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Originally Posted by thatmariolover
May I ask, do you use Peerguardian and/or SafePeer?
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Brace yourself for this: as it stands, Vista only supports PeerGuardian 2, RC1. And I only became aware of this fact the other day. Yes, I do run PeerGuardian, I've had it on my XP machine for as long as I can remember, but I don't have it on Vista. As far as SafePeer, I've never used it. Isn't it a plugin for Azureus? I have always used uTorrent, so maybe that is why it has never come up.
I've heard that PeerGuardian isn't that helpful, but I've always felt better knowing that I have it. It seems to block a lot of "suspect" traffic, so I've always felt a lot better with it installed, but nothing can block 100% of the bad stuff.
But what's really helpful...and this is going to transition nicely into Jason's question:
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Originally Posted by Jason1
Second, roughly how much were you downloading? Im sure that might be hard to estimate, but try to come up with roughly.
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I download a decent amount of music, maybe a couple albums a week. A lot of the stuff I torrent is mainstream stuff, because it's easy to find. Once you start to look for more obscure music, public trackers become less and less useful. I've found that blogspots are great sources for underground rap and metal. Usually they'll link to a rapidshare link. The only "private" torrent site I use is Demonoid, and they seem to be running a pretty smoothe site. Anyway, I don't think it matters how much you download. I think it's more of what you download. All the people that I know who have been busted have been busted downloading some current, super mainstream album, from a public tracker on a big website like mininova. I was on btjunkie. I'm sure if I downloaded a lot from a private website with strict uploading guidelines, like OINK used to be, that I would have pretty much nothing to worry about.
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Originally Posted by Jason1
Ive got a few questions for you, Gremelin. First, what school do you go to?
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UIC; University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Originally Posted by manasecret
That clued me into the fact that they didn't care that I was downloading stuff (or didn't know what I was downloading), only that I was sharing stuff. So I stopped sharing stuff, but I went along and kept downloading.
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I miss the Kazaa days, because back then you could nuke all outbound traffic. It's a little bit harder to not upload when you use torrents. I'm with Bond, it seems like torrenting at the University is just a bad plan. But hindsight is 20/20. My home ISP isn't quite as compliant with the DMCA, because they'd rather respect their customers than fold. There are all sorts of politics on the subject of the governments, colleges, and the DMCA.
As for college, I might check out newsgroups, which appears to be the future of filesharing.
Also, I feel pretty confident/safe when I use rapidshare and all those other hosting websites. But who knows.