I've been a registered user for several years. Acquisition was a useful P2P app 5 years ago when it first came out, but that it no so any longer.

The positive side is that the app is lightweight (8.9 megs), it is easy to use, is well integrated with iTunes, and has a slick user interface.

That being said, that does in no way upweigh the negative side, which is that the app is very deficient in the functionality it is supposed to deliver, which is download files from the Gnutella P2P network. I have really stretched myself in trying to be lenient in reviewing this app, but enough is enough. I have sporadically tried over the last two years to get this piece of garbage to produce ANY useful search results, and downloadable files, but it almost always comes up empty handed. I have tried more or less everything, and my Mac, router and app is set up just the way it should be. No blocked ports, no spam flitering activated and so on.

Examples: when I search for "ebook" or ".pdf" i get very few useful results - the most i get is garbage - spam files with forged names. On other clients, especially on the PC, i get thousands of results with pdf ebooks with useful content.

Ironically, the spam filtering is apparently unable to filte the spam out, because even though I activate it, a lot of junk still creeps though the filters. It even seems to me that the legitimate files are filtered out by the spam filter! :(

Acquisition has had it's day, but that is in the past tense now. Avoid.

Alternative recommandations: Poisoned (Mac OS X) or Shareaza (Windows).