After a series of setbacks with the music industry, developers Shareaza back into the canvas with a brand new customer peer-to-peer: Panthera Project.
Shareaza was born brain by Michael Stokes in 2002. This software is compatible with the Gnutella protocol, then Stokes care network eDonkey 2000 and introduced a new protocol, Gnutella2. Version 2.0 of Shareaza was distributed open-source under the GNU GPLv2 in 2004. Stokes then decided to focus the field of radio streaming developing Mercora, it then transfered site management shareaza.com a tester named Jon Nilson. But the French authorities, worried at the growing success of the software in France, Nilson forced to surrender the domain name to the SPPF (Civil Society of Producers of Phonograms in France). The new owners, MusicLabs, distributed on this modified versions of iMesh, Bearshare and Shareaza containing spyware.
But the team of developers is back, but say that more than 43 million downloads, the official version of Shareaza was extremely popular.
During an interview obtained by TorrentFreak, Alex and Wout, two developers of the project Panthera, explain that this new customer will have new features previously absent from Shareaza but strongly requested by its users. Panthera includes, inter alia, support BitTorrent (libtorrent), a customizable interface, care of Gnutella1 and a new media player. "During development, we looked carefully code Shareaza, and when we find an interesting bit of code, we ask" how can we improve it? » » ""
In addition to being multi-network, Panthera run on all platforms, Windows, Mac or Linux. Wout explains: "Multi-platform, it means more users, thus more files and faster downloads. There were no other P2P programs that allow you to connect virtually all popular networks on all operating systems. "
The
Panthera project will come on August 25. You can already download a
trial version.
22-08-2008
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