Comments on: How to download with Torrents

By: David

David — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:18:00 +0000

Thanks! Your tips will be helpful for me! Now some torrent search engines are really awaresome, but we shoudn’t forget some other, as they also become competitive! One of those I know – http://www.torrentoff.com It helps me always when I need something rare on torrent sites, especially one new movie, which is only recently appeared!

By: Clay McIlrath

Clay McIlrath — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:29:07 +0000

@Gina For photography I just started taking pics along with a class in college to fine tune my eye for shots, helped a lot.

You can just post questions on my blog whenever you have them and I’ll make a point to reply.

As far as a website goes, depending on what your goals are (business or personal) i would start looking at either WP or a custom built system.

By: Rugo

Rugo — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:09:03 +0000

Cheers men….

Very informative and beneficial. Keep the fire…

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:14:19 +0000

Wow, your website rocks.. seems like we have a lot in common with the hobbies etc. Photography is my passion .. I am an amateur also, but I love it nonetheless. Great photos, how did you learn? I am teaching myself photoshop, awesome program!!! So I have a lot of questions about bittorrents etc. How can I blog you or write you often to learn from you? I appreciate someone like you out there in cyber world to teach us amateurs. I am wanting to create a website for myself but don’t really know where to start. I started one using a free program (Weebly) , but it’s pretty basic. Anyway, hope to hear from you.
Thanks, Gina

By: Sunil

Sunil — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:47:23 +0000

Thanks. Such and informative piece.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:39:38 +0000

I just want to say thanks clay…..
I learned alot in a little amount of time.
You saved me from jumping into the torrent world head first!!

Thanks again,

Sarge

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:50:57 +0000

wow this was really nice thank you!
you’re really comedic too

*wink*

By: Clay McIlrath

Clay McIlrath — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:38:00 +0000

If you know what you’re doing and can recognize a TCP/IP intrusion, then something like Peer Guardian would work fine, the problem is many programs create and use various TCP/IP ports and its very difficult to monitor and track all of them. This is definitely a step up above just the average P2P, but it’s still not safe from a “song” you download that ends up beings a script that specifically blocks Peer Guardian from reading the port its using, or worse yet, USES Peer Guardian to open a port. Anti-Virus programs used to have that issue, someone would write a virus or a Worm that would actually USE the Anti-virus program to spread itself. Scary stuff. As good as firewalls and applications are in protecting you, in the end, the computer is not safe from YOU and if YOU open a file that contains such script, then the programs are bypassed and compromised.

As far as legal battles, I’m not familiar with too many specifics, I avoid having to know that much. If i’m worried enough about someone getting into my computer and accessing that kind of information, i don’t get involved. I don’t have that fear with Torrents or SpiralFrog however.

Hope that helps.

By: frankoforte

frankoforte — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:05:48 +0000

you write:
“From a legal standpoint this has advantages as well, because rather than downloading song.mp3 which is clearly a music file, you are instead simply downloading segments of data, which can be argued in court on whether those segments make song.mp3 or are simply random bits of data that could make anything”. are there any court decisions yet? something to worry about? What do you think about peer guardian? thanks for your help!!!