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Which P2P file sharing Network Do You Use?
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Milkyway Galaxy
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Which peer-to-peer file sharing network do you use to download your....um... softwarz?
I found this intriguing article online exploring the human side of the p2p movement, such as why we as people want to put up our stuff for the world and feel it's right to do so. The story described the different types of people that tend to use certain p2p sharing networks? So which do you use to download your Mac stuff? Gnutella, FastTrack, WinMX, eDonkey, Hotline, Caracho, or something else? Aparently people using WinMX tend to be more advanced and 'ol folks who like Hotline prefer a user-to-user approach to file sharing?
So which network do you use primarily? Which is the best?
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Death To Extremists!
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Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
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none coz my university blocks all the P2P ports expect BT. Meanwhile, I ain't download any warz/music from P2P sharing.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Thanks Kenneth. I completely forgot about BitTorrent. But from what I hear, BT is relatively new and I wander if it has any good stuff for Mac users? What other p2p networks are out their that offer Mac stuff?
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Death To Extremists!
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Lately, only BitTorrent. The rest take too much effort.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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I actually never tried BitTorrent. What's it like? I hear it's pretty different structure from other p2p networks. Importantly, does it work behind LAN Proxy servers & firewalls?
My usually favorite p2p network, Gnutella, doesn't work behind proxies and firewalls last time I checked. Anyone know if this problem has been fixed in any Windows Gnutelle client?
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Death To Extremists!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Moved from Ohio's first capital to its current capital
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Gneutellla...a.k.a....Limewire.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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BitTorrent. The other's are just not worth it.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sunny, Warm, Queensland.
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BitTorent is the god of all file sharing.
but in my experence 56K modem is really painful
- Zoom Zoom
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2003
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I use Poisoned which utilizes a lot of those networks.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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mlmac seems to be a good place to find most everything. even .torrents.
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Utah
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Limewire for the small stuff, BitTorrent for the biggies. Where is a good place for torrents? I usually just search on Limewire for "Torrent". Seems like LimeWire development has stalled. They used to pop up new builds all the time. Now it seems to be stuck at 3.6.15 for some time.
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Work: 2008 8x3.2 MacPro, 8800GT, 16GB ram, zillions of HDs. (video editing)
Home: 2008 24" 2.8 iMac, 2TB Int, 4GB ram.
Road: 2009 13" 2.26 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram & 640GB WD blue internal
Retired to BOINC only: My trusty never-gonna-die 12" iBook G4 1.25
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Mostly Overnet/eDonkey. Preferable 'coz I can run it on a *nix server (minimising risk/impact on Macs) and SSH into it.
Gnutella (LimeWire) and BitTorrent for backup.
Now if only I could find a way of easily converting those (legal rare live recording) OGG files into something that iTunes can play. 
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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"I'm Captain Chaos! Been in the force long...?"
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Thanks. 
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