Dominant file-sharing programs
Dominant file-sharing programs
Not a thread for discussing w4r3z, just curious as to what everyone is using these days. I use eMule. Does anyone still use Kazaa (or Kazaa Lite)? I'm guessing WinMX is pretty dead. For MAC OSX, is hotline the only solution?
If you have decent upload speeds. Otherwise its kinda difficult. I get 4mb down so sometimes its a better option to just straight download it as long as the other person has broadband too then it is to use bittorrent sometimes.Top Wop wrote:I still use Kazaa Lite for the lighter downloads. Else I turn to Bit-Torrent. I used to use programs like Emule or Edonkey until Bit Torrent convinced me that it is better, you can aquire downloads faster that way.
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Direct Connect and bittorrent here. Bittorrent (latest tornado client) for anything newly released, DC++ for anything old. Sometimes I download off IRC if a XDCC bot has what I want.
Bittorrent is often better for anything big, probably has something to do with bittorrent using up more then one third of the total internet's bandwidth (more then all the other P2P programs combined). BT has a lot of overhead, but it also has a very useful level of error checking, if you downloaded a file off anything else and it was corrupted, finding a bittorrent with that exact file you can resume the bittorrent over that file and repair it with only a small download.
The one serious problem with bittornado and other clients like it is they are extremely sensetive to bad memory, if your PC has less then perfect RAM in it, get used to the idea BT is going to crash with "download corrputed, please resume" often. And bittornado also comsumes about 30-40 MB of RAM per torrent running, and can slow a computer to a crawl in a supprisngly short time.
Bittorrent is often better for anything big, probably has something to do with bittorrent using up more then one third of the total internet's bandwidth (more then all the other P2P programs combined). BT has a lot of overhead, but it also has a very useful level of error checking, if you downloaded a file off anything else and it was corrupted, finding a bittorrent with that exact file you can resume the bittorrent over that file and repair it with only a small download.
The one serious problem with bittornado and other clients like it is they are extremely sensetive to bad memory, if your PC has less then perfect RAM in it, get used to the idea BT is going to crash with "download corrputed, please resume" often. And bittornado also comsumes about 30-40 MB of RAM per torrent running, and can slow a computer to a crawl in a supprisngly short time.
Krom: With bittorrent do you ever get empty/fake files?
I remember a long time ago I would download on some file sharing programs and it seemed like people could do stuff like take an mp3 of John Celebrity Doe and rename it so that you would get a copy of a different mp3.
Does bittorent (or any other program now, like emule) know the difference? I.e. is there some "registry" of names of files? Could someone post a fake .exe of a product? I always wondered why software companies didn't do stuff like this.
I know at least they would have to match the right file size now, but who knows down to what bit precision.
I remember a long time ago I would download on some file sharing programs and it seemed like people could do stuff like take an mp3 of John Celebrity Doe and rename it so that you would get a copy of a different mp3.
Does bittorent (or any other program now, like emule) know the difference? I.e. is there some "registry" of names of files? Could someone post a fake .exe of a product? I always wondered why software companies didn't do stuff like this.
I know at least they would have to match the right file size now, but who knows down to what bit precision.
BitTorrent, unlike KaZaA et al, is blind to file data. It just shares files and folders, whereas other p2p programs check ID3 information, etc. The advantage of BitTorrent, though, is that in order to find a torrent you pretty much have to go to a "respected" site, and they list the number of users seeding and downloading. If the numbers are high, chances are good that it's a real copy of the file.
As far as music goes BitTorrent is pretty much used for distributing whole albums, because it's worthless to share individual songs.
As far as music goes BitTorrent is pretty much used for distributing whole albums, because it's worthless to share individual songs.
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Birds: With BT that would be very hard and inneffective to do just by the nature of how the program and trackers work, I have never downloaded a fake file off of BT. Something to keep in mind is that the vast majority of bittorrent trackers are moderated, so posting a fake file would get whoever submitted it banned.
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Re: Dominant file-sharing programs
I'm using Limewire Pro. (Didn't actually pay for the pro version, found it off some European website for free )Works awsome.Birdseye wrote:For MAC OSX, is hotline the only solution?
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I assume you're referring to Azureus?Krom wrote:There is also that java torrent client that will run on anything that has a java virtual machine.
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