for all you techies out there...

[Scarlet Sky]

how do bit torrent programs work? i have a program, but how do i download anything?

[thcbongman]

go to torrentz.com or ww.isohunt.com and search for what you want to download. Then you pick which tracker you want to download, with seeds meaning how many full copies are available for upload vs how many people are downloading it. You download the tracker and the program takes over.

[Scarlet Sky]

cool, thanx, i'll try tonite :)

[Scarlet Sky]

ok, i'm lost again... seeds, routing...... HELP!

[JackdaWack]

yeah they arent safe at all, you'll be getting letters in the mail on what exaclty you downloaded and probably a nice warning on how they will sue your ass in the future. stick to p2p programs DC++ is safer slow but safe.

[Scarlet Sky]

ok, i'm staying away from torrents.

thanx guys!

love, Sky :abduct:

[thcbongman]

If you install peerguardian2, you have nothing to worry about. Paramount can kiss my ass :p

[Markass]

yeah they arent safe at all, you'll be getting letters in the mail on what exaclty you downloaded and probably a nice warning on how they will sue your ass in the future. stick to p2p programs DC++ is safer slow but safe.

Have you?

I've been using torrents for at least a couple of years now. Nothing but about 50 or 60 albums on my computer. No notices of what I downloaded.

[babystarbud]

lol, thats bull,

ive been using torrents for getting movies for about 3 years now, no problems.
Asureus is the best client IMO.


its pretty safe, as long as you have good antivirus and spyware.
ive never heard of anyone getting letters, and pretty much everyone i know uses torrents.

[slipknotpsycho]

i'm not scared to use torrents i do it all the time, but i still use them as a last resort.. just because of all the hassel involved... i'd rather just pop open a p2p program like ARES, hit a search and start downloading... no sorting through loads of torrents to find one that's seeded and isn't being overly downloaded and all that crap..

when i can't find what i want on p2p i go to torrents...

[Raelum]

i have got yelled at from my ISP a few times for downloading movies because someone called them up and threatened to sue them, and they in turn threatened to cancel my service....

after that i have been downloading 10 gigs or more a week, using utorrent and a anonymous proxy... no problems at all.

a proxy basically hides you ip and ISP information by re-routing through a server. it can slow your downloads down depending on which proxy you use but its effective and safe.

just make sure your download has plenty of seeds and leechers, also check out the utorrent.com forums (even if your using something else) they have tons of tips on boosting your speed, by editing max tcp/ip connections, etc.
forum.utorrent.com / IF YOU HAVE SPEED ISSUES READ HERE FIRST (http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992)


~Raelum

[PaRanOiD81]

So here it is in a nutshell, before I go out to eat and explore the city of Austin, torrents are as safe as you can be. They take a file, split it up into 1,000,000 pieces, everyone has a piece of the action, you download them, piece at a time from EVERYONE (seeding) and then when its complete, the program combines those pieces to form the final product, which could be all 100 files you download or the single file you download. Peer to Peer download is recommened, however, they have been suing the users who UPLOAD the files, the ones who SHARE the files from the peer to peer. So basiscally, if you DOWNLOAD only and don't UPLOAD, you'll be fine. I hope this helps. Good luck, happy downloading.

[mfqr]

P2P software like Lamewire suck! It's way slower, and riddled with viruses and trojans. Using bittorrent is way safer. Plus, on p2p software like Lamewire, you won't get the speeds you want most of the time. While speed can be an issue with torrents too (not as much), it is in general a better way to download the stuff you want. Rarely do you find whole discographies of your favorite artist on a p2p program, like you would most likely find on a torrent site. Rarely will you be able to download a video game or movie on p2p software at a bearable speed, like you would with a torrent.

It is highly unlikely you'll get caught. Most of the time the torrent websites are shutdown, but nobody bothers the people downloading. And still, a lot of the good ones are still up. Don't worry about it...

Anybody remember Kazaa? Yeah, fuck that. It had 300+ spyware programs in it. Most of them suck. It's so hard to find what you want on those a lot of the time, unless what you want is mainstream, etc. Not to mention that if you use a torrent from a torrent site, you're getting good quality stuff.

[PaRanOiD81]

Yes but the reason you won't get bothered downloading from a torrent is because you are not downloading the entire file, your downloading little bits here and there. its the same reason why they tried to close and sue the piratebay, they lost, because the piratebay only hosted the torrents and not the files. Its really a great idea but you'd have to go on a private network of torrents to get the fastest speeds possible.