Any time you go peer to peer sharing files over the Internet you have
left yourself open to anything.
Any time you get out of bed you have left yourself open to anything and
staying in bed is not all that safe either.
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There are two parts to this question.
If I inadvertently download something that I do not have rights to, can
I then be sued by the rights owner for redistributing?
This does not have a happy answer.
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Questions: Does Opera actually support bittorrent? If so, why such a
long time to download? A 105 MB file would download in very much less
time without bittorent.
You are looking at it from the wrong direction. The purpose of Bittorrent
is not to speed your download but to greatly reduce
Since Bittorrent is peer to peer file sharing, does using it make your
computer less secure?
mike wrote:
Bittorrent is peer to peer file sharing, it takes as long as it takes with
the connected users in the swarm who are uploading. If the seeders, the
people who are uploading are
Very! Not all torrent programs are the same and there is the
possibility of getting malware in a torrent download.
Stewart
At 06:33 PM 3/29/2008, you wrote:
Since Bittorrent is peer to peer file sharing, does using it make
your computer less secure?
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
Not all torrents are created equal is more to the point. The torrent
program is safe in and of itself, it's that the files you may download might
be suspect. If you stick to legal torrents there will be no trouble, I've
never seen a bad (virusmalwarespyware) legit torrent. There are too many
I did put in that caveat. Plus remember many folks who start using a
torrent client do not know the difference between good stuff and
malware filled stuff they will see all this content available.
I just got after my son today because he had it on the family
computer. HE does not know the
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Stephen Brownfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Since Bittorrent is peer to peer file sharing, does using it make your
computer less secure?
There are two parts to this question.
1) Does this open up vulnerabilities like using Kazaa or other such
proprietary
I was intrigued with several earlier posts here, first about free movie
downloads in public domain and then about bittorrent. So I decided to
investigate.
I found a web site that said that the web browser Opera supported
bittorrent, so I went to a web site that had free downloads with
Bittorrent is peer to peer file sharing, it takes as long as it takes with
the connected users in the swarm who are uploading. If the seeders, the
people who are uploading are connected on dialup it will take forever, if
they are on high speed then less. The time it takes to download can change
It gets back to what I said a while back about torrent downloads
speeds being limited to your upload speed. As Mike explained, you may
occasionally come across a particularly fast uploader, but much more
common is that you connect with a bunch of users like yourself, thus
limiting your download
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