What is the best one for downloading movies and music for free, without having to worry about getting raped by viruses?



kazaa was good, but it killed my computer withthe viruses, and i don't want that to happen again.



what about bearshare (sp?)?

mIRC

There's a learning curve, and a wait, and usually slower downloads, BUT



1. IRC filesharing has been out longer than even the original napster and it still hasnt gone away

2. ITS AMAZING how much is out there

3. Most of it (i've never had any crap files) is very well organized



I'll send ya a file list of one of the users I dl from...you'll be amazed

This guy is on Undernet, in the #mp3_collective room

use teh bareshare

can you give me a summary of how to work it? and its a free dl I'm assuming?

[quote name='nismo convert' date='Jul 6 2005, 07:43 PM']use teh bareshare


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you've never got any viruses or anything from it? i've heard good things about it...

Nothing beats BitTorrent. Even mIRC.

[quote name='Dysfnctnl85' date='Jul 6 2005, 07:54 PM']Nothing beats BitTorrent. Even mIRC.


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I, for some reason, have never figured out torrents.... guess i stupid or something... but i haven't.

[quote name='venomrx7' date='Jul 6 2005, 11:01 PM']I, for some reason, have never figured out torrents.... guess i stupid or something... but i haven't.


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Here is a very SIMPLISTIC explanation...just so you BitTorrent geeks don't jump on me.



First, you need to get a torrent file. The torrent file knows how many files to download if it's an archive (.zip) or a directory, etc. It also has the address for the tracker. The tracker knows how many people have the torrent open, and then knows how many people your BitTorrent client can contact to get the files from.



There are two types of clients in the BT world: seeds and peers. Peers do not have all of the file, but are sharing what they have. Seeds have the entire file. The more seeds a file has, the faster you are going to get it.



Hopefully that helps out a bit.



Get a client first, and then head to these sites to search for files. By "opening" the files (you don't need to save them) your client should ask you where you want to save the files and then it will do its thing.



My fav. client right now is BitComet



Go to these sites to get torrents:

Isohunt

The Pirate Bay

www.mininova.org

a.scarywater.net