P2P networks are the mirror of the real world. You can find a lot of stuff over there. Legal and illegal. The legal are the open source application, public trailers and many other stuff you can just imagine. Sure, you can find the newest Hollywood movie on the P2P network as well, but you cannot expect this file to be legal to share with others.To play on Peer to Peer (P2P) networks, you have to understand, what you do. When you do not use it correctly, it can cause a legal action against you.

Windows and Linux user have advantages in P2P networking. For Mac OS X there is not too many clients for the networks. Azureus is the best client for BitTorrent networks, but for other file sharing networks, you have no too many options to choose from.

The most useful P2P networks client for Mac OS X is aMule. aMule is the client written completely in Java and using just a small portion of your computer resources. The application does not fit to Mac OS X look and feel completely, but you will have no issues to make it working correctly for you.

After the installation, which is just about copying the application to the Applications folder on your home drive. When aMule runs for the first time, you have to leave time to set up the application correctly. Many people are running file sharing applications and they do not know, what stuff they are sharing with the whole world. You can very easily share all your documents with the world allowing the people to download it to their computers. Just try to run aMule and look for “Budget”, “Financial Analysis”, “Confidential” and some other words. And you will get tons of results. People just do not understand how file sharing works and they share a lot of really private stuff. Just make sure, you have a correct folder marked to share and nothing else.

The next step in setting aMule is to set the download and upload speed. It can look useless to you, but the Internet provider can have some kind of FUP (Fair User Policy) in place and you can very easily breach the limits. So, being a bit conservative in setting the speeds can save you a lot of troubles.

When aMule is set, just make it to download the latest list of servers, connect to one and start searching the Internet for the files of your interest. And – be sure, you are on the legal side.

By the way, do you know any other P2P client for Mac OS X?

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