NPDOR asking about File Sharing in their survey
They neglected Emule (ED2K+KAD+Direct Source Exchange) and its Mods. MorphXT has fakes.dat and both the vanilla and mods can preview archives. I download most of my music in album or discography archives. It is important to keep an up to date IP Blocker and to keep out the fake servers. Kazzaa is a joke. I usually spot fakes before i’ve downloaded 25% of the file. Most fakes for music are encrypted/passworded archives and have about 50% coverage in fakes.dat and are spotted easily in previews.
Also outside of Sepultura and Soulfly I rarely buy music without downloading it in some form first. I wouldn’t never bought most mainstream artists without a download. I didn’t know I liked Linkin Park until I downloaded some homemade Final Fantasy AMVs with them as the music. I downloaded all the albums from Emule and only really liked Meteora and Hybrid Theory. I probably will eventually get the CDs if I can get them cheap ($7 avg price or lower — BMG/ColumbiaHouse).
I never buy DRMd-crap. No to Napster and ITunes. And no to WB’s DRM-mutated BitTorrent. I buy CDs and rip. If they go extinct then I download from Emule and then …maybe… buy from Itunes and then delete the files and keep the Emule version.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Is eMule Mac friendly? I have a G4 iMac (non-intel).
May 15th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Got this from http://www.mac-p2p.com/mldonkey-edonkey-overnet/
mlDonkey
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mldonkey/
MLDonkey remains the best option for Mac OS X users to access the eDonkey and Overnet networks.
While official clients exist at eDonkey2000.com and Overnet.com, they tend to underperform compared to this client (under Mac OS X).
Another advantage of mldonkey is that it supports multiple P2P networks beyond eDonkey and Overnet. Support also includes: Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect, and OpenNap.
The biggest problem with MLDonkey is one of user-friendliness. It requires the user to invoke the command line to even launch the program and then requires the use a Web interface, rather than a windowed interface.
As a result, several graphical clients have emerged and add a graphical layer to the mldonkey client.
mlMac (recommended)
http://www.abyssoft.com/software/mlmac/
mlMac is one of the most popular graphical clients for mlDonkey, and provides users with access to all the networks available.
iSwipe (DonationWare)
http://www.hillmanminx.net/iswipe/
for MLDonkey I think you need Download the Linux Version and it needs MacOSX and an intel or AMD64 though. I don’t know anything about mlMac.? The official Edonkey client has Mac ports but its commercial so you either have to pay or go get a crack off Emule via a friend’s computer.