Downloading via Torrent

[CaptainHaplo]

Torrents are as safe and unsafe as any other style of download. Like any file you download from anywhere - you want to scan it to insure its safe before you use it. Torrnets are simply another way to share files. Basically, you are getting a file from one or more sources - but you don't know these people. So do you want to just "trust" a file or files that you download from unknown sources? I wouldn't advise it.....

If you have a 1 GB limit though (and that is ungodly low), you don't want to do any file sharing - GWX is 1.33 GB's in size - so it alone would run through your limit. Torrents really allow you to pull the file from multiple sources - but all that data is coming through your connection and counting against you. As for sharing what you have - make sure its legit to share it, and then check to see if your charged. If so, then I would again advise against it.

There are legitimate uses for torrent downloads - like GWX. You can discuss the issue/use of torrents themselves (barring Neal correcting me that is) - but do NOT discuss using torrents (or any other form of p2p/sharing) that involves illegal software.

Torrents themselves are not inherently bad - it is simply the usage that they are sometimes (unfortunately nowadays more often than not) applied that makes people raise the initial eyebrow.