free download alternative to Kazaa?
free download alternative to Kazaa?
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shnozz

Original Poster:

30,396 posts

298 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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any idea where? someone suggested e-mule or e-donkey or something or other

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

267 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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Bit-torrent is the way to go. www.suprnova.org and google for bit torrent too.

charlescrawley

968 posts

279 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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Try BitTornado... It's a more fully featured version of the original BitTorrent client...

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

288 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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You could try www.afternapster.com

griffless

405 posts

278 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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Depends what sort of files you'd be looking for, but WinMX is excellent:- no spware or malware, and consistently very quick.
The only drawback I've found is the lack of decent help, but once you have the hang of it, it runs flat-out for a couple of weeks at a time
You can get it from www.winmx.com
HTH

BMGM3

10,480 posts

270 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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gixxer1000

786 posts

279 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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shnozz said:
any idea where? someone suggested e-mule or e-donkey or something or other



I use this. It's great.

www.edonkey.com/

You need to buy the "Pro" client, but the regular is free. I use the regular and it works a treat.

Edited to also add this www.shareprovider.com/ as a good site for file links. It's not always up and can be a little slow at times.

The edonkey client also has a file search facility. Only problem with that is that many files are not correctly named so what you think you are getting isn't what turns up. No such problems from shareprovider.

Enjoy.

>> Edited by gixxer1000 on Monday 4th October 21:41

ThatPhilBrettGuy

11,810 posts

267 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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I second Edonkey.

Muncher

12,235 posts

276 months

Monday 4th October 2004
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Bitorrent definately, but by far the best downloading tool I've ever used.

shnozz

Original Poster:

30,396 posts

298 months

Tuesday 5th October 2004
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cheers guys. will have a play at home. kazaa seems useless now. Was searching for one prodigy track last night and tried about 30 users, all of which adviced more sources required.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

297 months

Tuesday 5th October 2004
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Soulseek for music.

emuleplus.sourceforge.net for software, movies and erm speciality film.

If you cant find Soulseek give me a shout...

shnozz

Original Poster:

30,396 posts

298 months

Tuesday 5th October 2004
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ok, cool. cheers mate.

pmanson

13,388 posts

280 months

Tuesday 5th October 2004
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shnozz said:
ok, cool. cheers mate.


I've got a copy of Kazaa lite I can send over to you if you want?

E-Mail me off line if you want it. It still seems to work well

tombaron

814 posts

266 months

Tuesday 5th October 2004
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Ares

TimW

3,848 posts

274 months

Monday 11th October 2004
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Ares Lite ++, Shareazza, mIRC spy, i got prodigy's new album

Lois (PIE)

14,706 posts

279 months

Monday 11th October 2004
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I use Ares too.