Originally posted by PAH
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Never used torrents or p2p. Too much dodgy stuff, either infected, fake, or wrongly titled.
My dad used limewire in the past and I regularly had to disinfect his PC.
A friend regularly downloads movies via p2p and says they often turn out to be porn. His wife still seems to accept this excuse.
I find usenet a lot easier and more reliable for obtaining US shows not yet out in the UK*, which is all I use it for, mostly. Can find the nzb file and have an episode downloaded in under 10 minutes seeing as the binary providers offer full connection speed downloads.
For movies I prefer quality, so either buy the blu-ray or used DVDs from Amazon. Can get many DVDs for under 2 quid. Some start at 1p though p&p is set at 1.26 so 1.27 is the current minimum price. Also don't want to hog my bandwidth downloading stuff when I can get the postman to do the legwork, and it's probably cheaper than renting.
* I'd gladly pay a quid per episode if it was proper HD quality and available to download outside the USA. The companies trying to stop pirating are dumb. They could make loads of money by offering content for download worldwide upon release, if they priced it realistically. Instead their short-sightedness means they blame the pirates instead of themselves. The internet is global, all this region locking and phased releasing is way behind the times.
My dad used limewire in the past and I regularly had to disinfect his PC.
A friend regularly downloads movies via p2p and says they often turn out to be porn. His wife still seems to accept this excuse.
I find usenet a lot easier and more reliable for obtaining US shows not yet out in the UK*, which is all I use it for, mostly. Can find the nzb file and have an episode downloaded in under 10 minutes seeing as the binary providers offer full connection speed downloads.
For movies I prefer quality, so either buy the blu-ray or used DVDs from Amazon. Can get many DVDs for under 2 quid. Some start at 1p though p&p is set at 1.26 so 1.27 is the current minimum price. Also don't want to hog my bandwidth downloading stuff when I can get the postman to do the legwork, and it's probably cheaper than renting.
* I'd gladly pay a quid per episode if it was proper HD quality and available to download outside the USA. The companies trying to stop pirating are dumb. They could make loads of money by offering content for download worldwide upon release, if they priced it realistically. Instead their short-sightedness means they blame the pirates instead of themselves. The internet is global, all this region locking and phased releasing is way behind the times.
But then again I don't use limewire.
I've heard NZB's are pretty good too though.
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