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Just wandering who here all torrents?
I torrent pretty much 24/7
cause it pwns :o
ps: free t-leech acnt to first 4 peoples to im me w/ there email
i will send details
famicoman
10-02-2006, 07:20 PM
I torrent everyday, strictly because of practicality. I'm seeding the BBS Documentary on two computers right now.
xelloss
10-02-2006, 07:25 PM
I use utorrent but just got into the giganews, since I heard it was way safer to use. I will probably only use torrent when leeching off my nieghbors Wifi or something.
g3n3r-1
10-02-2006, 07:25 PM
who doesn't?
nice, since my upload is only 40kB/s max ive been uploading a game called "just cause" for about a week now =p the file is 7gb insize and its still only at a 0.890 ratio =[
ohwel
What programs do you all use?
I used to use ABC [ Yet another bit torrent ] (http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/)
But I found out about Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) and have fallen in love w/ it
It seems to be the most used nowa days
tobey
10-02-2006, 07:29 PM
I rarely torrent because my ADSL modem crashes a lot when I do.
But when I do, I use Azureus.
i only use torrents, using uTorrent. It's amazing stuff!
i only use torrents, using uTorrent. It's amazing stuff!
indeedly
how's uTorrent? never used it before
most people say its the best one out there, no resources, u dont install it..
simple, fast and good.
famicoman
10-02-2006, 07:46 PM
I like uTorrent, and regular Bittorent because of the ability to use trackerless torrents with it.
jdhore
10-02-2006, 07:47 PM
i torrent most of the time...usually using uTorrent on the windows box or Azureus on the FreeBSD server
most people say its the best one out there, no resources, u dont install it..
simple, fast and good.
well that sounds cool, ill have to check it out, does it give you the ability to have multiple torrents running at the same time?
adam98971
10-02-2006, 07:51 PM
well i prefer utorrent but, after i use it for a week it vasnishes into a haze of torrenting light so i use bit commet have no proplems :)
famicoman
10-02-2006, 07:52 PM
Yeah, uTorrent is very very easy to use, and offers alot of nifty features.
samureye
10-02-2006, 07:56 PM
Bit Torrent is very useful and I use it a lot, my client of choice is uTorrent.
Just a heads up, don't post any direct links to torrents in any threads.
Bit Torrent is very useful and I use it a lot, my client of choice is uTorrent.
Just a heads up, don't post any direct links to torrents in any threads.
Thanks for the heads up samureye :D
noonebutme
10-02-2006, 08:11 PM
uTorrent and Azureus support "Trackerless Torrents" as well - thats what DHT support is.
I use uTorrent no matter what OS im on - windows i'll use it natively, on OS X i'll use Crossover Mac to run it and on *nix, i'll use Wine to run it :P
I really dislike bitcomet for being a leeches client - it abuses the bittorrent protocol to get fast downloads and doesnt allow users to upload as it disconnects within seconds of getting the requested piece.
famicoman
10-02-2006, 08:22 PM
uTorrent and Azureus support "Trackerless Torrents" as well - thats what DHT support is.
I use uTorrent no matter what OS im on - windows i'll use it natively, on OS X i'll use Crossover Mac to run it and on *nix, i'll use Wine to run it :P
I really dislike bitcomet for being a leeches client - it abuses the bittorrent protocol to get fast downloads and doesnt allow users to upload as it disconnects within seconds of getting the requested piece.
I could never get uTorrent to do the trackerless torrents I made with Bittorrent. I'll look into that.
sevver
10-02-2006, 08:29 PM
I like to use Azureus, but I have always used it, and it is stable and works well.
I like to use Azureus, but I have always used it, and it is stable and works well.
yeah, thats why im such a slow-poke when coming to try other clients
noonebutme
10-02-2006, 08:31 PM
I could never get uTorrent to do the trackerless torrents I made with Bittorrent. I'll look into that.
as long as you have DHT enabled in the preferences, uTorrent supports DHT by default without you having to change any options around.
striker1211
10-02-2006, 09:21 PM
I use bitcomet but i never really torrent. I torrent pron from empornium but that's about it. If im downloading something big and i need my bandwidth i use TorrentFlux.
well that sounds cool, ill have to check it out, does it give you the ability to have multiple torrents running at the same time?
yes it does of course.
adamzx
10-02-2006, 09:25 PM
what is t torrent
I use bitcomet but i never really torrent. I torrent pron from empornium but that's about it. If im downloading something big and i need my bandwidth i use TorrentFlux.
empornium owns for certain..movies
what is t torrent
google is ur friend and ur savior ;)
striker1211
10-02-2006, 09:27 PM
empornium owns for certain..movies
Yeah but they dont got the ggw first timers movie ive been waiting forever, i got every one but that one... anyone set the rules on what can talk about legally on these forums?
Yeah but they dont got the ggw first timers movie ive been waiting forever, i got every one but that one... anyone set the rules on what can talk about legally on these forums?
I was told no links about illegal content, can still say names just no links im guessing
striker1211
10-02-2006, 09:39 PM
Yeah, no linking makes sense. I hate sites like pspupdates that say you cant even TALK about piracy, or if you say you have a dvd ripped on your computer its automatically pirated. It would be idiotic to think you could post links though, anyone that does that should be smacked.
g33k0ft3ch
10-02-2006, 09:47 PM
I torrent alot. I usually just torrent Call for Help, Mythbusters, movies, and any po..I mean netcast and IPTV I watch. Also music. But I use QTfairuse.
SO I am going to go to jail now right?
ironman
10-02-2006, 10:24 PM
I've been using bittorrent for the past 3 or 4 years now, but recently my cable provider capped my upload speed to 15 k/bs. Once I get uncapped, I'm going to have to limit my upload use so It doesn't happen again.
:( :mad:
I've been using bittorrent for the past 3 or 4 years now, but recently my cable provider capped my upload speed to 15 k/bs. Once I get uncapped, I'm going to have to limit my upload use so It doesn't happen again.
:( :mad:
those bastards!!!
film42
10-02-2006, 10:43 PM
I like Azureus, and BitComet
film42
10-02-2006, 10:46 PM
I've been using bittorrent for the past 3 or 4 years now, but recently my cable provider capped my upload speed to 15 k/bs. Once I get uncapped, I'm going to have to limit my upload use so It doesn't happen again.
:( :mad:
That totally sucks!!! who is your isp?
I got rogers, and sometimes i get those bad speeds. Do you have them?
hodge
10-03-2006, 02:16 AM
thank you sir for the torrent leech invite!
duster88
10-03-2006, 02:33 AM
ahhh yes bittorrent... i am members to www.indietorrents.com and www.oink.me.uk
i use it all the time :D
ironman
10-03-2006, 02:54 AM
That totally sucks!!! who is your isp?
Cablevision/Optimum Online
I actually just got off the phone with there Sytem Network Admin. I had a pretty long conversation with him and he asked do I use bittorrent and P2P crap. I was like nah man, I got a worm on my machine like 1 month ago and It totally crapped up my PC and I heard it messes up your internet uploading and downloading bunch of crap. I basically just made everything up.
Hes like O ok yea spyware and worms can do that. Did you get that stuff all fixed. I was like yea its all fixed and he uncapped me.
So now I'm back to my 15 mbps down and 2 mbps up instead of 15 k/bs up.
:)
Thank would make me cry to be weighted down to 15kb/s =[ owhel
Cablevision/Optimum Online
I actually just got off the phone with there Sytem Network Admin. I had a pretty long conversation with him and he asked do I use bittorrent and P2P crap. I was like nah man, I got a worm on my machine like 1 month ago and It totally crapped up my PC and I heard it messes up your internet uploading and downloading bunch of crap. I basically just made everything up.
Hes like O ok yea spyware and worms can do that. Did you get that stuff all fixed. I was like yea its all fixed and he uncapped me.
So now I'm back to my 15 mbps down and 2 mbps up instead of 15 k/bs up.
:)
It's good that your back up, cause man I couldn't stand those other speeds.
metal4rock
10-03-2006, 05:31 AM
Yeah I would say everyone here bittorrents. I switch between Azureus and uTorrent, depends on the mood I'm in.
Yeah I would say everyone here bittorrents. I switch between Azureus and uTorrent, depends on the mood I'm in.
what type of mood? =p
adamzx
10-03-2006, 09:15 AM
utorrent is the baddest shit alive
lordfoul
10-03-2006, 09:44 AM
Are you violating the DMCA when you use QTFairUse to clean your paid music of its DRM? Depends if you live in the USA or not. If so then yes you have circumvented it's digital lock and committed a crime in doing so. if you are any were other than Spain or the USA, then I think you are all right fair use prevails.
Azureus and utorrent both allow for encrypted uploads and downloads via payload encryption and protocol obfuscation. I don't think packet shaping will be any big deal when it comes down to it. It just maybe the rule in the future rather than the exception.
utorrent is the baddest shit alive
lol awsome words man
ironman
10-03-2006, 07:21 PM
utorrent is the baddest shit alive
That is TRUE.
g33k0ft3ch
10-03-2006, 07:31 PM
Utorrent is like sex. Did I say that out loud? Crap.
Some people would agree I'd say lol
abstrkt
10-03-2006, 09:54 PM
I torrent all the time
currently running BitLord, but I might have to give Azureus a shot
Utorrent is like sex. Did I say that out loud? Crap.
I believe you did :d
lmao that didn't make sense:confused:
qtraven
10-04-2006, 01:54 AM
i would torrent way more if i could get into a private torrent site
but when i do i use utorrent and search with torrents.to
i would torrent way more if i could get into a private torrent site
but when i do i use utorrent and search with torrents.to
i've gave away like 8 tleech acnts since yestorday rofl
mongoose
10-04-2006, 02:56 AM
I'm not a hardcore torrent guy, but I use them when I can. Utorrent is my poison.
pilgrim
10-04-2006, 06:12 AM
I use torrents, uTorrent and PeerGuardian. Also starting to use TVTAD again.
I use torrents, uTorrent and PeerGuardian. Also starting to use TVTAD again.
Whats peerguardian again? when i think of that term' i think of Kazaa =/ lol, not sure if its just for that prog though
hegemony
10-04-2006, 08:45 AM
Torrents are good... Usenet is better though ;)
adamzx
10-04-2006, 10:36 AM
Hes like O ok yea spyware and worms can do that. Did you get that stuff all fixed. I was like yea its all fixed and he uncapped me.
So now I'm back to my 15 mbps down and 2 mbps up instead of 15 k/bs up.
:)
he won't catch you again?
how much does your internet cost.. i want something that fast, dayum!
Torrents are good... Usenet is better though ;)
I'd use usenet more, but sometimes i cant find like 1 or 2 of the files that come with the dl so it makes me have to try a difference source, thus me not using usenets as much
noonebutme
10-04-2006, 08:05 PM
Just a note.. Peerguardian's a waste of resources. It's not that hard to change your IP - and all peerguardian is, is an ip blocker. Provides nothing but the placebo effect.
Plus, the blocklists are run by a guy who adds IP's to the blocklist because of his own personal grudges. That's never a good thing.
And FIOS is faster then OOL - cheaper as well - i've got 20/5 for $45. Plus, verizon's a good ISP who doesnt cap anything.
elker
10-05-2006, 02:15 AM
I use Azureus mostly because it's what I've always used. I'm just accustomed to all the controls and I'm too lazy to give utorrent a try.
Azureus has always worked well for me. I use a handfull of torrent sites depending on what I'm searching for, some are public others private.
Just a note.. Peerguardian's a waste of resources. It's not that hard to change your IP - and all peerguardian is, is an ip blocker. Provides nothing but the placebo effect.
And FIOS is faster then OOL - cheaper as well - i've got 20/5 for $45. Plus, verizon's a good ISP who doesnt cap anything.
This is true, its not hard for them to change their IP address. Just remember if you have access to the lists then so do they.
With that being said, I still use peerguardian. It provides me with the false sense of security that I crave.
Also I wish FIOS was availible in my area, you lucky bastard! ;)
Just a note.. Peerguardian's a waste of resources. It's not that hard to change your IP - and all peerguardian is, is an ip blocker. Provides nothing but the placebo effect.
Plus, the blocklists are run by a guy who adds IP's to the blocklist because of his own personal grudges. That's never a good thing.
And FIOS is faster then OOL - cheaper as well - i've got 20/5 for $45. Plus, verizon's a good ISP who doesnt cap anything.
Ah sounds like the plugin i use on Azureus called "Safepeer" all it does is block a list of ip's but uses not that much if any resources
m4rvman
10-05-2006, 08:41 PM
I also use uTorrent, and use Torrentspy.com for my searches.
klitzy
10-05-2006, 08:49 PM
Who here doesnt use torrents?
ironman
10-06-2006, 01:36 AM
Just a note.. Peerguardian's a waste of resources. It's not that hard to change your IP - and all peerguardian is, is an ip blocker. Provides nothing but the placebo effect.
Plus, the blocklists are run by a guy who adds IP's to the blocklist because of his own personal grudges. That's never a good thing.
And FIOS is faster then OOL - cheaper as well - i've got 20/5 for $45. Plus, verizon's a good ISP who doesnt cap anything.
Yea FiOS is great I hear. Just not available near me yet. I'm hearing January so when it comes around I'll be switching.
gamer135
10-06-2006, 08:53 PM
I use torrents, but not in a illegal way since im in college and by the way, a good torrent program is Utorrent, love it to death.
I use torrents, but not in a illegal way since im in college and by the way, a good torrent program is Utorrent, love it to death.
Yea, as many of us agree on, one of the best (and small).
uTorrent isnt an installable right?
uTorrent isnt an installable right?
Yes correct, click and go.
lordfoul
10-08-2006, 08:53 AM
Torrent Finder (http://torrent-finder.com/) is my BT search engine of choice.
Torrent Finder (http://torrent-finder.com/) is my BT search engine of choice.
hmm never heard of it,
im a torrentleech whore
lordfoul
10-08-2006, 09:11 AM
TorrentLeech (http://www.torrentleech.org/signup.php) is too exclusive I use Demonoid (http://www.demonoid.com/) myself.
TorrentLeech (http://www.torrentleech.org/signup.php) is too exclusive I use Demonoid (http://www.demonoid.com/) myself.
I give away free invites just msg me with emailzor
popltree2
10-10-2006, 10:17 AM
I use Azuerus myself with mininova, piratebay, and now btjunkie.
I use Azuerus myself with mininova, piratebay, and now btjunkie.
I was using mininova for awhile (because of when suprnova went down), but now I feel inlove with btjunkie!!!
noonebutme
10-10-2006, 07:24 PM
I was using mininova for awhile (because of when suprnova went down), but now I feel inlove with btjunkie!!!
Mininova was originally a Suprnova mirror that managed to not die out after Suprnova closed - so for awhile you were still using Suprnova, even if it wasnt under the same name :P
As for sites i use, most of em are private in the sense that "mention it in public and you get banned" so i wont mention em - but public sites i like are Snarf-it.org and Isohunt.
Mininova was originally a Suprnova mirror that managed to not die out after Suprnova closed - so for awhile you were still using Suprnova, even if it wasnt under the same name :P
As for sites i use, most of em are private in the sense that "mention it in public and you get banned" so i wont mention em - but public sites i like are Snarf-it.org and Isohunt.
aye, i miss suprnova =[
The new Azureus 3 came out, but its a bit bulky
I've been starting to use uTorrent, but I think azureus is still the best -props
porkchop
05-27-2007, 08:47 PM
I hate waiting days for a program or movie. With usenet, newsrover, and giganews combined, I can download about 2 4 gig movies an hour. Only drawback is that giganews cost $25 bucks a month for Unlimited bandwidth.
blazes816
05-29-2007, 05:48 PM
Also, uTorrent as an amazing webUI. You can access a screen that looks like your uTorrent client from any computer with internet.
EDIT: Didn't realize that there were more pages. Sorry if this has already been stated.
darknessgp
05-29-2007, 08:17 PM
this thread title should be "Who here doesn't torrent?"
On the side of what you use, I mainly us Torrent-damage and oink. Both are private trackers, (Please don't ask for an invite.) and honestly I've never had good speed with public trackers, but get my max bandwidth all the time on private ones.
kshep92
05-30-2007, 03:18 AM
this thread title should be "Who here doesn't torrent?"
On the side of what you use, I mainly us Torrent-damage and oink. Both are private trackers, (Please don't ask for an invite.) and honestly I've never had good speed with public trackers, but get my max bandwidth all the time on private ones.
Never had many problems with the public trackers, but just to stay on the safe side, I prefer demonoid. As for torrent clients, I used to use Azureus but it made my PC run REALLLY slowly so i now use uTorrent and I love every (kilo)bit of it :). I'll probably retry Azureus as I installed some more RAM the other day and see how that turns out.
I feel really bad though, my ADSL max upload speed is 15kb/s so I only seed when I'm asleep or not using the internet (which isn't that often), but I do try. I need to be a little more considerate... Anybody offering T1 for free? lol
darknessgp
05-30-2007, 04:40 AM
Personally, I'd stay away from Azureus, unless it offers something that you really need and no other client offers. It's a decent client, I wish someone would take the time to at least port it off of Java (That's what's making it a hog) so maybe some OSs can run it better.
I mainly use uTorrent, I used to use Azureus, but like kshep92 at the time I had a slow machine that couldn't handle do much else than Azureus. I switched to uTorrent and haven't looked back since, and really have no reason. It's just awesome how small it is.
crorse
06-03-2007, 05:51 AM
Just wandering who here all torrents?
I torrent pretty much 24/7
cause it pwns :o
ps: free t-leech acnt to first 4 peoples to im me w/ there email
i will send details
I use LiomeWire for music and audio, but Pirate Bay for like everything else.
I've completly switched over to utorrent, It is soo lightweight and does everything that azureus does
vahnx
07-17-2007, 05:16 AM
I used to use BitComet, but I switched to uTorrent and haven't switched since. I use TorrentSpy all the time, and if that fails I'll just google for "filename.torrent" and get what I need. Piratebay and IsoHunt are awesome too.
tokenuser
07-17-2007, 01:26 PM
Azureus for me. Not a fan of their new version. Switching it to "Advanced" mode gets rid of the other stuff they are doing to try and legitimize themselves though.
If I am looking for something, I hit mininova first.
Google is a good resource too, but Vahnx's approach is limiting. A better search string is something like "keyword filetype:torrent" that way you don't need to be exact with the filename.
kshep92
07-17-2007, 05:25 PM
Actually, when it comes to looking for a torrent, I jut go to the torrents search engine (torrentz.com) and lookf or it there - pretty darn impressive. Though there are times when I can't find the torrent there so i just google it, just like vahnx.
keshie101
08-09-2007, 04:08 PM
I used Utorrent for about a year and now I am trying Azuerus. I was enjoy Utorrent until I updated it and it started to slow down on a dimension 3000. I hope I will enjoy Azureus.
crumbles
08-09-2007, 05:11 PM
...and does everything that azureus doesIt doesn't run safepeer.
darknessgp
08-09-2007, 10:12 PM
It doesn't run safepeer.
Safe Peer Doesn't really work... (http://forum.mininova.org/lofiversion/index.php?t7467.html) at least according to that thread.
crumbles
08-10-2007, 02:29 PM
Safe Peer Doesn't really work... (http://forum.mininova.org/lofiversion/index.php?t7467.html) at least according to that thread.Aside from not trusting a bunch of pirates in a 3 year old thread... it does help. It depends on what IP list you are using. I block over 70% of the internet with my list. Granted, they can get around it if they tried, but a mixture of blocking 70% of the internet and using private trackers both help a lot. Nothing is 100%. But if what I'm doing is 60%, and what you are doing (not using safepeer) is 0%, take a guess at which torrent client I'm going to use.
darknessgp
08-10-2007, 04:31 PM
Aside from not trusting a bunch of pirates in a 3 year old thread... it does help. It depends on what IP list you are using. I block over 70% of the internet with my list. Granted, they can get around it if they tried, but a mixture of blocking 70% of the internet and using private trackers both help a lot. Nothing is 100%. But if what I'm doing is 60%, and what you are doing (not using safepeer) is 0%, take a guess at which torrent client I'm going to use.
... How is what I'm doing 0%? I use private sites and have encryption turned on. Not to mention, if I do get in a law suit I have denability, as at my home we have an unencrypted open wireless network... Yes, you are blocking access from certain IPs to connect to YOU... Oh wait, guess what the RIAA and other people do to get a list of IP? They connect to public trackers... which your IP will be on that list. And it's very easy to spoof an IP address. If they really wanted to, safepeer is far from stopping them.
Look, I'm just saying don't fool yourself into thinking your safe, or really better off with it. Yea, you might be better off, but not 60%. Maybe 20-30% because they won't care enough to look into too much. But personally, I'd rather not run a bloated java program.
crumbles
08-10-2007, 07:00 PM
...if I do get in a law suit I have denability, as at my home we have an unencrypted open wireless network...Hahahaha, deniability until you just posted that on the internet in a public forum.
Look, I'm just saying don't fool yourself into thinking your safe, or really better off with it. Yea, you might be better off...Um... yea, great sentence!
Besides, as I already said in my previous post, I didn't say I was 100% safe, but a lot safer. I make custom lists that block 70% of the internet. Even if we went by your own "thoughts" on the matter, you are saying 20%-30%. So, back to my question, how's that uTorrent with no safepeer! Enjoy!
mistergrimm
08-19-2007, 03:38 AM
I torrent everyday when I have nothing better do, using both Emule (its not a torrent program I know but it does the job sometimes) and Azureus. So far Azureus is a pretty good Torrent program, I don't use UTorrent anymore because it nearly kills my connection, I can't port forward it very well to make it work better probably because I have a worthless Linksys router x.x.
Azureus for me. Not a fan of their new version. Switching it to "Advanced" mode gets rid of the other stuff they are doing to try and legitimize themselves though.
If I am looking for something, I hit mininova first.
Google is a good resource too, but Vahnx's approach is limiting. A better search string is something like "keyword filetype:torrent" that way you don't need to be exact with the filename.
I used to love azureus but, now it hogs to much memory, utorrent does the same thing - i just use peerguardian if i ever use public trackers, but that's a rare occasion
wizmaster
09-21-2007, 11:45 PM
I think most people use bittorent. It wasn't designed to pirate stuff. Many companies (the most well known being Blizzard) use it to transfer files since it helps eliviate the stress on servers.
kuyaglen
10-09-2007, 09:36 AM
I torrent a lot.
{edit}
with uTorrent. I've used Azeureus (sp?) before but it always would always get screwy on screen when ever I enabled AA/AF in my nvidia control panel.
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bitten
tempesta
10-09-2007, 02:08 PM
Isn't it general ettiquette here for people to at least pretend they aren't getting their pirate on?
kuyaglen
10-09-2007, 03:39 PM
Isn't it general ettiquette here for people to at least pretend they aren't getting their pirate on?
ok, I'll bite
tucky
10-10-2007, 09:55 PM
in starting to torrent just cause i want photoshop cs8 but i download it and it sayd microsoft doesnt kno whear it came from so im stuck i use utorrent though
tnvwboy
10-13-2007, 03:25 AM
I have a bit in the past but I downloaded uTorrent again tonight so I could get Unreal Tournament 3. I didn't feel like signing up for fileplanet to get it. I wanna play!:D
crazymagician000
11-07-2007, 01:36 AM
DEMONOID FTW!! (with uTorrent of course)
blacklabelsk8erx
11-30-2007, 01:15 AM
ABC has always been fine for me for Windows use. Always seem to use Azureus when using Linux.