Help! Need Lost Series 3 Ep 1 before tonight!

[schmokin1]

Anyone know a good site to safely and easily download the Lost series 3 episode 1 (I don't mind paying)? I missed it and ep2 is on tonight in 4 hrs. How long does it take to download a 1 hour programme on standard 10 meg broadband? Please help this computer dunce!!

[gopher]

should find it in here www.torrentspy.com/search?query=lost&submit.x=13&submit.y=7 (NSFW), if anything here is "unsafe" it usually gets reported and removed fairly quickly so you should be ok.

An hour tv program can usually be aquired in less than an hour but obviously depends on your client set up, and how many people are sharing.

[schmokin1]

gopher

thanks for the reply. I'm a computer idiot so don't know how these downloads work. do i need to download a special program first to then get the download? and do the downloads play on windows media player or similar video player?

thanks for your help

schmo

[gopher]

schmokin1 said:

gopher

thanks for the reply. I'm a computer idiot so don't know how these downloads work. do i need to download a special program first to then get the download? and do the downloads play on windows media player or similar video player?

thanks for your help

schmo

Ah, ok, yes you need a client - I use Azureus - do a google, this will associate the .torrent file type with that program, that way when you click the download button the client will open automagically.


Edited to add --

I'm not sure that such programs are available on paid for sites, but these are getting more popular - I pay £3.50 pm subscription to www.discoverybroadband.com because I don't want a sky package and if I had one I would probably only watch what appears on that, I do wish they had more programs but it's a good start. I see this as the begining of entertainment on demand

Edited by gopher on Sunday 26th November 18:01

[bga]

To download a torrent file, install a torrent client like Azureus or Microtorrent. When you download the torrent file from torrentspy, it should automatically start to download the episode. Depending on how many seeds & peers there are, you should be able to download it in a couple of hours

[schmokin1]

thanks both of you i will try it out.

schmo

[pincher]

My dad swears by www.xtvi.com/ - he reckons it has never let him down.

Pretty sure he uses it with Azareus too

[Matts_Zed]

If you are torrenting lots, especially new stuff, I always run Peerguardian 2. It blocks known IP ranges / addresses. Once you see it running and it blocking the likes of Sony and MGM trying to join the torrent, you'll be thankful you had it there.

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

Probably doesn't make you much safer (from prosecution), but hopefully safer than others who don't use it.