Illegal downloading

[Samson]

See that's what I always thought! That the sharing was the part they get you for. Which is good because I never share anything ever, in fact I copy everything to my itunes music folder and then just delete the original files.


Few questions though: What is IRC? and why are torrents safer?

Dar answered the question on Torrents... As far as IRC, back in the late 80's it was originally designed as a Internal Relay Chat program, now 20 years later, it's still a room type chat program (if you want it to be), but Bots (program Zombie/robot, or however you want to define it) are now put into the many thousands upon thousands of rooms which act as a hard disk in which whomever owns the IRC server with the bots can add files to them..These rooms/servers are world wide...

Bottom line is that you are only downloading from a program, and there is no sharing involved.....I get some of my best speeds through IRC...

You will need a program to do this, (MIRC is what I use..free download) and a bit of computer lang. commands and (server knowledge helps a bit)...I've used IRC for 10 years now with no issues.....If you want fast download speeds almost every other time, I suggest IRC, if you want more choices across the board of what you are looking for, I suggest Torrents....

Also, If anyone out there is going through Azureus, take it off your computer and stay away from it..The movie and record industry has been taking part in that program since the beginning/middle of last year....I don't trust it.....

Rockthatpiano06, what program are you using for your torrent software and what site?? (If you don't mind me asking....??) U-Torrent is what I use and has been great for me so far....

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Dar....I had never heard of Peerguardian.......I just added it and blocked about everything I could (Besides the http)....

How long have you been using it? And does it really work that well with blocking your IP from people seeing it etc. ?