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totally. i agree. worth the karma. props to you sir, but:

I just told my teenage son last night it was okay to use limewire again (well..Acquistion). Guess not.

Ass-Munchers. May the Bastard Operator have his way with you.

Speaking of Poisoned... it's incredibly useful, but whoever wrote it really needs to read Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Honestly.

Acquisition has a much more polished UI (though there are some internationalization issues) that fits much better with the typicaly Aqua UI experience. Poisoned feels like Windows software that's been themed to look like Mac software. I really hope they improve.

I've never used Napster/KaZaA/etc. in my life. (I'm a Mac user.)

Then you should try Acquisition :P

not EVEN, he definitely used:

ACQUISITION!

Well, there's Acquisition, a Gnutella client for OS X that's written in Java. Actually, it's based on Limewire, which is also written in Java. They're both open source.

There's also jEdit, which I haven't used but seems to be getting a bit of a cult following as a new GUI text editor.

Essentially all your search query strings become an item in the drawer on the side (whichever you like; Cocoa drawers are ambidextrous. Try collapsing the drawer in mail, and then drag a message to the right, and then to the left... you'll see what I mean.) This approach is comparable to Tabs in functionality, but appearance-wise takes advantage of the fact that tabs work better vertically for most situations, displaying additional information about the query, and offering controls over that query.

A drawer approach in a browser would offer some interesting advantages over the tabs; one could arrange ad-hoc or dynamic collections within one such drawer entry, much in the way iTunes Smart Bookmarks work. For example a 'News' item, 'Blogs' item, etc.

Similar functionality exists using the folder structures in the Safari Bookmark Bar, but the horizontal arrangement does sacrifice some real estate in the UI, as you want as much vertical room as you can get for your browser window, generally speaking. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple implement a whole history in a drawer though, complete with scaling thumbnails of the pages themselves. (mostly cosmetic, and useless, that last bit - but it'll look damn cool).

Acquisition is great! Supports all the new gnutella updates such as ultrapeers. Much faster than Limewire, much nicer looking, and I've had better results with it as well.

Neo is a shadow client to Kazaa. It unfortunately doesn't actually log you into Kazaa, but rather is used to query ranges of IP's looking for Kazaa clients. It then sends searches to these clients directly, rather than to the nodes. Still, it can be very useful.

Completely untrue. I used to use it but stopped because it wasn't so great. I now use Acquisition for Gnutella, and though it's not perfect, Neo as a Kazaa shadow client. Both work quite well IMO.

For OS X, there's a nice GNUtella client called Acquisition . It's got a clean interface, does find files, has resumable transfer, works, etc.
I've been able to download a couple of DivX/AVI files off of it, as well as some apps. Gnutella's probably the best protocol we have on the Mac, at this time, and hearing complaints about the others (WinMX for Windows, or KazaA, etc.) I really don't think it's that bad.

Dump Limewire! Go to xlife. They have a cocoa interface and *no* spyware/assware/crapware/loserware or excuses at all. I'm really pissed about this. Geeze, I mean, how ridiculous will this whole p2p thing get? Like someone else mentioned, with vendors like this, who needs enemies or the riaa, etc.? In the end, if p2p does fail, it will be because, as usualy, of the blatant greed of a few (or many) companies.
A while back I actually bought Limewire pro thinking i was supporting a 'developer community' and all that crap. Oh well, guess everything else goes into the toilet at some point.

If you're running OS X, you can get the Ultrapeer/swarm-downloading goodness of LimeWire without that bitter SpyWare aftertaste. Have a look at Acquisiton. It uses the LimeWire core with a Cocoa front-end. While still very early, using Acquisition after using LimeWire is like... using OS X after Xp (oooh! Bad troll! how'd you get in here?!?)

I don't know the guy who writes it or anything, but he's a fellow Canadian so I feel the need to plug.