Suggested library option: "destroy file and never download again". This would prompt the user if he was sure, then overwrite the library file several times before deleting it, as well as record its hash on a "destroyed" list somewhere. The "files you have already" filter would hide files on the "destroyed" list. When not hidden, they would appear in search results/host browse in a throbbing red and the file size would be displayed as 666 KB. (That last part can be left out if you prefer.)
There are security filters available for avoiding unwanted and potentially lawsuit-inducing material, such as copyright infringing files and, if you're in a middle eastern country, bikini photos (for which you might even be shot).
However, sometimes such files show up as hits for innocuous searches, and sometimes they have innocuous filenames, such as 03 Track 03.mp3 or 173.jpg. These names are also unlikely to be the same unwanted file when seen again, besides being hard to remember, so having Shareaza automatically help you avoid ever re-downloading them would be good. So would having it render the file forensically unretrievable, so if the RIAA ever came knocking with a lawsuit and demanded your hard drive in discovery, they'd be unable to prove you ever had that terrible, terrible 03 Track 03.mp3 in your possession and the court would find for the defendant due to lack of evidence. The most they might be able to determine was that you saw a file with the same hash -- and not even that, if users could build and exchange blocklists of "bad hashes" with deniability that any particular one with a hash actually ever possessed the corresponding file.
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