BitTorrent ?

[ookzDVD]

Have you already used BitTorrent to share your DivX/XviD or even your music collections ?

Lots of people talking about BitTorrent, is that legal or not ?

[Sirber]

BitTorrent is almost only used to share unlicensed animes.

ex: http://anime.mircx.com

@modo
Before you think about it, my link is NOT against Rule #6, and this site does NOT contain licensed / copyrighted material.

[int 21h]

I disagree. Bittorrent is widely used to mirror LEGAL material. For example: http://www.o2w.nl/~bas/rotk-trailer.torrent (RotK Trailer)

http://www.fanimatrix.net/The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).avi.torrent (A fan produced matrix film)

These are just two quick examples, nearly daily I see material mirrored via Bittorrent that otherwise would be unavailable because of limited bandwidth.

[Animaniac]

BitTorrent was originally designed for legal corporate use... It has expanded to other legal areas, but it has been perverted for use in the piracy world as well.

http://anime.mircx.com does list licensed, dvd-rip, hentai, and anime soundtracks (along with unlicensed stuff).

http://www.animesuki.com lists purely unlicensed anime fansubs.

I exclusively use it to get unlicensed anime fansubs.

[ookzDVD]

Thank you for the information.

I hope the network will be bigger and bigger :)

[Sirber]

anime fan? :D

[ookzDVD]

Originally posted by Sirber
anime fan? :D

No, I'm not anime fan, just regular pron fan. :)
IRC is still the biggest distribution channel for pron files, imho. :)

[Sirber]

haven't seen any pron on BT... :confused:

[ProfDrMorph]

Except for single MP3s you can get nearly everything by using BitTorrent ( I mean the usual stuff: movies, anime, pron, full albums, games, etc ) plus some legal stuff like The Fanimatrix. The only difference to eMule or something like that is that you need some place to get the .torrent's from. ( Nobody needs to PM me about such sites: I don't know any! The only website I saw which hosted different kinds of .torrent's is down now! )

[echooff]

While I have heard the name BitTorrent I guess I am clueless about it. I thought it was one of those groups that go into thretres and steal movies. Are you saying its a P2P that you have to have known peer to connect to?

[ProfDrMorph]

It's some kind of P2P "network". You need the BitTorrent client and a .torrent file of whatever you want to download. This .torrent file tells the software to which server to connect to and what file to get. Everybody using that .torrent file will also be connected to a small network and share whatever he downloads with other users. So you don't share everything you've got on your computer but only those files you're currently downloading. And you're only sharing it to users downloading the same files. I think the servers also transfer files in contrast to eMule ( those servers are just for network coordination but they don't transfer any files ).

BitTorrent isn't meant to replace KaZaA/eMule/whatever. It's designed to offer more bandwith for users who want to download a specific file by "forcing" those users to share that file with other users downloading the same file. When you're downloading something from a HTTP/FTP server your upstream isn't used and this is what BitTorrent changes: use your upstream to allow faster average download speed for all users.

I hope I didn't repeat myself too often and I didn't confuse anybode/tell something wrong. :D

[mrlipring]

ok, i know a bit about BT. ;)

basically, someone has something to share. they create a torrent file. they upload it to a server, a "tracker".

the torrent file contains details about the files the user wishes to share. checksums etc.

the user opens this torrent file in their bittorrent client, and it checks the original files against the checksums. the file is now shared, and they are a SEEDER.

now, someone sees the info about the torrent on this tracker's website. it's added to the database automagically as soon as the person who uploaded the torrent shares it.

This second person downloads and opens the torrent file, and a temporary dummy file is created on their hard drive, and the transfer begins from seeder to PEER.

If, say, this first peer gets 40% of the file(s) and another peer joins, then the first 40% of the file(s) will be transferred from the seeder and the original peer, and so on.

Bittorrent is a way of alleviating the bandwidth stress from the person who originally wants to share files. the others downloading from them share the transfer between them, not unlike other filesharing apps like overnet etc, but the use of a central tracker keeps things "verified". most trackers have facilities to comment on, and rate torrents, unlike kazaa etc, which is a big bloody mess imo.

speeds with torrents are generally far faster than with other filesharing apps.

the downside, if it IS a downside, is that the files generally have a shorter lifespan in cyberspace. you need to keep checking back regularly, as there is no "shared folder" thing going on, you actually have to make an effort to share new things. obviously you passively share anything you're downloading.

[ookzDVD]

So,

where is the most comprehensive web site which providing .torrent
files?

or is there any .torrent search engine ?

PS. for easy use, i prefer to use winmx.

thank you.

[RadicalEd]

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buut.. I dunno if that link would be considered legal.. at all :|

[Gaia]

Originally posted by RadicalEd
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buut.. I dunno if that link would be considered legal.. at all :|

If <...> is not a warez site i don't what is.

In a way it might be legal but you shouldn't have posted it here.

[Wilbert]

Time to close this thread. If you want to continue to talk about it, I suggest you do that outside this forum ...