PJ Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Be warned, the film companies are watching, some of the files aren't what they seem - it's not uncommon for people to get messages from their ISPs telling them to behave (the film companies contact the ISP, not the end user). I think someone on here had this a while ago? Jake perhaps, he's dodgy This does happen a fair bit. If you are going to use P2P software then you do need to take some precautions like PeerGuardian2 and keep your blocklists up to date. OK, it's not complete protection, but its a damn sight better than nothing at all. As for clients, uTorrent is by far the best BitTorrent client. If you are grabbing torrents then most of the time your will be downloading rar archives, get winrar to extract the contents to be played on whatever media player you use. Note that you can have issues playing films due to missing codecs, what you need in that case is VLC Media player as it does not use codecs and will play most anything. Also a wise move is to steer well clear of public trackers and listing sites like torrentspy, full of fakes and crap, you'd be better off looking for a private tracker to sign up to. You will get much better speeds that way, 700kB's+, films in 18-20 minutes etc... That's what I'd heard anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 gaz cant help ya on the q, but if you like watching movies check out http://www.peekvid.com lots of movies you can watch for free Dude- you da man - thats a cool site! Oh and p2p is cool if you use BLM and Protowall etc, provides a degree of protection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Be warned, the film companies are watching, some of the files aren't what they seem - it's not uncommon for people to get messages from their ISPs telling them to behave (the film companies contact the ISP, not the end user). I think someone on here had this a while ago? Jake perhaps, he's dodgy None taken! I did get a threatening email from my ISP about using eMule but it wasn't about a movie it was because I had WinFax 11 (or somesuch version) in my Shared Items folder. The email said I had to give them a written undertaking to not reoffend or they would cut me off. I ignored it and they did nothing I haven't used eMule since though. I get pretty much everything I need/want from Usenet but like MonkeyMark said, it's not exactly user-friendly if you don't know what you're doing. It's still 10x better to use than poxy IRC though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Far, you have learned well!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domdotcom Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 i use bitcomet and torrentspy brilliant for songs vids films... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 uTorrent is very good and lightweight, I prefer that to Azureus but I'm using the latter because of the Peerguardian plugin available for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Be warned, the film companies are watching, some of the files aren't what they seem - it's not uncommon for people to get messages from their ISPs telling them to behave (the film companies contact the ISP, not the end user). Just to bring this back to life again: http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-caught-uploading-fake-torrents/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico2006 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 gaz cant help ya on the q, but if you like watching movies check out http://www.peekvid.com lots of movies you can watch for free Sign up to easynews for £5 a month and download all the films you'll ever want in .divx format. Fast downloads too, i usually get around 880k a sec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittyclaws Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Try mininova.com you can get owt you want from there - vids , albums , software , etc , but you need to download a bittorrent first and then divx if you want to watch the movies . I use this one too, only just started using it, and so far I'm impressed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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