Torrents - a good way of sharing?

deepsepia wrote:

1) you are opening one specific port on you firewall that is forwarded to a reserved application, very slim chance of being hacked - more of a chance of being hacked by using IE 'insert number here'
2) There are ways of masking your activity from your ISP using packet shaping, encryption and choosing a port that could be genuine high data traffic. There are also very good IP blacklist plugins out there.
3) as previously mentioned by MR_Trevrep, some torrents can be slow if the seeds are low, on the flipside I download a lot of TV shows and they frequently max out my connection equating to my downloading a tv show in minutes...
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Let's say some clown uploads an 8 part file to Rapidshare. Now every hour and a half or so, I have to come back and download the next part and hope it doesn't die before I finish. Not only that, but I can only download 1 file at a time. With torrents, I start the download and forget about it. It's done when it's done. Sometimes, I'll get a connection of over 300 kbps and the file is mine in no time. I gotta really really want a file to download something large off Rapidshare.

My share ratio on TnA is over 2.0, and on Empornium 1.81 currently. Places like Piratebay and Isohunt don't keep track of share ratios so the torrents are more likely to die.

Deity wrote:

I tried registering on Pure TNA yesterday but was getting a server error, has the site been closed?
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When the lights are out, all women are beautiful...

can't connect today. Yesterday I could.

Sojourn wrote:

Can you recommend configuration or tutorials on how to do this? I have heard people describe what you're saying, but its not particularly obvious.

Deity wrote:

With Rapidshare -- I ponied up the small fee for a Premium account -- I never enter my user/pass information on any webpage other than RS itself, and then stay logged in . . . can download the max (25 gig per five days) very readily.

for long lists of links, I use Flashgot, which just places them in the queue, works unattended, pretty much perfectly.

I do not favor torrents for this sort of thing. For movies or games, things with broad appeal - sure. But for something that maybe only a few collectors are interested in? not so much.

That said, there *are* very good torrent sites dedicated to adult files. If it was on there, it wouldn't be so bad, as it'd have better seeds for longer (i imagine).

But so far as it goes? Rapidshare is fine for most things.

deepsepia wrote:

There was a tutorial available on this board, but it had to be moved due to one of the forum rules. I cannot send you this tutorial via PM as this would also breach the rules of the forum. Feel free to email me on sojourn_uk@hotmal.co.uk and I will help you in any way I can - but it will not be related to this board in any way.

Mods if there is a problem with this please let me know and I'll delete this post.

Regards,

Soj
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The Password for all my RAR files is - Sojourn

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When the lights are out, all women are beautiful...

You people go right on paying Rapidshare so you can download porn. I like my porn free. Don't bitch when someone uploads to another place like Megaupload and don't compare your paid for Rapidshare service to free torrents.

Sojourn wrote:
I'd just like to make clear that any possible rule breaking was done entirely at my instigation and that I alone am at fault here. I have apologised to Sojourn privately for inadvertently misleading him but I do so again publicly.

I'm a naughty moderator

At least one torrent site has a forum and tutorials there.

Shadowman wrote:

So you were naughty, Shadowman?!?



This needs a punishment, or?!?

But beware, it can change you a little bit



I'm only joking

Monkey D. Ruffy

Actually Monkey D he looks better than I do these days .

Deity wrote:

I don't bitch about Megaupload . . . there are a few that are just spammy popup nightmares, though. . . depositfiles is particularly egregious.

RS provides pretty good value, and its free if enough folks download your stuff.

But seems like there are things like TV which are more easily found on torrent sites.

Torrents are much more then just porn. If you learn to search, you can find ANYTHING!! I get all the software, music, games, TV, movies etc. then I will ever use. I get updated Keys for software, you name it. I agree that RS is easier to get porn if you can afford the premium account.


That brings me to another problem with Rapidshare. In America, the only way to purchase a RS acct. is through PayPal, which SUCKS!!!

They keep deleting my accounts cause RS is associated with Po rn and its against Paypals rules.

Not only do I have to keep signing up, but they blacklist my CC, so I have to keep using different cards. A real FRIGGIN' pain.

PAYPAL SUCKS!!!!

So, what is the "official attitude" towards P2P nets here? Are ed2k links and torrents allowed or not?