It's a very useful system for its users, according to what I've read about it... and it does sound pretty convenient.
Misanthrope SupremeThe general copyright stance. So much that anything that looks like piracy is looked down upon. You can download plenty of legitimate things with bittorrent, like free ocremixes(the preferred and promoted of ocremix), and Linux, and many other things. We're right as rain here about most subject, though we have a few Jack Thompsons about a few.
Genkidama for Japan, even if you don't have money, you can help![1]@OP: Funny you say that, because I also recently acquired the complete Codex Alera via torrent.
Agreed, the old, Napster model of filesharing was much simpler and more elegant. Bittorrent just adds more hoops you have to jump through and makes it all a counfounding ordeal; it’s amazing that people still do all that illegal downloading when Bittorrent has made it such a drag.
That Napster model of filesharing still exists, and Soulseek is doing it the best.
However, torrent is the best model of filesharing out there. Which is why people use it.
Bittorent is to filesharing as .MKV is to video.
edited 6th Jun '11 3:38:54 PM by Ukonkivi
Genkidama for Japan, even if you don't have money, you can help![1]Things I know Bittorrent is better at than direct downloads:
- Continue your download as you like.
- Stuff doesn't get deleted off the internet.
- When downloads finish you can choose to standby your computer or something without having to do it manually to save power or whatever.
Things I remember Bittorrent being worse at:
- High chance of viruses because you're feeding off the files off someone else's computer. I think.
- If nobody cares about it, the torrent will die anyway.
- It has a higher strain on my computer (I have no idea why this is the case to be honest)
- If nobody has the files needed to complete the thing that is seeding, then you're screwed.
- Old stuff that isn't very popular will download at speeds that a turtle would snore at.
So i'd like it if you elaborated, unless that really is all.
If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.Old stuff that isn't very popular will download at speeds that a turtle would snore at.
Of course, the uploaded file may be virus-ridden itself. But that's a problem with DDL also, and torrent sites are usually community-oriented, so it's probably easier to petition that a bad file be taken down.
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Yes, I know it's evil, but there's a lot to be said for not having to take buses to three different libraries to pick up the complete Codex Alera.
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