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STIwish 2004-02-03 12:42 PM

Who uses BitTorrent?
 
Out of curiousity, how many of you guys use BT? Which client do you use? I have been using Azureus and I love it, hella better than the 'official' client. I average probably a gig or so of uploads a day, but I can almost always find what I want.

ZER026D 2004-02-03 02:03 PM

I use poisoned

ArthurS 2004-02-03 02:42 PM

Um...what are both of those programs? Call me a n00b when it comes to certain software if you will, but I haven't heard of them before.

STIwish 2004-02-03 03:28 PM

BitTorrent is kind of like a new age Kazaa or Napster... but its 10x better and with almost no chance of it ever getting shut down or regulated. Azareus is the client I use to open torrent files, and sites that have to find torrent files mainly include suprnova.org ... is the shizel.

ArthurS 2004-02-03 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by STIwish
BitTorrent is kind of like a new age Kazaa or Napster... but its 10x better and with almost no chance of it ever getting shut down or regulated. Azareus is the client I use to open torrent files, and sites that have to find torrent files mainly include suprnova.org ... is the shizel.

Hmm...Ill have to take a look tonight. I have just been using LimeWire and Kazaa K++ for awhile.

STIwish 2004-02-03 03:55 PM

They pale in comparison.. hardcore.

AtomicLabMonkey 2004-02-03 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by STIwish
BitTorrent is kind of like a new age Kazaa or Napster... but its 10x better and with almost no chance of it ever getting shut down or regulated. Azareus is the client I use to open torrent files, and sites that have to find torrent files mainly include suprnova.org ... is the shizel.

Why is there no chance of it being infiltrated by groups like the RIAA or regulated?

sperry 2004-02-03 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
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Originally Posted by STIwish
BitTorrent is kind of like a new age Kazaa or Napster... but its 10x better and with almost no chance of it ever getting shut down or regulated. Azareus is the client I use to open torrent files, and sites that have to find torrent files mainly include suprnova.org ... is the shizel.

Why is there no chance of it being infiltrated by groups like the RIAA or regulated?

It's anonymous and encrypted IIRC.

Nick Koan 2004-02-03 09:27 PM

I use BT occasionally to download files and game demos and stuff. I don't usually surf around to download stuff for fun though.

Still rocks the socks off of any other P2P software. I've always hate P2P, and this is probably the first one I really use, even if I don't use it often.

STIwish 2004-02-03 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by sperry
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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
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Originally Posted by STIwish
BitTorrent is kind of like a new age Kazaa or Napster... but its 10x better and with almost no chance of it ever getting shut down or regulated. Azareus is the client I use to open torrent files, and sites that have to find torrent files mainly include suprnova.org ... is the shizel.

Why is there no chance of it being infiltrated by groups like the RIAA or regulated?

It's anonymous and encrypted IIRC.

Yup, for starters, and then there is no possible way to go after a single source, as one does not exist as it did with Napster and the other P2P networks.

tysonK 2004-02-03 11:45 PM

Re: Who uses BitTorrent?
 
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Originally Posted by STIwish
Out of curiousity, how many of you guys use BT? Which client do you use? I have been using Azureus and I love it, hella better than the 'official' client. I average probably a gig or so of uploads a day, but I can almost always find what I want.

What are you downloading gigs of? I mean damn I could research all day and not find that much stuff to download, music or not.

sperry 2004-02-03 11:52 PM

Re: Who uses BitTorrent?
 
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Originally Posted by tysonK
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Originally Posted by STIwish
Out of curiousity, how many of you guys use BT? Which client do you use? I have been using Azureus and I love it, hella better than the 'official' client. I average probably a gig or so of uploads a day, but I can almost always find what I want.

What are you downloading gigs of? I mean damn I could research all day and not find that much stuff to download, music or not.

Gotta be pirated movies... :wink:

STIwish 2004-02-04 01:47 AM

Actually, I said uploads... i send more than a download, i try and help the community grow as much as possible.

sperry 2004-02-04 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by STIwish
Actually, I said uploads... i send more than a download, i try and help the community grow as much as possible.

Yeah, but I bet you're still sending movies. :P

One thing to watch out for... a lot of cable companies have been cracking down on high bandwdith users with a clause in their contract's fine print that says they can get you for "excessive use", even though they don't bother to define "exessive". :rolleyes: So if you're using cable watchout! DSL on the other hand has been much cooler regarding the high bandwidth users, since they have dedicated bandwidth from each user to the central office.

MikeSTI 2004-02-04 10:18 AM

I have over 4gigs of music video's if your woundering how its posible Tyson.....I almost couldn't believe it myself but I check and at 50M per video it adds up fast. 8)

hopefully now I can make a new DVD or a few for crusin with my muzac :lol:

Kevin M 2004-02-04 11:23 AM

If they ever try to bust me for bandwidth usage, I'll just tell them I'm sharing amateur porn with my "friends." :twisted: No copyrights there.

MikeSTI 2004-02-04 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by sperry
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Originally Posted by STIwish
Actually, I said uploads... i send more than a download, i try and help the community grow as much as possible.

Yeah, but I bet you're still sending movies. :P

One thing to watch out for... a lot of cable companies have been cracking down on high bandwdith users with a clause in their contract's fine print that says they can get you for "excessive use", even though they don't bother to define "exessive". :rolleyes: So if you're using cable watchout! DSL on the other hand has been much cooler regarding the high bandwidth users, since they have dedicated bandwidth from each user to the central office.

F*** that I pay for my bandwidth if they say I use it in an "excessive use" I'll tell them to kiss my A** and switch the next day to DSL who I'm sure wouldn't mind having my business :lol: :lol:

sperry 2004-02-04 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
F*** that I pay for my bandwidth if they say I use it in an "excessive use" I'll tell them to kiss my A** and switch the next day to DSL who I'm sure wouldn't mind having my business :lol: :lol:

Exactly... which is why I'm not surprised that the people getting hit for this are those who live outside the range for DSL.

Basically it boils down to this: the cable companies build a loop that coveres say one neighborhood. The built it expecting a certain total bandwidth usage, which is a number significantly lower than the sum of all the offered bandwidth for the nodes on that branch. So when people acually use all the bandwidth they were promised, the loop can't handle all the traffic, so they go after the people that consistantly use lots of bandwidth, figuring they're the p2p filesharers that don't want any trouble, even though it pretty much means the cable company is breaching their contract. :x

STIwish 2004-02-04 01:11 PM

Actually, im not even sending movies.. heh, a full on 100+ gigs of mp3s takes care of it for me.

Edit: not a terabyte without my secondary server which isnt hooked up currently.

tysonK 2004-02-04 06:56 PM

how many songs is 100 gigs of mp3?

Can you get stuff like this in mp3:

Cedric Im Brooks "Light of Saba"
Campfire Songs "Campfire Songs"
Erase Errata "At Crystal Palace"
Manitoba "Up In Flames"
Colder "Again"
The Books "The Lemon of Pink"
Sun Kil Moon "Ghosts of the Great Highway"

Or these movies:

That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection (1977)
Breathless - (1961)
L'Avventura - Criterion Collection (1961)
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection (1960)

Cause if you can get this stuff I'm signing up.

STIwish 2004-02-04 07:39 PM

Damn.. talk about in the realm of scarce, Im good, but not even I could probably find those.

tysonK 2004-02-04 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by STIwish
Damn.. talk about in the realm of scarce, Im good, but not even I could probably find those.

a while ago there was this napster like program,AudioGalaxy, it was the best music program I ever found.

All that music I listed above are 2003 and 2002 releases maybe they are too new?


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