Torrents share as well as download.
That is, while you are downloading you are also feeding others.
Also, you can download from more than one feeder at a time.
Which means that, theoretically, you can totally swamp your download
bandwidth J.
I'm sure there's more.
Rusty
From
but what are you feeding? I mean does it know what is on your computer for
you to upload or else do you feed what you have of what you are downloading?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Carruth, Rusty <
rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com> wrote:
> Torrents share as well as download.*
ry 25, 2013 10:55 AM
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Subject: Re: torrent
but what are you feeding? I mean does it know what is on your computer
for you to upload or else do you feed what you have of what you are
downloading?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Carruth, Rusty
what about changing the connected peers, does that do anything?:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> but what are you feeding? I mean does it know what is on your computer for
> you to upload or else do you feed what you have of what you are downloading?
> :-)~M
Back to the original question, downloading from a torrent is better because
it doesn't swamp the "source" server. If you have a feeble server, but a
high-demand and large file to serve, providing a torrent download shifts
the server load from yourself to your users, where they nearly all download
With bit torrent files are broken up into a whole bunch of chuncks.
These chunks then have checksums run against them and put into a torrent
file. When you grab the torrent file your computer grabs chunks of the
file from everyone else that is downloading the file, not just the
server. It doe
It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes
OTHER than sharing copyrighted files.
-jmz
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> ---
Have you ever hosted a server where a thousand people want to download
something?
Torrents are great when you're in that position.
On Fri 25 January 2013 11:01:49 Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes
> OTHER than sharing copyrighted
Bittorrent is simply a way of efficiently moving large amounts of data
from point A to point B. There is nothing about it that promotes
copyright infringement, any more than just downloading something off a
webpage though HTTP... unless you are saying that doing things
efficiently is inherentl
Well, one difference is that if infringement _is_ committed, it's two
different violations under the law for torrents, and one for HTTP
downloads. Because torrenters download *and* upload, they can be charged
not only with violation by using the content without permission, but also
for distributing
Torrent is simply a means to share the legwork of large file transfers. It
is intended for legitimate file transfers. Like anything it can be used for
illegitimate ones as well.
On Jan 25, 2013 2:50 PM, "Patrick Callahan" wrote:
> Well, one difference is that if infringement _is_ committed, it's
And? All files are copyrighted. That doesn't mean that all Torrenting
is illegal. Blizzard and Riot games and a number of other, mainstream
developers, use Torrent systems to deliver updates to their games so
that the load of getting the files is shared amongst all the users.
Those files are co
I read your response like "It's not but people who use guns want to believe
they are used for purposes OTHER than murder."
Don't vilify the tool when it's the people that deserve the blame.
There are a lot of non piracy examples where bit torrent is used... a few:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/des
fyi I'm away from my Linux computer.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM Michael wrote:
> What do I open a torrent with to download the file? Here is the file:
> /home/kali/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-live-everything-amd64.iso.torrent
> I seem to remember that you just need to double click it a
Nevermind. I'm not away from my linux machine. I made a mistake.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:00 PM Michael wrote:
> fyi I'm away from my Linux computer.
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM Michael wrote:
>
>> What do I open a torrent with to download the file? Here is the file:
>> /home/
You need a torrent client installed like transmission for starters.
https://transmissionbt.com/
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 2:07 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Nevermind. I'm not away from my linux machine. I made a mistake.
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:
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