Torrents

[hardy123]

Slightly confused at the moment, what is a torrent link? A torrent-file shared on Emule? Since posting torrent sites is forbidden, I'm assuming a direct link is too. Also, note that security and anonymity aren't the same.

[billanben]

I believe the rule is that posting of direct links to torrents is acceptable IF they support an existing emule link and topic with regard to a FL movie. The prefernece however, is that instead of posting link, the poster downloads the torrent then posts to EM - is that correct Ghost/Rich/DB ?

[Debaser]

That is correct, although if I never see a torrent again that will be too soon.

[emuler]

There are many P2P file transfer applications and protocols. ed2k and torrent are two of the most widespread. While there are a lot of similarities in the two (both are designed to share files), there are also differences. Both have their fans who swear by them.

However, for our purposes ed2k is better. Torrents are great for popular new releases; you can get the file almost as fast as your connection will allow. But once the initial surge is over, the file stagnates and people joining late tend to miss the boat. This is as much a fault of the people using it as it is of the way things are set up. No one seems to keep the file seeded for decent periods of time. People with slow connections are pretty much doomed; don't even think of downloading a large file if you have less than 256kbps.

ed2k on the other hand is great for rare files. Even if only one source keeps the file shared, you'll get it eventually if you are patient enough. One file took me about three months to complete, but my point is that it did complete eventually.

Someone mentioned security. Torrents have associated trackers which keep a record of who is downloading what. Unlike ed2k, where credits are stored in individual clients' folders, trackers are associated with torrent release sites. If the site gets raided, the database falls into the hands of the authorities, detailing which files you downloaded AND how much you uploaded. On the other hand, if an ed2k server gets raided, the most they can get is which files you are downloading and sharing at that particular instant; they have no access to your p2p history.

[hardy123]

Thanks emuler for an insightful post. Some bittorrent clients supports DHT, so torrents can be hosted without a tracker. Regarding anonymity, the problem is the peers.

[Debaser]

Yeah thanks emuler
That just reinforced my feelings towards that irritating word.. bittorrent.

[whohas]

Yes in your emule INCOMING folder

Why in your incoming folder??? Normally you define a direction of your files you wanna share.

[Image]

Is that 8 hard disks you have?! or just 8 partitions of a couple of disks? And I thought I used lots of drives!

[ghost]

Is that 8 hard disks you have?! or just 8 partitions of a couple of disks? And I thought I used lots of drives!

No, i only have 3 internal harddisks.

[whohas]

torrents are not as secure as emule as the emule client takes parts from many more different people

As far as I understand it, don't torrents do the same thing?

And for security, for those who are not aware, some torrent clients offer encryption.
The main reason they created this is to stop your ISP snooping your type of traffic to limit your speeds which is becoming popular lately.

One client I like to use that offers this is called uTorrent. (you can access encryption options from "options">>"speed guide").

I don't know all the details of how it encrypts, if people know more info about it please post it here.

If you know of more clients that offer this feature feel free to let us know.

[charlottegainsbourg1]

i like utorrent to its faster to download too. dont have to wait forever either. once its seeded it stays not everybody needs to be on.