Are torrents safe?[views:2984][posts:25]______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 7:19pm - the_reverend ""] I'm trying to torrent something for the first time in a loooong time. I'm afraid that I will get sued or something. |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 7:38pm - darkwornli ""] bottom line - yes. check the comments when you download the torrent to see if they're legit. i've been doing it since torrents first took off years ago. i got a letter from charter once that said "we know you're downloading this xbox game, stop it" which is meaningless unless they get subpoenaed by the fbi or some such agency and ask specifically for what i've been known to download. then you can use the ol' open wireless network defense or something. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:23pm - the_reverend ""] when I used to do it, I would make utorrent not share. Someone using my open wireless network used to download a lot of TV shows. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:24pm - the_reverend ""] I also need to find my demonoid account. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:29pm - the_reverend ""] I have this NAS http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=108 and they just put out their v3 with a download station. you can upload torrents or paste links and it will download things for you look at the video here: http://www.qnap.com/fw_v3/index.aspx?lang=eng |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 8:46pm - darkwornli ""] that is a badass machine. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 9:26pm - the_reverend ""] you don't even know. right now it's running with these drives Drive 1 WDC WD15EADS-00H7B0 05.0 1397.26 GB Drive 2 Seagate ST31500341AS CC1H 1397.26 GB Drive 3 Seagate ST31500341AS CC1H 1397.26 GB Drive 4 Seagate ST31500341AS CC1H 1397.26 GB Drive 5 WDC WD20EADS-00R6B0 01.0 1863.02 GB Drive 6 WDC WD20EADS-00R6B0 01.0 1863.02 GD RAIDed like this: Single Disk: Drive 4 EXT4 Mirroring Disk Volume: Drive 5 6 EXT3 RAID 5 Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 EXT3 ugh.. I just realized that drive 5/6 are EXT3. arg... I need to move more things from 1/2/3 to 5/6 cause 2/3/4 are seagate 1.5TB and they fail too easy. I'm going to take out #4 and probably #3 and connect the externally/off line with another 1.5TB I have and do monthly backups. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 10:34pm - the_reverend ""] holy ungodly uploads... it was doing some huge number that I don't understand how it could be doing... All my web/mail traffic died. I had to slow uploaded. |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 10:53pm - dertoxia ""] thats always been my biggest problem with torrents is it will max out your upstream bandwidth which kills web browsing. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:33pm - reimroc ""] dertoxia said:thats always been my biggest problem with torrents is it will max out your upstream bandwidth which kills web browsing. I guess it depends on how many torrents you have going on but even on the lowest of cable speeds this shouldn't happen. If you're only torrenting like 5 files and this happens I recommend using utorrent and configuring it correctly. http://www.utorrent.com http://www.johntp.com/2006/04/19/how-to-in...crease-download-speeds-of-utorrent/ You all should be using utorrent anyways because of its UPnP encryption for traffic. Final piece of advice is to avoid public torrent sites and always chose torrents that have a good seed to leech ratio. OR Buy a rapidshare preium account or mega upload account and go to http://warez-bb.org and direct download everything to your heart's content. |
| ___________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:49pm - dertoxia ""] yeah i use utorrent now and cap the upload. I used to use Azureus which was crap. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:53pm - Martins ""] I use a Mac. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:55pm - Martins ""] Lol, I use Transmission for Mac and it works fine. I don't seed but I leach like a motherfucker. I have a friend that got an account at What.cd and it's easily the best music torrent site ever. Think of something you've never been able to find before. What.cd will have it in 3 or 4 different qualities with 192kbps Mp3s being the lowest quality they allow. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 11,2009 11:56pm - the_reverend ""] I stopped using utorrent when it was proven they were sending packets back to the mother ship. and you could be DOWNLOADING 0 things and have your UPLOAD maxing out. and if you can't upload, you can't download. it was just one of the torrents was sucking 99KBps-200KBps... at least that's what it said. IDK how that is possible when the max I've been able to upload before is 66KBps. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 12:02am - reimroc ""] Martins said:Lol, I use Transmission for Mac and it works fine. I don't seed but I leach like a motherfucker. I have a friend that got an account at What.cd and it's easily the best music torrent site ever. Think of something you've never been able to find before. What.cd will have it in 3 or 4 different qualities with 192kbps Mp3s being the lowest quality they allow. Too bad you'll be banned within 2 days from what if all you do is leech. I know first hand how crazy private sites are with ratios. Luckily I'm still in with waffles.fm, PassthePopcorn and torrentleech. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 12:12am - Martins ""] I'm not on What. My friend is. I know all about ratios. Either way, What gives you like two weeks or 5 gigs before your ratio matters. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 12:40am - reimroc ""] damn what.cd has pussied out. when that site first launched your ratio mattered 24/7 from the moment your account was activated. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 6:14pm - the_reverend ""] hm... I put my upload to 20KB and download to unlimited. now all my torrents aren't seeding... I would say I got banned for having a bad ratio, but idk. during the same period, I had the download station HD fill up and it jumped to another RAID which has nothing on it so I'm not sure. Plus, one of my torrents isn't demonoid. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 7:06pm - the_reverend ""] great.. it was the hd issue. I did something and they all reset back to 0. arg! so they are all starting again now and I have all these orphan'd files around. I need to get my house of cards in order. |
| _________________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 8:58pm - Conservationist ""] the_reverend said:I'm afraid that I will get sued or something. Then you'll go to jail and get to explain multiculturalism and tolerance of violent homosexuality. I think it's probably OK |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 9:42pm - xanonymousx ""] force a recheck of the files |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 9:46pm - the_reverend ""] I don't think I can do that. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 10:32pm - sxealex ""] www . midnight-torrents. com i likey |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 12,2009 10:57pm - the_reverend ""] I'm downloading all the TV shows that I have on DVD that I was ripping to divx. my rips suck. |
| _______________________________ [Jul 13,2009 12:18am - NLI ""] http://warez-bb.org Wht the fuck is up with that site? I went to it to check it out, I had to ctrl+alt+del to get out of it . It wouldn't let me close the page. fuck that shit |
| _________________________________ [Jul 13,2009 7:26am - reimroc ""] never had that problem. you do need to register to view any forum topics. |