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Good Bittorent site?

  • 07-03-2007 07:29PM
    #1
    mick.fr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭


    Edit by irlrobins: where can I download Linux distros via Bittorrent?


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  • #2
    mick.fr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭mick.fr


    Sorry if talking about Bitt*** is not legit here, but I use it to download DVD images such as Redhat (Fedora), as many of them are actually making their DVD based images available to bittorent network only.

    Many game editors such as Mythic Entertainment are also making their game available to Bittorent network as well.

    So I am sorry if we are not allowed to speak about it, I did not realize some people were using it for illegal download purpose.

    Thank you


  • #3
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,453 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    talking about it is against the rules if the sites mentioned contain copyrighted material.


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,548 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Usually companies that use the BitTorrent protocl to legitimately distribute their software run their own trackers, in the case of Fedora, for example, it's http://torrent.fedoraproject.org. No need to use dodgy trackers for this kind of thing at all.

    EDIT: Just checked ... 650 seeds and 321 peers for the i386 dvd iso ... ought to be able to get a decent download speed going there!


  • #5
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    I did not realize some people were using it for illegal download purpose.
    *boggle*


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Depending on your ISP these are worth a try - heanet isn't always bang up to date but they have decent bandwidth into inex

    http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

    # Ireland
    * http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/
    * ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/
    * rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/

    * http://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/fedora/
    * ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/fedora/
    * rsync://ftp.esat.net/ftp/pub/linux/fedora/


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  • #7
    duridian
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    mick.fr wrote:
    I did not realize some people were using it for illegal download purpose.
    That must be a very big rock you've been living under.


  • #8
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Cremo wrote:
    talking about it is against the rules if the sites mentioned contain copyrighted material.
    depends on the copyright and attitude of copyright holder - GPL ;)

    But yeah , public domain or stuff where the copyright owner allows copying are fine. But lots of general torrent sites aren't family friendly so not the Mae West for here.


  • #9
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    <snip> is a good search engine, that only looks for non copyrighted material. It will find nothing illegal no matter how hard you look.


  • #10
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    that only looks for non copyrighted material. It will find nothing illegal no matter how hard you look.
    Actually it does and I asked you before not to post that link. Two week ban. PM me when up to get unbanned.


  • #11
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    Linux Tracker is great for populuar distros


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  • #12
    quad_red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭quad_red


    just ban another mod?




    cool. :p


  • #13
    swingking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭swingking


    never thought i would see the day


  • #14
    BadCharlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭BadCharlie


    LoL


  • #15
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    quad_red wrote:
    just ban another mod?




    cool. :p
    It's been a long time coming.... ;)


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