Archive for November 2nd, 2007

BitTorrent for File Sharing

November 02, 07 by admin   845  views  

A king is born: BitTorrent - The new Goliath of illegal file sharing.

Everybody’s heard of Napster, the original pioneer of P2P programs was the de-facto standard for sharing illegal music over the Internet - but much has changed over a few short years. Nowadays, BitTorrent is the new reigning protocol for swapping almost everything - and despite its recent surge in popularity, there’s still a colossal amount of Internet users that haven’t even heard of it.

How to use BitTorrent: To grossly oversimplify it - a user visits a website that hosts .torrent files, selects desired files to download, and downloads the torrent file into his/her BitTorrent software program, which then begins to download the selected files. The .torrent only contains ‘links’ to the desired files - these links contain information to connect with other users sharing the same files.

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IRC Searching on the Web

November 02, 07 by admin   7,389  views  

This is the largest collection of XDCC Search sites on the ‘Net !

There are a few good websites that take some of the hard work out of having to join the proper networks and channels in search of the illicit. With one-click you’ll be launched to the proper channel on the right network with the ‘command line’ you need to get the request just one ‘paste’ away. With these sites, users can search for a movie, game, album or software title, and they will display a list of files matching your criteria with the active XDCC bots that are hosting that file, all in real-time. When you see the desired file, click the link and it will launch your mIRC program. It’s that simple!

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