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| Thread ID: 105592 | 2009-12-07 21:35:00 | Torrents and risks | JohnMax (12135) | Press F1 |
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| 837479 | 2009-12-07 21:35:00 | Has anyone experienced anything negative with Torrent downloads. Apart from the legal issues of course and the need to control speeds. With some Linux distros having files available through torrent for download I'm thinking it may become more common for larger, perfectly legit downloads. Are there any known virus or other nasties getting carried? | JohnMax (12135) | ||
| 837480 | 2009-12-07 21:37:00 | Just read the comments, get an anti virus and you will be fine. | xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 837481 | 2009-12-07 21:40:00 | no one is going to tell you outright if they use torrents for not so legal downloads. linux distros are through there site i would imagine. you seem to have a negative outlook on things judging by your other post.......... |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 837482 | 2009-12-07 21:49:00 | I've downloaded a couple of fake torrents and several things which were infected with viruses... That's pretty much your only concern there. That and you might get sued if you pirate. But if you're downloading Linux ISOs, and you got the torrent file from the actual website and not some dodgy site, then you will have no problem... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 837483 | 2009-12-07 21:50:00 | Negative - NO WAY. Just frustrated. My previous post about Stuff was some time ago and their new site is worse, 7 1/2 minutes to load. Thats on Dialup Rural. Looking at their code it is not an efficient website. Too many pretties no option to "skip" like some flash sites. I like Torrents and have found some very useful material (books esp) but our Principal (who has described himself as a luddite) has decided that the risk is too great. |
JohnMax (12135) | ||
| 837484 | 2009-12-07 21:53:00 | Well I assume you will have to go by the policy the school wants to use. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 837485 | 2009-12-07 21:59:00 | I dont think many schools would like P2P downloads at their school. I got my account banned for 2 weeks for bypassing the block on trademe at my school lol. | xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 837486 | 2009-12-07 22:10:00 | If you are using Bittorrent to only download legal stuff, then there is no problem there, you can argue that at least. BUT they might not want it running and wasting bandwidth anyway. You might find that Imageshack's Torrent drive service to be of some use. You do have to pay for it now (they stopped letting you use it for free) but once they download the torrent for you, you just download it from their site as a standard file download. I don't think the school would block that. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 837487 | 2009-12-07 23:08:00 | Schools have to keep things looking clean, for moral, legal and political reasons. Torrents typically will make available all manner of stuff that a school needs to distance itself from. However, torrents are extremely sensible for large downloads from a rural setting, particularly so if by dialup, and can be done overnight when not disrupting use of the phone line. I started downloading some linux and OOo stuff just a few days ago. Did the OOo on capped speed via a traditional web based download, but realised that the 30 or so hours for the Linux OS to download would never reach a happy conclusion if done via the standard web interface - too much risk of the download being stalled and / or broken - so for that one I chose a torrent. Got the source of the torrent from the Ubuntu folk themselves (ie trusted source), and downloaded without the fear of interruption, as torrents are made to tolerate interrupts / restarts / whatever. The only disadvantage of getting OOo or Linux this way is the need to continue using the line to serve back your 105% copy of the torrent - which is what keeps the whole torrent system working, whereas just downloading the file directly spares you the uploading. However, I see the uploading as a tiny contribution towards supporting the whole Linux / OOo organisation, so do so happily. Torrents rule! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 837488 | 2009-12-07 23:12:00 | haha same kind of thing here Darkstar. Was a bit annoying that they forgot to enable it again when I was working with them and got elevated to admin. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
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