Archive for November 5th, 2007

Torrent Hosting Websites

November 05, 07 by admin   894  views  

A BitTorrent website is simply a torrent search engine (where .torrent files are hosted) in which you can browse through and download the ones you want to add to your BitTorrent client program.

Torrent websites are broken down into two categories - public and private. Public torrent websites allow anyone (in most cases) to browse and download torrents. Private sites require registration and signing in before any access is granted.

There’s a huge number of torrent hosting websites, each with different qualities. Check out the alexa.com ‘Top 100 BitTorrent Websites‘ to see which ones are the most popular by ranking. But first we’ll explain how to open .torrent files:

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AutoGet for IRC

November 05, 07 by admin   1,906  views  

As I said before, we don’t go into great depths at explaining IRC/mIRC, but one script that’s worthy of mentioning is called ‘AutoGet‘. AutoGet is an add-on script for mIRC designed to make the entire process of downloading music from IRC much easier. It basically works much like any P2P program would.The general process is this: Users can search for music and connect to multiple MP3 channels all from the same program, instead of having to type the same search string across all channels, over and over.

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Direct Connect/DC++

November 05, 07 by admin   1,892  views  

Introduction to DC

Direct Connect is probably one of the least-known about P2P protocols for sharing files over the Internet. Haven’t heard about it? You’re not alone, many people haven’t. DC is a completely free, open-source file sharing community consisting of users from all over the world. Collective groups of users are connected in “Hubs”, which number in the thousands. Users can join multiple hubs, perform searches, chat with other people in the hub, and download just about anything. The interface is somewhat a cross between Limewire and mIRC, where users can browse through other peoples’ shared folders to view what a particular user is sharing.

Direct Connect - Recent Popularity

Widespread use of DC is becoming more and more popular. This is evident by looking at the recent software projects being developed for the DC protocol. Do a search for “DC” or “DC++” at www.download.com or sourceforge.net and one can see a list of all the new entries.

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