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by **Haxor** on Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:44 pm

I think bittorent is a good way to share user created programs and patches.

by **DjDarkman** on Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:29 pm

Haxor wrote:I think bittorent is a good way to share user created programs and patches.

Yes if its realatively big ,but if you want to share a program that is for example 150kb then you realy don`t need bittorent for that.

by **spit** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:53 am

The main bad thing about bittorrent regards the authors. They are the ones that loose money due to file sharing. But to the home user i see the bittorrent technology as a blessing. Prices for software are extremly high and in a poor country such as mine you just can't afford it.

by **Krezarian** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:54 am

It's good, asumming from other people opinions.

I'm not using it personally.

by **DjDarkman** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:58 am

Krezarian wrote:It's good, asumming from other people opinions.

I'm not using it personally.

Did you try using it?do you have possiblity to use it?

by **Krezarian** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:22 pm

DjDarkman,

I've used few times. Different clients (bitcommet, bittornado, for example).

Well, what can I say.. there was a big ammount of leechers all the time and only few seeders, hence the download stream was very low, and when I finally downloaded few kbs of a file, leechers automatically started to download files from me. My upstream was higher, than downstream Shocked

Anyway, I'll rather stick to limewire, or perhaps start using bittorrent if someone will give me a link to download a nice client.....

by **DjDarkman** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:32 pm

Krezarian wrote:DjDarkman,

I've used few times. Different clients (bitcommet, bittornado, for example).

Well, what can I say.. there was a big ammount of leechers all the time and only few seeders, hence the download stream was very low, and when I finally downloaded few kbs of a file, leechers automatically started to download files from me. My upstream was higher, than downstream

Anyway, I'll rather stick to limewire, or perhaps start using bittorrent if someone will give me a link to download a nice client.....

Well private trackers are the best ,or any other trakcers where you get ban due to low ratio ,if you are realy interested in some to try ,I can send you the urls via mail.

this is probably the best and most user and resource friendly bittorent client for windows
http://www.utorrent.com/

but you can emulate it with the latest wine http://winehq.com/ in linux too.

but if you don`t like utorrent (wich I doubt because it`s realy a nice torrent clien) you can search for "torrent client" in http://wikipedia.org/

by **zwickyy** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:54 pm

The bad thing is that the trackers cant catch some of the leecher's clients which in most cases are modified by themselves. The proper way is to connect to private tracker without leechers Smile

by **DjDarkman** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:35 pm

zwickyy wrote:The bad thing is that the trackers cant catch some of the leecher's clients which in most cases are modified by themselves. The proper way is to connect to private tracker without leechers

Leechers seed too ,dindn`t you know that?

by **Techgod** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:56 pm

A good thing when releasing a new game patch so instead of those numbers downloading it overloading the webserver the load is distributed evenly through bittorrent.

Not many developers use bittorrent to its full potential though.

by **dagoburt** on Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:11 pm

It is very good thing, with it you can share any illegal software and to be sure that you can't been sued be cause in fact you are not downloading for example WHOLE mp3, you are downloading only parts of the song from diffrent persons so .. :>

by **Samppa** on Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:48 am

You are downloading the whole song. You're just doing it in chunks..

by **darthmandeep** on Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:51 am

You know all those old games that people back in the day told you you should play, but being cheap and poor at the time you didn't buy them? And now those games are not in stock anywhere, and the companies that made them no longer exist? So even though there are classics that those "Top 10 Games Ever" style lists rave about, you can't legally get a copy to play them?

That's the best use of Bittorrent. Getting abandonware without having to bother with a slow web server somewhere in Southeast Asia.

by **pbaptiste** on Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:07 pm

De Kus wrote:I believe bittorent itself is a great protocol, of course it is used in majority for piraticy and it makes it difficult to enforce law since the tracker doesnt store any copyright protected material and only the initial seed distributed a whole copy.
But at least you have confidential logs on the server to know who downloaded how much and who uploaded how much, which is still better than in edonkey/guntella networks .

The piracy angle may soon be dwarf by legitimate uses. I read a few days ago that BiTorrent just signed with several major studios to help them distribute vid-on-demand via torrent.

by **spit** on Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:26 am

Krezarian wrote:DjDarkman,

I've used few times. Different clients (bitcommet, bittornado, for example).

Well, what can I say.. there was a big ammount of leechers all the time and only few seeders, hence the download stream was very low, and when I finally downloaded few kbs of a file, leechers automatically started to download files from me. My upstream was higher, than downstream :shock:

Anyway, I'll rather stick to limewire, or perhaps start using bittorrent if someone will give me a link to download a nice client.....

You should try to find only trackers that request registering and having a good ratio. That way you will have some guarantee of speed and availabiility.

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