what program do you use to (illegally) download music & other stuff? i've been using Warez and it's crap - not a wide selection of songs & stuff and what they do have takes forever to download.
for music i use soulseek. unfortunately if you dont also share your music (youre given the option), people may ban you from d/l their files.
for programs and such, i just go to torrentspy or torrent reactor and d/l the torrent. if i cant find it on one of those, ill ask around and see if theres an irc file server i can roll to and get it there (thats a rare occasion though. ive only really gone to irc to d/l manga :-p).
what? andy, it's like you're speaking another language. you know i still have that AIM convo of ours saved from when you told me how to "torrent" and i tried to last night but i just didn't get it. i feel like such a dork.
when you download a torrent file, what youre doing is downloading the file from other people (seeders). they all help you download the file while you are also helping upload it to other people too (see diagram).
when i told you to d/l azareus, thats a program that sort of corrals the torrents in one program so there isnt all kinds of bittorrent windows open. you can also pause, queue, set priority to files and force files to begin downloading. you dont HAVE to download and install azareus, you can just download the general bittorrent client here: http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html
I use Limewire. They have a pretty great selection of mainstream and *kinda* mainstream stuff, but almost no classical unless it's ridiculously well known.
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no idea - sully was the one who put it on my commp!
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for programs and such, i just go to torrentspy or torrent reactor and d/l the torrent. if i cant find it on one of those, ill ask around and see if theres an irc file server i can roll to and get it there (thats a rare occasion though. ive only really gone to irc to d/l manga :-p).
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this explains what torrent files are: http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html
when you download a torrent file, what youre doing is downloading the file from other people (seeders). they all help you download the file while you are also helping upload it to other people too (see diagram).
when i told you to d/l azareus, thats a program that sort of corrals the torrents in one program so there isnt all kinds of bittorrent windows open. you can also pause, queue, set priority to files and force files to begin downloading. you dont HAVE to download and install azareus, you can just download the general bittorrent client here: http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html
hope that makes things less crazy sounding. :-p
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