Quote Originally Posted by omegagodly
i got a letter once threatening to shut off our internet service, but no fines or anything... you'll most likely get caught downloading off of torrents than you will off of peer to peer networking, because on torrent, most big companies will look for their material on there, and you have to share,,, on peer to peer you dont have to share.. which is great.
Most P2P programs route ALL traffic through a central server.It isnt REALLY true P2P.The torrents on the other hand ARE true P2P there IS no main server like with Kazaa or grokster.with those,your initial login and file requests get filtered trough their main server and then sent on to other individual computer terminals.with torrents,there IS no "logon" to do.You merely contact a "tracker" which is a personal comp somewhere that the person has allowed to be used as a hub.From there on, all the data you get or transmit is straight from the individual computer that actaully HAS the file you need.No more "server" to run through,as with kazaa.