mart360

has this p2p network been killed??

cant get any server connections for the last 2 days..

v strange

M

Jamo

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if you goto winmx.com it cant find the site, plus mine wont connect, dosent look good for my mp3 collection

carl

It's dead.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09...tworks_darken/

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I'm suprised it was working up until this point

It went down the pan about 2 years ago - full of leachers and spoofed files.


Meanwhile the alledgedly "shut down" bit torrents still battle on

Milamber

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Is soulseek still going? That wasn't bad for a while my friend told me

JackClark

Try buying some music or listening to the radio. Stealing MP3's is like taking sweets from kids.

SiDHEaD

Direct Connect (DC++) is the best course of action

carl

But if you have the original on vinyl, like I do with a lot of stuff, it's a hell of a lot easier than ripping it yourself at 33rpm.

Hanley

Peer-to-peer is sooo yesterday

You want to sign up to newzBin and access a newsgroup.

I get a constant 470k/s when downloading from Giganews

carl

Usenet news is soooo yesterday. Bear in mind it predated the WWW.

Hanley

Maybe but it is sooo much faster and reliable!!!

Disadvantages of peer-to-peer are:

1) With any peer-to-peer connection you rely on the other person being online
2) You're severely restricted by their upload speed
3) They may go offline at anytime

However, using a News provider and a leecher you:

1) Always download at your full capacity
2) News servers never go offline
3) Upto 10 simultaneous connections via Giganews
4) You don't need to hunt around for what you need. Just check http://www.newzbin.com, grab the NZB file, import to your leecher and bobs your mothers brother

Nearly all dvd's, games, mp3's etc posted to a News server also has parity checker files so if you have missing or corrupt files they can be repaired or re-created.

Next week I will be on 10MB and will get a dvd in 1 hour from Giganews.

Beats any peer-to-peer or bit torrent IMHO

carl

But News isn't really a scalable model for distributing software. For a start, everything is 7-bit. The BitTorrent protocol is optimized for this sort of thing.

rgv_stu

so whats the best thing now for music ?? i was using winmx

All Torque

I`m using the OpenNap protocols in Winmx and have been able to download a few, but some have huge ques.

bioforger

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You've done it yourself though Clark n posted the evidence on here. So stop spouting with the lectures you hypocrit.

JackClark

I must have been very pissed at the time then, because I don't recall that. I've just checked and can't find any, where's the post? Or do you mean stealing sweets from kids?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

This thread, which u chose to ignore

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=452383

I'm sure its not the first time you've done it either.

Oh and don't say u bought the track, because I won't believe you.

JackClark

Prepare to eat humble pie Mr Forger. That track was performed and produced by a friend, it's not even available commercially.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

**** You could be making that up of course, noway I could check

Hanley

Couldn't give a ****. I still get everything a hell of a lot quicker than you do and in 6 days time when my line goes upto 10MB I will be downloading from these ****ty newsgroups at over 1MB / second.

JackClark

I prefer Newsgroups, generally one true crim stealing then uploading the warez and a load of petty crims who only download. With P2P the petty crims who perhaps don't know better can end up as a distributer which is of course a far greater crime.

Hanley, what are you downloading and why do you have this speed obsession? It must cost a fortune.

Hanley

JackClark

X-Box demos, PSP demos for my 1.50 console, dvd's and mp'3 (all legitemaly of course)

I have been on the Telewest 4MB connection for a while now which costs £50 a month but as from October their Premium customers, i.e me, will be upgraded to 10MB and the monthly cost will drop to £35 - bargain!!

I don't really have a speed obsession but when I want something I hate to wait, so it just means I get something 4x quicker than if I was on 1MB

I beleive in the very near future the 2 cable internet providers, Telewest and NTL (who are meant to be merging anyway) will be offering a 25MB connection.

All heading towards streaming tv I think

Daz34

What leecher do you recommend?

How exactly do you download from a link found on newzBin? Can you point me in the right direction please?

I am looking to follow the path of redemption. Moving from being a potential distributor to just a petty crim seems a step in the right direction

Hanley

Daz

I recommend using Newsleecher - http://www.newsleecher.com/

NewzBin is fairly straightforward, it costs 50 cents a week to sign up, I just signed up for a year and I think it was something like 13 quid.

As far as the newsgroups go your ISP probably has a free one, Blueyonder do but it's not that good. The free ones tend to have little or no retention period whatsoever, so after a day or 2 of something being posted it will be removed. I signed up to Giganews Unlimited - http://www.giganews.com/ and it costs me $24.99 a month.

Giganews has a retention period of upto 50 days which is probably one of the best around.

Once signed in to NewzBin, browse the category you're looking for e.g. X-Box Games, click on the game you want and you see a button labelled 'Get Message ID's'. Click this and download the .NZB file to your pc.

Open Newsleecher and click on the 'Download Queue' tab. Select 'Import NZB' and then 'Connect' if you're not already connected and away you go.

You will also need a program called QuickPar which checks the validity of the downloaded files and can replace / repair any corrupt / missing files if the parity files have been downloaded.

Hope this helps

Hanley

Hanley

I also have the opinion that as a downloader from Newsgroups and not peer-to-peer I am not classed as a distributor.

I don't give I just take