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[mikkyT]

i thought bit torrent was shut down?

How do you shut down a protocol? They (those corporate suits) are actively persuing legal action against the hosts of bit torrent information, but the simple fact is that bit torrent is a distributed content delivery protocol and any sites hosting bit torrent information do not hold the actual content themselves. The weak link of the bit torrent protocol is the fact that you need a description file to describe the data contained within the torrent and you need somewhere to host that file (a tracker).

Many bit torrent trackers exist, both legally (such as World of Warcraft client update) and illegally. Bit torrent is not just a pirates tool. Shutting down one website will never kill piracy, it just scores points with the media.

[Nidavellir]

ironside theres a great little program called smartripper which will allow you to just rip the vob files from dvds and then store them on the comp and from there just use whichever program you would normally use to burn them onto a disc, although sometimes you may need to shrink the vob files but most burning software is able to do that.

smart ripper can be found here http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/smartripper.cfm

and actually that site its found on afterdawn is a really great site for tutorials on how to do a lot with videos and such ^_^

[ACE2M]

The bittorrent/bitlord sites are great and easy to use.

But in case anyone can be bothered to learn how to use it the xnews app for use inconjunction with newsgroups offers phenomenal down load speed and a huge choice of material to download once you learn how to use it. The quality also depends on which newsgroup you have access to (dependent on your isp/although you can pay to use other newsgroups).

This is an installation guide and manual http://www.slyck.com/xnews.php. take some sorting out but it's amazing once you get the hang of it.

Let me know if anyone gets anything out of it.

ta