CityOfAngels

Napster died a long time ago; as did Kazaa and WinMX. Are there any current alternatives?
P.S. If there is a thread about this already, my utmost apologies.

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Irishsean

Try Bit Torrent...

http://suprnova.org/

Church

Kazaa is dead? I still use it every day...

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CityOfAngels

Ah, I will look into BitTorrent. Thank you! First I need to find a non-pay site though.

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radioguy

limewire is another good site to try out.

Church

He gave you one. Suprnova is free.

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Irishsean

Sorry bout that, fixed the link. Accidently put .com instead of .org, and the .com is a ripoff site.

Crack

I like K-lite ++ (here http://download.freeweb-hosting.com/)

Never mind the "Beauty Queens from Russia" advertizemnet...



and kazaa is not dead, porn on kazaa will live on as long as I have an active broadband internet connection

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piesen

or Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

and this free site http://torrent.youceff.com/download.php

Eliminator

Suprnova is a godsend . You can get everything there. Missed a TV show? Don't worry, it's there. Unfortunately, I belive the authorities will be (if not already) setting their sights on this medium shortly.

The P2P model is nearly perfect. It's the ultimate 'on demand' service. If they charged a fee, I'd pay.

SinisterMotives

Not only is WinMX not dead, the new version that was just released is better than ever. The key to using WinMX is (1) configuring it properly and (2) becoming familiar with its admittedly complex user interface so that you can develop an aggressive search and download strategy. If I can't find a file on WinMX, I try the search on SoulSeek. Between the two, I have a 100% success rate in finding and downloading every file I want.

Embic

mirc

www.packetnews.com

CityOfAngels

Unfortunately don't see any hooverphonic. Guess I'll have to look into it if I get to leave work early again. Thanks all!

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piesen

Not to forget this one
http://www.ircspy.com/

CHollman82

Try kazaa lite resurection. I use that and bit torrent. Also, try DC++ if you have a lot of stuff to share (there are minimum share requirements)

bbbbbb555

bite torent is good for movies and programs

SOULSEEK is the best for music

piesen

and if you are looking for some dirty stuff try this place with ur torrent DL'r
http://torrent.youcexx.com/

mjw

Well i may be a bit paranoid, especially after getting a "Cease and Desist" from MGM, but i'm having trouble hitting the P2Ps anymore. Granted you should be fine as long as you don't leave them up and uploading to other people, but i'm just not that crazy about them. My issues with BitTorrent is that it tracks your IP, and it's really really easy for "them" to track you down.

If you want stuff, and don't mind putting in the time to figure it out, I'd check out newsgroups.....a good easy client is Newsbin Pro

http://www.newsbin.com/

All you gotta find out is your local ISP's newsgroup server (could be something along the lines of news.ISPNAME.com) and then start downloading. It's good for you.

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soccerchamp76

Bearshare is great for music, I have yet to find a bad song.

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mattevil

it's dead for me. the college has seemingly restricted all the P2P programs.I even had to change port numbers to get aol im to work

shadowalker

I still use kazaa and winmx, daily almost, and bittorrent sites for larger items

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Arc101

Hey come on Emule is great - slow but steady. You can get new stuff from Shareconnector & Shareprovider.

mrbuck12000

I guess i am a big fan of soulseek and have yet to download a bad song or CD from it.

mrb

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Irishsean

I will never use Kazaa again, after using Bit Torrent and Soulseek its sooooo slow...

In about the same time it takes to download 1 song off Kazaa I can get 1 CD off Bit Torrent.

bitrunner

I'm a big fan of Bittorrent and mostly use Azureus. Another good place to find torrents is torrent reactor. They also list porn torrents (which suprnova does not).
http://www.torrentreactor.net/index.php

SHiaar

Or? Azureus is bittorrent. I use bittornado myself. WinMX still works wonderfully. Everytime i've ever used Kazaa or kazaa lite +-*/= or whatever i've hated it. Emule is great if you don't mind how long it takes you to get something. I've found CD images for 10 year old games on it. Find anything on it with ease. Bittorrents are awesome but sometimes it's extremely difficult to get a file cause there are few seeders and whatnot for it.

toilet_duck

I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned Shareaza yet. It connects to many P2P networks, including Gnutella, Guntella 2, EDonkey2000, and Bit Torrent. Personally, I suggest you use a stand-alone Bit Torrent client, but that's just my opinion.

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Flyguy

I went there, clicked on the linke next to the show I wanted and it waid that I needed to be a member. Is this a pay service?

Irishsean

Make sure your going to Suprnova.org, not suprnova.com or .net...

.com and .net are scam laden pay sites...

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Paradise Lost

Kazaa Lite is great from Home, Ares for up at school, Azureus is my BitTorrent downloader
(there are many other ones you can use to download Torrents, Azureus seems the best).
SoulSeek I really didn't sit down to try out, but my one friend up here swears by it.

As far as I know, there is also Kazaa Lite Resurrection, which is headed up by some guy
from Russia. And for Torrent, use Suprnova.org, like everyone else said, there's no site
that even compares to it to my knowledge. You won't have trouble downloading anything
except the most obscure/non-mainstream stuff... I love it.

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SiNai

My school throttles down the P2P ports, but Ares seems to do a good job transferring files anyway. I would recommend this, or soulseek.

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skier

soulseek confused and belittled me. I thought about figuring it out but got Shareaza instead and now i'm happy.

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Rummey

I get all my stuff off of Youceff, Suprnova (.org) and use Shareaza to get the work done. I also have a darknet that I am always connected to.

Mike

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MSD

Soulseek, Gnucleus, even good old freenet (slow, but good for finding just about anything from music to classified documents, as long as you can avoid the kiddie porn.)

bitrunner

If you want info on any of the p2p programs or just looking to d/l them. Check out http://www.zeropaid.com/ they like to most of them.

mikec

any public torrent site, anybody can watch what IP's are downloading which files.

I don't like that at all.

better to join a torrent site, where you have to agree to terms that you're not one of "them"....and there are never "fake" files, or poor quality. faster too.

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bundy

i use Soulseek and Bittorrent (mostly suprnova torrents, but i do belong to a number of join sites as well) every day. they're great.
as someone above said, emule and dc++ are slow and steady... i don't use them often but they're there just in case.
i'm now going to investigate limewire.

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Locke00000

Movies: IRC, Usenet, FTPs
Music: IRC, Shareaza
TV: Bittorrent
Books: IRC
Games: IRC, Bittorrent
Apps: IRC, Demos+Cracks.am

IRC is probably the best resource for anything, except for a lot of stuff you really have to know where to go in order to get it. Packetnews is a great resource, but if you stick with a solid group long enough, a number of people are able to get rips of tons of older stuff. TV is the only thing that I find Bittorrent really excelent at as I'm not too happy with the groups that release TV on IRC. Hrmm..maybe I should do something about that...

Fearless_Hyena

There are a few threads like this where I've said the same thing, but here's another vote for BitTorrent and eMule. BitTorrent is one of the best ideas out there, especially for fast transferring of new content. By design eMule and especially the new experimental serverless sister client Kademlia (Kad, which comes enabled by default on the new emule) will have the most longevity.

Torrents are usually more short-lived -- they rely on a lot of participants, popular content, and the reliability of servers. They also tend to be faster since all participants are constantly active. Sure eMule is slow compared to BT, but the fact that you get credit for uploading and often end up uploading more or just as much as you download ensures that content won't die. It's also got a rating system to flag fake or foreign-language content which is cool. And Kad is bad ass -- it doesn't rely on servers, as every participating client acts as a mini-server that each does a small part. You can read about it here, the design is very well thought-out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia

gyroscope

try soulseek...if you are looking for music,it is great!