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100hp honda · Post by **100hp honda** » January 15th, 2011, 8:46 pm

anyone explain what a torrent is ? want to dload some free shit from a torrent site. im pretty sure the shit i want is illegal but maybe not. im guessing it was stolen some how from the original site that created it and charges money for the product, then the torrent site allows you to dload it for free.

is torrent just a file sharing site ? so the program i want isnt illegal because people are sharing it ?

100hp honda · Post by **100hp honda** » January 15th, 2011, 8:53 pm

just checked and theres a small fee to join the torrent site. thought i found the stuff i wanted last week and it was free from a different site. anyway can someone explain this torrent shit and what it is ?

Post by **MojoScojo** » January 15th, 2011, 9:55 pm

Torrent is a file sharing method. It has a bad reputation because there are no real controls on what gets put out there and as such, a lot of illegal stuff is available via torrent and also a lot of bad software you don't want on your machine. It's not something I would recommend pursuing unless you know what you are getting into.

2strokeforever · Post by **2strokeforever** » January 15th, 2011, 11:53 pm

works sweet for music and videos
eventualy you will get a virus tho...

hoofarted · Post by **hoofarted** » January 16th, 2011, 9:42 am

MojoScojo wrote:It's not something I would recommend pursuing unless you know what you are getting into.

Wise words here.

Make sure you have good AV (Not Norton or McAfee), and good secondary removal tools such as Malware Bytes Anti-Malware ready to run in case you do get infested after making your decision to do this.

NightBiker07 · Post by **NightBiker07** » January 16th, 2011, 10:31 am

basically when you download a torrent file, that file is "instructions" for the torrent downloading program. It tells the program where to download the material from, and it comes from all over the place.

But dont try it unless you are prepared to deal with a wide range of problems that *could* arise.

Post by **AlisoBob** » January 16th, 2011, 10:36 am

Sounds like Clyde is sticking his dick where it dont belong....

Tharrell · Post by **Tharrell** » January 16th, 2011, 11:11 am

I miss Limewire.

britincali · Post by **britincali** » January 16th, 2011, 11:43 am

Ive been using frostwire and so far so good.

iggys-amsoil · Post by **iggys-amsoil** » January 16th, 2011, 2:55 pm

I think maybe your mean tourette's syndrome?
It is a genetic disorder and there is no cure for it.

or

Torrent syndrome results from an overuse of BitTorrent. it's a severe addiction, similar to alcoholism. You get it by, well, overusing BitTorrent. Cure it by uninstalling the client and deleting all your torrents.

NightBiker07 · Post by **NightBiker07** » January 16th, 2011, 5:50 pm

Tharrell wrote:I miss Limewire.

I dont.....getting a whole CD from there is near impossible on any conventional P2P system....

2strokeforever · Post by **2strokeforever** » January 16th, 2011, 6:12 pm

isohunt you can get the whole discography, way easier that way

100hp honda · Post by **100hp honda** » January 16th, 2011, 7:02 pm

AlisoBob wrote:Sounds like Clyde is sticking his dick where it dont belong....

no thats why i asked first

alot of cool shit on torrent sites. aint worth it if my computer gets screwed though

the sites i looked at said they were tested safe. why and where would the viruses be coming from ?

Post by **MojoScojo** » January 16th, 2011, 10:09 pm

100hp honda wrote:the sites i looked at said they were tested safe.

I read it on the innanet, so it MUST be true!

Yeah, and I'm a better rider than David Knight....

100hp honda wrote:why and where would the viruses be coming from ?

Ever heard of identity theft? Fraud? The internet is easy pickins what with all the stupid people using computers these days.

http://www.youtube.com/user/500bigbore · Post by **Roostius_Maximus** » January 17th, 2011, 8:10 am

I'm not going to mention how many TB i've downloaded thru the years, but the boy has 1196 files in the cartoon folder.

Microsoft Security Essentials is the only way to roll.
Haivng said that, I've had antivirus software on dads computer and 2 other shop computers, they always needed matinence.
Until i got windows 7 and this MSE was on there I havent run any form of spyware or antivirus searching shit. I'd ovvasionally check in at the avira website and have it do a sweep, never a problem.

Dont download EXE, ZIP or other compressed files, slave a hard drive on by usb or internally and only download to there, not the main drive or a partition.

torrents are tested at

the
pirate
bay

or

kickass

use bitcomet so you can preview the contents of the torrent and dissable unneccesary junk like trailers and screenshots or trackers

Let 'er buck!

Post by **MojoScojo** » January 17th, 2011, 8:41 am

Maybe I sounded a bit paranoid. Make no mistake, I won't hesitate to torrent something I need, but it is never my first choice and I never do it from a computer that matters to me or that I do sensitive things like banking with. Torrent is a very useful technology. The only problem is that, while there are safeguards, it's design allows anyone to inject bad code and poison the torrent.

Roosty, while I agree that MSEE is the shiznit, you're deluding yourself if you think it catches everything. The bad guys are DAMNED sophisticated these days. They can put stuff on your machine and you won't even know it. If you want to get some idea and have some time to do some reading, look up stuxnet. Don't just stop with the first story you find.

Actually, here, start with this one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/techn ... virus.html

100HP, I'm not trying to scare you away from using it, just know what you are getting into. If the internet has a susceptible underbelly, this is it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/500bigbore · Post by **Roostius_Maximus** » January 17th, 2011, 8:52 am

I agree theres nothing safe out there.
One of the kids that worked for me was having issues with his paypal acct at home. It kept asking for all the information to confirm his account. Info that wasnt needed to set it up.
After submitting screenshots to a paypal rep they figured out it was a virus that his software didnt find that would replicate the paypal site and take the info.
Luckily he didnt enter anything, or carry a balance in the account. A formatt of the computer apparently "cleaned" it

Tharrell · Post by **Tharrell** » January 17th, 2011, 10:58 am

Frostwire rocks!
Just like Limewire, thanks Brit.

Complete albums in one click, Shinedown and Theory Of A Deadman.

100hp honda · Post by **100hp honda** » January 17th, 2011, 4:07 pm

i have 2 questions

1- im not for sure but the program i want from the torrent site, originally may of had a password when you purchase them from the original website that created them. like when you buy norton or any other AV, you get a password in the box. once you install the AV on your computer and type in the password, doesnt it make the product useless for anyone else to use ? like i said, i believe this is the case. from the original website you dont actually get a disk, you paypal the money and dload the software and im assuming they send you a password. im thinking it works the same way as norton or any AV you buy from the store.
how do you figure the people putting this program on the torrent site are getting around the password deal ?

2- i only have one computer. definatly dont need any virus crap on here, dont even want to take a chance of that happening. whats my options ? theres a library 1/2 mile down the road with computers

Post by **AlisoBob** » January 17th, 2011, 4:16 pm

Here ya go Clyde, Google said this is a virus free site....

http://www.gaytube.com/

Tharrell · Post by **Tharrell** » January 17th, 2011, 6:04 pm

Occasionally someone will crack a program. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
Programs I'll buy just so I know what I have.

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

Post by **MojoScojo** » January 17th, 2011, 6:40 pm

100hp honda wrote:how do you figure the people putting this program on the torrent site are getting around the password deal ?

Reverse engineering. They find the code in the program that handles the copy protection and modify it so it bypasses it. Not an easy thing to do, but not impossible either.

100hp honda wrote:2- i only have one computer. definatly dont need any virus crap on here, dont even want to take a chance of that happening. whats my options ? theres a library 1/2 mile down the road with computers

Simple. Don't do it.

or... I shudder to even suggest it, but...

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desk ... player/3_0

Post by **MojoScojo** » January 17th, 2011, 6:49 pm

A very LARGE percentage of the things you find on torrent sites are illegal. You're daft if you think you're not being tracked. I don't care what stealthing methods you think you know and use. The only reason you're not being prosecuted is because there are just too many to chase. If someone decides they are going to monitor you for whatever reason...

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