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P2P Software for the Mac?

Posted by Cliff on from the power-to-the-people dept.

NeptalTim asks: "I've recently started using the Mac as my primary computer again after a hiatus of several years. All 'switch' jokes aside, I'm liking it very much, except for the decided lack of good P2P software. I always used Kazaa on Windows, but the best app I've found for the Mac is Limewire, which is a tad slow to say the least. What do Slashdot readers in the Mac community use for P2P?" I've been using iSwipe for a short amount of time and have found it useful. It's no WinMX, but it works. What other P2P programs have you found that you like?

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  1. Give Fern a try? by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sure, it's a derivative of Limewire, on the other hand it's written in Cocoa/Java, so it at least looks prettier :)

    http://www.kapsi.de/software/fern/

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  2. Very useful! by Paladeen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The responses to this topic have been a lifesaver for me...ah, to be free from the wiles of Gnutella and the oh-so-slow-I-want-to-die LimeWire!

    There really should be more topics of this kind for other spheres of Mac tools. Finding good software isn't always easy, even with Versiontracker, especially since a lot of OS X software is open-source and isn't particularly well promoted.

  3. Yes, there's P2P software for Mac, but... by AtATaddict · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As others have said, don't. Not only is there the issue of it being theft, which is debatable, but it's also just a bad situation. Software makers and most of the media creation industry are in an arms race replete with deception and dirty practices. It's not worth the aggravation, much like e-mail is becoming with the continued proliferation of spam.