First you have to install a program such as Azureus (http://www.google.it/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://azureus.sourceforge.net/&e=9707), then you have to find a torrent site, such as this one (http://www.mininova.org/tor/47027). Then you click on the link next to "download", and the program should automatically capture it, or Windows should ask you what to do with it, and you tell it to open it with Azureus. That's NOT the video file itself, it's just a .torrent file that contains the download information. So do not download it, tell windows to open it with Azureus instead. The program will then ask you where to download it; just choose a location on your hard disk. Bittorrent programs can have problems with firewalls, mostly with the embedded Windows XP firewall, so I suggest you disable it while you download, if you see that you have problems.
Btw, a friend told me that the latest Azureus release has some bugs, so you should probably install this one (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12BKBYS45RJRE20GCJMUHJ91VY), and refuse to update if the program asks you.
I think it's working. I can't be sure. Right now it says 2 days left to upload. At that rate I might as well wait for Tina....but you said slow at first, so we'll see!!
Yes, it will usually get better...this one is double sized compared to the usual episodes, so if you are on a dsl line I think it should take you (as it's taking me) from 6 to 8 hours to download.. Bear in mind also that the quality of this file is higher than Tina's ones...that's why it's so big!
Bit torrents are a questionably legal way to share large files. It's based on the premise that the one person with a complete and huge file cannot bear the load of multiple downloaders -- so it cuts the files into a million tiny pieces and puts them each up for sharing (*called seeds) so that when downloaders have even a couple hundred of those pieces, they become seeders of those pieces, and share among each other. If you have minutes 1-10, 13, 17, 31, and 60 -- people can get those from you and not where you're getting what you need from (faster and cheaper).
You'll need a client to collect the pieces and reassemble them into a real file when you have them all. There are lots of clients out there, you can even google "bit torrent client" to try out different ones. Once you have the program installed, when you search a bit torrent website, clicking the download links will do one of two things: A)utomatically open your client and ask where you want the pieces stored til you have them all, or B) download a torrent directive file. Use it as a bookmark, in case you have to restart your comp or have an error; click it to start or restart that download. If you die in the middle, it will pick up where you left off.
To make the files smaller and more transmittable, they are often encoded and compressed, which wreaks havoc on your media players. You may run across files with no audio, no visual, or the audio not matching the visual. This is often a memory lapse or a just a player glitch and you should try opening it with a different player, or download the DIVX player (the compression people).
Sharing music is illegal and the RIAA is working on destroying the p2p networks of yore. Downloading movies is highly illegal and the studios are working on ways to find and punish us severely. Television content is still in the gray area, since we are allowed to record tv shows and share them under the current interpretation of the Millennium Digital Rights Act. Have at it while they decide, of course.
The nature of torrents, those tiny little pieces, threw a wrench in the prosecution. Not only are they crazy-difficult to track, the piece they track you with isn't that incriminating by itself and who can stalk you hard enough to prove you have enough pieces or what you're doing with them?
Because we're dancing on the edge, keep an ear out for prosecution news stories to avoid getting yourself fined. (What is it these days... $10,000 per movie or something?) Sites pop up, disappear, get renamed, anything to avoid the law. Just google your "title" and "torrent" and see what you can find, then search that site to get all you can while it's still there. You'll find a constant and amazing amount of stuff at my favorite: http://www.torrentspy.com
I don't know what Australia's loopholes are, but TV shows are not illegal in the US (yet?). Torrents aren't that bad, they just need some patience and finesse. Not all downloads are winners, but I look at the kind of stuff I am able to get and gladly take the lemons. Hope things improve for you, dear.
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Bittorrent programs can have problems with firewalls, mostly with the embedded Windows XP firewall, so I suggest you disable it while you download, if you see that you have problems.
If you have any questions, just ask! :)
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Right now it says 2 days left to upload. At that rate I might as well wait for Tina....but you said slow at first, so we'll see!!
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Bear in mind also that the quality of this file is higher than Tina's ones...that's why it's so big!
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You'll need a client to collect the pieces and reassemble them into a real file when you have them all. There are lots of clients out there, you can even google "bit torrent client" to try out different ones. Once you have the program installed, when you search a bit torrent website, clicking the download links will do one of two things: A)utomatically open your client and ask where you want the pieces stored til you have them all, or B) download a torrent directive file. Use it as a bookmark, in case you have to restart your comp or have an error; click it to start or restart that download. If you die in the middle, it will pick up where you left off.
To make the files smaller and more transmittable, they are often encoded and compressed, which wreaks havoc on your media players. You may run across files with no audio, no visual, or the audio not matching the visual. This is often a memory lapse or a just a player glitch and you should try opening it with a different player, or download the DIVX player (the compression people).
Sharing music is illegal and the RIAA is working on destroying the p2p networks of yore. Downloading movies is highly illegal and the studios are working on ways to find and punish us severely. Television content is still in the gray area, since we are allowed to record tv shows and share them under the current interpretation of the Millennium Digital Rights Act. Have at it while they decide, of course.
The nature of torrents, those tiny little pieces, threw a wrench in the prosecution. Not only are they crazy-difficult to track, the piece they track you with isn't that incriminating by itself and who can stalk you hard enough to prove you have enough pieces or what you're doing with them?
Because we're dancing on the edge, keep an ear out for prosecution news stories to avoid getting yourself fined. (What is it these days... $10,000 per movie or something?) Sites pop up, disappear, get renamed, anything to avoid the law. Just google your "title" and "torrent" and see what you can find, then search that site to get all you can while it's still there. You'll find a constant and amazing amount of stuff at my favorite: http://www.torrentspy.com
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I decided I HATE TORRENTS. I'm just gonna keep going to Tina.
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