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Old 01-26-2009, 10:17 AM
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i recently got into DL'ing torrents and i am beside myself!!

i'm using Transmission on my Mac. i usually go to piratebay and demonoid.

kindly post - thoughts, sites, suggestions, tweaks, etc.
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www.torrentpond.com is all you need, searches over 20 sites I dont use it, I just know of it...
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Originally Posted by tbal' post='777733' date='Jan 26 2009, 11:24 AM
www.torrentpond.com is all you need, searches over 20 sites I dont use it, I just know of it...
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i'm on torrenpond now and it seems as if i can only search one site at a time!? is there a way to search all of the sites at one time? ya, i'm lazy like that!lol
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I havent gotten into torrents cause for some reason they always take forever to DL for me. I usually go to these sites...

Gonna check yours out tho
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Not really a fan of torrents, I use a usenet service, giganews.com
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Originally Posted by tex_phil' post='777834' date='Jan 26 2009, 01:23 PM
Not really a fan of torrents, I use a usenet service, giganews.com
how does that differ from torrents? is that more of a direct download?
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You don't have to worry about leachers or slow downloads. My downloads go as fast as my internet connection is constant speed 100% completion rate. Downside is I pay $30 a month, but that includes SSL 128bit encryption for my safety.
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Be -very- careful. I used to work for the largest ISP - the RIAA and the content holders of this content would actively track and come after people connecting to public trackers.


Ideally, you want to get to know people who have private trackers - people who are plugged in and can get stuff way before anyone else.


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Did you know that Opera 9 browser has a built in torrent downloader? You don't ever need to use any other software to download torrents.

Also, giganews.com is referred to as a "news reader". If you dig in deeper, you will discover a deeper array of file downloading clients for a nominal fee. $30 is average but i know there are cheaper ones.

Happy Downloading!



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