Has anyone got an account on a torrent/file share site?

This is an area I have no idea about. I dont have such an account and I wouldnt know how to use it if I had.

Has anyone got any recommendations which one to sign up with? And what can you actually do once you have signed up?

I've just been looking into it but out of the 3 sites i've looked at they all charge a monthly fee and I only want to download one file. I dont really want to pay £10-£20 a month if I can avoid it because I dont think I will get any benefit from it.

I would appreciate any advice from anyone in the know. Many thanks.

Has anyone got an account on a torrent/file share site?

This is an area I have no idea about. I dont have such an account and I wouldnt know how to use it if I had.

Has anyone got any recommendations which one to sign up with? And what can you actually do once you have signed up?

I've just been looking into it but out of the 3 sites i've looked at they all charge a monthly fee and I only want to download one file. I dont really want to pay £10-£20 a month if I can avoid it because I dont think I will get any benefit from it.

I would appreciate any advice from anyone in the know. Many thanks.

You shouldn't need an account to download from torrent sites, unless it is a specific site where particular files are uploaded and they require you to join their site to download them (happened to me once when I was looking for a particular gig bootleg). I didn't know there were pay-monthly sites, whenever I download from torrents I simply fire up the (freeware) bittorrent download application (I use Vuze) and then you can enter what you are looking for in the search area and see if it finds it. As for file sharing, I know some file share SEARCH websites require you to pay a monthly fee to use them, but for the majority of things you might be looking for you can usually find it without the use of these if you put in a little time/effort. Not sure if that was the answer you were looking for, but hope it helped a little.

And obviously I don't condone downloading anything illegally.

Edited 21 January, 201016 yr by SkoDave

I use BITCHE for torrent searching, and use the uTorrent client to download, very rarely will you find a torrent server that requires you to join / login or pay for. If you find a pay one, chances are its a bogus one. The signup ones tend to be for specialist downloads, eg. bootlegs or pr0n.

1) install utorrent

2) install bitche,

3) launch bitche, and search for what you want.

4) double click on file to download it (make sure you select a download with at least one seed otherwise it may not be possible to get the whole file.

Or if you have a tidy BB connection speed and want things quickly join a newsgroup for around £7per month.

Only really worth it if you have a connection too handle it though 20meg+ ideally.

HTH

Cheers guys, I will keep looking to find one that doesnt charge. I've signed up to one and all was well until I started to download the file then it requested money. I'll figure it our eventually.

Only got 1mb speed so the newsgroup option might not be the best for me.

And for the record its a nav disc I want. I'm prepared to buy a full price legit copy but I still want a copy to put in the car incase it gets nicked. So I might as well look at the download option first as i'm having no luck trying to buy one at the moment. Everyone I try to buy is sold by the time I get an answer.

Obviously I don't condone downloading anything illegally but if you have already bought the software can you make a copy of it (like itunes etc)? I've emailed teleatlas but I dont expect a reply.

Thanks again for your help & comments.

i have strayed away from using such sites, as if your found to be using such sites you can be prosecuted for a massive amount, someone in america who was caught was fined £10000 per song, how many albums can you buy legitimately for that figure?

the police are slowly getting set up on tracking people who use such sites through i.p addresses i think i read,

The BPI lost its last court case, and the judge found the defendant not guilty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20100107_oink.shtml

The BPI lost its last court case, and the judge found the defendant not guilty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20100107_oink.shtml

because they were prosecuting him for dishonestly obtaining money through music sharing, which was not guilty as he'd obtained it all by donations from users, if it was a compulsary fee then it would of been dishonesty apparently, i read about that case somewhere else where more details were put into!

heres a few links to successful cases:

A woman has been ordered to pay £16,000 for illegally sharing games and films over the internet

First French P2P 'pirate' fined €10,200

Virgin warns illegal downloaders: stop or face prosecution

Those reports are old news , you ain't heard of a lot happening since.

Technically speaking if you use a news server, you arn't even under those laws as you arn't uploading anything, yes the posters are but most people don't post, they just take,

it's another legal argument altogether, which has yet too be mentioned too my knowlegde, I'm sure they will jump on it at some point, but until they do, carry on :D

Newsgroups are the lowest form of internet as we know it, for the people that govern these things too have a pop at it I should imagine it will be very difficult to stop as it is a part on the internet as opposed to a peer to peer or torrent type thing, if that makes sense lol. sometimes I confuse myself, I'm sure someone more articulate can explain better than me. :S :S

Hmmm, Limewire? (cough, cough) Or, ahem, Acquisition?

Byeeeee…

Only really worth it if you have a connection too handle it though 20meg+ ideally.

Ooooo get you!