Yeah, but, guess what, Kazaa is adware! Which is the reason I did not want anyone to say Kazaa, not because I have some sort of grudge against gnutella filesharing networks.
The official Kazaa does contain spyware/adware, but there IS Kazaa Lite for the PC (spyware/adware removed)... and Kazaa uses the "Fasttrak" network, which has nothing inherently evil about it. You can download a 3rd party program like Poisoned that will have the same search results as Kazaa (minus those from RIAA/MPAA/BayTCP/etc hosts ), but without the adware.
No it isn't. It uses a crappy, clunky, slow Java interface, only searches Gnutella (not the Kazaa "fasttrack" network), is slow, contains spyware, has ads, and is slow. And crashes a bit. And hogs CPU time.
I can't think of anything good to say about limewire, ipodandimac, get enlightened and try poisoned
people who really want to use the gnutella network should look at acquisition or acqlite rather than limewire ? i'm sure you'll be pleased by the enormous improvement which is immediately obvious.
Try Carracho. Mac only and (thus) friendlier than Hotline.
Carracho is a community client/server application, not a P2P network. It serves a different purpose to P2P networks, where instead of having every file in the world, it has a (relatively) very small collection of files related to a particular server.
I'll throw in BitTorrent before rushing off to work... Azureus is a Java one that should work on the mac... Then search on Google for "Suprnova". (no e)
Had a question about Poisoned and thought I'd bump this thread instead of adding a new one.
I just noticed that Poisoned, while adding the downloaded songs to my iTunes playlist (which I like), it seems to copy the files to the iTunes music folder as well. Does this mean that there are two copies of the mp3s on my hard drive? Can I throw away the ones in the Poisoned folder after I download them?
Is anybody able to help me? I've recently downloaded Poisoned, but I am not able to get any search results and cannot connect to Gnutella, Ares, or FastTrack. Any suggestions?
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Poisoned is pretty good, and so is mlMac.
Originally posted by staphbaby
http://www.mac-p2p.com/
Poisoned is pretty good, and so is mlMac.
Thanks. I got poisoned. It's great!
Barto
Originally posted by ipodandimac
limewire's a good one.
No it isn't. It uses a crappy, clunky, slow Java interface, only searches Gnutella (not the Kazaa "fasttrack" network), is slow, contains spyware, has ads, and is slow. And crashes a bit. And hogs CPU time.
I can't think of anything good to say about limewire, ipodandimac, get enlightened and try poisoned
Barto
Originally posted by BigBlue
Try Carracho. Mac only and (thus) friendlier than Hotline.
Carracho is a community client/server application, not a P2P network. It serves a different purpose to P2P networks, where instead of having every file in the world, it has a (relatively) very small collection of files related to a particular server.
And staphbaby, Poisoned searches Gnutella too
Barto
I just noticed that Poisoned, while adding the downloaded songs to my iTunes playlist (which I like), it seems to copy the files to the iTunes music folder as well. Does this mean that there are two copies of the mp3s on my hard drive? Can I throw away the ones in the Poisoned folder after I download them?
Poisoned 0.5 is out now too