Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

[rigsyb1208]

Hi
Whilst being 'relatively' technology savy, I have not delved into the world of downloading and bittorrents yet. Can someone recommend any good sites/threads/forums for learning a little more about this? I have downloaded Utorrent, but where to find reliable comprehensive content to download?? Do I need to pay to join a seach site, do I need to be vetted to access a search site?? What sort of formats are commonly used for video and music?

Thanks in advance

[format]

http://lifehacker.com/285489/a-begin...-to-bittorrent

Just a heads up - discussion on piracy is not allowed on Hexus, keep it legal.

e : also, you should never pay for anything bittorrent related.

[Salazaar]

Hi
Whilst being 'relatively' technology savy, I have not delved into the world of downloading and bittorrents yet. Can someone recommend any good sites/threads/forums for learning a little more about this? I have downloaded Utorrent, but where to find reliable comprehensive content to download?? Do I need to pay to join a seach site, do I need to be vetted to access a search site?? What sort of formats are commonly used for video and music?

Thanks in advance

That would depend on what you're after. Obviously anything illegal would be frowned upon very seriously and likely earn you a visit from the ban hammer.

[r3morse]

Like it was said above, bittorrent is free. There is no need to pay for software to use it or for a site to download from, those are just common scams.

Might I recomend the utorrent client, it's simple, small and doesn't hog resources.

Also a guide about bittorrent from what.cd: http://pastebin.com/f60f15a84
(sorry it's not formatted so well... :/)

[rigsyb1208]

Well I wouldnt want to do anything naughty!
I'm really just try to see how things work, I was looking at media players and the popcorn hour A110 caught my eye. It has some functionality for bitorrent, but I was wondering what media you can get and play through it and how? Then did a search through google on my pc and then got lost as it all looks a bit dodgy....getting redirected all the time, no apparent files to download etc.

[format]

There are quite a few dodgy sites out there... to be honest I never use public trackers so I can't tell you which are safe.

[Syd]

A freind of mine is a frequent user of torrent sites - however when I looked into it I decided most of what I saw available was copyrighted stuff and at that rate illegal, at the least it was dubious. At that point I deleted Utorrent and decided that I could live without it!!

[0iD]

Linux/BSD iso's is all I use it for & then I use the client built into Opera.

[CrazyMonkey]

Popular video formats are - .avi .mkv (usual ones i end up with)

Audio are generally - .mp3 sometimes some .wav

Enjoy using torrents, they are fantastic.

I dont use them anymore - tired of having to seed on private trackers, so i use private SSL hosts

But thats naughty

[aidanjt]

Just use your best judgement when dealing with public trackers and torrent searchers. Google for content you're not sure about.