In case you haven't yet noticed, all the main torrent sites went dead over the weekend.
This is a good (short) summary of the consequences.
Gotta love the Americans and their naivity. I'll be waiting to find out what the next generation of protocols are...
Deek.
The day the torrents died
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Re: The day the torrents died
Bugger back to winmx again - providing that hasn't been nobbled toodxg wrote:In case you haven't yet noticed, all the main torrent sites went dead over the weekend.
This is a good (short) summary of the consequences.
Gotta love the Americans and their naivity. I'll be waiting to find out what the next generation of protocols are...
Deek.
Can't say I've ever used p2p or torrent sites to be fair. I usually get mates to download it for me and then go round with my 1GB memory key 
Oh and have recently been introduced to www.allofmp3.com too - pretty good!
Oh and have recently been introduced to www.allofmp3.com too - pretty good!
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Just tried WinMX, and got nothing. I searched for things and I'd either get absolutely nothing, or things with a million people already downloading it. Gone back to SoulSeekbstardchild wrote:WinMX on Broadband did me just fine for a year - untill I discovered torrents - now I guess I'll have to go backtoXXin wrote:WinMX sucks!
Never got into the Torrent stuff, as I only just got broadband. If it comes back I probably will
I use SoulSeek, very good for hard to find music.
http://www.slsknet.org
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Kind of a bigger better faster winmxwul3er wrote:Please excuse me for being "Dumb" but what is Torrents.
I've been using Winmx but dont like it and Also Kazaa Lite K++
which i think is ok apart from only being able to do do one search at a time.
Winmx takes some getting used to - bottom line with all peer to peer (p2p) networks is if you don't share you get nothing
with about 60 gigs of music and 120 gigs of movies I either go on to download and share music or movies - not both so I cold swap the hard drives on my download PC before I start up and connect
If I try to do both - the movies fill my q up and no-one wants to share music
If you have less than 20 files shared then most users running leech hammer or similar will kick you off the Q
Sure as someone said earlier there are big Q's but they get short real quick as people get fed up of waiting
My download PC is on 24/7 so I don't mind Q'ing
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p*ss, and i never even got to install bit torrent
thats going to w*nk heartily all over a major part of a couple other boards i "frequent" (ok, "occasion" perhaps) - will have to nip in and see the reaction. probably along the lines of various expletives.
wasnt torrenting supposed to be the big distributed file sharing network that was impossible to trace anyway? whats to stop another aggregation site... and another popping up... and then some clever sod finding a way to spread them all about (e.g. pulling page sources from a fragments of a thousand different geocities accounts or something)
first napster and now this. as if it'll bloody acheive anything
anyone got any news on direct connect? i was going to hit that up over the next couple days to sort someone out a CDR they wanted for xmas (before you ask, i've already suggested going to actually buy the stuff instead and been sent back to the net - even by my own mum!!)
"..."
four more years... four more years.... thats all we've got to sit back and hope that our two glorious leaders are too thick to think of seizing power permanently for themselves.
edit: still dont understand how people are getting arrested for simply posting bit-torrent hashes on a website though. there was no other content hosted and its the kind of thing that, damn, you could very happily send thru an SMS or a thousand other ways.
there's a nice part of the suprnova closure faq that tells of about 20 other sites from where you can download stuff, and from as much as i gathered by clicking a random selection, they're all perfectly fine.
oh and this made me laugh a little
http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal
stupidest thing is, the most interesting stuff that i ever would have got off there was completely free and - spiritually at least - license free stuff, i.e. things that are never making it back to air or to VHS/DVD (or CD etc) in any country, anywhere, and are being shared out of the goodness of someone's heart. all the old tv shows that got linked on b3ta for example - i wonder if you can get threads (and several other 80s programs) on DVD at all? bet not.
the biggest pisser is that i bought my 250gb hard disc specifically so that i could share rare and cool stuff with other people (primarily over DC, but you know i would be torrenting it so hard as well)... had to give up because of router dodginess... and now hardly dare to go back online because any decent share i could log (in order to get onto a server) would put me at risk of having a motherfunking SWAT team descent and treat me as if i'd just owned up to raping an entire classroom of six-year-olds when the stuff i had done, in law, amounted to little more than what thousands if not millions of others do pretty much sanctioned every day/week ---- insert video tape, record program or movie, lend to mate after finished watching it again. rental fees paid: none. purchase fees paid: 50p for a blank tape. license fee share going towards that program: a pittance without you choosing where it should go.
(on that subject, when do we get our promised bloody referendum on ID cards?)
thats going to w*nk heartily all over a major part of a couple other boards i "frequent" (ok, "occasion" perhaps) - will have to nip in and see the reaction. probably along the lines of various expletives.
wasnt torrenting supposed to be the big distributed file sharing network that was impossible to trace anyway? whats to stop another aggregation site... and another popping up... and then some clever sod finding a way to spread them all about (e.g. pulling page sources from a fragments of a thousand different geocities accounts or something)
first napster and now this. as if it'll bloody acheive anything
anyone got any news on direct connect? i was going to hit that up over the next couple days to sort someone out a CDR they wanted for xmas (before you ask, i've already suggested going to actually buy the stuff instead and been sent back to the net - even by my own mum!!)
"..."
four more years... four more years.... thats all we've got to sit back and hope that our two glorious leaders are too thick to think of seizing power permanently for themselves.
edit: still dont understand how people are getting arrested for simply posting bit-torrent hashes on a website though. there was no other content hosted and its the kind of thing that, damn, you could very happily send thru an SMS or a thousand other ways.
there's a nice part of the suprnova closure faq that tells of about 20 other sites from where you can download stuff, and from as much as i gathered by clicking a random selection, they're all perfectly fine.
oh and this made me laugh a little
http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal
stupidest thing is, the most interesting stuff that i ever would have got off there was completely free and - spiritually at least - license free stuff, i.e. things that are never making it back to air or to VHS/DVD (or CD etc) in any country, anywhere, and are being shared out of the goodness of someone's heart. all the old tv shows that got linked on b3ta for example - i wonder if you can get threads (and several other 80s programs) on DVD at all? bet not.
the biggest pisser is that i bought my 250gb hard disc specifically so that i could share rare and cool stuff with other people (primarily over DC, but you know i would be torrenting it so hard as well)... had to give up because of router dodginess... and now hardly dare to go back online because any decent share i could log (in order to get onto a server) would put me at risk of having a motherfunking SWAT team descent and treat me as if i'd just owned up to raping an entire classroom of six-year-olds when the stuff i had done, in law, amounted to little more than what thousands if not millions of others do pretty much sanctioned every day/week ---- insert video tape, record program or movie, lend to mate after finished watching it again. rental fees paid: none. purchase fees paid: 50p for a blank tape. license fee share going towards that program: a pittance without you choosing where it should go.
(on that subject, when do we get our promised bloody referendum on ID cards?)
Don't see the problem tbh, I'm still using BitTorrent, in fact it's downloading now. BT tends to be better for downloading large files like TV shows. What's worse is when my uni blocked DC++ ports or started packet shaping so it wouldn't work anymore, and a week after I had to wipe my PC 
so I lost a hell of a lot of movies because there is never anyone with a big enough HDD.
so I lost a hell of a lot of movies because there is never anyone with a big enough HDD.Bit Torrent itself still works, it's just a protocol used for transferring files. It's the tracker sites you download the .torrent files that start your download off that are being closed down.
Supernova.org was just about the best place to get .torrent files from. I've still got some downloads going on my PC that I got from supernova, the data itself wasn't stored on the supernova server(s) it's scattered around people's PCs all over the world.
there are other bit torrent tracker sites, the best are listed somewhere off that link in the 1st post in this thread.
Supernova.org was just about the best place to get .torrent files from. I've still got some downloads going on my PC that I got from supernova, the data itself wasn't stored on the supernova server(s) it's scattered around people's PCs all over the world.
there are other bit torrent tracker sites, the best are listed somewhere off that link in the 1st post in this thread.