disappearing p2p clients?

[petriburg]

this past few days, I've been trying to replace a few files that got lost erroneously while I was doing some "housekeeping". My success has been severely limited by several factors.
Diet Kazaa, aka Kazaalite, is down, and looking for servers (see the notice on their homepage); WinMx continues to be as frustrating as ever; what downloads become available are mostly very slow, but the queues, into the 30s and 40s, are intolerable. And the much vaunted Blubster v2.0 has been witheld for time unspecified. (Is this merely technical, or is there a more sinister portent, I wonder). What's happening to p2p? Will things get better? Where do you go for a reliable source of downloads (I'm seeking a broad spectrum of stuff from the 60's to the present day).
I hope that any answers to this post will be of considerable help to many other members of this community. Meantime, thanks in anticipation, folks.