Thanks for the heads-up. Don't use it m'self, but it'll probably come up at the office.... in the week and a half before my resignation becomes effective ;)
I immediately noticed something was up when I went there for my update, since I know the dev team would never jump ahead version numbers like that without making a big big announcement. Also, the warning for shreaza.com was all over the program and sf.net site (which has always been the "real" home for it) -- still, I agree, they should have put up a clear notice on the domain that it would not be continued on shareaza.com and for people to update their bookmarks; but I guess it just got forgotten. it happens :P unfortunately this time at the cost of people assuming it is the real deal and getting a bunch of spyware on their system.
From what I understand, reading the forums on the Sourceforge site, the people who took over the old Shareaza website also took advantage of the real program's auto-update feature, to try to install itself on as many systems as possible
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I'm still very curious of why this group decided to try to hijack the site and create malware, and now they're even trying to copyright the "Shareaza" name. (I understand the name was just a trademark.) Thankfully, the makers of the real Shareaza are fighting back, with the help of many of their supporters and supporters of the GNU license in general.
A few simple reasons, foxxie: 1) BTC, "Because they can" 2) The malware/spyware in question is like any other out there: it generates income for them without having to do anything but sit on their arses. 3) Funny thing about copyright is that it usually is never an issue when it is not a name that would cause loss of revenue. Since shareaza is GNU/open source, there is no commercial edge, and even then they went ahead and got it trademark registered. Unfortunately it also makes a generally weak player: no funds for legal backing. (same thing happened with the soundex Gaim for Aim being forced to rename it to something else)
I'm still not sure why they are doing this, but that tracking
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Also, the warning for shreaza.com was all over the program and sf.net site (which has always been the "real" home for it) -- still, I agree, they should have put up a clear notice on the domain that it would not be continued on shareaza.com and for people to update their bookmarks; but I guess it just got forgotten. it happens :P unfortunately this time at the cost of people assuming it is the real deal and getting a bunch of spyware on their system.
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A few simple reasons, foxxie:
1) BTC, "Because they can"
2) The malware/spyware in question is like any other out there: it generates income for them without having to do anything but sit on their arses.
3) Funny thing about copyright is that it usually is never an issue when it is not a name that would cause loss of revenue. Since shareaza is GNU/open source, there is no commercial edge, and even then they went ahead and got it trademark registered. Unfortunately it also makes a generally weak player: no funds for legal backing. (same thing happened with the soundex Gaim for Aim being forced to rename it to something else)
I'm still not sure why they are doing this, but that tracking ( ... )
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