What is Bit Torrents and how does it works?

[lifeafter41]

Understand will need to run bit torrent, in order to download movies. How does it work?.
Possibility of downloading virus, malware is high?.
Sorry not very tech savvy on this. Thanks!!

 

[johnny333]

Careful about down loading movies because it can be traced. The film companies have been known to go after individuals who download the movies.

I sometimes download books & magazines which nobody cares about.

 

[garlic]

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm

Bittorrents is sharings of datas and it works by peers-to-peers. Excellent explanation by howstuffworkssss...

 

[PaulStanley]

Are u sure u don't know? Or is this another feedback gathering to (fill in the blanks yourself)

 

[laksaboy]

Careful about down loading movies because it can be traced. The film companies have been known to go after individuals who download the movies.

I sometimes download books & magazines which nobody cares about.

There are ways to cover your tracks. Most good BT clients already can mask your identity.

If you're scared shitless about those silly film companies, you can always watch full movies online. All you need is a decent Internet connection. There's no need to use up gigs of hard drive space for movies.

 

[Leongsam]

Understand will need to run bit torrent, in order to download movies. How does it work?.
Possibility of downloading virus, malware is high?.
Sorry not very tech savvy on this. Thanks!!

Instead of stealing 50 litres of petrol from a service station you're stealing 0.1 litres each from 500 cars.

 

[Leongsam]

There are ways to cover your tracks. Most good BT clients already can mask your identity.

If you're scared shitless about those silly film companies, you can always watch full movies online. All you need is a decent Internet connection. There's no need to use up gigs of hard drive space for movies.

Use Pirate Bay magnet links / anon download

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Is this really life after 41?

 

[Leongsam]

Pat Pilcher: The Pirate Bay to launch game changing app

By Pat Pilcher
3:31 PM Tuesday Jan 7, 2014

As the war on piracy and privacy continues, The Pirate Bay has revealed what could be a gamer changer in a move that could effectively render the efforts of lawmakers and the entertainment industry ineffective.

Recently The Pirate Bay engaged in a game of whack-a-mole, switching Internet domains multiple times in a bid to stay ahead of anti piracy organisations who were threatening companies hosting The Pirate Bay with legal action.

Having long covered the ongoing sagas of The Pirate Bay vs. the entertainment industry, I'd predicted ages ago that should the entertainment industry persist in fighting an unwinnable war rather than working to offer viable alternatives to piracy, the entertainment industry could soon find themselves being left behind as technologies evolve to the extent where policing file sharing sites becomes all but impossible.

Now The Pirate Bay have revealed just how they intend to use technology to win the war. Much of their battle strategies revolve around eliminating key vulnerabilities that have plagued peer-to-peer players, namely centralised torrent tracking websites.

Central to this is a soon to be launched application designed to compliment the PirateBrowser, (which since governments in the UK and EU began blocking access to torrent tracker sites has experience phenomenal levels of adoption, hitting a staggering 2.5 million downloads as of last week).

The app could see The Pirate Bay no longer reliant on domain names or webhosting, with the current functionality of The Pirate Bay decentralised among its users, being stored locally on their PCs and shared in a peer-to-peer like fashion.

The upshot of this is that the Pirate Bay website which has long been an easy target will become surplus to requirements, and The Pirate Bay will become so massively distributed that it could become next to impossible for authorities to do anything but sit on the sidelines and watch.

The app is to be released as an open sourced standalone application as well as plugins for both Firefox and Chrome browsers. In a nod to NSA snooping, the app will also make use of an encrypted custom DNS system that potentially signals a clever side business for The Pirate Bay in faux domain hosting that will link a website's "name" to a unique and verified public key. These "domains" are to be Bitcoin authenticated, and will expire after 12 months unless re-verified.

Indications are that it'll probably be several months before the first version of the app is released, but once it launches, there is a fair chance that it'll place services such as The Pirate Bay firmly out of reach of entertainment industry lawyers.

Had the entertainment industry adopted a sustainable and longer-term approach such as offering alternatives to piracy rather than engaging in short term and unwinnable games of whack-a-mole with players such as The Pirate Bay, things could have been so very different. Oh well.

By Pat Pilcher

Brodie Ross () | 08:01AM Wednesday, 08 Jan 2014
This is great news. Im a supporter of Pirate Bay and what they have/still do for the internet and filesharing type things.

The music/movie industry keeps sighting falling CD/DVD sales as a sign of piracy, but yet they have not attempted to change they way they give there media out. In a time when everything is being pushed digitally, they seem stuck in there archaic methods, and want to attack anything that will change the way they try to swindle money out of people.

Informed people know that the only reason Dotcom was targeted, and every other file locker has not been, is because of his activities with the recording industry on changing they way artists got there work out.

When its the US and there movie/music studios trying to push there law on to other countries, that just makes me want to purposly rip and pirate there media.

Welovethelibrary (North Shore) | 08:01AM Wednesday, 08 Jan 2014
Nicely put Pat.

It's especially ironic for Hollywood to be leading this charge given their own origins in California being literally stealing East Coast copyrighted movies and re-showing them.

They have had chance after chance to grow up with technology, and satisfy user demand for ubiquitous, cheap, legal, on-demand entertainment.

Instead... in a fascinating attempt at ignoring the worldwide market demand... they have opted to try to force their customers to stick with an outmoded and overly expensive business model, and then used extreme and excessive litigation against generally easy targets (such as single mothers, and students) and imposed massive fines in an attempt to scare people into toeing the line. At the same time often screwing their content creators.

This completely over-the-top abuse of money and power backfired badly and gave every person not actively on the side of copyright an axe to grind. Also in sharp reaction, this gave rise to various new means of delivering content... and this evolution of file sharing.

They fought their own customers, & denied market reality for profits.
They have entirely brought it on themselves.
They deserve everything they get.
Allan Probert () | 08:01AM Wednesday, 08 Jan 2014
Excellent article Pat-this was inevitable as you say! I'm surprised no-one else has seen this as an inevitability.

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[nutbush]

a lot of viruses can be downloaded from piratebay...

 

[joeyboey]

Ah ok, so then what to do with the viruses after downloading them?

a lot of viruses can be downloaded from piratebay...

 

[Leongsam]

Ah ok, so then what to do with the viruses after downloading them?

If you isolate them and reverse engineer the DNA structure, you should be able to come up with an effective treatment.

 

[nutbush]

normally, what i do is install a virtual machine, i will install the downloaded program into it, then check what changes were made to the process and start up, disable or uninstall it.

Ah ok, so then what to do with the viruses after downloading them?

 

[laksaboy]

a lot of viruses can be downloaded from piratebay...

I would trust Piratebay more than a freshly released Microsoft Windows update.

Your fear mongering is silly.

 

[nutbush]

ya...as if piratebay has a bigger market share than microsoft...

I would trust Piratebay more than a freshly released Microsoft Windows update.

Your fear mongering is silly.

 

[lifeafter41]

Is this really life after 41?

Ha Ha Ha Ha, yes it is. It get's worse after 51

 

[laksaboy]

ya...as if piratebay has a bigger market share than microsoft...

Piratebay is not in the market for anything, and what does market share have to do with anything?

You are quite the simpleton, aren't you?

Microsoft withdraws KB 2823324, second botched automatic update this year
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsof...4-second-botched-automatic-update-year-216325

 

[nutbush]

simpleton, who'd you trust? go ask anybody in the IT industry, microsoft or piratebay?

Piratebay is not in the market for anything, and what does market share have to do with anything?

You are quite the simpleton, aren't you?

Microsoft withdraws KB 2823324, second botched automatic update this year
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsof...4-second-botched-automatic-update-year-216325

 

[Leongsam]

simpleton, who'd you trust? go ask anybody in the IT industry, microsoft or piratebay?

I treat both with equal suspicion but when it comes to spreading malware, Microsoft has a far worse track record simply because simpletons use their products without knowing the dangers whereas Pirate Bay users are more technically inclined

 

[nutbush]

technically speaking, when microsoft released an update, they will go thru different workflow approvals for release. does piratebay has such workflow? :p

I treat both with equal suspicion but when it comes to spreading malware, Microsoft has a far worse track record simply because simpletons use their products without knowing the dangers whereas Pirate Bay users are more technically inclined