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    Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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

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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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.
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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

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    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
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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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
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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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.

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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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.
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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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!!

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    Linux/BSD iso's is all I use it for & then I use the client built into Opera.
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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

    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

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    Re: Bitorrent and downloading newbie question..

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