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Bit Torrent: 35% of all Traffic
From Piracy and politics to pop culture...
According to this Reuters story, Bit Torrent now accounts for roughly thirty-five percent of all internet traffic. And not all of it's piracy; many companies distribute software and updates (Linspire, Valve software) via torrent to save bandwidth, and many users distribute pop-culture tid-bits, like John Stewart's recent taunting of the hosts of CNN's Crossfire. Bit Torrent is also used for the academic network Lionshare, for spam stopper Vipul's razor, and for more basic applications like Magic Mirror Backup.
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vic102482
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Upper Marlboro, MD

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I love BT

Anime 24/7 off of it.:p
53059959 (banned)
Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone

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Re: I love BT

much of the bittorrent warez seems to come from suprnova.org. I remember browsing a few bt traker websites and suprnova was way above the rest in hits. im sure lotsa people would be glad to get rid of suprnova. ha! warez 4 life
vic102482
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vic102482

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Re: I love BT

said by 53059959:

much of the bittorrent warez seems to come from suprnova.org. I remember browsing a few bt traker websites and suprnova was way above the rest in hits. im sure lotsa people would be glad to get rid of suprnova. ha! warez 4 life
Supernova.org is hosted overseas so it cant be touched by the MPAA or RIAA, they do try to track users of the sites however.

And even if they were to bring that site down, there are so many mirrors of it, its not even funny. No less than 15 I have been to.

clorets
join:2001-12-12
Oklahoma City, OK

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watch someone try and patent it later on

Big Boy Bob
@tampabay.rr.co

Big Boy Bob

Anon

Re: I love BT

BT is already, i think.... or the tech is owned by one guy, but it might be GNU.

porkchops
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Saint Marys, WV

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Boxtorrents by any chance?

Pake
If you can read this.... RUN
join:2001-02-22
Huntersville, NC

Pake

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Re: I love BT

said by porkchops:

Boxtorrents by any chance?
I'm an animesuki.com guy myself. Haven't messed with Boxtorrents but once and then they went down for a bit.
vic102482
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said by porkchops:

Boxtorrents by any chance?
I love BT, they went down because ADV sued them or something like that, they are now hosted overseas IIRC. I used them until the site went down, now I just bounce around to different ones.:)

I like BT though because their packages are great, they only host seasons or entire series, none of that individual episode crap. Looking for Inuyasha was hell lol.

Amoris692001
This thread is worthless without pics
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Truth about hollywood...

Hollywood is ready to slam you for using BT. I got a letter recently from my ISP saying that the Motion Picture Association knows i've downloaded crap. I'd only been using BT for a week and then I got that letter. So I stopped using BT. I never had anyother problems with things such as IRC. I hate BT.

Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
MVM
join:2003-02-18
San Jose, CA

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Re: Truth about hollywood...

said by Amoris692001:

Hollywood is ready to slam you for using BT. I got a letter recently from my ISP saying that the Motion Picture Association knows i've downloaded crap. I'd only been using BT for a week and then I got that letter. So I stopped using BT. I never had anyother problems with things such as IRC. I hate BT.
I like BT, I haven't gotten any warning from my ISP, and I use it regularly.

BT really is cool, what with how it makes broadband scale so nicely like TV does.

thender2
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said by Amoris692001:

I got a letter recently from my ISP saying that the Motion Picture Association knows i've downloaded crap.
I frequent a number of eMule/eDonkey2000 release sites. People post about these letters almost regularly. Some people have gotten over five, and still continue to download with the same ISP.

It's a scare tactic without a leg to stand on. Discard it and keep on downloading.

nfx
The Wire
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Vancouver, BC

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Re: Truth about hollywood...

said by thender2:
said by Amoris692001:

I got a letter recently from my ISP saying that the Motion Picture Association knows i've downloaded crap.
I frequent a number of eMule/eDonkey2000 release sites. People post about these letters almost regularly. Some people have gotten over five, and still continue to download with the same ISP.

It's a scare tactic without a leg to stand on. Discard it and keep on downloading.
that may not be the case anymore: »MPAA Begins to Sue

SirXILE
The SolWar 2-1
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said by Amoris692001:

Hollywood is ready to slam you for using BT. I got a letter recently from my ISP saying that the Motion Picture Association knows i've downloaded crap. I'd only been using BT for a week and then I got that letter. So I stopped using BT. I never had anyother problems with things such as IRC. I hate BT.
Same with me 6 months ago. I recieved that letter too. I still like BT for certain things though. I go other places for the heavy needed things.
Freezone
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Southfield, MI

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Re: Truth about hollywood...

You guys need to use usenet. www.giganews.com
You will never get one of these letter and can pull down stuff full speed.
mitska
join:2001-12-25
Sarasota, FL

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sure it is good...

BT is a great idea to be sure, however total anonymity would be a marked improvement imo.
vic102482
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Re: sure it is good...

said by mitska:

BT is a great idea to be sure, however total anonymity would be a marked improvement imo.
Outside of (current state) newsgroups, you dont have it.:(

dvd536
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Re: sure it is good...

said by vic102482:
said by mitska:

BT is a great idea to be sure, however total anonymity would be a marked improvement imo.
Outside of (current state) newsgroups, you dont have it.:(
What aboutIRC? those hacked .jp boxen can really push data fast and i doubt the *IAAs are interested in them. long live the pwn3d b0x3n

nil

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It's P2P total anonymity is not doable without compromising the design (adding a proxy, which kind of eliminates the benefit of torrent).

Sean8
join:2004-01-23
Toronto

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Canada pwnz.

No record of anyone being hit in Canada. To make things better, downloading music is legal here.

I love Canada.
zod5000
join:2003-10-21
Victoria, BC

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Re: Canada pwnz.

I got a email from Telus (BC DSL Provider today) letting me know that whoever owns a certain sci-fi show filed a complaint... yadda yadda, unless court ordered to do so, they will not give up my information.

I don't really care, theres been a few people getting these warnings from telus, but i'm sure they're just doing it to get the tv studios (or mpaa or whover in my case hunts down people who download mgm shows) off their backs.

I don't think they have a leg to stand on here in Canada, and we take the warnings with a grain of salt, now i just know to gran that crap of newsgroups and leave my torrenting to brand new torrents (like the night something airs somewhere), i'm guessing (since its worked for me so far) that avoids warnings because they haven't been up long enough to be infiltrated.

i love BT by the way, so much better then p2p plazes like kazaa. Forcing people to upload was bloody brilliant. People who upload more get to download faster, it gives incentives for sharing bandwidth, not like a kazaa type system where 200 people are trying to grab the smae file off 3 people with a slow dsl connection

lyls
@adsl.tele.dk

lyls

Anon

Re: Canada pwnz.

yeah i just love how BT always make you upload faster than you download.... oh man its so sweet i love it! yesterday i downloaded at an amazing 70k/s .....wow

TongSama
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Santa Rosa, CA

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Wasnt designed for annomity

bt was designed to help take loads off webservers. not to help people download illegal copies of software and media.
vic102482
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Re: Wasnt designed for annomity

said by TongSama:

bt was designed to help take loads off webservers. not to help people download illegal copies of software and media.
Thanks for the notification.:p
BosstonesOwn
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Wakefield, MA

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But just like other means of alleviating load s it is used for piracy. 2 good examples. AOL email system and news groups. If there is a better way of transferring data piracy will find it.

Now maybe the MPAA can give up it's strangle hold as well , all thought dvd's are well worth the price, and move to make a bt client available for a price to download any video wanted into xvid or divx codeced equipment.

lyls
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lyls

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Re: Wasnt designed for annomity

so i have to pay to download with speeds that depend on other people uploading? no thanks =P
BosstonesOwn
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Re: Wasnt designed for annomity

said by lyls:

so i have to pay to download with speeds that depend on other people uploading? no thanks =P
they could seed from servers to help keep the speeds constant.

Amoris692001
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i love twins

canadian beer + canadian girls + me = paradise with no BUSH
biaachmonkie
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Re: i love twins

I though canadian girls didn't shave...
mob (banned)
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join:2000-10-07
San Jose, CA

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It accounts for alot of my traffic too!

Fedora torrents from....

»torrent.linux.duke.edu/

Jon Geb
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Howell, MI

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Some one help me with BT

How do I go about getting going with it?

SenseBend
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Orangeville, ON

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Re: Some one help me with BT

Get a client, there are a lot of them. People seem to be partial to Bit Tornado or Azureus. I like the official one on Linux and Azureus on Windows.

Sharingan
join:2003-08-17
North Hollywood, CA

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Anime

Before Bittorrent it was a drag getting any type of anime. Now with Bitorrent I download anime all the time even the ones i have never even heard of. Naruto was one my first Bittorrent downloads, and boy I never thought this anime was going to be this good.

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q16777216
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its UPLOADING that causes MPAA and RIAA notices

its UPLOADING that causes MPAA and RIAA notices not downloading, BT uploads the same content you download as you download it, so downloading automatically means you are uploading the same content. So no content can be downloaded unless uploading is completely disabled or legal as well.

and if no-one uploads no-one can download, which kills P2P all together for illegal activity

Everywhere i look people are mad RIAA and MPAA are complaining about downloads, but it's UPLAODS that they create lawsuits and notices about.

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a2nxtcrav3r
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35% is low

ONLY 35%??? it should be 60!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH... i guess that entitles me too im not doing enough to make it higher

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DaMaGeINC
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Greenville, SC

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Not me

I dont like the idea of being forced to share my bandwidth with the world. So I dont use it. I dont read much into it, but if theirs a client that allows you to disable uploads, then I might use it.

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bokamba
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Arlington, VA

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Good news post

People talk a lot about the non-piracy applications of P2P, but very rarely is there an enumeration of them like the one found in this news post. Thanks to the writer for providing some good examples!

Vamp
5c077
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thats no surprise..

Hell I have bit torrent open right now... I downloaded over 1gb of tv episodes just today.
Liquid Lion
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join:2001-08-19

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Anime here...anime there...anime everywhere!

Love Bit Torrent. It satisfies all my anime needs and it's free, efficient and fast (most of the time). MPAA and RIAA don't care about anime, so anime enthusiasts are safe for the time being, unless US anime companies start clamping down on LICENSED anime, so the MPAA can't do anything to anime fans...until US anime companies join the MPAA.

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kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Bakersfield, CA

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I can see why some may not want to upload

Many users have only 128KBPS or 256KBPS upload capacity available to them, and the way TCP works if the upstream link is at capacity, the downstream link will slow since there's no bandwidth to send the ack packets, at least that's how I understand it. I'm fortunate to have a 768KBPS upstream link, so what I tend to do is while downloading I'll set my upload to half my upload capacity, or about 45 kilobytes per second, then when I see my download complete, I'll close the torrent but reopen it with no limits other than my ISP's limit allowing me to upload at about 87K bytes per second. I also have access to a linux server sitting on a 20MBPS link to the internet, and of course on that, I just let things go, that's always fun to watch. I only wish I could give that 87K a second to 1 person so they can download good and fast. that's the only thing I hate about bit torrent, most of my downloads start very very slow and it takes like 10 minutes to hit decent speeds above 1MBPS.. What's cool though is the if you know where to find stuff, the content can rival with what's available on usenet news servers.

juilinsandar
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SBC, BT and Private Networks...

I download at home on my PC with azureus and at work on my Mac with bitconjurer. They both work great, and I get almost all the stuff I could ever want from BT. I use emule to get what BT doesn't have.

Also, having SBC as my ISP kicks much ass!

If I had Roadrunner I'm sure I woulda gotten some of those cease and desist letters by now as I like to share alot.

Finally, private BT networks are the way to go if you want to be "safe" and still get what you need.

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GVails
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Miami, FL

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The new face of crime

Amazing - most of these posts are about how to or where to steal. These are the posts of criminals.

Is this the new face of the Internet?

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t10
join:2003-05-25
Woodbridge, ON

t10

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Anime you say?

Berserk>Hellsing>BattleAngel>CowboyBeebop>NinjaScroll>SamuraiX>BoogiepopPhantom>TheLastVampi reHunter>VampireHunterD>GunGrave> joor.

Anyone else dissapointed with latest offerings in Anime?

SamuraiChamploo went plain gay.

Bleach has an amazing idea, but is turned into Sailermoon n shit starting with episode3.

Samurai7, I forced myself trying to watch at least the first episode many many times, I simply cannot do it. Makes me wanna punch my LCD.

HaibaneRenmei yes it picks up after episode7, but couldnt they add some railguns to it or something? I havent seen ANY brain matter splatted on the walls in all of it.

GhostInTheShell2 felt lacking. Just somethign about it doesnt sit well with me.

Dr Who
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Dr Who

Anon

Timewarping

i aint stealing... i`m timewarping!
these film`s episodes etc will all be on normal t.v. in the near future, why should i wait when i can use BT to shift time & space

LadyBat
@245.xx.69.ip.alltel.

LadyBat

Anon

Re: Timewarping

Rock on, Dr. Who! I'm timewarpin' too!
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