I am getting very frustrated. Before I bought the program, my downloads were fast. Now that I have bought it, my downloads are VERY slow - it's like I have dial up. I have DSL. I've tried everything and nothing seems to be working. Any ideas on what I can do?

What are you talking about? Gtk-Gnutella is free software
- free as in speech *and* beer. If you payed a single cent
for it, you've been ripped off. But you are not talking
about Gtk-Gnutella, are you?

Probably they made him/her buy something that's freely available.

You do a search for any P2P client in google, and you always get this scams on the sponsored links.

I guess people pay for them, thinking that its a one time fee service, and that it's legal to download copyrighted material since they paid.

It's amazing how much people fall for this, specially in the US.