Hmmm...in my past experiences I found Audiogalaxy and KaZaA to be, well, crap. Never tried DC. As for "leeches," are they actually leeches or do they just not have anything you want? There's definitely a difference. Moreover, some OpenNap servers do not correctly detect the number of files being shared. Many a time I looked like a leech when in fact I was sharing hundreds of files (and, after the crash, dozens
). I've found good users on WinMX; I don't know why you haven't seemed to. Never seemed to get any BSoDs from it either. Oh well - everyone has their own set of circumstances. Seems to me as well that for every new option there is in 3.1, there's been one taken away that was present in the past. It's all the same in the end anyway - people trying to get their files however they can.