Yeah, in practical terms I know that torrents are supposed to be a fast and convenient way to download files or sets of files, so I went ahead and wadd into these waters. First I had to find and download a client. After thirteen years on the net, I haver come to know that the world "client" usually means "bullshit jumping through several hoops", which it did in this case as well. Then, even though I looked online to find out just how this ais all supposed to work, I couldn't find jack as to how to actually USE a client and download things to it. Most of the articles I came across use the very words to describe the process that I am looking to have defined. Nothing out there for a rank amateur like me, a newcomer to the world of torrents. I had to go to the library and have one of their employees walk me through it, which wasn't much fun since they can't help you download or set up to download anything which in any way might violate a copyright of any kind. They just described every torrent on the web in some way.

So I finally get all that together and am ready to download a few torrents. Only.......they don't download. None of them. Oh, I know they're *supposed* to download, and the status bar in the client program window says "downloading", but the "percent downloaded" bar just sort of....sits there. Never really downloading anything. Not unless you have until the SUN BURNS OUT to wait for them to complete, and unless a torrent downloads completely, most of them are totally useless (programs, movies, etc). JFC do I miss the days when you just sort of, well, downloaded things from the net (and here's an idea!) to your computer instead of having to navigate some effing Byzantine goat-sacrifice convolution to get what you're looking for. And when you download something, half the time it comes through not as a torrent file but as an .exe file, without telling you, and getting one open or started from the client itself is a pain in the ass handcrafted in the fires of hello by the Dark Lord of the Abyss to make humanity suffer.

So screw torrents. Another technology that looks great on paper but in the real world is pretty much useless. (I've been waiting for twenty sets of suicide girl photoshoots to download for the past two hours.)

Thanks. I'll withhold all other complaints until I've tried that. I know a torrent is not a file,. but rath....forget it, I'll follow your advice and see what happens. Thanks.

After downloading BitTorrent client, just go to www.kat.ph for practically anything you want.

YW

Murdock.dat Wrote:After downloading BitTorrent client, just go to -redacted- for practically anything you want. YW

The sharing of websites that distribute illegal software downloads is against Tron Sector's user policies. I recommend you edit your post to remove that link.

Murdock.dat Wrote: TRON.dll Wrote: Murdock.dat Wrote:After downloading BitTorrent client, just go to -redacted- for practically anything you want. YW The sharing of websites that distribute illegal software downloads is against Tron Sector's user policies. I recommend you edit your post to remove that link. That website does not distribute software downloads, illegal or otherwise, nor does it distribute links to software downloads, illegal or otherwise. It is simply a search engine for torrents. You might as well tell people not to post the address for www.google.com.

Well, I didn't actually go to that site, and since you said to go there "for anything you want", I assumed that it was a website that specialized in unauthorized software redistribution.

I'd still recommend removing that link if you don't want to risk being banned.