come anticipate "zatoichi" with meOn this thread Wint3rmut3 links directly to a .torrent of a film. This is probably a very bad thing, especially as the seed comes from one of the most monitored torrent sites.
It'd probably be worth doing something that prevents .torrent files being linked anyway in the long run as it is something that could get ILX in trouble and it's getting more popular as time goes on.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)
Out of curiosity (I can't do anything about it b/c I'm not a mod on ile) what is a .torrent file?
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Ok, no dice. But when the thread appears on Google and there is a direct link to an illegal download, don't say I didn't warn you.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I've unindexed it, so it shouldn't appear in google. But still...what is a .torrent file anyhow?
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)
No. It's the next generation of file sharing, d00d, and it can operate via weblinks like the one you saw.
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
That's your official page, but its a bit crap on telling you exactly how it works. Basically, unlike P2P you don't download off any one person, you download off everyone who has the .torrent open of whatever it is you are stealing, and people will be downloading chunks of it off you as you yourself are downloading it. It tends to be used for big files, such as movies, game ISO's, cracked software. Hope that makes sense.
The upshot of which is that having the torrent on that page is like having Kazzaa open on it, and with big arrows pointing to a bit that says "download a DVD rip of Zatoichi here!". Not good. Plus the torrent is based on a site which is being monitored very heavily by ISPs and by other organisations, as it's stupidly popular and, well, has just about everything and anything illegal to download.
http://www.suprnova.org/
I'd strongly recommend doing something to stop torrents being directly linked to ILX full stop. Yes, occasionally legitimate files are passed around this way but like any other form of filesharing its a complete hotbed of digital looting.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)
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