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[Sandy is my wizard]

Anybody know any good file sharing programs these days, in the kazaa/napstar sort of mould if there are any these days.

I wouldnt be looking to break any copyright laws blah blah legal jargon.

[NoZ]

Shareza isnt bad but it is pretty heavy on the cpu and memmory. normally a bit simpler and easer to get a bit torrent which dont take much up and you can normally leave on for a while , although you'll have to go around internet sites to find the files you want.

try download.com it has a fairly big selectoin of both (although some like limewire you have to pay for some bits etc etc)

[Sandy is my wizard]

The only versions of limewire I found were for mac, is it available for pc??

[Zach]

A friend of mine swears by bearshare, if you don't mind a little spyware.

[{ katie }]

limewire pro!

[Sandy is my wizard]

I dont mind spywear, just so long as its managable or causing random popups at all time.

[Zach]

He claims it gives him about a popup a week. *shrug*

[Carl]

www.torrentspy.com.
Look for anything on there, they probably have an indirect link to a site with a direct link to it.
Use the clients uTorrent or BitTornado for best results (I prefer uTorrent)*

*Note: recommending these clients only because I've tested them out.

[Sandy is my wizard]

I downloaded something called bittorrent a day or so ago, I didnt really understand what it was on about. Im a bit behind on the interweb these days.

[NoZ]

ok im sorry if you already know this but torrents are ment to be more reliable than just p2p file transfer. the idea is you go to a website and click on a torrent , you then download that torrents tracker onto your computer. with that tracker bittorrent client will download the file for you. It is normally much safer than just searching a p2p network as is something is morally offensive or illigal its normally taken off the site quikly. you also can also normally see comments others have made about the file , like can only be used in real player or theres a currupted file. So its much harder to misname something like naming a porno to the incredable(SP) hulk unless your the first guy to download it /comment on it. people have ago about downloading multiple files becouse they want 1:1 upload/download ratio but dont worry too much about it. But be nice and leave the files there for other people to upload for a while , specially with some clients others can see who there downloading to and there are "black pages" of people who will not get fast downloads as a few of the bigger people within this comunity wont let you download to from them(who are nice enough to use server time for torrents). (although i never seem to have had a problem)

www.download.com is good theres p2p and torrents on there and some that combine the two , you can also see reviews from the site members to get a idea of what everythings like.

NoZ

Edited by NoZ, 14 October 2006 - 03:45 AM.

[westclox]

I downloaded something called bittorrent a day or so ago, I didnt really understand what it was on about. Im a bit behind on the interweb these days.

getting old.

need a walking stick soon.

[The One]

i use easyschmooze.

[Sandy is my wizard]

getting old.

need a walking stick soon.

I have been on dial up for years, so its not exactly worth keeping up with download trends. Although on my Auntys computer, mwa ha hah.

[westclox]

uh oh. youre gonna break poor aunties computer.