What do you use to download music, movies and other stuff.

[Blight]

Wow, thanks guys. Got nothing to do tonight so I'll go and start messing around with different stuff you guys have mentioned and see what I like best.

On a side note, I downloaded Firefox as soon as I got the new connection, and it ownz anything else I have used.

[Batz Kage]

On a side note, I downloaded Firefox as soon as I got the new connection, and it ownz anything else I have used.

Very good young padawan (that was so much cooler to say when the Star Wars hype had died down);
er & to let you know, all the faults that Gubi-Gubi said about Kazaa Lite are 100% true, it's pretty much a piece of crap & half the time you won't find any rare music on.

[-spike-]

Yeah, I tried Kazaa light a while back, it sucked serious ass. I couldnt find anything. Use bit torrent or DC++.

[Cidien]

Like I said before, bearshare has most anything i've tried searching for. It does have spyware though which can be a pain in the ass. Most programs like that do though. =/

[Zagatto]

I've been really happy with abc (a bittorrent client) and a number of torrent sites (some of which have already been mentioned and a few others which are invitation only). I've been able to find just about anything I want from PS2 games to TV shows to anime to music to audio books to computer software.
The greatest part is the sense of community I get from some of the torrent sites where they track your share ratio and you can become one of the good guys just by uploading more than you download. The sites that do this tend to have more reliable torrents and some really oddball stuff.
I also like being able to get entire seasons of shows as a single torrent that only takes a few days to download.
Best of all... no spyware and very little system resources are used.

[Cidien]

I dunno about this abc program but I use bittorrent and no matter how much i'm downloading/uploading it ties up my cable connection so bad no other computers in the household can connect to the internet. It also seems to take up quite a bit of memory.

[Batz Kage]

Best of all... no spyware and very little system resources are used.

I beg to differ, I'm with Ciden of this one, I'll have one d/l going at a low speed (er 3-15 k/bs) & it lags my connection down real bad, then after leaving a torrent open for about 3 hours I really have to reboot my computer for lack of memory.

Which then again I don't use the same program as you

I switched over to LimeWire, & it's way better than Kazaa Lite.

[dvd_master]

Limewire for everything. Their selection is great and really quick times. I used to like Kazaa, but it installs SO MUCH spyware, which if you remove, the program will refuse to run (until I downloaded an pirated copy of Kazza lite... using Kazaa itself). Plus, Kazaa is just brimming with fake files. I wanted to download a song, and I downloaded it 10 times, and all were either pure silence, segments of the song that cut off in the middle, or just empty files. I quickly uninstalled it after that.

I do NOT do torrents anymore, since the MPAA tracked me when I tried downloading the Incredibles back when it came out (wasn't a fake, either). Torrents are amazing download methods, but anyone can just start downloading then get the IP of anyone who they are retrieving from, and since torrents force you to upload what you've already got, that means everyone. I'd at least stay away from the huge movies.

[Zagatto]

Living in Canada, I don't really worry about the MPAA too much. The laws here are just enough different that it's really hard to prosecute us.

As for BitTorrent taking up too much bandwidth, I used to have that problem until I started playing with the settings. By default it uses at many resources are available. Going into the settings and playing around a bit totally changes how things run so that I don't even notice the bandwidth it's using (and we have three computers sharing the network in my house and I'm only using an ADSL connection).

I'll admit that I don't see the fastest of download times but I have patience.

[Blight]

I'm about to try Limewire. I thought sharebear was going to be good, but like 3 out of every 4 things I download are not the right thing, which is seriously pissing me off. Archives seemed okay, but songs and video was almost always wrong.

[Cidien]

That's strange, bearshare almost never gives me the wrong files. My girlfriend uses it to download tons of songs lately and shes never gotten the wrong one. I use it to download anime and they are always right too. Every once in a while some jackass will name a porno something like "Naruto_140" when the ep. just comes out to trick people but those usually go away quickly when the real file gets around and people start avoiding it.

[Blight]

That's strange, bearshare almost never gives me the wrong files. My girlfriend uses it to download tons of songs lately and shes never gotten the wrong one. I use it to download anime and they are always right too. Every once in a while some jackass will name a porno something like "Naruto_140" when the ep. just comes out to trick people but those usually go away quickly when the real file gets around and people start avoiding it.

The porn thing is exactly what is happening, and the music is weird. Same artist usually, but wrong song, sometimes from a different album even. But like I said, all the archives have been right on the mark. So maybe I just had bad luck.

[Schultz]

Ok just a few things..
Cidien with bittorrent you are probably choking your upload bandwidth once you chock your upload bandwidth your downloads suffer so if you have like a 384 kb/s upload connection you need ot set your upload speeds at about 30k (your true bandwidth is like 36k/s) this way it leaves room for your download TCP awk packets to get through and you still get great download speeds.

Azureus is another bittorrent client that i perfer alot better..


Also Zag your wrong.. Canada just passed a DMCA act like Law.. so your are just like america with regards to laws and such.. sucks to be you..
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bku...72005.html

a link ot the reading..
or go to http://www.doom9.org and search for Canada

[Cidien]

Thanks for the info Schultz.

[vegeta76]

Living in Canada, I don't really worry about the MPAA too much. The laws here are just enough different that it's really hard to prosecute us.

As for BitTorrent taking up too much bandwidth, I used to have that problem until I started playing with the settings. By default it uses at many resources are available. Going into the settings and playing around a bit totally changes how things run so that I don't even notice the bandwidth it's using (and we have three computers sharing the network in my house and I'm only using an ADSL connection).

I'll admit that I don't see the fastest of download times but I have patience.

which specific settings did you play with? :confused:
id be interested in knowing.