Leechers

[Alfie]

P2P programs, before anyone says it, are legal.
The majority of stuff you get on them is illegal, but the programs and idea are legal.

Now, on to the subject, leechers are annoying, and when you find someone who is recieving data from you, but sending none back, what do you do?

I disconnect source, which thanks to the program I use, can either knock me off their list, or send them something unrelated and probably corrupting because of other peers.

[AlkaSeltzer]

I deal with them by not doing anything. My knowledge of Peer to Peer networking is less than my knowledge of the year 1376.

[Alfie]

At 12/19/08 08:26 AM, JarrodK wrote: I deal with them by not doing anything. My knowledge of Peer to Peer networking is less than my knowledge of the year 1376.

Download a .torrent file, double-click it, let it download in a program such as Ares or Azueres.
Those with experience of looking at the networked peers can find out if someone is a leecher, and disconnect them.

[wedgeman]

That's the idea behind peer to peer; you are getting the download off of somebody, and in return you help the next guy coming along, and thus he uploads for the next, and he the next, ect. ad infintium.

[NoPurchaseNecessary]

Well, what I do is have other friends do their torrent thing and burn the stuff to DVD/CD or whatevs in exchange for backrubs.

Works out nicely.

[pinkfuzzyman]

I ignore them completely.

[Jon-86]

Bit-Torrent is not the same as P2P. Bit-torrent forces the person to upload what they are downloading at the same time or they cant download to begin with (thats the whole point behind bit-torent) P2P on the other hand you can get proper leaching, but the point of P2P is that it dosnt need a centeral server (ie a tracker as with bit-torrent, although you get trackerless torrents now) and with P2P you cannot share a file untill you fully download it as it dosnt split the file into pieces that are identifiable like bit-torrent dose.

P2P for reliability
Bit-torrent for better network efficiency and utalisation

[wedgeman]

At 12/19/08 08:44 AM, Jon-86 wrote: Bit-Torrent is not the same as P2P.

Some one shoot this guy.

P2P is an acronym for peer to peer, in other words; you send some one some of the data, and they send you some. There is no one server everyone downloads from, the people that are downloading/have downloaded it and your source.

Bit-torrent is a form of P2P.

[AlkaSeltzer]

A P2P network is one where every node is both a client and a server. Isn't it as simple as that?

[Detejubaraaleks]

I do absolutely nothing. I get my files anyway.

[SCUD14]

At 12/19/08 08:34 AM, Alfie wrote: Download a .torrent file, double-click it, let it download in a program such as Ares or Azueres.
Those with experience of looking at the networked peers can find out if someone is a leecher, and disconnect them.

On bittorrent, it tells you if its a seeder or leecher.

pity it always exits itself.

I always disconnect from those bastards.

Then again, i never ever seed after i've finished the download.

[Alfie]

At 12/19/08 09:39 AM, SCUD14 wrote:

At 12/19/08 08:34 AM, Alfie wrote: Download a .torrent file, double-click it, let it download in a program such as Ares or Azueres.
Those with experience of looking at the networked peers can find out if someone is a leecher, and disconnect them.

On bittorrent, it tells you if its a seeder or leecher.

pity it always exits itself.

I always disconnect from those bastards.

Then again, i never ever seed after i've finished the download.

I can choose whether I send it during or after i've finished, I choose during, and if no data is being sent back, I disconnect.
Since I only download legal things (Ubuntu, OpenOffice, ect. I find P2P faster than regular downloading) then they can always get a copy off the official site.