Yep, my cow-orkers son got busted for downloading something he found at Torrentspy. This kinda scared me a little bit because I get stuff from there all the time.

Fortunately they only got a warning letter from the ISP. They didn’t give their info to the RIAA/MPAA/whatever so I guess they got lucky.

I meant to install that a while back ago and completely forgot about it, thanks for the link! I’ll get to that with the quickness. :) You are right, better safe than sorry.

I’m a Java developer so every machine I own usually has both the Java runtime (JRE), as well as the developer tools (JSDK). That’s one of the reasons I like Azureus. It’s written in the language I know and love. :)

But yes, I think μTorrent is a decent choice.

I really recommend using Peer Guardian when you download. You just need to have it running in your taskbar when you download. It will automatically try to block IP addresses that are known to belong to the RIAA, MPAA and other people who like to sue you. No one knows how effective it really is, but every little bit of precaution helps.

Hi Matt, no offense taken. That post was from work and they make us use IE there.

Luke, I use Firefox at home, no worries on that. :) I’m going to stick with μTorrent for a bit then since you give it a thumbs up. Wav tried to help me install Azureus a little while ago but the Java was wigging out my system.

un4scene – μTorrent (btw, to make μ in HTML do μ) is pretty good. Small, fast and light. I’d use it if I wasn’t already using Azureus.

Azureus is a little more bulky and bloated, and requires Java, but I like it. I would recommend μTorrent if you don’t want to deal with Java.

Btw, Firefox > IE! You should definitely switch to Firefox, Flock or Opera. Anything but IE. You might like Flock – it kinda integrates blogging, and all the cool Web 2.0 things into the browser experience.

Matt` – I assume that people download torrents at work, because:

1. their workplace might have T3 or FIOS which is much better than their crappy residential DSL service

2. their computer is old and doesn’t have a DVD burner or enough space on the hard drive to store the whole season of 24, Lost or whatever they are downloading

3. they can’t download at home because they share the network with bunch of roommates who don’t like when torrent clogs their bandwidth

4. the don’t have their own computer at home, but share one with other people

These are just the 4 things of the top of my head, but I’m sure the workplace downloaders come up with many more excuses. :)

What’s the problem with them installing a torrent client at home?
If its their own machine they can break it any way they please so long as they don’t then bring it to you and expect it fixed

Also, only 2 users of IE in this whole thing.. I love this site :mrgreen: (no offence to you un4scene/Teague, lots of offence meant to IE though)

Speak of the devil… uTorrent? Yay or Nay?

Heh… I imagine they would be upset about torrents. If you have 2 or 3 people downloading big files, the whole network slows down to a crawl. :P

I usually don’t care what people are running as long as they are not breaking stuff or getting infected. Hell, I’ll even recommend torrent clients to them (of course unofficially) as long as they don’t use them at home and not on my network.

Ok, cookies make it all better… cookies, cookies, cookies. Must stop by the Safeway before installing new mp3 convering program next week. :)

If only there was a way to make things all better with cookies when an IT Person isn’t handy.

They are very liberal about what they let us do to our computers around here, only recently they got mad at people for doing torrent stuff at work… not even I am that silly to try that.

LOL!

Random Person: “OMG! You just fell out the window… Are you ok?”
IT Dude: “Yeah, whatever… Listen, can you carry me back upstairs before they eat all the cookies? I think my legs are broken…”
Random Person: “I need to take you to the hospital!”
IT Dude: “Hospital can wait! Take me upstairs NOW!”
Random Person: “But…”
IT Dude: “NOOOW!”