Peer-To-Peer Files

[xpsycho10x]

Has anyone used ISO hunt?Or useing Bit torrent files to download ISO files,games,music, etc.Downloading either Bit lord, bit comment, or something in that nature

[justsomeguy]

ISOhunt is a good tracker. If you want a client the Opera browser has a bittorrent client built-in, or you can download Azureus, it's probably the most popular bittorrent client. I just downloaded the 1.8GB Crysis demo not too long ago in about 3 hours, it was going pretty quick.

[xpsycho10x]

awesome, have you ever used bitlord? it's pretty fast, I download all my psp games pretty fast and movies and such, i get movies as soon as they hit the theater

[xpsycho10x]

Peer to peer files illegal?

[justsomeguy]

There's nothing illegal about file sharing. It's only illegal if the files being shared are not legal to share. Retail software, music, and movies general fall under that category.

[Synook]

It is a pity that peer-to-peer has become so closely associated with the illegal file-sharing industry there are many speed and data integrity advantages of transferring data via peer-to-peer networks.

[Shonumi]

It seems to me, that to avoid such a said association with piracy, most big download websites haven't even turned to the peer-to-peer model, and instead stick to the current download-as-you-get-it from their servers. This might be to keep costs down over implementing a new architect, even though it won't be as fast, and in some cases with smaller files, it wouldn't make much of a difference. But imagine how much better sites like Fileshack would be if they did this. I mean aside from movies and music, it's game patches and programs like this that would see the most benefit, and then video sharing sites would be my next guess. That is a big audience, but P2P has gotten "stigma stink", and groups like the RIAA, MPAA, and pirates themselves don't help at all. On the plus side, P2P clients themselves are great downloading clients in general for things both on P2P networks and off.

[xpsycho10x]

Yeah I use my P2P for illegal stuff than because my PSP is hacked so all i do is download what ever game I want witch is awesome by the way

[xpsycho10x]

But i guess it's all good i have my IP masked

[justsomeguy]

I used to download various games and programs until I became a programmer and realized that programmers count on their customers paying them to stay in work. Any program or game I've been looking forward to I will happily pay money for, I have no problem spending money on something like Crysis. I would prefer that they get my money so that they can afford to make another game. I won't necessarily pay for something that I wouldn't pay for anyway, but anything I use regularly I pay for.

[croatiankid]

I use Demonoid, ThePirateBay and IsoHunt (in that order), though demonoid is intermittent ATM. Bitcomet is my torrent client.

[xpsycho10x]

yeah, bitcomet is slower than bitloard and p2p are alot better and download alot faster

[Shonumi]

yeah, bitcomet is slower than bitloard and p2p are alot better and download alot faster

Apparently not if you have Comcast (i.e. me). At least not anymore with this ISP will you see better downloads over P2P networks than the conventional server to client model out there. Though if you ask me this seems like some net netruality advocates would not want to see, even if P2P is mainly associated with piracy.http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139854-page,1/article.html

[justsomeguy]

Comcast has been busted for a bunch of things where they shut off the connection. It might not be related to bittorrent so much as just general bandwidth usage, Comcast customers have reported occasions where the connection gets lost. Comcast does that by figuring out who is using all the bandwidth and sending that computer a message that basically tells it to end the connection. If you don't like the fact that Comcast does that you can let them know by voting with your wallet and moving your service elsewhere. Until the politicians can get together a law to stop ISPs from doing things like this (which doesn't seem very likely that something like that would pass any time soon), that's the choice you have.

[xpsycho10x]

so comcast is trying to stop illegal downloads or to many downloads?

[justsomeguy]

Here's a list of Comcast-related articles on Slashdot:http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...-8&oe=utf-8Comcast has been denying or restricting certain types of traffic, like bittorrent traffic. Net neutrality advocates are trying to push Washington to make a law that says that ISPs cannot discriminate based on the type of traffic. This is something similar to what happened with AT&T years ago. AT&T would refuse to allow certain political messages to go across their phone lines, and as a response the "common carrier" law was passed that said that phone companies must allow all traffic on their network regardless of the type, in other words they can't discriminate which traffic to allow and what not to allow. The common carrier law didn't apply to ISPs (there were no ISPs), so now the ISPs are doing the same thing. A lot of people would like to see a law passed that said that ISPs had to allow all traffic on their network regardless of the type of traffic. ISPs would still be allowed to do traffic shaping, which is part of quality of service, and in that case they just might say that bittorrent is the lowest priority of traffic so all of the bandwidth will be used for everything else first, and then bittorrent, but they aren't doing that, they're just outright closing the connection.