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I see this is more a file sharing list then a P2P list so I will respond in kind (fun thread! hehe).

In order of first use...

IRC - The first and only; with multi-server support in 6.0 mIRC this will keep getting bigger (which kinda sucks). Plus lets remember that IRC is what gave Mr. Fanning the idea in the first place. #mp3passion on Undernet is still the best place for high quality prerelease albums.

FTP - Always handy. Ratio servers made the scene suck ass. (Just an opinion; hehe). Also, FTP servers always had crap music. (Unless you actually needed all the Led Zeppelin and Limp Bizcuit albums)

Warez Web Sites - POP UP PORN! MALICIOUS JAVASCRIPT! CONSTANT REDIRECTIONS TO 'TOP 50' SITES! WHOO-HOO. Man, I don't miss those days at all.

MP3Wolf (RIP) - This thing sucked ass. It crawled the web looking for MP3s for you; it took forever, most of the links were dead, and just generally sucked ass.

Napster (RIP) - Impressive. It blew open the availability of hard to find albums so I'm quite grateful to it. I avoided it for a while until I couldn't ignore it anymore.

Napigator (RIP?) - I never liked the Napster client and was happy when Audiognome came around so I could throw out Napster altogether. Their server list was pretty damn important though.

Gnutella (.56) (RIP) - Groovy. This one will be for the history books along with Napster. But everyone, please STOP USING IT THAT OLD ASSED CLIENT! hehe

Scour (RIP) - Decent for videos (back when they weren't even Divx yet, hehe). Song selection always kinda blew though.

Audiognome - Always had a buggy interface but some nice folks were involved with it for a while. hehe. Dunno bout new versions or PNP though. Seems like WinMX is a smarter bet since it's a less clunky interface and they offer their own network PLUS the opennap list.

Hotline - FTP plus chat for MAC users. That should tell you all you need to know. Hard to use, server lists have to be given to you by someone who knows, not only that but you can't use the latest client to get on the good servers, you need an early version. Like I said, for MAC users.

Gnotella (RIP?) - This client always sucked. Despite their claims I thought it actually made .56 WORSE. I hope it's dead.

WinMX - It's a fine proggy but Morpheus and Audiogalaxy blow it away for different reasons. Maybe when both of those are shut down I'll switch back.

Bearshare - Started out well enough and the developer was very involved with the forum and took suggestions... but XoloX and the latest Gnucleus blow it away. Also, spyware accusations were handled horribly by the developer to the point where I don't trust him and wouldn't download any new versions.

Warez Forums - Always fun when you got one that's going smoothly. I don't right now and can't be bothered testing all the different ones out there but... when ya got a good one it's great.

Morpheus - Decent amount of games/appz/music/videos available. I'm pretty happy with it as I've gotten 2 television shows I love in completion on Morpheus and I couldn't find them anywhere else. There's always an advantage to the network most everyone is using and that's Morpheus right now. Enough can't be said for tricking users into running a P2P at start up and not closing it when they hit the X. Sure, it's sneaky, sure, it's mean but it's also why there is so much shit on Morpheus and Napster.

Gnucleus - Open source gnutella client that keeps improving.

SongSpy - I wasn't impressed by the selection. The Karma points made me feel creepy. I uninstalled.

XoloX - the best gnutella client yet (most stable, least resource grabby). Dunno where it's at now though; heard zeropaid grabbed it; I don't like zeropaid too much.

AudioGalaxy - Happily does the same trick as Morhpeus and Napster so a shitload of music is available. This is my preferred method for getting MP3s now (much wider selection then Morpheus which has an already wide selection). Some pretty vicious spyware in the latest version, but there are ways around it if you research here or on Zeropaid.

Direct Connect - Groovy for warez stuff. Buggy, really high minimum shares, and newbies are gonna have problems connecting at all I bet. Still good for warez stuff though. This/Audiogalaxy/Morpheus/IRC are what I'm using right now.

I'd like to try eDonkey and Freenet but I currently have no reason to. If any of the 4 I'm using right now run into problems eDonkey and Freenet will be where I go next.