What do you use to download?

[ZombieFriedNuts]

What do people use to download files, I use the standard windows downloading thing, can anyone recommend any good ones.

[LeftEyeNine]

There is absolutely NO better than Internet Download Manager (IDMan). Its click capturing capability overwhelms any others on the market.

If you ask for an alternative, Metaproducts' Mass Downloader is a very good one as well. It was my favorite before IDMan was released. They also have a "light" version of that commercial download manager, which is free, Download Express -one I can recommend as being a freeware alternative.

[ZombieFriedNuts]

Thanks for that, seems to be doing nicely.
but can anyone do better

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

(Please let's try not to be encouraging about distribution of copyrighted material over P2P. Regards - LEN)


If that's what you're talking about.

[Mikeus Caesar]

General internet downloads - Opera's built in transfer manager.



(Edited for the same reason as EMfM 's post. Regards -LEN)

[LeftEyeNine]

Gentlemen, please -if not exactly- let's assume that ZombieFN 's question was about download managers, not P2P sharing softwares. In order to keep our information exchange "clean", I kindly request that the following contributions in advance to be omitting P2P recommendations.

[Mikeus Caesar]

LEN, i beg to differ - everyone associates torrents with piracy, which isn't the case. Not all files you download from torrents are illegal - heck most of them are legal. So, i ask of you to put my post back to how it was.

[LeftEyeNine]

Well of course P2P softwares has such legitimate stands saying that the program is coded for peer-to-peer file sharing, they do not take blame over what is being transferred. However reality is in the open -the main reason behind using P2P programs is the transfer of illegal stuff.

By the way the link you gave here in the Frontroom is an mp3 of a copyrighted material. Lordi and the other Eurovision '06 contestants' songs are released on a CD, which assures that the mp3 is copyrighted material -you see how people use file share/upload opportunities ?

I'm behind my decision about the editing of your message, please take my seniors' word about this if you want to pursue further -they will surely bring your post back in case I am wrong with my decision.

Regards

[Lemur]

Um, everyone's aware that a lot of video is now being released on Bittorrent, right? So it's nto a bad idea to keep a client handy. I'd post a link, but it would probably get edited.

[ZombieFriedNuts]

err I don’t want P2P sharing software just something to download better than the standard windows. Nothing illegal or anything that can be implied as illegal thanks.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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There's no standard windows downloading thing. Each browser has its built in download applet (IE) or manager (Mozilla, Firefox, Opera etc.). I let the browser do the small jobs (+/- 1 MB) but use FlashGet (shareware) for biggies. One major advantage of FlashGet that -at least GetRight lacks- is "chasing down" script links (cgi, asp, php etc.) to reach the true download link. It can also use real madia/windows media etc. streaming protocols in addition to http and ftp, thus download supposedly streaming media.

ADD: It can also pretend to be anything!
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[KukriKhan]

Well of course P2P softwares has such legitimate stands saying that the program is coded for peer-to-peer file sharing, they do not take blame over what is being transferred. However reality is in the open -the main reason behind using P2P programs is the transfer of illegal stuff.

By the way the link you gave here in the Frontroom is an mp3 of a copyrighted material. Lordi and the other Eurovision '06 contestants' songs are released on a CD, which assures that the mp3 is copyrighted material -you see how people use file share/upload opportunities ?

I'm behind my decision about the editing of your message, please take my seniors' word about this if you want to pursue further -they will surely bring your post back in case I am wrong with my decision.

Regards

LeftEyeNine is precisely correct about org policy regarding p2p. Any such discussion must be via 'off-the-board' communications (PM, IM, etc), never on the publicly-viewable forum pages. Org staff will continue to remove any public discussion, links or images of p2p software, however benign it might be seem.

[Lemur]

Warner to release films using P2P

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Warner to start movie downloads
By Peter Bowes
BBC News reporter in Los Angeles

Warner Brothers is to start selling film downloads via the internet using the same technology once blamed for helping people swap illegal copies.

The Hollywood studio has reached a deal with the web company Bit Torrent, which uses peer-to-peer technology to allow the quick distribution of large files.

Warner says users will be able to buy downloads of films and TV shows on the same day they become available on DVD.

Pricing for a feature film will be about the same as the DVD release.

The cost of a television show could be as low as a dollar.

Rivals to follow?

Warner added that whether a TV show or feature film, it will only play on the initial computer used to make the download.

The downloads will not therefore work on other PCs or standard DVD players.

Other Hollywood studios are now likely to launch similar services.

They believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie rather than risk illegally swapping a computer file that could contain viruses or be a poor quality copy of a film.

Peer-to-peer connections enable people to quickly swap files between their computers without having to go via an internet server.

Soderbergh to release next film using bittorrent

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

May 05, 2006
Steven Soderbergh to Use BitTorrent
Heather Green

At a panel this week at the Tribeca Film Festival with BitTorrent's Ashwin Navin, Todd Wagner of 2929 Entertainment, and Dean Garfield of the MPAA, director Steven Soderbergh said he planned to use BitTorrent to release a short he's doing.

Steven Soderbergh is doing a an High-Def film with the next issue of the DVD quarterly magazine Wholphin, due out in mid-May. No news on the title of the short. It's a small step, but definitely a step for BitTorrent in its efforts to woo Hollywood to use its file sharing technology to distribute to people.

An index of legal torrents

[LeftEyeNine]

Wow, Lemur, that was a very nice link, thanks for sharing

[Lemur]

I was sort of making a point, LEN. This talk about how all P2P is kiddiez trading warez and pr0n is behind the times. P2P is being used for legit purposes, by major coporations and artists. It is not tacit piracy to have a bittorrent client on your PC.

There's lots more free, openly licensed material here. Not all of it is distributed on bittorren, but most of it is.

[KukriKhan]

And the point is taken.

The day will come (within a year, I predict) when p2p technology will be legitimized, and indeed welcomed by the world's content creators and publishers. I look forward to that day, for many reasons.

But that day is not today. Today p2p, in the wild, is the illegitimate step-child of piracy - and touting, displaying and discussing it in a publicly-viewed forum puts the forum owners at risk for litigation, and can be seen as facilitating the theft of content, and denial of rightful compensation to the content creator(s).

So, for now, we do not, and will not, allow even the discussion of it in public.

Sorry for the interruption of this conversation. It seemed time (again) to make org policy clear.

Please carry on.

[LeftEyeNine]

I was sort of making a point, LEN. This talk about how all P2P is kiddiez trading warez and pr0n is behind the times. P2P is being used for legit purposes, by major coporations and artists. It is not tacit piracy to have a bittorrent client on your PC.

There's lots more free, openly licensed material here. Not all of it is distributed on bittorren, but most of it is.

I did not intend that. However I have a responsibility here -I have to think about the "big picture" rather than the little part illustrating "nice group of trees". One who knows about P2P usage already knows enough, that would be better being private. The previous posts I edited were both including P2P softwares, I sensed that the discussion was going astray, so that I had to take some precautions. Hope you and other fellows involved understand me

[Lemur]

Kukri PM'd me and explained the full rationale of the policy, for which I'm very grateful. And I didn't mean to put words in your mouth, LEN, so please forgive me.

[LeftEyeNine]

Kukri PM'd me and explained the full rationale of the policy, for which I'm very grateful. And I didn't mean to put words in your mouth, LEN, so please forgive me.

No I did not take it as something negative at all, the situation needed more clarification, so I explained it further. I'm glad that it's okay with you as well

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Now you guys need to find out a post of mine from last year (or before) with a couple of ed2k links and edit it. (No, I swear I don't have a link/subscription to that thread! )
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[LeftEyeNine]

Here it is

(Don't hit me in the head, Mouza. It hurts. )

[Mouzafphaerre]

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