Thread: P2P program question...

I've heard that the people that deal with pirate'd music have put a few 'fake' downloads on the torrents things, to bust people who download them. Not only that, but I've dealt with torrents before and disliked the system. I'll be sticking with Ares.

Curious application, that Ares.
I went to download it and upon arriving at SourceForge and starting the download all of Firefox froze dead.

I don't even want to know what it'd do to my system if I were to actually launch the installer. >.<

(Yes, I'm aware the app itself can't cause that but since I can't find it in me to blame SourceForge...)

I used Ares with my PC before I switched over to Mac. Now I use FrostWire and its your typical LimeWire application. Hmph. I LOVED Ares, though! Good choice, Mes

I find that I'll use a P2P program just for one individual song. If I want a whole album then I'll look for torrents. I use this website http://torrents.to/ and you just plug in what you want and keep going through to the next website. Works like a charm!

Use Limewire, it does torrents too. It uses java though so the user interface is so slow.

To date, all RIAA lawsuits have been targeted at users of Limewire and especially Kazaa. Torrents downloaders have not been the recipients of any lawsuits to date.

Originally Posted by Tsen

To date, all RIAA lawsuits have been targeted at users of Limewire and especially Kazaa. Torrents downloaders have not been the recipients of any lawsuits to date.

Sweet! What about Ares?

Sooo where in the process of downloading things do people get caught, anyway? I'm confused on that whole process.

The uploads is where people are getting caught.

Originally Posted by Tsen

To date, all RIAA lawsuits have been targeted at users of Limewire and especially Kazaa. Torrents downloaders have not been the recipients of any lawsuits to date.

bittorrent transmissions are encrypted by default

(although I still see a good proportion of people who don't use it - for some god-only-knows reason)

no-one can snoop on encrypted BT traffic
the only thing they can "see", is the port it's going over

*edit*
"they" being ISP's