On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:39:20 +0100 Keith Powell disseminated the following: > I would like to try using either Bittorrent or Azureus. The only thing I know > about them is that you are supposed to allow others to upload from your > machine as well as you downloading. > > Is there a *very* basic manual on how to set them up and use them? I can't > find anything, and am lost trying to do it by guessing! > > But, before I get involved, I have one "newbie" question to ask. How much am I > > supposed to allow others to upload? If, for example, I download a 600Mb iso, > and have to allow another 600Mb to be uploaded, I will have very little of my > capped broadband remaining for that month. > > Any help will be very gratefully received.
...I meant to mention, I picked up a little tip about finding certain torrents that possibly maybe might be, well, 'copyrighted' and all that. In Google, just type avi:torrent + <filename>. This is how I get episodes of that horribly depressing Six Feet Under show for my better half. I've got one Sunday's episode coming down now at 160kB/s. Heh. And since I'm in Canada, I don't give a rat's ass about the DMCA, so there! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:29:23 up 140 days, 20:47, 5 users, load average: 0.59, 0.24, 0.13 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..." -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News
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