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How to download anything
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Russ - Posted on Thursday, December 13th 2007
If you’re going to illegally download stuff, please do it right so that you don’t get caught. Don’t use services like Kazaa or Limewire to get your goods. They’re filled with junk and can get you found out and sued by the copyright owners.
If you are going to download music, games, software, movies, anything, use these simple steps.
- Get Peerguardian 2. Peerguardian blocks known government and anti-p2p groups. This keeps them from connecting to you via the tracker and knowing you are downloading. That means it will be a lot harder for them to nail you for downloading..
- Get a torrent program. I suggest either utorrent utorrent or Azureus. I usually don’t search for the actual files I need using these programs, just use them to download.
- Search for your torrent. I use The Pirate Bay and Mininova. Both still allow US visitors, and I can usually find what I need. There are also private trackers, but don’t worry about those for now. Once you get the hang of downloading, you can get join a private tracker
- Make sure that Peerguardian is running while your torrent program is downloading. Otherwise you could get caught
- Optional: Have your torrent program encrypt the data. This means that your ISP won’t detect that you are using the bittorrent protocol, which means it makes it harder for them to throttle your bandwidth just for bittorrent. You can find some good guides on TorrentFreak on how to encrypt
Be happy. You got your files and didn’t get caught. If you want optimization tips and tons more, check out TorrentFreak. And still scan everything for viruses before you use it.
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213 Responses for "How to download anything"
Thanks for the heads up. I use limewire and had never heard of peerguardian, I will go check it out now.
I’m glad I could help. So many people are getting slapped with the RIAA’s huge fines that ruin lives
Nice! End of my limewire days!
Booyah! End of the evil limewire and beginning of the great pirate bay and bit torrent!
Don’t forget PeerGuardian!
Good info there, Limewire is full of viruses and junk just waiting for people to download it!
OR you could just use Google to download stuff and use Megaupload and Rapidshare to download software, movies, and music. Megaupload and Rapidshare arent traceable they only use your IP Address for timers and if the file or files are copyrighted they are deleted from that site. so you have no risk of getting caught. I’ve used google to get over 1000 cds and 100 different programs.
COol! Bye limewire! Thanks for this!
to the pirate guy, how do you download CD’s off google for free? and how do u use the other software too, i guess i’m just asking you to elaborate please
Just on a side note. for the clients i use utorrent because its only 0.41 mb as opposed to azureus which is unnecessarily huge.
Thanks for the heads up. I would have never thought about incuring fines because of this.
And…thanks for stopping by my site!
You can also check out http://jimmyr.com. He has a built-in web search that can search google for mp3’s, torrents, games, etc… It’s easy, and not really something that is easy to catch.
Pirate Bay isn’t a bad spot to find decent torrents, but the best bet is to use either TorrentScan.com, or TorrentPond.com (I prefer Torrent Scan) This way you can search nearly every big torrent site at once without having to go from site to site. The best options on either of these search engines is through BTJunkie or ISOHunt.
Unfortunately the ISOHunt tracker blocks IP addresses from the United States now. You can still search there, but you have to find torrents not on the ISOHunt tracker.
http://beemp3.com is also a nice little site to search the web for individual MP3’s.
I like using torrents rather than Google because it’s sort of a social thing. While downloading and uploading, you are helping other people get the files.
When downloading, make sure to keep seeding once you’re done! At least seed how much you downloaded!
Ah thats all B.S. any torrent program allows others to see your IP and Peerguardian 2 is
a waste of time..dont want to get caught? stop downloading copyrighted materials or move
to Canada
Peerguardian 2 is indeed not a waste of time. It blocks tons of IP’s so that you don’t connect to them. Yes, you can see other people’s IP with a torrent program, but with PeerGuardian it is only other people who want to download.
Some people don’t believe in the crazy prices and practices set by the RIAA / MPAA.
Another great alternative for music is Amie Street. The music starts off free and price inscreases based upon demand until it reaches 98 cents. The music is also DRM free! http://amiestreet.com
Canada has it’s own problems with copyrighted materials.
OK so what about Usenet?? I pay $3 a month for 5 gigs of downloads a month from usenetmonster (no i’m not affiliated…there are plenty of great Usenet services out there) Add a little Newsbin Pro and voila! Oh and i get FULL bandwidth downloads of anything you can imagine. Binary Newsgroups people. Has and will always be the best way to get anything you want.
Truthfully I’ve never used usenet. I’ve been able to find everything I need via torrent sites. I do hear it’s a great way to find what you need, I just never got into it.
I’m not 100% positive that this is true, but I’ve heard that utorrent versions 1.7 and later have an embeded spyware in them that sends all the information about your downloads to the utorrent creators, and the creator of bittorent.
Here is an article about the spyware accusations for utorrent: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1199
There is actually nothing illegal about downloading anything (except for kiddie porn, and that SHOULD be illegal). Sure there have been succesfull lawsuits and such, but there is nothing criminal with downloading any data. Besides, they can’t stop the signal! Unless they destroy the internets, information is going to be free and will continue to get easier to access. They will simply have to adjust and find new ways to make their money, and they will. They’re just freaking out because they think they won’t be able to afford that gold plated shark tank, but they’ll get their money in some creative fashon.
Bullet in the brain pan squish!
Well it is infringing the copyrights, but they don’t usually go after downloaders, they go after uploaders that are actively distributing their files. Which everybody uploads with a torrent, just not as much as real seeders.
The RIAA just won their first big lawsuit as well, so that sets a precedent for future lawsuits.
But we will never be stopped. They don’t want to adjust, but they will have to. They adjusted in the past, they will eventually learn to adjust.
n00bs
u r teh suxx!!!1 loloLz PWND!!!!!!11
Response to the reviews on Stumbleupon:
The ISP can see that you are using the bittorrent protocol, but they can’t actually see what you are downloading. You could be downloading a linux distribution. They can’t prove anything when it’s encrypted. I’m not trying to make this the ultimate guide to everything about torrents. I am trying to tell some of those people that still use Kazaa and Limewire to stop using them.
edit: looks like my thinking was backwards, it encrypts so they can’t see the protocol, not the data.
Cool, thanks for the Article
I find that rapidshare works very well, and for only $10 a month, the 5 gig per day DL limit is very reasonable. There are lots of sites like http://www.warez-bb.org that have a huge fan base, which upload thousands of links a day.
Russ, I think you have misunderstood something about BitTorrent encryption… It does NOT hide what you are downloading, but hides the fact that you are using BitTorrent to stop ISP:s from throttling your connection(ie. slowing down or completely stopping uploads/downloads using BitTorrent)… This article - http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-encryption-myths-071108/ - on Torrentfreak is a good read about encryption. Clears up a lot…
fnaz: Thanks for the comment. I sort of had that in the back of my head, but never really read up too much on the encryption. Thank you for clearing that up. I will edit my post to reflect that. It looks that I had it backwards.
ndrd: Thanks for the links, and your comment!
Good guide, for total noobs to downloading. Perhaps recommend DC++, which is a much more solid P2P client than Limewire or the whole Gnutella network? Oh, and use µTorrent instead of Azureus, it’s much more lightweight and cutesey ^_^
How to rob a store without getting caught:
1) wear a mask and gloves
2) use a gun (less hassle from the clerks this way)
3) know the drop schedule - if the clerks made their drop right before you entered, you won’t get as much loot
4) listen to a police scanner before you enter the building (find out the location of the cops)
5) be prepared for a car chase - run flat tires are a must, motorcycle is better
6) be prepared to be ass-raped by your celly
OR
Just save your money for the things you want and decide “Hey, do I really need to download “Barbie Girl’, or can I just skip it?”
Don’t bother with public trackers for too long, find a private one as soon as possible. Public trackers SUCK.
we are all powerful.
i agree with the pirate guy…use google all the time for downloads. Always use Peerguardian. I do use Pirate Bay, and use Limewire torrent downloads only. If you notice when you do this, Limewire is not activated! Only the torrent download program is used. It’s not perfect, but most of the time……no one tracks me or notices the download.
Find a private tracker that has what you want. Best way to go.
I am on a fairly small one and it has 99% of what I want. With dedicated seeders. No partials files.
well that’s the first time that I stumbled to a site where someone already was using my handle =D
good ideas, though public trackers do suck you can usually find more of what you want (main stream stuff) on those, whereas the private trackers such as the since deceased Demonoid and Oink have a particular flavor.
Another option that one could go along would be IRC or Usenet, both free (depending on your ISP) and pretty much untraceable, I say pretty much for all those “know-it-alls” that will flame me for saying otherwise.
Peerguardian is a must for any file sharing, another option would be to go and get a copy of IP Hide Platinum, though in the states it doesn’t do a whole lot, it can allow you into some pretty sweet places.
..or you could just learn about NewsGroups, get a good Newsreader that supports binaries and you can have damn near anything you want. I can almost always find anything I’m looking for in the NNTP binary groups.
Last time I tried PeerGuardian 2 it sucked simply because it was written in an old version of Visual Basic which doesn’t support threading well. This means basically that PeerGuardian 2 hogs resources.
Better solution, at least for torrents, is to use a torrent client which supports using a block list file (e.g. ipfilter.dat). Keep this file up to date and the torrent client will internally block access to the listed IPs without nearly the CPU hogging that PeerGuardian suffers from.
Or you can use Soulseek. Its a great program. Go to slsknet.org to download the program. No viruses, no bogus files, no ads.
Its mainly for music, you can grab full albums at a time.
The program is based somewhere in another country so I dont think it is illegal there.
Ive been using it for years, and has great speeds, just make sure you share some of your music files on there or people will ban you, they love to do that.
if you are just now finding about about bittorrent you are a major nub
asd: I am not just now finding out about bittorrent, I’ve been using it forever. What I am seeing more and more is people who still don’t use bittorrent, and I am trying to show them a better way.
right on.
This is wat i want to know thanx for sharing it i really like ur article/tutorial
jasmine
tech-chek.blogspot.com
haha I live in europe (the netherlands to be precise)
we care only about drugs hookers and cheese over here
download what you want how you want the authorities don’t care as long as you don’t go selling it on a large scale (like really really big national or something)
good tips for you people living in under facist regimes though
yea usa sucks lol im moving to EU
LOLOLOL Just Google get what you want and go… Are you all Stupid or what. I used to use all the apps mentioned and more. Never ….EVER think your IP is safe on the net and you cant be caught… You can. Torrent this and torrent that with billybobs server and you will get caught. TOR…hehe, dont work, your burned if they want you. There is NO privacy on the net. Get it , Get out and Erase:) Ive got over 600 gigs in musik from google, burned them and erased. Be Smart:)
thanks for this tip, now i can download movies without fear…
Rajj
You will NEVER get in trouble for downloading anything! If you allow others to download copyrighted material from your computer, and you get caught, you are screwed!
Nice article. Helpful comments.
rubbish.
you can still get caught, it’s just the likeliness that’s decreasing.
apart from that: with limewire you can just NOT share files. Bittorrent on the other hand requires you to share/seed the files you’re downloading - and this is, in many countries, much more of a crime than downloading.