Piolet

French for Ice axe.

Piolet is a MANOLITO servent developed by Pablo Soto. Piolet shares the same codebase as Blubster; the name change is a result of concerns from Pablo Soto's employer, Optisoft. Piolet can share and download audio (inc. music) files, and features SHA-1 hashing, search by artist or title, filtering by bitrate, instant messaging, and voice chat.

Piolet is the French word for an ice axe used for ice climbing, which resembles a pickaxe, or pioche.

Criticism

Bandwidth usage

It's criticized by some universities' IT departments for excessive bandwidth usage causing network congestion.

Adware

By default the Dealio toolbar is included. It is adware and a user unwilling to install it will have to opt-out.

External links

• Piolet homepage
• Piolet 1.8.3 Beta 3 - the last adware free version of Piolet