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- cultist667, on 10/16/2007, -5/+113***** the RIAA & MPAA.
- navitatl, on 10/16/2007, -4/+111I'm an admitted bittorrent addict, though there's not much of a "chase" now that I got a membership at one of the more exclusive bittorrent sites... Now it's easy to find whatever I want, no matter how obscure it is.
I download compulsively because it disturbs me that awesome, brilliant stuff could exist, and I might not have it. It is pretty satisfying, I'll admit. - DirtySnachez, on 10/16/2007, -0/+89Some of us use it as functional time-travelling device, being able to watch TV shows that aren't released here for another 4-6 months. 88mph FTW
- AlexBellisBrown, on 10/16/2007, -2/+66I like trying to save almost dead downloads, i suppose thats some kind of addiction also.
- funchords, on 10/16/2007, -3/+61Excellent article!
I've read in several forums where BitTorrent users commented that they don't watch or listen to half of the stuff they download. Meanwhile, they have over a Terabyte of downloads stored on their hard disks.
I've always thought of it as a fad, but I think your hunch of a neuro-chemical satisfaction response is probably more likely. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Yea thats why i torrent. ***** the RIAA one torrent at a time
- DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32I've never watched half of it, dont really like the other half..but damn, ***** the guy who tries to take it away from me.
- shinynew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25for quite some time i felt like any time my computer wasnt downloading something it was just wasteing time.
- Rotzooi, on 10/16/2007, -2/+25You are one of the heroes of the torrent community. Thank you!
- DomZy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23You have to pay for drug and prostitutes though
- DomZy, on 10/16/2007, -0/+23That does give you a good feeling, especially if the content is awesome but hard to come by
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -1/+20I love bittorent mainly for the obscure stuff,yeah I download the obligatory anime, music and tv but I just got old documentaries from Richard Dawkins and old audio books from Carl Sagan ,this is the real treasure of Bittorent.
- 808kick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Once you're done you can just beat her head in and get your money back. Hasn't GTA taught you anything.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17People have doing digital piracy since the beginning of the PC revolution...no way is it a fad...
- DirtySnachez, on 10/16/2007, -0/+15they can try, but outside of the US they are nothing more than a toothless tiger (and from what I gather, inside they're not much more than smarmy bullies)
- Rotzooi, on 10/16/2007, -0/+15People are collectors, some more than others. Collecting digital media is a hoarders' dream. All ready to be neatly sorted and filed away. Scaringly similar like collecting stamps.
Many people nowadays have music and film collections that they won't be able to listen to or watch in their lifetime. Still, it's nice to have such a selection at your fingertips. - Calcheesmo, on 10/16/2007, -0/+13I just end up using bittorrent because it seems that you can find so many more things than you can find anywhere else without causing you tons of problems. It's usually high quality, you can get a lot of content in a short amount of time. Basically,it's really easy to use and deal with. You just set it...and forget it!
- hellbent88, on 10/16/2007, -0/+13I had 20 gigs, then Media Defender came sniffing around and I had to change Thar Flags me's Pirate ship, and dump precious cargo
- Scabdates, on 10/16/2007, -9/+22I do actually enjoy the hunting part of bittorrenting, but I'm certainly not addicted. I watch everything I download, and I don't download things that I don't like/weren't recommended to me.
Anybody who wastes hard disk space like that deserve's a penicil to the eye. - tony4moroney, on 10/16/2007, -2/+15alex, youre a true altruistic hero
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10haven't torrented GTA yet. :(
- Caffeinate, on 10/16/2007, -0/+10Thank you. Your work is definitely appreciated.
- lcmatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I've got over 600 films on disk from the latest releases all the way back to around 2002 if not further. I've probably watched around 100 if that but at least if I'm ever bored I've always got something to watch.
- anarchytv, on 10/16/2007, -1/+9The issue I have with most P2P bittorrent clients, is they *really* thrash your harddrive. Which is very poor programming IMHO. Say you are downloading 10 torrents, and every little K for each file that comes down, it puts the load on the filesystem to keep things organized and just throws it out to the harddrive, doing a seek for each little chunk downloaded, which is pretty much burning up your harddrive with tons of seeks a second. Someone *really* needs to do some basic buffer coding work to improve the buffering, to allow you to download whole megabytes of a file before it gets written out... when you've got 512mb or 1024mb or 2048mb or 3096mb of RAM on your computer, there is no reason torrent clients should be so poorly written to write out a few K chunks at a time and add substantial wear and tear to your harddrive and and heat to your system.
If a P2P buffering was written fairly good, you should be able to download 100+ files at a time with no major impact on your harddrive. And it wouldn't be hard to do. All you have to do, is say after X kilobytes of data have been accumlated in the buffer for a torrent, THEN write it out. So when in the buffer a file accumulates 2mb of data, then write it out... and wait for the next file, whatever it is, to reach that limit, then write it out. The faster downloading torrents would get written out more frequently. Make X = (whatever you total buffer size is minus some safety overhead ) / the amount of torrents being downloaded - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Actually more than movies and music, it's about free software you dolt! You're buried as a wannabe!
- TunaFishGangsta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I'm T.F.G., and I'm a bittorrent addict.
It's to the point where I'm a member of many private bittorrent sites and have attained VIP status at most of them. My many TBs are downloaded during the periods of free unlimited leech that come during tracker anniversaries and holidays. It's fun, and if the good part of the internet ever shuts down, I'll have years of media to keep me entertained. - nj10ii, on 10/16/2007, -0/+7Holy *****, That's ME!!
- oneon, on 10/16/2007, -2/+8"He has no idea that this new hobby has such high stakes. It could potentially land him in prison or cause him to end up with a massive 6-digit fine. When the novice starts to build his knowledge of such things, it can be little bit scary - but the adrenaline flows a little and the excitement builds. The hobby becomes more intense."
***** the RIAA & MPAA.
***** yea my name is oneon and I have a problem. - SomeImagination, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5You can bypass this hassle by joining a decent private tracker.
Security + High speeds - thunderer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It's their bandwidth to waste. The problem is not the people downloading, but the ISP's who are over-selling. They paid for their access, and if they want to utilize it, more power/porn to them.
- dartmanx, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5Dugg for saying something that at least SOUNDS intelligent.
- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+6...and the CRIA, THE POLICE, and BUSH.
- xXMetalJesusXx, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5I'm Addicted to Bit Torrenting for sure...
I've downloaded enough to fill a 40 Gig iBook, 120 Gig iMac...and a 500 Gig External Hard-drive.
But If I download something I like, I'll go out and Buy it...I now own a 300+ DVD collection...but as a Film Major, I only buy movies that deserve the 9.99-29.99$ - ktetch, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7The difference is recreational drugs and, in most places, protitution is illegal. Downloading is not. It is a civil infraction. It's not theft, it's not even speeding. Using free, open access Wifi is more serious (as Sparta PD has recently shown)
- Chiko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yeah that's exactly how I feel. Ha ha
- DirtySnachez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5thank gawd theres no limits as to how many times uTorrent can Clear Peer List and Update Trackers.
- graemee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6My name is Bill W.
- Scabdates, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Perhaps, but it's also a waste of bandwith. I'd rather they waste disk space by not filling it up with random crap than waste disk space AND bandwith by filling it up with stuff they never use.
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4mvgroup is a distribution group that releases nothing but documentaries from sources like bbc and pbs. some of the docus don't even completely SUCK! :P
i just watched a four part series on the race to space. it was one of those docus where you have some acting, but THIS docu actually had GOOD acting! :P
next to eztv, they're my favorite distribution group. :) - Eiii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4...What the hell? The article doesn't really say anything, or have a point.
- naonao, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I just download because I don't have enough money to buy all the music I want to listen to. And I don't live in the U.S so I have to wait 6 months before I get to see any of the new Family Guy seasons so I can only torrent it.
- Derrekito, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4Given the US Zeitgeist, one would think the RIAA is the least of our worries. 1 million citizens are incarcerated for possession of cannabis. Being 18+ years and male and under 25ish leaves you open to being drafted. If you are in college, and a science major, I really doubt your kept up at night wondering if you are going to be sued for downloading media. All things considered, 'torrenting' is not quite the thrill this article makes it out to be simply because of legality of the practice.
- almighty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I never really thought about what I actually do with my torrents until I read this article. I guess I too am a bit of an addict. I torrent more things for friends than I do for myself. I also have a good chunk of media that I have never seen. On top of all of that, I couldn't tell you how much stuff I delete because I lost interest in it.
- sethosayher, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4My bittorrent addiction was so intense that I actually used my lunch money in high school to pay for a bandwidth upgrade that prevented me from getting capped by my cable company when I used bittorrent. I reaaaaly loved downloading. And even more so, I loved the fact that I uploaded 3.5 tb with my rad connection.
- asdfuiop, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You forgot obligatory porn, unless you count that under anime *shudder*
- dartmanx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'll taser that.
- Chandon, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Modern operating systems buffer writes, and hard drives are designed to handle continuous usage anyway. I wouldn't worry about this at all unless you're downloading on laptop battery power or something.
- 0firefly0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Except we don't pay per download, dolt.
- kermithefrogand, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2I'm an admitted bittorrent addict, though there's not much of a "chase" now that I got a membership at one of the more exclusive bittorrent sites... Now it's easy to find whatever I want, no matter how obscure it is.
I download compulsively because it disturbs me that awesome, brilliant stuff could exist, and I might not have it. It is pretty satisfying, I'll admit. - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I always find torrents are good for rarer stuff. For instance I wanted a 5 minute loony toons cartoon and Google + torrents worked a treat.
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