best p2p for mac os X

[Joan81]

Hello! Can someone tell me what's the best p2p for the MAC. Mostly I want to use it for music, tv series and dvd's. I'm a new MAC user so I'm still learning and I'm not a computer genius. So it has to be very easy to work with.. Please help cuz I have no idea where to look anymore and I don't know which one is good. TNXXXX Joan

[isus]

acquisition: www.acquisitionx.com

there will be a few people who tell you to use poisoned... if you like the kazaa network and all those fakes, hey, be my guest. and the people that tell you to use poisoned are probably extreme fanboys or the guy who creates it. they will also likely bash acquisition.

[mp3MaStA88]

I would try out drumbeat... It has many users and connects to open nap networks and will connect to gnutella soon... read up on it in this info that follows... directly from the homepage... http://www.drumbeat.info/

System Requirements

• Mac OS 9.0, or Mac OS 10.1 or higher.
• PPC Processor.
• 48 MB RAM above System Requirements.
• 13 MB Hard Drive space.
• Connection to the Internet.
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New Features in Drumbeat 2 include:

• Deep Search™

Groundlevel is extremely excited to introduce a completely new concept inFile-Sharing: Deep Search™ scans deeper levels of online Users’ Shared Folders than ever before, retrieving more than 5 times the search results of any currently available application, Mac or PC. In test results, Deep Search™ has so far achieved more than 25,000 results (did you actually read that?!) for popular search phrases, an increase of more than 250% over our already Record-Breaking Drumbeat 165. We think that ROCKS!!


• Blowfish DES Encryption For All Drumbeat Files

All Files exchanged between Drumbeat Users will now be Fully Encrypted before leaving the User's Hard Drive, and will be Unencrypted only after having arrived at the requesting user's HD, for full protection of all traffic between Drumbeat Users. Encrypted files are Unencrypted at the User's HD on-the-fly, so files will still be able to be Previewed while downloading. Encrypted files will show in Green in the Search Results window.


• Find-As-You-Type Filtering

How do you find your way through 25,000 results? Just start typing! DB now automatically filters all your search results, continually narrowing your search down to exactly the files you want. Find what you're looking for, and then filter again. And you never have to repeat that search again!


• Full-Featured Favorites List

The ability to Add/Remove Favorite Users, more quickly see which Favorite Users are On/Offline, Ignore certain Users from future incoming Chat messages, and a Full History of User interactions for the current session.


• Full Resume for Downloading Files

All Files in the Tasks List are now retained if the program is Closed, Quit, or otherwise interrupted unexpectedly. The Tasks List is then re-loaded and all previous Downloads are re-attempted. Those which were in progress when stopped will resume from the point they left off.


• Auto-Browse

When a User is selected in the Favorites Window and the Browse Button is clicked, Drumbeat will automatically attempt a Direct Browse of the User's files. If this service is unavailable in the User's client software, DB will then attempt a Server Browse for each of the Networks to which the User is currently connected until there is a successful Browse.


• Full Upload Control

Control-Click the User's name in the Upload Queue Favorites List and select Show Upload Queue. The User's list of queued files will be shown in the Tasks List. Control-Click any of that User's files in the Tasks List and select Manual Upload. This will send the file to the head of the Queue and start the Upload as soon as the remote Client next sends a request for the file.


• CPU and Bandwidth Throttles

Users can now control how much of their CPU time is devoted to Drumbeat, and the amount of Bandwidth Drumbeat uses for Uploads and Downloads. Users may also select how much priority Drumbeat gives to the speed at which Server Connections are attempted, and to the Buffer Size of Socket Connections.


• Change Mac FileType, Creator and File Extension

for incoming files. By default, DB downloads all .mp3's and any file for which the extension of the file is either not present or unrecognized, as an Mac iTunes file. To change the filetype manually, Select Change File Info... from the Tasks List Contextual Menu.


• Faster and more sophisticated Network Switch

When the connection to a User or Server for a file being downloaded is lost, DB now quickly searches for that User (if they are found on another Network) and re-establishes the connection, in most cases, before your place in Queue is lost. If they are not immediately found, DB will continue searching for them until they are either found or the Task is cancelled.


• Save Partial Files

You can now save a partially downloaded file to another location for a later resume of the download. Control-Click any download in the Tasks List and select Save Partial To... to copy the partially downloaded file to another location on your Hard Drive. Later, you can perform a search for the same file from a different User. When ready to begin the download, Control-Click the desired file in Search Results and select Resume Using File... Navigate to the location of the previously copied file to have the Download resume from where it left off.


• Replaced Napigator (now defunct) with new Stats Servers

• Ability to find and use .wsx Server Lists from WinMX Users

[ducttapeBigSexy]

Yeah, I'm a Windows and Linux user, but I really like Limewire (it's the main one I use under both). And it's also made for Mac (all you need is a Java Virtual Machine - it's free at www.java.com). I get nice speeds and can usually find whatever I'm looking for. www.limewire.com

[John W. Lindh]

Stay away from Acquisition. It's violating the GPL.

Read more on Acquisition here: http://www.acqlite.org/

[isus]

Stay away from Acquisition. It's violating the GPL.

Read more on Acquisition here: http://www.acqlite.org/

so it says xfactor/poisoned and acqx violate the gpl... but i don't see where it says how they vioalte the gpl. the only thing i even see that mentions the gpl is the part about crossing the process barrier.

and to the next note: who CARES that it violates the gpl? you're pirating music. you have better things to be worried about than the gpl.

and the last note: our boy who's making acqlite is a computer programmer, but you're going to listen to him when he talks law? good idea. next time you go to court, remember, you're not allowed to have a lawyer, just some computer programmer who wants to talk out his ass about something he knows little to nothing about.

and one last thing: drumbeat is good too.

[John W. Lindh]

so it says xfactor/poisoned and acqx violate the gpl... but i don't see where it says how they vioalte the gpl.

It doesn't. Acquistion is using the LimeWire core to connect to Gnutella (which is GPL) but Dave W. failed to license the GUI code under terms of the GPL - or rather he did that, but as soon as the AcqLite guy took the sources to make his own program, he stopped doing so.

So, stay away from Acquisition.

(Btw: I don't use p2p apps primarily to violate copyrights, although that may happen occasionally, so your stupid 'pirating music' argument doesn't apply.)

[nms04]

i would say limewire, poisoned or buying linux ;)