Torrent sites

[PigDogg]

I don't download from torrent sites but these were reccomended elsewhere:


http://empornium.us/

http://www.puretna.com/

[stogie bear]

http://www.torrentspy.com/default.asp

My fave! I check in here at least once a day!

Didga know that a third of ALL internet traffic is bit torrents! :0

[smuttleydfs]

Here is another site that I use on occasion, I prefer Torrent Spy but sometimes this site has things that torrent spy doesn't have.

http://www.seedler.org/en/

With Stogies assistance and high speed internet here in Korea I've been able to watch movies like The Exorcism of Emily Rose and keep up on some good stateside TV like "Over There", The OC, Threshhold, Everybody Hates Chris etc......

PD does torrents work in the states? Let me know, may be moving back in the next 6 months or so..........

[Snick]

http://torrentreactor.net/

[PigDogg]

PD does torrents work in the states?




 

the truth is i really don't understand exactly what torrents are.

is it file share technology similar to kazaa or is there a fundamental difference?

[mirimark]

PiggDogg, beat me to the question.
Logged onto the website, saw nothing there that would make me the sharpest pencil in the pencil box
The light almost came on, but still emptier than a box of rocks.
Well thats just how This Freckin''Freud' Rolls.

So whats Torrents SigmundFreckingFreudian ?

[Snick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent

Short answer its a free peer to peer system for copying files (no ads unlike others).
You need a torrent client program, I use azureus ( http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ ) but there are others.
A torrent file is a very short file that describes what you want, i.e. Lost Episode 2, the torrent client then starts grabbing the file from all the users who are sharing it (sometimes 1000's).

If you use it in the USA you might have non-technical problems, one the RIAA May sue you (seriously they've served thousands of cease and desist orders), and second your ISP may block it or ban you.

If you live outside the USA...its great. I download all my TV shows and PORN.

[smuttleydfs]

You need a torrent client program, I use azureus ( http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ ) but there are others.

I use bitcomet as a client program

Being here in Korea its great for downloading TV shows and movies.

[stogie bear]

Me too... Bit Comet is the best program out there. Simple and effective!

[Snick]

The Toad The Toad

[Stewart]

So, what am I doing wrong. These files are taking DAYS - literally - to download

Things like Acquisition are far faster

[olekunde]

check how many seeds and leeches that are available. if there are no seeds, just leechers, its a great possibility the torrent will stop, and sometimes at 95%. so close, but no cigar ..
also if there only are a few seeds it might take some time. the most popular torrents have several hunderd or thousands of seeds, so you can download 500mb in an hour or so, when other not so popular torrents have one or two, and it can take several hours only to download 50mb ..

[PigDogg]

November 8, 2005

In Hong Kong, a Jail Sentence for Online File-Sharing

By KEITH BRADSHER

HONG KONG, Nov. 7 - A Hong Kong judge sentenced a 38-year-old unemployed man to three months in jail Monday for using an Internet file-sharing system to make three Hollywood movies available for others to download free.

The jail sentence was the first ever meted out against a person copying movies using the BitTorrent file-sharing technology, industry and government officials said. BitTorrent, which is made to handle very large files, cuts the time it takes to download movies and TV shows from hours to minutes.

The sentence was also the latest in a series of legal victories for the movie and recording industries in their fight against the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet.

Colin Mackintosh of the Hong Kong Magistrates' Court in the Tuen Mun district sentenced Chan Nai-ming to jail for installing three movies - "Daredevil," "Red Planet" and "Miss Congeniality" - on his computer in a format that allowed others to copy them, and then announcing on Internet newsgroups that the movies were available.

Mr. Chan, who went by the name "Big Crook" on the Internet, did not charge for the copies.

Paul Francis, Mr. Chan's lawyer, said his client would appeal both his conviction and the sentence, adding that that Mr. Chan had been released on $645 in bail. "Our view is that the sentence was excessive in all circumstances," Mr. Francis said.

Margaret Fu, a spokeswoman here for the Motion Picture Association, the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, noted that before Monday's sentencing of Mr. Chan, a court in Sweden had imposed civil penalties, but no jail time, on an Internet user there for distributing movies using a different Internet file-sharing system.

Hong Kong has been trying hard to shed its role as a center for movie piracy and to develop an image as a city where intellectual property rights are protected. Studios often release movies here weeks after they do so in the United States or Europe, because illegal copies crop up so quickly once movies are shown.

Mr. Chan's jail sentence, the latest chapter in a case that began in January, follows several other recent victories for the movie and recording industries. The United States Supreme Court decided on June 27 that Web sites like Grokster could be held responsible for what users of its file-sharing service did with the material they downloaded, and on Monday the company said it would shut the service. Courts in Taiwan and Australia sided with the movie and recording industries in September in related file-sharing cases.

Hong Kong officials said they welcomed Mr. Chan's conviction.

"We believe the court has reached the most appropriate verdict based on the circumstances of the case," said Tam Yiu-keung, the head of the intellectual property investigation bureau at Hong Kong's customs department.

A spokesman for the Hong Kong Bureau of Commerce, Industry and Technology, a government agency, said that the verdict would have a deterrent effect. "We urge young people to respect intellectual property rights and abide by the law," the spokesman said.

After Mr. Chan's conviction on Oct. 24, John Tsang, Hong Kong's secretary of commerce, industry and technology, said that the posting of copyrighted materials from Hong Kong on BitTorrent files had dropped by 80 percent since the heavily publicized arrest of Mr. Chan in January.

The energy with which Mr. Chan has been investigated and prosecuted has underlined the government's determination to discourage the copying of files on the Internet. In summarizing the evidence, Magistrate Mackintosh described how a Hong Kong customs official had downloaded a copy of each movie, traced them to an Internet address in Hong Kong and then arranged a raid.

A team of customs officers arrived with a warrant at Mr. Chan's home at 7 a.m. on Jan. 12. As his wife left for work, they asked her to let them in. They found Mr. Chan at his computer.

According to the prosecution, Mr. Chan told one of the officers that he was "Big Crook," and was solely responsible for uploading the files. The officer took notes on the conversation and Mr. Chan signed the notes.

But Mr. Chan later testified that he had signed the notes believing the officers would then allow his wife to go to work, and that he would not get into trouble. Magistrate Mackintosh did not accept this argument and admitted the notes as evidence.

Mr. Francis argued during the trial that Mr. Chan's actions did not meet the legal definition of distributing a copyrighted work, because Mr. Chan had only saved the movies on his computer and connected the computer to the Internet in a way that allowed others to actually download the movie. But the judge dismissed this argument, saying that an ordinary definition of distribution would encompass what Mr. Chan did.

The judge also accepted the prosecution's argument that Mr. Chan had deprived studios of part of the revenues they were due from their copyrights on the movies. The customs officers determined that 30 to 40 people had downloaded each of the movies that Mr. Chan made available, and these people might otherwise have rented or purchased the movies, the judge concluded.

"The message is one that is best heeded by Internet pirates the world over, namely that you can and will be found, prosecuted and punished for the theft of intellectual property," said Dan Glickman, chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America.