you're a princess!

ok so ive been having alot of people as of late asking me about how i download movies/tv/music/etc. just so you know--its NOT illegal. im sorry, i really am sorry to burst your bubble but its not. no matter what the government tries to brainwash into you. all the other cases where people have been fined were only when there were other factors involved besides personal/non-profit gain. plus, those people screwed over were NOT using bittorent sources. bittorent distributes information in a way that the government can not touch it...

heres a segment taken from wiki:

There are two major differences between BitTorrent and many other peer-to-peer
file-trading systems, which advocates suggest make it less useful to those
sharing copyrighted material without authorization. First, BitTorrent itself
does not offer a search facility to find files by name. A user must find the
initial torrent file by other means, such as a web search. Second, BitTorrent
makes no attempt to conceal the host ultimately responsible for facilitating the
sharing: a person who wishes to make a file available must run a tracker on a
specific host or hosts and distribute the tracker address(es) in the .torrent
file. Because it is possible to operate a tracker on a server that is located in
a jurisdiction where the copyright holder cannot take legal action, the protocol
does offer some vulnerability that other protocols lack. It is far easier to
request that the server's ISP shut down
the site than it is to find and identify every user sharing a file on a
peer-to-peer network. However, with the use of a distributed hash
table (DHT), trackers are no longer required, though often used for client
software that does not support DHT to connect to the stream.

so basically, they can raid all the tracker servers they like, but they cant find the shares--we download 100% annoynomously. =) kiss it.

another from wiki:

A BitTorrent client is any program which implements the BitTorrent protocol.
Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of computer
file over a network, using the protocol. A peer is any computer running an
instance of a client.
To share a file or group of files, a peer first
creates a "torrent." This is a small file which contains metadata about the files to be
shared, and about the tracker, the computer
that coordinates the file distribution. Peers that want to download the file first obtain
a torrent file for it, and connect to the specified tracker which tells them
from which other peers to download the pieces of the file.
Though both
ultimately transfer files over a network, a BitTorrent download differs from a
classic full-file HTTP request in several fundamental ways:
BitTorrent makes
many small P2P requests over different TCP sockets, while web-browsers typically
make a single HTTP GET request over a single TCP socket.
BitTorrent
downloads in a random or "rarest-first" approach that ensures high availability,
while HTTP downloads in a contiguous manner.

BitTorrent 4.0.4
running under Windows XP
Taken together, BitTorrent achieves much lower
cost, much higher redundancy, and much greater resistance to abuse or "flash
crowds" than a regular HTTP server. However, this protection comes at a cost:
downloads take time to ramp up to full speed because these many peer connections
take time to establish, and it takes time for a node to get sufficient data to
become an effective uploader. As such, a typical BitTorrent download will
gradually ramp up to very high speeds, and then slowly ramp back down toward the
end of the download. This contrasts with an HTTP server that, while more
vulnerable to overload and abuse, ramps up to full speed very quickly and
maintains this speed throughout.
In general, BitTorrent's non-contiguous
download methods prevented it from supporting "progressive downloads" or
"streaming playback". But recent comments by Bram Cohen and new
developments by Red Swoosh suggest that streaming torrent downloads will
soon be commonplace.

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Ok so here's the tutorial:

1. Make some coffee.
2. Turn on some of your favorite music.
3. Goto utorrent.com, and download the application(there are others, but this is my fav')
4. Set up a proxy connection(forwarding a port is better but im too lazy to explain it)...goto proxy4free.com, and copy an address and port from the public list....go into utorrent and select options-->preferences, click the connection. under proxy server select http, then insert the address/port numbers you got from the list.
5. now goto isohunt.com and search for something you want.
6. once it gives you some results, select sort seeds high to low
7. select something with alot of seeders(itll go faster)
8. click download torrent.
9. wait.
10. tada! you're done.

so yea, thats it. for video files i recommend using vlc.

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anywho, im in moscow now, so i get no signal at amy's flat--so email if you need something.

tootles