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Re: Bit torrent

Postby Celtman » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:46 am

It IS illegal, and it IS piracy.

PIRACY IS BAD

So no, don't use it. 8-)
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby waspiflab » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:50 am

ok just wondered
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby Tom... » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:36 am

There is nothing illegal about downloading Bit Torrent, its what you download using bit torrent that is illegal...most of torrent files are illegal so you should steer clear ;)
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby fighter25 » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:44 am

If it is from a payware vendor, yes it is illegal.
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby Wing Nut » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:19 am

If I were you, I would delete this before you end up getting banned.  Piracy is one of the few things around here that will get you booted without a second thought...
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby expat » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:48 am

As Kevin says, but another good reason for steering clear is the amount of stuff on offer that has viruses, spy ware, key stroke loggers and a multitude of other unwanted programs.
You will find freeware/shareware, but in general bit torrents mean other peoples hard work that has been ripped off and that equals piracy and piracy equals bye bye SimV, it was nice to know you.

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Re: Bit torrent

Postby waspiflab » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:35 pm

ok just looking ;)
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby ozzy72 » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:15 pm

There are some legit uses of BitTorrent but by and large it is illegal stuff!
Updates for X-Plane used to be done using BitTorrent to save on server space (I've not used X-Plane for over a year so I don't know if they still do things that way).
Bram Cohen who originally invented BitTorrent designed it for aiding the distribution of legal stuff between multiple users.
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby Anark » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:45 am

Quite a lot of BF2 mods use bit torrents.
I think that it's a lot easier to use but the piracy side of it is hiding its full potential.
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby J. » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:17 am

Bit Torrents are a fantastic way of distribution for legal stuff, for illegal stuff! gits!

its brilliant for as Anark said Game Mods who don't want to have to spend a fortune on a high bandwidth web hosting service so they can distribute a 1gb file for free and it will constantly get faster so long as people seed the files :)

Bit Torrents are not illegal, its a very legal and sensible method of distributing large files, the content is what gets judged legal or illegal.

what was the original question?
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Re: Bit torrent

Postby fighter25 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:58 pm

If downloading stuff from bit torrent sites for FSX was legall or not. Some files were legal and some were not. ;)
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