Torrent files

[FireCat]

Have any of you computer geeks...download "Torrent files"
if so how do you take them out of "download" and burn them to CD....I found a very good sight with all kinds of goodies!...thanx..

[Gus Orviston]

Yep.. living here in China it is hard to ever see any of the better shows. The local DVD shops make shows like lost and 24 available but only after the end of the season or maybe mid point, but we started using utorrent to get them immediately after airing in the US.

I just download the AVI file right now, and then run them on my laptop through SVideo output to the TV, and audo out to the Stereo.. Works great the resolution is excellent. There are ways to make DVD player ready disks but you need to start with a MPEG file.

The download time here can be a pain,, but I start it usually in the evening and in the AM I have the files I wanted.

gus

[JustCallMeDave]

To answer the original question, it depends on the software that you are using to download the bittorrent files, and the types of files that are being downloaded.

Now, I need to remind both of you that copyright infringement is illegal, and discussions of said activities will not be allowed on ifish to protect Jennie from MPAA/RIAA/SPA lawsuits which could allege that she facilitated the discussion of these types of acts. Whether she did or not would be up to the courts, and a cadre of attorneys on their side compared to nothing on hers, as she can't afford an attorney to protect her.

There are certainly uses for bittorrent which are very much legal. I myself downloaded the most recent version of Ubuntu Linux at work yesterday at much higher speeds than what was coming off of the local .edu servers, and that is very much legal (encouraged, actually).

Gus, don't think for a moment that being in China protects you from US copyright laws. Swedish police recently took down the largest torrent website in the world, even though they didn't break any Swedish laws (it's amazing what US bucks will buy overseas, though not as many Swiss police as they once could thanks to a lousy exchange rate). It remains to be seen whether anything will happen to them outside of this site removal.

If you are taking part in copyright infringement (downloading music, movies, software, etc without the permission of the copyright holder) do NOT discuss it here.

Thanks.

[sinker]

Alot of the files are compressed in a Win-rar format into multiple files. Do a google for win-rar and you can download a demo of it.

Dave,
I liked that Swedish site too!!! LOL

[FireCat]

Davy...with all do respect Why is it when I ask a question that it was in your mind that I want to do something illegal?
I do know what copy right laws mean ,I was having trouble down loading a book that is on CD that is wide open to anybody for use and it came in torrent form. so I thought this would be a good place as any to ask for help, not a lesson on copy right law.
there is many legal use for down loading torrents because
Legal Torrents, which includes a wide selection of electronic music, It also has the Wired magazine Creative Commons CD, which has songs from artists like the Beastie Boys who agreed to release some of their songs under a more permissive copyright that allows free distribution and remixing.
Torrentocracy has videos of the U.S. presidential debates and other political materials.
File Soup offers open-source software and freeware, music from artists whose labels don't belong to the Recording Industry Association of America trade group, and programs from public television stations like PBS or the BBC.
Etree is for devotees of "trade-friendly" bands like Phish and the Dead, who encourage fans to share live recordings, usually in the form of large files that have been minimally compressed to maintain sound quality.
And many Christian music and sermons come, and encouraged to use as free down loading files.
My idea was not to in anyway harm this websight with illegal rederic.
With more and more sites such as these popping up all over the Internet it will be easier to show that there are obvious legal uses of the software

[JustCallMeDave]

FC:

My dissertation was more of a blanket comment about the protocol in general, and was deemed necessary after the mention by Gus of downloading television shows, which unless it is permitted by the owner (and I haven't heard that it is) it is illegal.

To further quote the two and a half year old article that you quoted in the middle of your response (without attribution, by the way):

John Malcolm, director of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the MPAA, said that his group is well aware of the vast amounts of copyrighted material being traded via BitTorrent.

"It's a very efficient delivery system for large files, and it's being used and abused by a hell of a lot of people," he told Reuters.

The remainder of the quote that I left off talks about the MPAA looking at their options to see what they can do. Ya know what they've done since November 06, 2004 when your article came out? Sued tens of thousands of people and instead of proving that they did it they extorted thousands of dollars from most of them so that they (the defendants) didn't have to spend MORE money in legal fees proving their innocence. Do you want to put Jennie into just that sort of position, where she has to pay off the MPAA because she can't afford to defend herself against these jackals? If this thread went further without warning she could have easily been sued for aiding and abetting the violation of the DMCA because sofware that she owns helped people circumvent copyrights.

That's why I stepped in and made that post, FireCat. It's kinda my job around here to make these calls, and when it comes to technology issues it's my forte.

Now if you'd like to provide me with what program you used to download the torrents, the type of content that you are downloading, be it legally-obtained torrented albums, Open Source Software, or freely-distributable video files, and the type of CD burning software that you're using, I'd be happy to assist you with your initial question. All of that information is pertinent to your question, as each program handles different filetypes in different ways.

[FireCat]

Dave I apoligize for not using the attribution with John Malcom, I just thought it was common knowledge,expecially for someone like yourself. Although the quote that you gave "It's a very efficient delivery system for large files, and it's being used and abused by a hell of a lot of people," he told Reuters.
I did not use because it was a little to brash to put on here, I think anyway, because people have been warned to not to use that kind of aggresive talk wether it be by first or second person.

Here is one from the web sight I am dealing with ..."LibriVox only records books in the public domain. This means they are no longer covered by copyright, and anyone can use the texts as they wish. This issue is a bit more complicated, but if a book is considered public domain in the US (where our audio files are hosted) we will be happy to record it, and you won’t get sued."

Now I just want to download this , very plain and very simple I dont want anyone thrown in Jail, or the gustopo trearing down anyones door.

Also there are are many, many legally run web sights where people are asking the same question, as I am .

And isnt this a great country we live in where, such as not Sweden, Where You are inocent untill proven guilty, and not guilty untill proven inocent

Maby I should of said what I was doing to be more percise.
But I APOLIGIZE for the big aray of legal matters which I was not trying to bring forth.