poll: mac software
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I hate when people give other people BS on how they are buying all the software all the time and everything they own is legal. I would say maybe 1% of people I know have legal copies of everything. It's unrealistic to expect someone who needs one Adobe app for example for one project or even personal project to buy that application, spend let's say $600-$700 on it, when they make maybe a $1000 or $1500. Especially when you consider they won't be using that app anymore. I support legal software of course, but even MS, Adobe and other big software giants know that if that someone gets their software even illegally that in the end that person will buy it. That's why software industry really doesn't fight piracy that hard. I did that before. I was forced to use "grey" software because I couldn't afford it, but as soon as I did, I started buying all of those programs from them. So far I spent thousands of dollars on software and all these giants got my money in the end. I think that pretty much everyone I know did the same thing in their lives. This is even more pronounced in Macintosh community believe it or not.
Now as answer to your question pkny, P2P networks are pretty much out of the loop these days or are so saturated that they become incredibly slow. My suggestion would be:
Download Azureus:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/Surf a few torrent web sites for everything you need. Here's a few links. All you do is click on torrent link and you are downloading.