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usenet and bit torrent...everything else is for pathetic no0bs...

R00k wrote:I've bought every Floyd album on CD at least twice, and am down to only having 2 playable ones left again.

The other day I downloaded every album they made in one compressed file through Azureus bittorrent - took 4 hours I think. I didn't have to buy 18 new pieces of plastic to listen to my music again. :icon14:

aye, i got all pink floyd neatly on one dvd, same for queen :icon14:

have u downloaded the "every song ever recorded" bit torrent file?

Dave wrote:You don't get scanned by any number of watchdog groups using newsgroups

If you use Peerguardian, you don't get scanned using BT, either.

dzjepp wrote:Whatever you do, don't ask juggy for a response.

=o

Nightshade wrote:

Dave wrote:You don't get scanned by any number of watchdog groups using newsgroups

If you use Peerguardian, you don't get scanned using BT, either.

i hear they have ways around that...

they do, Peerguardian is not a guarantee

Hendrix wrote:

Foo wrote:What kind of Firewall are we talking about here? A corporate firewall, School, a hardware router in your house, or a software firewall on your PC?

Also, what kind of content are you primarily after? Music, Video or other?

Primarily just music and video, and the firewall is most likely on my linksys router, I guess I could tweak that BUT that would involve me knowing how to do such things, which is currently not possible.

Something I don't understand about this:

Does a firewall also inspect the contents of a packed file?

I could see how it would reject an avi or mp3, but also a zip or rar?

And if so, isn't there a way to disguise avis and mp3s into work place-acceptable formats?

Plan B wrote:Something I don't understand about this:

Does a firewall also inspect the contents of a packed file?

I could see how it would reject an avi or mp3, but also a zip or rar?

And if so, isn't there a way to disguise avis and mp3s into work place-acceptable formats?

Some really fancy coporate firewall/virus scanners might be able to, but no.

So really hendrix is bitching about a non-existant problem and should just download complete albums which are always packed in a zip or rar, then?

For the sake of the children, better redflag this topic, for it is warez-laden :icon23:

Most firewalls and proxies don't filter or block traffic based on filetypes - they filter based on the web address, keywords in the address, or the ports used.

edit: And pretty much all corporate firewalls will block bittorrent ports by default. So you would have to convince your network admin that you really need bittorrent ports open, and that's pretty hard to do.

But as far as Hendrix's home firewall, he could set it up to allow those ports, he just isn't aware of how to do it.

R00k wrote:Most firewalls and proxies don't filter or block traffic based on filetypes - they filter based on the web address, keywords in the address, or the ports used.

But a bittorrent-client doesn't establish a connection to a specific host, right?

Just to available peer IPs?

Yes, but it uses certain ports that have to be manually opened. No firewall - corporate or home - will allow traffic through bittorrent's ports by default.

R00k wrote:No firewall - corporate or home - will allow traffic through bittorrent's ports by default.

or else it wouldn't be a firewall, huh

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Just allow your download-client to receive shit through certain ports.

IOW: Just uninstall/reinstall your client and say 'yes' when it suggests available ports.