What is the best file sharing program, ive heard of kazaa and limewire, are there anymore that are better?

I've found Ares to be a nice program and is increasing in size every day (number of people using). I've moved to it because sometimes in Kazaa i've found heaps of bogus files for recent songs, so i moved to Ares and so far there have been no bogus files (you know, the ones that have that weird sound in them), thats because there is a special tracker or something in it which will stop this files from appearing so you don't have to worry about it

aight,

way back, like everyone, i used napster. then i got kazaa lite, the kazaa version without spyware. that was really fast back then. now, kazaa is full of junk and you won't find all that much on it

now i use soulseek for music. it's cool because you find rare stuff, and you can rightclick on a file and choose "download entire folder". if the other guy neatly stores his albums in seperate folders, you'll get the entire album, nicely stored in a new folder. i love it

for movies, i use bittorrent because it's really fast and you can find a lot of movies

for really rare stuff, like old movies and especially for software, i use emule. you'll find just about everything on emule

direct connect is good too they say, but i don't use it. i'm too much a leecher for that i have a 1gigabyte upload limit, and dcc causes too much upload.

Kazaa lite is not bad, like marijnnn said, but it seems to not give away free downloads of the program anymore. I think you're going to have to get the whole file again from a friend or something.

By the way anybody heard of imesh? It has alot of ads and i think it should be as bad as kazaa yet people say its good... Any ideas?

yeah, but you have imesh lite too. i used it a long time ago, when it was still unknown & spyware free it was pretty good, but i dunno how it is now. i'm happy with what i have, i find everything i look for

Well I use Kazaa Lite for some media, but the problem is that there are alot of virusses and fake files in the p2p network. It's also handy for music.

I suggest you try bittorrent. Then you atleast know 100% ceratin that you are downloading the right file.

Also download bitlord. It's a program which kind of works like kazaa but then with torrents. It also has a search option.

Ofcourse you have to find the right torrents with enough peers and seeds. But recent files always have a fast download rate.

at the moment i mostly use overnet client on the edonkey network. yes there are also fake files, and viruses around on all p2p networks. thats why you should install a anti-virus software and a firewall on your computer system.

i also have a plugin for overnet, which speed up the download and looks for more sources to download from.

i havent tried bittorrent yet but i cannot find any good torrent sites around. most of them are very slow to download from. any recomment any?

DC++ is damn good, it works by giving you a list of servers you can download from but sometimes you have to have a certian amount of shared files before you can get on some servers (i know alot of other programs do this and it's annoying) but i've never failed to find what i want using it.

as for bittorrent most torrent sites are good, but you need to find the people people downloading and uploading the file to get the decnet speed, and the speeds at the start of the download are never very good but if you wait a while they'll speed up real fast.

I use Soulseek and e-mule.
Soulseek is a ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application. I think is best software for sharing muisic
site http://www.slsknet.org/
download http://www.slsknet.org/download.html
E-mule good for sharing video, software and large music files.

For those of you living in the US:

I was a heavy Ares and bittorrent user and from my experiences I wouldn't recommend either.

Both are great for finding quality files but both will screw you up big time.

Ares is loaded with spyware that is embedded DEEP in its system. I know when you install it there is a confirmation to install NAV Helper but that doens't mean anything. Ares has spyware in it and it's caused me to reformat my harddrive a few times.

Bittorrent used to be good but now they've really begun to crack down on it and I acutally got caught. With bittorrent you have no choice but to upload and the MPAA or RIAA will have an easier time catching you when you use a system that requires you to upload.

For me I just use limewire now. I can get music and some movies but I can't get TV shows like I used to with bittorrent. I'm going to try Soulseek though since many members here seem to like it.