Alternative to Limewire
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In some respects it's not LimeWire that's at fault (you are using the latest version right?) but the network it connects to being full of crud. BearShare and the like all use the Gnutella network so you'll find the same crudy content I'm affraid.
A lot of the old P2P networks have vanished due to the RIAA / MPAA sueing the living bejesus out of the original creators; those that they can't in effect sue are poisioned to death via large numbers of DSL connections pumping out buggered files for requests.
I wonder if LimeWire could make use of something like Peer Guardian?
A lot of the old P2P networks have vanished due to the RIAA / MPAA sueing the living bejesus out of the original creators; those that they can't in effect sue are poisioned to death via large numbers of DSL connections pumping out buggered files for requests.
I wonder if LimeWire could make use of something like Peer Guardian?
Furyous said:
Have heard good things about Soulseek, thought not used it myself yet.
Agree that Limewire is fubard now.
Havnt got into torrents yet as Im not really sure how secure they are or how they work.
F
Agree that Limewire is fubard now.
Havnt got into torrents yet as Im not really sure how secure they are or how they work.
F
Heard of Soulseek... I tried playing with it a while back and it looked like the old DirectConnect system with a face lift, this is not a bad thing IMHO
BitTorrent is kind of a throw back to the old Napster days. The protocol works using a central server known as a 'tracker' and two types client; seeders and peers. The .torrent file provides the MD5 hash, file names, sizes and one or more tracker(s) to use. Your client connects to this tracker and is then pointed towards the pool of people downloading/uploading.
Seeds have the completed torrent (i.e. the whole of whatever) and are uploaders only. Peers have one or more fragments of the file and are both downloading from the seeders and uploading to other peers at the sametime.
More advanced clients (such as Azureus) feature trackerless torrents, magnet URL's and the like which enable you to paste a small URL in to the client and it will do the rest. The choice of client depends both on your operating system and personal preference; uTorrent seems in favour as a light weight Windows client, Azureus is pretty much the undisputed heavy weight (it's Java based, runs on any platform).
As for security, well, yes, you will find poisoned seeders/peers running around as well as fake torrents; however things like PeerGuardian (which Azureus can run as a plug-in) enable the client to filter out these badniks and keep on trucking. As for the being busted doing naughty things well; that's a risk no matter what you do.
Bittorrent's delivery mechanism is very good for getting Linux ISO's and Copyleft movies (fan films, etc.) out to the public.
Simplest client for Windows would be www.utorrent.com/
Download, install... and the client is installed. It'll probably register itself to handle the file types it needs to look after.
Their have been a few a threads as to where to go to get something to feed the client; although I'm not sure on the rulings on providing URL's. but Google and worlds largest bitorrent will get you going.
Download, install... and the client is installed. It'll probably register itself to handle the file types it needs to look after.
Their have been a few a threads as to where to go to get something to feed the client; although I'm not sure on the rulings on providing URL's. but Google and worlds largest bitorrent will get you going.
It's worth getting the TorrentSearch toolbar, makes searching for stuff a whole lot easier.
www.torrent-search-bar.com/
www.torrent-search-bar.com/
dogsey said:
It's worth getting the TorrentSearch toolbar, makes searching for stuff a whole lot easier.
www.torrent-search-bar.com/
www.torrent-search-bar.com/
What easier than Google? Did'nt think it could get any easier than Goog.
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