OSX equivilant of Kazaa?

Acquisition

 

Or Poisoned...personally I find bittorrent better than Kazaa but then you need to know where to find the .torrent files and I ain't tellin'. I don't want to be banned...

 

i read that as OSX version of Kazzoo , and thought, wow, i wonder if that's something you can get in garageband...

 

limewire...

 

Use something that is edonkey based.
I personally like eMule but it's not made for the Mac

 

I've been using Acquisition for odds and ends I can't find at the iTMS and wouldn't buy on CD (making a total hypocrite of myself for all my posts on the philosophy of file-sharing vs paying RIAA ) and it's been pretty good.

It's nagware if you don't register and just use the free download....but still usable, and features iTunes integration that loads completed song downloads in iTunes, and highlights downloadable files that you already have in iTunes (though it doesn't always recognize different files of the same song). I just wish the author hadn't restricted payment to PayPal only....I'm really leery of getting a PayPal account.

Not sure what you mean by "mac files", unless you mean software...iTunes supports a number of cross-platform formats.

 

If you are after an actual FastTrack/Kazaa client then Acquisition or LimeWire won't do as they are only for the Gnutella Network.

If you need one for FastTrack(KaZaa)/OpenFT and Gnutella there is:
Xfactor
Poisoned
and a few others...

BitTorrent is the better distributed system I believe.

 

I find LimeWire to be the best for me, plus alot of the software is for Mac's.

 

HAHAHAHAHA! awesome

i may or may not ( ) use acquisition. my brother uses bittorrent all the time, finds alot of good stuff

 

Limewire isn't that good, and Acquisition is only slightly better. I recently started using Poisoned (no music, no apps, just, erm *cough* ), and it's much better than both of them, and it's also better that Neo, which was a FastTrack client for OS X a while back.

 

I wrote a program for pulling files off of web pages, like a whole series of desktop pictures of nemo.

It is called Snatcher

I may be making a new version soon.

 

I only download Linux distros from P2P

 

you too?!

 

I'm not in front of my Mac so I can't check, but I believe you can set it not to do this. Check the Preferences.

And, in deference to the good Doctor, I'll leave this thread at that.

 

Um, cool, but what does that have to do with me?

 

mlMac is the Devil. Filled the root of my drive with log files everytime it opened.

 

*yawn*

Slap me the next time I go to Arn's Mac P2P site


Blah Blah Blah.


Bit Torrent has exploded which is great.

Poisoned is second greatest. Poisoned can Connect to FastTrack (KaZaA), Gnutella (Limewire, Aquisition) and OpenFT (its their own really speedy, fast network)


Limewire and Aquisition have the same flaw -- Gnutella. and Gnutella can't scale which means it would need a major overhaul breaking every past version of the software... and having to release it at the same time with over 10+ applications using Gnutella -- aka never going to happen. aka -- Gnutella can't scale.



As for me I am currently being sued by the BSA. I can't talk about that on this forum tho or they will go after me.




Remember people... We are only talking about download Live Tapes from Concerts and downloading Linux Distros...

 

BSA? It sucks that you can't talk about it. Is there some type of gag order. Copyright laws need to be rehashed. Software for 10, Music for 20 years, movies for 40, books for 60. Fair use needs to mean something again.

And archived shareware distributions that allow for redistribution and home movies and your really nifty Garage Band loops and of course your holiday snaps of the grand tetons.

 

Why would you want to do that? Most distributions' mirrors are much faster than downloading via P2P. Some distributions (notably Debian) allow you to only download what you need instead of half a dozen ISOs. Doesn't make sense to use P2P to get Linux. Get a better excuse

 

Sig2dat on Mac (Poison?)

I've got Poison set up, and it seems to work reasonably well, but a number of the things that I've wanted to DL have required that I use a sig2dat file. Sig2dat is basically just a script that makes Kazaa think that it has a partial download, and thus directs Kazaa to "continue" (in this case, start) a download at a particular loaction. I have no idea how to do this on the Mac. Any thoughts?