When running bearshare I only get 600-900 gigabyte with 2000-2400 nodes. There GOT to be done something about these freeloaders.

This was a general posting about gnutella net originally posted in in general gnutella group. Just because I happened to mention bear share they moved it? Stupid moderators. I promise not to mention any clients next time I post there.

Then you could politely ask for it to be moved back instead of insulting me. It looked like your comment was specific to BearShare, so I moved it.

besides, bearshare and freeloader seem to go together

(I couldn't resist)

Init great to be anonymous when you want to be!

Yeah, especially when you got something stupid to say.
BearShare is a client not a network. BearShare has no more freeloaders then another client running on the Gnutella network, because they are all running on the same network.

Because of the threatening letters from people's ISP, people that used to share are becoming freeloads.

Freeloading is an ongoing problem for the network. On other networks such as IRC many people set upload and download quotas.

Some of the Gnutella clients allow you to control freeloaders to some extent.......predict we will see more of this ability in the future.

The only problem is that a servent behind a firewall usually end up as defacto freeloaders.....

I use to share (over 30 gb of files), but with the threat of losing my ISP, I can't afford to continue. I'm sure there are many like me, but untill a better way of protecting our identies is found this is going to be a major problem.

There is still hope, the next generation of P2P programs will be decentralized and anonymous. Hopefully it will not be too long before they are usable on a large scale.