What is important for the final user?

It must be easy to connect.
It must give you good, relevant results.

That was the reason why Napster was so popular.

Bearshare now sucks. You can't connect anymore, you have to keep trying for hours only to get unstable connections. And results? Only a few results, no matter what you are looking for, be it Madonna or Stockhausen. 23 results for New Order? What is that?

DON'T USE IT! Try WinMX, iMesh or AudioGalaxy. Vinnie believes he is always right so there is no use talking to him. He is perfect, he is brilliant, he is a genius. He is so brilliant he managed to screw the whole Gnutella network with his piece of ****...