February 28, 2008 by sharky
Anyone who’s old enough to buy their own cigarettes is probably familiar with old skool P2P file sharing with KaZaA. And likely this same group probably even remembers when it just stopped working one day - dead in it’s tracks many moons ago. Do you remember where you were when KaZaA died? I do - I was at work and my girlfriend called me to tell me something was wrong with my computer; that KaZaA wasn’t working anymore. To soothe her, I said I’d check it out as soon as I got home, but I could hear the panic in her voice. Right as rain, KaZaA was in the grave - no warning, no notice - just a quick & painless death. “Whew…what a relief!”, I thought inwardly, “Now I can reclaim my hijacked computer and use IRC once again!”. No more blank movie files, no more MP3s with scritchy-scratchy bits and white noise, and best of all - no more bullshit from this RIAA scam & spam-flooded network. It truly was a day of rejoice. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Anyways, KaZaA got sued and went legit. The only ‘known’ way to connect to the FastTrack network was to whip out a credit card, since it went entirely private and pay-to-use.
Flash ahead - four years later. We’ve tested over a hundred P2P programs, and not one has ever connected to the old KaZaA network known as FastTrack. We’ve tried KaZaA Lite, KaZaA Resurrection, KaZaA K Lite, K++, KLT K++ and every other KaZaA mutant. Many claimed and offered, but none delivered. That is, until today. Huzzah.
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Every once in a while a P2P utility comes along that really captures our attention, and so deservedly earns an honorable spot all by itself at FileShareFreak. Such is the case with Avarice. Avarice is a multi-server IRC client designed to simplify XDCC file transfers - so simplified that users need not even know what IRC is in order to use it. Moreover, Avarice should be rightfully classified as a P2P program unto itself.
Websites that feature full-length movies shown as ’streaming’ video have taken great strides in becoming quite remarkable. Some even offer films & clips in High-Definition (HD). So how do they get away with it, you ask? Simple! They don’t host the movies - just the links to them. This lovable loophole even permits them to play the movies on their sites, while staying and inch or two out of the MPAA’s reach.
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We felt it necessary to give Tor projects its own page on FileShareFreak - more or less for our own convenience (when updating this entry). For those unaware, Tor is two things: First; it’s an anonymizing network used for establishing anonymous communications over the Internet. And second; Tor is also considered a 
Why anyone uses public BitTorrent sites such as mininova, The Pirate Bay, Isohunt and others, we’ll never know. Their soaring popularity opens the door to all kinds of scammers, fakes and decoys - it’s hard to tell what is righteous and what’s bogus, anymore. Toss in the fact that anyone can upload a torrent here, and it’s a recipe for file-sharing madness. We have a feeling of hopelessness for public BitTorrent sites, and we don’t care. Private sites are the wave of the future!
Looking to break into the Internet piracy “scene”? Good luck! But first, here’s a news flash - they’re not looking for you, they don’t want you, and they sure as hell don’t need you. Not daunted by that little piece of reality pie? Read on…maybe there’s a place for you after all, young grasshopper.
IRC is about as close as you can get to the top of the piracy pyramid without actually being involved in “the scene”. Most (but not all of) pirated releases found at the P2P level descended from IRC in some form or another, usually directly. It is the major cog between release groups and what is found publicly through BitTorrent websites, the newsgroups, DDL sites and any other method of P2P file sharing. So the significance of IRC to the “piracy scene” should not be overlooked or undervalued. The vastness of illegal content is staggering; both in sheer numbers, and in the diversity of available content often found nowhere else.
