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QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 1, 2013 -> 08:15 AM)
You're not going to hear the difference between Flac's and 320 MP3's. I still only buy Flac's only because music isn't mastered for MP3's. I wouldn't go all the way down to 165 VBR though. Remember, you won't be able to get that back. Storage is cheap. Covert to 320k.

 

Agreed on this...nearly my entire music collection is ripped at 320k...I mean, yea, it wastes some space...but who cares...I have multiple terabytes to waste...and drives are only getting bigger/cheaper. Rip them at maximum quality, and ignore the wasted space...you have it, and if you don't have it now, you will in short order.

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QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 04:54 PM)
Yes, but I thought there was a more recent one that compared different models. There's over 3 years and 5,000 posts in here.

 

It's hidden somewhere on the 2nd or 3rd page of this forum.

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QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 05:17 PM)
Are VPNs effective at eluding the torrent cops?

 

Not really.

 

All a VPN does is encrypt traffic from endpoint to endpoint, but the endpoints still know who you are and where you're coming from. The issue with torrents, is that the basics of P2P mean you are directly connecting to multiple people, to send/receive small pieces of a whole, which will be reconstructed. The people who are trying to catch you simply have to be one of the many points you connect too and attempt to upload and/or download data from, even if they're just another person on a VPN doing so.

 

The issue is also with sharing data, not taking it. They'd have a hard time busting you for downloading something that's "out there", as you'd have a leg to stand on...it's uploading of data that gets you in trouble. P2P networks force you to do both, which is the issue...if everyone was simply downloading off of P2P, the P2P couldn't exist in the first place.

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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 08:46 AM)
The issue is also with sharing data, not taking it. They'd have a hard time busting you for downloading something that's "out there", as you'd have a leg to stand on...it's uploading of data that gets you in trouble. P2P networks force you to do both, which is the issue...if everyone was simply downloading off of P2P, the P2P couldn't exist in the first place.

P2P networks don't force you to do both, they just recommend you do both for the survival of the whole process. I'm a bastard, so I don't allow sharing of files I torrent anyway to preserve bandwidth.

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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 09:24 AM)
P2P networks don't force you to do both, they just recommend you do both for the survival of the whole process. I'm a bastard, so I don't allow sharing of files I torrent anyway to preserve bandwidth.

 

Only torrents I've ever been on were private, and they required you to share (they wouldn't allow you to shut off sharing at the time), but this was years ago...I wouldn't use a torrent today if someone paid me to do it. Stop torrenting, even if you aren't sharing, you're putting yourself on watch lists.

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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 12:38 PM)
Only torrents I've ever been on were private, and they required you to share (they wouldn't allow you to shut off sharing at the time), but this was years ago...I wouldn't use a torrent today if someone paid me to do it. Stop torrenting, even if you aren't sharing, you're putting yourself on watch lists.

I'm not at all worried about the amount and frequency I download via torrents. Comcast is never going to start telling people to stop giving them money every month, anyway.

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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 01:50 PM)
I'm not at all worried about the amount and frequency I download via torrents. Comcast is never going to start telling people to stop giving them money every month, anyway.

 

If they get threatened by the government for massive fines they will.

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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 12:38 PM)
Only torrents I've ever been on were private, and they required you to share (they wouldn't allow you to shut off sharing at the time), but this was years ago...I wouldn't use a torrent today if someone paid me to do it. Stop torrenting, even if you aren't sharing, you're putting yourself on watch lists.

 

All of the major companies (i.e., movie/music industries) has everyone on a list. The question becomes if they'll ever be able to prosecute that many people. They might have your IP address, and that might tie you to an account and an address, but they still have to prove that YOU are the one downloading stuff illegally. If they change the laws to make "account owners" liable, then you'd have a problem. But as the law stands (at least as much as I know about it - disclaimer!) you could throw out a "well, someone hacked into my network and started downloading" as a defense and there's not much they could do to rebut that.

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QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 02:36 PM)
Torrenting is slow as hell. If you really want to download something without consequences, go get yourself a RapidGator account.

I guess it depends in your definition of fast. I had the new episode of Walking Dead 10 minutes after it aired. I average 1.5mb's a second for most movies. It literally takes minutes to download a 2gb file.

 

Piracy is like steroids, the authorities are always a step behind. Plus, I'm on a shared wifi connection all the time. Good luck with that.

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QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 03:35 PM)
I guess it depends in your definition of fast. I had the new episode of Walking Dead 10 minutes after it aired. I average 1.5mb's a second for most movies. It literally takes minutes to download a 2gb file.

 

Piracy is like steroids, the authorities are always a step behind. Plus, I'm on a shared wifi connection all the time. Good luck with that.

 

It also depends on your internet connection.

 

The problem with torrents is that you depend on other people to seed it. You don't have those issues with file sharing sites.

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QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 03:40 PM)
It also depends on your internet connection.

 

The problem with torrents is that you depend on other people to seed it. You don't have those issues with file sharing sites.

Finding seeders isn't really an issue unless your into some seriously weird s***. I pretty much only get movies though. I buy the majority of my music. I listen to some obscure stuff, so the artist actually see the money I spend.

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One of those online petitions the White House has allowed was set up a while back requesting that the White House support legalized unlocking of purchased cell phones.

 

The White House today came out in support of a proposal to do just that, legalize unlocking of smartphones.

 

Whether it does anything, who knows, the lobbies opposing it are still quite strong, but that's progress on the issue.

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QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 03:35 PM)
I guess it depends in your definition of fast. I had the new episode of Walking Dead 10 minutes after it aired. I average 1.5mb's a second for most movies. It literally takes minutes to download a 2gb file.

 

Piracy is like steroids, the authorities are always a step behind. Plus, I'm on a shared wifi connection all the time. Good luck with that.

 

Hilariously incorrect.

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