza is in evidence.
http://filesharefreak.com/2008/03/07/riaa-three-down-limewire-to-go/There is no *definitive proof* that the IFPI and/or RIAA is involved in the latest Shareaza scandal - at least no paper-trail has yet been brought to fruition (c’mon TorrentFreak - if anyone can find it, it’s you!). However, the evidence lies within the facts that iMesh, BearShare and the new Shareaza v4 are all the same P2P client. We already know the RIAA had a heavy-hand in flogging iMesh and BearShare into submission, and in turn conjured up a whole new proprietary P2P software solution as a pay service. How is it possible that this rogue company called Discordia Ltd. - who now owns shareaza.com - got hold of the same proprietary client used by the RIAA? Remember folks, that iMesh & BearShare are not open-source projects. This was no coincidence.
Knowing full well that defeating P2P is futile, perhaps the RIAA methodology is to gobble up as many of these P2P trophies as they possibly can. The philosophy is akin to laying out a spiderweb in the hopes to catch whatever passes your way - the “flies” being unwary seekers of file sharing programs. In an effort to thwart illegal file sharing by branding many well-known P2P programs as “legit” and, of course, pay-to-use, this undoubtedly catches at least some hapless passers-by
This is an interesting and well written article folks and explains concisely many of my own concerns over the cancerous like Cartel eating away at the fabric of many reputable filesharing networks
