Bittorent another kazaa?

[kiwi_2005]

was searching for ultility on downloads.com without any luck thought i would try this bittorent a friend mention although ive heard about it never bothered as DL.com is okay for me. Anyway i go to this torrent site and sure enough theirs the ultilty ive been looking for the past few days, plus another zillion or so other software. So i decided to check out the links and everyone i checked are all cracked software!!!! Comes with keygenerators etc., I thought this Bittorrent what others have claim is the best and safest sharing to use yet its nothing but another warez/kazaa DL site.

Unless im wrong but what is so good about these torrent sites - they are nothing but pirates. lol

Oh and click on the link of the software you choose and read ther reply's put their by others. eg Beware this DL is crap it contains a trogan DONT DL IT! :rotfl:

I mean WTF???

[SUBMAN1]

Bittorent has been around for years. I don't like them much since to get any good torrents, you typically need to register at a given site.

-S

[TteFAboB]

Well the technology can be put to good use, for example, if you have a popular download, like the SHIV mods that will come out, and it is a big file, 100mb or so, then a couple of seeders plus all the leechers might help download it faster than if you had a single connection.

But yes, it's pretty much pirate gallore.

[Coda]

If you are going to use one, suggest this one:

http://www.utorrent.com/

Small, simple, easy.

[Ramius]

The latest Americas Army is on torrents.

What easier and cheaper way can you think of to distribute a 2.5 Gig file ?

Let the downloaders share out their bandwidth. Plus i got it a hell of a lot quicker than i would have from Fileshare or one of the other site these companys seem to like using

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

was searching for ultility on downloads.com without any luck thought i would try this bittorent a friend mention although ive heard about it never bothered as DL.com is okay for me. Anyway i go to this torrent site and sure enough theirs the ultilty ive been looking for the past few days, plus another zillion or so other software.

That's the nice thing about BitTorrent - lots of choices. What you do is completely up to you.

Anybody that thought BitTorrent won't be used that way was just fooling themselves.

As for me, any sympathies I may have had with some software companies dies fast. It dies in several stages:
1) The "game" costs about 10,000yen (almost US$100). For that you get about 100 CGs (often less) and a bunch of not-too-great text as a story. Sometimes its OK but sometimes the CG is doujinshi (semi-amateur, costs about 2000 yen) grade - still it is 10000 yen. Remember that you can get 3D graphics, action, simulation or whatever for less than $50 in the US. If they ever export the product, in HK it'd cost about <HK$200 (very roughly 3000 yen or US$30, a more human price). But mostly they don't...
2) I bite the bullet and go find it at amazon.co.jp. The shipping fee is half the price of the software...
3) I bite that bullet too (now I'm paying $150 for 100CGs and a bunch of not great text)... something notifies me that even if I barf out that much money, I am not allowed to purchase the product because I'm overseas and they don't do exports...
4) I go to their website to purchase the product (man, those things are pure psychoaddictive) ... same thing.

Somewhere in all this, I begin smiling when I see the product being strewn around over BT...

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

That's the nice thing about BitTorrent - lots of choices. What you do is completely up to you.

Anybody that thought BitTorrent won't be used that way was just fooling themselves.

As for me, any sympathies I may have had with some software companies dies fast. It dies in several stages:
1) The "game" costs about 10,000yen (almost US$100). For that you get about 100 CGs (often less) and a bunch of not-too-great text as a story. Sometimes its OK but sometimes the CG is doujinshi (semi-amateur, costs about 2000 yen) grade - still it is 10000 yen. Remember that you can get 3D graphics, action, simulation or whatever for less than $50 in the US. If they ever export the product, in HK it'd cost about <HK$200 (very roughly 3000 yen or US$30, a more human price). But mostly they don't...
2) I bite the bullet and go find it at amazon.co.jp. The shipping fee is half the price of the software...
3) I bite that bullet too (now I'm paying $150 for 100CGs and a bunch of not great text)... something notifies me that even if I barf out that much money, I am not allowed to purchase the product because I'm overseas and they don't do exports...
4) I go to their website to purchase the product (man, those things are pure psychoaddictive) ... same thing.

Somewhere in all this, I begin smiling when I see the product being strewn around over BT...

So what your saying is if the game cannot be found on a trading site go to Bittorent and just DL it? lol. okay, well your honest, i use alot of fixes for my games so i dont have to use the cd/dvd but thats it. Most software games/programs that are cracked have some form of trogan/spyware inbedded in them. And not worth the risk.

Also anyone using the SH3 fix should delete it, my new antivirus McAfee found a trogan in it!!! No other antivirus software ive used in the past found a virus in the SH3 fix. This SH3 fix has a friggin trogan. Back to using the dvd.

EDIT: This is the trogan found in the SH3 fix "Backdoor.generic.2" usually indicative of a commercial rootkit installation, not a real trojan. Unhappily, they're often harder to get rid of than real trojan software (Thanks Sony, you incompetent bastards - can't even write spyware well). AVG (or anything else) won't remove it if it is a commercial rootkit. Yet McAfee 2007 removed it! Go McAfee!!!

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Ramius

The latest Americas Army is on torrents.

What easier and cheaper way can you think of to distribute a 2.5 Gig file ?

Let the downloaders share out their bandwidth. Plus i got it a hell of a lot quicker than i would have from Fileshare or one of the other site these companys seem to like using

yup, took me 6.5 hours to get it from fileshack or something similar; not being up on the ways of bittorent, I left it downloading overnight. Easy come easy go- whatever floats yer boat/sinks yer sub/whatever.

[The Noob]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Unless im wrong but what is so good about these torrent sites - they are nothing but pirates. lol

Of course they are. You use a special tool for Downloading. What you think you gonna find? Of course: Pirates.

And i won't delete the SH3 fix either. Since my Goddamn DVD is broken.

And no, thats no excuse. SH3 was one of the few games i actually purchased...

I am using Anti-Vir and i found trojans in some whatever, but the majority of the Downloaded whatever is not infected. According to my Anti-Virus Program...

Nice people with nice manners, but no money at all. Thats me. And thats why i gone torrent long ago. Yes, it's wrong. But if i wouldn't do it i would have like 2 programms in a year.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by The Noob

Of course they are. You use a special tool for Downloading. What you think you gonna find? Of course: Pirates.

And i won't delete the SH3 fix either. Since my Goddamn DVD is broken.

And no, thats no excuse. SH3 was one of the few games i actually purchased...

I am using Anti-Vir and i found trojans in some whatever, but the majority of the Downloaded whatever is not infected. According to my Anti-Virus Program...

Nice people with nice manners, but no money at all. Thats me. And thats why i gone torrent long ago. Yes, it's wrong. But if i wouldn't do it i would have like 2 programms in a year.

[The Noob]

I would like a third button wich says: Download a friggin Game Instand and shoot yourself cause DVD Fix does not work. :rotfl:

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

That's the nice thing about BitTorrent - lots of choices. What you do is completely up to you.

Anybody that thought BitTorrent won't be used that way was just fooling themselves.

As for me, any sympathies I may have had with some software companies dies fast. It dies in several stages:
1) The "game" costs about 10,000yen (almost US$100). For that you get about 100 CGs (often less) and a bunch of not-too-great text as a story. Sometimes its OK but sometimes the CG is doujinshi (semi-amateur, costs about 2000 yen) grade - still it is 10000 yen. Remember that you can get 3D graphics, action, simulation or whatever for less than $50 in the US. If they ever export the product, in HK it'd cost about <HK$200 (very roughly 3000 yen or US$30, a more human price). But mostly they don't...
2) I bite the bullet and go find it at amazon.co.jp. The shipping fee is half the price of the software...
3) I bite that bullet too (now I'm paying $150 for 100CGs and a bunch of not great text)... something notifies me that even if I barf out that much money, I am not allowed to purchase the product because I'm overseas and they don't do exports...
4) I go to their website to purchase the product (man, those things are pure psychoaddictive) ... same thing.

Somewhere in all this, I begin smiling when I see the product being strewn around over BT...

Wow! $150 for a game that in my mind is worth $20 (even though they ask $50) is a bit ridiculous.

-S