Cannot find a working P2P client for 10.3

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I have tried *everything* I could find.

This comp. is a 700 Mhz PPC iBook, and I bought 10.3 for it 'cause it only had 10.2 and no system disks. The price difference between 10.3 and a PPC version of 10.4 is about $100, so please don't suggest that I upgrade (please note that 10.4 is also the highest that a PPC can take, and it isn't even worth it for this one, it runs just slow enough with 10.3 thank you very much)

I have gotten everything to work on this machine except P2P.

I've tried all old & new versions of:

Limewire
Frostwire
Poisoned
Cabos
Phex
Acqlite

Nothing works. Any suggestions?

It really ****** me off that Apple is so brutally & tyrannically totalitarian that they will not offer any Java updates beyond 1.4.2. Can someone have a word with them for me about it?
Thanks

Note: I also have all possible upgrades installed as well.
 
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try transmission!!
or tomato torrent!!
 
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to be honest I never found anything I was looking for on these sorts of networks and even then the speeds and waiting was painful .. so yeah transmision :D
 

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In my opinion, the Gnutella network is notorious for illegal downloads and as a result, has gotten so heavily policed by different copyright-sensitive organizations that you'd have to be crazy to want to participate in it - even if it's for perfectly legitimate reasons.
 
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In my opinion, the Gnutella network is notorious for illegal downloads and as a result, has gotten so heavily policed by different copyright-sensitive organizations that you'd have to be crazy to want to participate in it - even if it's for perfectly legitimate reasons.

doesn't that go for torrents as well? after all that's where all the rips and cracked/hacked software gets into the cycle :)
 

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doesn't that go for torrents as well? after all that's where all the rips and cracked/hacked software gets into the cycle :)

Not necessarily. I use it for dowloading large files, like Linux distros. BT makes it a lot cheaper for small companies and devs to distribute their works.
 
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This is such an interesting discussion...One that should really be had in a national forum, like Congress or some such ;)

I think Bittorrent and Gnutella are both equally guilty of copyright infringement, but neither have been effectively shut down, so, in my opinion, they still remain viable, legitimate file sharing methods.

I think it's funny that Apple tried to protect individual mp4 songs, but then changed back very soon afterwards. That was a pain, for sure. Clearly didn't work either.
 

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Apple didn't try to protect songs. They implemented a form of DRM to prevent redistribution in order to comply with the restriction that was forced upon them and every other legal purveyor of music by the music studios at that time.
 
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"lame" if you ask me...being a musician born into a family of and larger circle of musicians, the internet has thoroughly and completely destroyed any chance of any of us making money from recording albums.

Gnutella/P2P and Bittorrent have completely destroyed a way of life.

But, that doesn't mean that I think people shouldn't get to download every KISS album made since 1974 for free, if they choose to do so.

Kiss - Discography (26 Albums).rar Torrent Download
(I mean, it's right frickin' there^ everywhere, if the Fed's really wanted to arrest people for this, I would assume they could track every seeder back to their house via their IP address)

Music is better and more powerful than anything else in life, and the internet is never going away, so lets all just get used to it.
 

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