Seeing red

Post by **buksida** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:20 pm

Whats the point of paying if you are downloading pirate material? Its like making a deposit into a bank you're about to rob

Post by **SuperTonic** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:32 pm

To be honest it's not a great deal, and it means you've not got to worry about ISPs traffic-shaping, farting about with routers, etc, it's just a straight http download, and from sites like rlslog.net it's verified and checked. Also I tend to use the storage they provide you with for a few personal projects so I guess there's extra value in it for me.

BaaBaa. wrote:I seriously reccommend a film I watched last night called City of Ghosts, based mainly in Cambodia. Brilliant.

Duly added to my download queue.

Post by **buksida** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:36 pm

Ok, just wondered what the advantages were. Leased line here so no ISP or router problems and if you're familiar with torrents you tend to know the wheat from the chaff anyway!

Maybe this one should be moved to the Digital Realm section as it may be of use to those frustrated by the lack of intelligence displayed by the manager of the Hua Hin cinema

Post by **exman** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:43 pm

Jag gillar INTE klubbar för inbördes beundran----Snälla Norseman du får gärna översätta då detta utmärkta forum har övergått att bli en lekplats för
de som tror att de vet bäst-Du är inte medräknad-hur ska nya ev medlemmar kunna bli attraherade av detta inbördes skitsnack?

Post by **migrant** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:45 pm

Just started trying torrents from mininova and they download fine, but real slow, takes days!

Buksida, any hints??

City of Ghosts?? With James Caan? Business deal gone wrong? If so great movie! If not I'll watch!

Post by **buksida** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:46 pm

exman wrote:Jag gillar INTE klubbar för inbördes beundran----Snälla Norseman du får gärna översätta då detta utmärkta forum har övergått att bli en lekplats för
de som tror att de vet bäst-Du är inte medräknad-hur ska nya ev medlemmar kunna bli attraherade av detta inbördes skitsnack?

Que?

Try the Nordic Section

Buksida, any hints??

A decent internet connection.

Post by **SuperTonic** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:49 pm

buksida wrote:Ok, just wondered what the advantages were. Leased line here so no ISP or router problems and if you're familiar with torrents you tend to know the wheat from the chaff anyway!

Maybe this one should be moved to the Digital Realm section as it may be of use to those frustrated by the lack of intelligence displayed by the manager of the Hua Hin cinema

Advantage:

1. Firefox + Flashgot + Flashget + someone else's internet
2. Highlight a bunch of links
3. Choose flashgot selection
4. Instant download at 600k/s. No waiting for it to speed up, no faff, just queue it all up, leave flashget in the background, have a cuppa, do whatever, and your stuff arrives fast as a bastard.

And don't forget, not everyone is as fortunate as you not to have to deal with routers. When 'borrowing' other people's internet you have to take what you're given!

Post by **exman** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:52 pm

No I thought this should be the right place.....When you never listening I dont do it either...ask Norseman he can explain......

Post by **buksida** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:54 pm

I do have to deal with the router, thats the point - we have a leased line and our own dedicated IP address - I just login remotely through the configured router and line em up.

Not sure whats more unethical, downloading pirate movies or 'borrowing' someone elses internet

No I thought this should be the right place

Sorry bud, my Norsk is a bit lacking this evening, you should try the Nordic Section.

Post by **SuperTonic** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:55 pm

migrant wrote:Just started trying torrents from mininova and they download fine, but real slow, takes days!

Buksida, any hints??

City of Ghosts?? With James Caan? Business deal gone wrong? If so great movie! If not I'll watch!

Could be:

- router not configured
- ISP traffic-shaping (btw we ALL have ISPs, someone's providing our link to the internet)
- Not enough people sharing the file
- Not enough people sharing the file with decent bandwidth

P2P is hassle to be honest, I'm lazy and like my easy rapidshare.

Post by **SuperTonic** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:57 pm

buksida wrote:I do have to deal with the router, thats the point - we have a leased line and our own dedicated IP address - I just login remotely through the configured router and line em up.

Not sure whats more unethical, downloading pirate movies or 'borrowing' someone elses internet

Yep.. most people don't know how though, and in my case, borrowing the internet I can't really fuck about with the router cos it's not mine and I don't know the passwords for it (tried the defaults for popular brands obviously...)

Post by **buksida** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:03 pm

I think we've officially hijacked this thread

One of those pesky mods will show me that damn bullseye in a minute.

Obviously its not flawless but P2P works fine providing:

1) You have a decent internet connection
2) You know what you're looking for
3) You have a little technical knowledge
4) You have a decent internet connection

That said I may investigate your method also.

Post by **SuperTonic** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:06 pm

buksida wrote:I think we've officially hijacked this thread One of those pesky mods will show me that damn bullseye in a minute.

Obviously its not flawless but P2P works fine providing:

1) You have a decent internet connection Does someone else's internet count?
2) You know what you're looking for Check
3) You have a little technical knowledge Check - in my case a lot of technical knowledge
4) You have a decent internet connection

That said I may investigate your method also.

I've been using P2P for years to be honest, from Napster in the early days through kazaa, edonkey, flock and torrents, but I just find rapidshare is so much easier. I can shift several GB of content in a day, no effort required.

Post by **Wanderlust** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:15 pm

Super Tonic,
Can you explain to me, as i am obviously a bit stupid, what you mean by someone else's internet? Why is that a part of using the system you are for downloading stuff? Surely your own internet connection is always the limiting factor on how quickly you can get anything? Or am I missing something here?

Post by **SuperTonic** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:21 pm

Wanderlust wrote:Super Tonic,
Can you explain to me, as i am obviously a bit stupid, what you mean by someone else's internet? Why is that a part of using the system you are for downloading stuff? Surely your own internet connection is always the limiting factor on how quickly you can get anything? Or am I missing something here?

I'm just using someone else's internet for downloads cos my hutch is shit. It's not essential, basically any good internet connection will do. In fact the advantage of my method is that it's even ok for poor internet connections in that P2P will tend to just stop where rapidshare does do something (even if it's slow). And for reasons of not wishing to incriminate myself further I'll not elaborate any further on borrowing internet.