Getting bit torrent to work

[Dr Mindbender]

Can someone help me out with this? It just keeps taking me to sites where i have to pay for stuff which defeats the purpose of downloading it in the first place.

I am a complete noob at this so please assume i know nothing. What do i do?

[Lector Malibu]

Can someone help me out with this? It just keeps taking me to sites where i have to pay for stuff which defeats the purpose of downloading it in the first place.

I am a complete noob at this so please assume i know nothing. What do i do?


Bit Torrent is done as far as I know.

Down load Bitlord

Than go to piratebay for all you pirating needs shipmate arrgh...

Also make sure you have an unpacking program like winrar

and up to date anti virus is a must

[Dr Mindbender]

Bit Torrent is done as far as I know.

Down load Bitlord

Than go to piratebay for all you pirating needs shipmate arrgh...

Also make sure you have an unpacking program like winrar

and up to date anti virus is a must




cheers, me heartie...

do you know if that's good for programs, as well as movies and er, ahem! porn? :blushing:

[Kami]

IMHO uTorrent is generally better (especially for memory footprint).
that said, all torrent clients can handle all .torrents

[Lector Malibu]

cheers, me heartie...

do you know if that's good for programs, as well as movies and er, ahem! porn? :blushing:


Well I'm not a porn person but

www.piratebay.org (http://www.piratebay.org) -programs , games, applications, movies, you name it.

www.isohunt.com (http://www.isohunt.com) good stuff as well

Now listen this is pirating, so yes it is illegal so it's your choice from here on out.

If you do decide to get stuff, make sure you read the comments about what you are getting . People will give you clues whether it is a safe file.

Bit lord will work like limewire. You will be able to see the torrent downloading and stuff

When you get your file make sure you scan the compressed file with your anti virus before unpacking it with winrar

[Dr Mindbender]

Well I'm not a porn person but

www.piratebay.org (http://www.piratebay.org) -programs , games, applications, movies, you name it.

www.isohunt.com (http://www.isohunt.com) good stuff as well

Now listen this is pirating, so yes it is illegal so it's your choice from here on out.



Hey, what would Marx do? :lol:

[Lector Malibu]

Hey, what would Marx do? :lol:

True.:rolleyes:

[Cymru]

I use torrentz.com
It searches Mininova, Piratebay and pretty much all the big torrent sites.

[Comrade Rage]

In terms of Torrent clients, UTorrent is probably the best. In terms of sites, PirateBay (mentioned above is good).

[DIzzIE]

Personally, I stay the fuck away from utorrent.

Sure, it doesn't require a tedious install process and has a light footprint, but at what cost?

First and foremost it's closed source software, so you have no clue as to what it may actually be doing underneath the covers. This is a reason in and of itself to avoid closed source: the secrecy and the notion that code can be locked up and owned.

However, going further, the people behind utorrent have what should be troubling histories for any torrent user. For instance, two years ago, utorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus made a deal (http://torrentfreak.com/%C2%B5torrent-developer-signs-deal-with-peerfactor/) with Peerfactor to help them develop "new content applications for the Web." Peerfactor is made up of some former employees of Retspan, an anti-P2P group that wanted to shut down suprnova (http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=602) (a popular torrent indexer) back in 2004. Peerfactor itself made its money by offering users cash in exchange for uploading fake torrents to sites that would then redirect anyone who downloads the fake torrent to a pay site.

What the fuck does it say about utorrent if its former lead developer is willing to work on developing tools for companies with a history of anti-P2P activities?

There's also the fact that utorrent was bought out by BitTorrent Inc a little over a year ago.

BitTorrent Inc is of course notorious for sucking corporate cock (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001526505):


WASHINGTON -- The MPAA, BitTorrent -- a P2P network that allows users to share huge bits of information -- and the motion picture studios on Tuesday announced an agreement to collaborate to stop Internet piracy.

BitTorrent founder and CEO Bram Cohen agreed to remove links that direct users to pirated content owned by MPAA companies, Cohen and MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said in a joint release.

their privacy policy (http://www.utorrent.com/privacy.php) is chock full of delicious quips like...


We limit the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. DRM is technology designed to control access to and use of media content. Files downloaded from BitTorrent.com utilize DRM only for commercial content published by our partners who require DRM as a condition to making their content available.


BitTorrent does not currently [??] sell, trade, or otherwise transfer outside the company personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily provide in any registration.


Finally, we may disclose your personally identifiable information upon a transfer or sale to another entity of all or substantially all of our assets or equity securities or upon any other corporate reorganization.

In other words: I don't recommend using utorrent based on the fact that it is a closed source piece of software and that its various owners have shown a willingness to cooperate with anti-file sharing organizations such as the MPAA. For these reasons utorrent cannot be trusted.

Here are some open source alternatives: ABC (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/), BitTornado (http://www.bittornado.com/), XBT (http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/client/), Halite (http://www.binarynotions.com/halite-bittorrent-client), Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/).

Why not give them a go and give a big fuck you to proprietary software and corporations?

[Herman]

Why not give them a go and give a big fuck you to proprietary software and corporations?

Because I could care less about which software I use to download torrent files. Utorrent has worked for me so far.

[DIzzIE]

You have to realize that there are political implications of the software you use. Software is not some nebulous apolitical stream of data, it either supports the status quo of content ownership, or it operates against it. By choosing to use closed source solutions that are further controlled by those who have ties with anti-file sharing corporations you are giving them your tacit support.

Obviously this isn't to say that you can't use closed-source software to undermine the intellectual property and content ownership paradigms themselves, nor is it to tell you that you 'can't' or 'shouldn't' use a certain torrent client--use whatever the fuck you want, that of course goes without saying, I'm just stating my own reasons for not using utorrent, not telling anyone else what to use--it is only to once again point out that your decision is inherently a political one.

When given the choice between similar clients (say utorrent and ABC) with similar features, yet one of which is made by comrades who support freedom of information in the form of open source, why not support them in lieu of the matching corporate client?

[RHIZOMES]

I find btjunkie.com has the most reliable torrents.

[Vageli]

Also, torrentz.com is like a meta-torrent search engine, searching many popular torrent websites simultaneously.

[DIzzIE]

http://www.pizzatorrent.com/ is another recent meta torrent search engine, though its uptime is a little erratic atm.