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Old July 8th, 2002
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Default *Shareaza a possible trojan horse?

A warning that something doesn't seem right here.

Shareaza pops up from nowhere and is just about the best thing you have ever seen.
Major features are added almost weekly, only a large team of programmers can do that.
They ask for no money, and don't say what their plans are to keep themselves in business.
All this while at the same time the RIAA tries to get congress to let them DoS Gnutella.

And the BIG thing is, people have requested features several times that would make it hard for RIAA or other greedy corporations to spy on you and shut down your ISP account or sue you, but yet they are

THE ONLY FEATURES NOT ADDED !

Shareaza won't even comment on those types of features. Is there something wrong with this picture?
All kinds of other features are added to make this into the "most popular" client on Gnutella, but none that would protect the user from corporate spying.
Limewire has a team of several programmers but yet they don't come up with major advanced features every week like Shareaza does.
Why be the most popular, and work so hard, spend so much time (and money) developing a client but yet not ask for any support?
Who is paying this large team of programmers? Why do they want to be so popular? Doesn't that create a whole lot of support issues and thus take more of your time?
Could you shut down or cripple Gnutella in a second if you had a lot of "popular" clients under your control? Could you do it legally if you had paid for congresscritters saying it was ok to do it?
If you knew you could buy congress because you had big bucks, then wouldn't you be setting up to DoS Gnutella right now? Isn't timing everything?
Who are these people? Anyone know them personally?
Follow the money trail.
Just a thought.
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