prestonlewis
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-13
Sacramento, CA
 ·VoiceStick
| The End of Torrents? In the last few months, there has been an enormous increase in "fake" torrent downloads. Apparently not by the MPAA or RIAA but by shysters who trick you into downloading a movie which requires you to "join" some site in order to get a password which may or may not work and then the movie if often not what you wanted.
Usually, it's RAR files. RAR files, which are unneeded by the vast majority of torrent files, can be password protected by 128bit encryption (hard to break). Another trick is to download the file as an *.avi only to have the instructions tell you to rename it as a *.rar and join a porn/free offers/ web site, etc. (with the posters referral number) in order to get the password which, again, often does not lead you to the movie.
It seems to becoming endemic these days, the fake torrents. It happened on eMule (which I've stopped using) and now it's happening on torrents. If the torrent indexes do not take action to block rar files and allow users to mark hoax uploads as such, the days of torrenting for "fun" are going to be over. Imagine that. The MPAA/RIAA fails at limiting torrents and instead the whole idea is brought down by spammers & shysters. | |
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blackflag
join:2006-01-31
Lakeland, FL | Re: The End of Torrents? get on some private sites, this problem doesn't exist | |
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Kornflake
join:2006-12-21
Sheboygan, WI
1 edit | seedmore.org home of no fake torrent all of them are checked by the staff so no worries and we have stuff at fast fast speeds | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | Read comments [if site has comments] for the file. fakes are usually fettered out pretty quickly on the comments.
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| If only ISOHunt had comments - then I wouldn't have tried
to download what I thought was an anime OVA (Original Video
Animation), but turned out to be cheap a** pr0n like the kind
you get when you decode a Domplayer or 3WPlayer fake. In fact,
it likely was a 3W fake that someone decoded and re-seeded in
order to scam people into downloading it.
Oh well, I wasted 600 MB worth, and killed my ratio on it (it
was a public tracker, IIRC, and that was the only file I got
from it).
I generally only download anime from BitTorrent, and check
comments when I can, and have never encountered a fake file
until now.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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TOPDAWG
Premium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON | Re: The End of Torrents? Newsgroups rock for anime. I download a crap load of anime ISO's on newsgroups. If your into anime and want the whole dvd give newsgroups a shot. | |
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alamarco
o.O
join:2003-06-18
Windsor, ON
clubs:
| Re: The End of Torrents? said by TOPDAWG  :Newsgroups rock for anime. I download a crap load of anime ISO's on newsgroups. If your into anime and want the whole dvd give newsgroups a shot. As soon as I get a newzbin account again I'll be doing the same. Right now I'm downloading only video files, but images would be so much better  . | |
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TOPDAWG
Premium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Re: The End of Torrents? Yeah I'm a dub watcher so I want the whole dvd for that. Most times rips from the DVD are only the Japanese track on sites. Also got to love the untouched video and you just burn it and pop it into the dvd player.
You also just don't find much anime on BT sites. | |
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nfx
The Wire
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Vancouver, BC
clubs:
| said by TOPDAWG :Newsgroups rock for anime. I download a crap load of anime ISO's on newsgroups. If your into anime and want the whole dvd give newsgroups a shot. I know nothing of this "newsgroups" business, but it sure sounds like it kicks a lot of ass.
Where may I donate my life into this interesting cause?
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Jarmann
Will eat for food
Premium
join:2003-05-25
clubs:
| Re: The End of Torrents? said by nfx :said by TOPDAWG :Newsgroups rock for anime. I download a crap load of anime ISO's on newsgroups. If your into anime and want the whole dvd give newsgroups a shot. I know nothing of this "newsgroups" business, but it sure sounds like it kicks a lot of ass. Where may I donate my life into this interesting cause? I smell a bit of irony.  | |
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TOPDAWG
Premium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON | Re: The End of Torrents? Bah yeah really but someone may find the info useful. | |
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MAT777
join:2002-02-02
Montreal | They are easy to recognize, I always look at the files before downloading, most of the time, I can recognize this kind of bs. But you're right, it's full of it now. | |
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| hihi
join:2007-05-06
Port Orange, FL |  Re: The End of Torrents?
If ya want the real stuff go buy it
No one is begging ya to download it
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| | Sky King
join:2001-07-02
Naugatuck, CT | Re: The End of Torrents? You are kidding right? Do you like to be tricked into downloading garbage? | |
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| | Sky King
join:2001-07-02
Naugatuck, CT | Its like going to any retail store and finding fakes. You did not go there to get fakes. We can and WILL complain. | |
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Jarmann
Will eat for food
Premium
join:2003-05-25
clubs: | Emule has been plagued by the same problem as long as I can remember and is still alive and kicking. Like someone has already mentioned: use a private tracker and read forum comments. | |
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MAT777
join:2002-02-02
Montreal | Re: The End of Torrents? Yes, I think it's worts on emule and always been.
Limewire is full of it too. | |
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Mentat
The zeitgeist sucks
Premium
join:2001-02-25
Sugar Land, TX
| This is nothing new.
Don't just haphazardly download bullshit, do some investigating if this is a big issue for you.
Of the last 100 torrents I've pulled from public tracker sites, maybe 2 of them were bullshit. Everything else was gravy.
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FiL
Premium
join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD
| HARDLY epidemic...you sound like bush and his pleas to go to war with Iraq...
Lots of boards got threads like this, and almost all of em get started by noob .tor dl'ers...
Read the fuckin' comments; if they don't post comments there at whatever site your at, then hop on over to the dozens and dozens of sites that do allow comments, look for your .tor link, and see if they like it, legit, w.e.
Then go back to your homesite and DL...but of course, in doing this, you'll more then likely be a new member of the comments allows board...lol.
Epidemic is Lime/Frostwire showing you 20 results to files of 1kb to 200kb when all you searched for was a 3 and a half minute track by "Nas- If I ruled the World". | |
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TOPDAWG
Premium
join:2005-04-27
Midland, ON
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| First you'll need a newsgroups provider if your isp does not come with one. This thread will help.
»[Newsgroups] Need suggestions for good $15 a month?
OK now you'll need a program to use them grabit is but ok but download newsLeecher. OK now you got to get a site that lets you search for stuff. I use »www.newzleech.com/
Now just search for your anime and you see it download the NZB it's like a BT link file. Your file will download and you just unzip it and away you go. Also you will want a par fixer I use quickpar. Most of your downloads will have bad parts and the par files fix them up. | |
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alamarco
o.O
join:2003-06-18
Windsor, ON
clubs: | Re: The End of Torrents? Thanks for Newzleech link, I didn't know about them. Maybe I can return to Newsgroups without Newzbin . | |
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iEvolution
join:2006-06-24
Ogden, UT
| I've ran into 2 the last 4 years I've been screwing with torrents I don't know what kind of shit sites you've been visiting but there really aren't that many fakes rolling around as you may think.
Thepiratebay is one of the worst for fakes..don't even bother. | |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
| There are a few other public torrent sites infamous for
fakes, such as Sumotorrent and Seedpeer. I've seen quite
a few that looked fishy on TorrentReactor, and none of
those seemed to have any comments. And on BTJunkie, you'll
find plenty of fakes, especially with newer movies. But
those get outed as fakes pretty quickly by the site's
regular users. Really, do you expect a torrent with 800+
seeds and 4000+ peers to be genuine? Most of those on BT
Junkie like that aren't.
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