Don’t Be a BitTorrent Fool Today
Written by enigmax on April 01, 2008It isn’t just on April Fool’s Day that people will be tricked into paying money for otherwise free BitTorrent related stuff on the internet. Ever wondered exactly what’s inside these guides that promise to speed up your torrents? Read on, as we turn the tables on those charging for freely available information.
There can’t be many people in the BitTorrent community who haven’t seen the various sites scattered around the web that promise to speed up your torrents by ridiculous amounts - for a cash payment, of course.
One such site is HighSpeedTorrent.com and they are offering:
Speaking of ads for such sites, the admin of BTJunkie previously told us: “I don’t allow it on our site because it’s a scam. It’s like a bad infomercial for torrents.”
So what is in this great guide that supposedly allows you to increase speeds by 500%?
Chapter 1: The Different Torrent Clients Reviewed
Really. This chapter is dedicated to ‘reviewing’ torrent clients. After mentioning uTorrent, BitTorrent, Azureus and BitTornado, uTorrent is declared the winner. yay.
Coolest feature: Utorrent gives you charts which show what pieces of a torrent you’ve already downloaded and which ones are on their way to you right now.
The guide explains about the importance of opening ports to get fast transfers - and then fails to tell the purchaser of the guide how to do this. Instead it points the user to portforward.com - a FREE resource on all port-forwarding issues. Genius.
And so it goes on. The guide completely fails to realize that its target audience is the BitTorrent novice as it regularly uses terms they won’t understand, while offering advice about choosing ports, only to contradict it later on, with settings based on the author’s “256K connection”. Nice
Statements like “If you have a firewall you may want to set it to allow your file sharing program to have access to the internet” along with advice to ask your ISP if you don’t know your routers password, don’t exactly inspire confidence.
Chapter 3 lists software to “Help Boost Your P2P Download Speeds” and are all a complete waste of time.
The main problem I have with such guides is the way that they target the complete novice, while completely failing to give them something they can actually use. They play on the new BitTorrent user’s inexperience and charge them money for sub-standard guides which will never give purchasers the ability to increase their speeds by anywhere near the amount they claim.
And all this for $49.95 - well, actually, the guide is on special offer for $9.95 right now - if you hurry (these offers always suggest that they are time limited).
Or, if you’d rather get the great HighSpeedTorrent guide for free, simply click here - it’s openly available, right from the HighSpeedTorrent site.
Do you really want to increase your download speeds for free? If so, help yourself to some of our guides, hints and tips. There’s 20 more of the best right here.
All 100% free. Now that’s the TorrentFreak guarantee.
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Only complete idiots pay for this stuff.
http://pccurb.com
POSTING YOUR COMMENTS ON TORRENT FREAKS WILL SPEED UP YOUR DOWNLOAD BY 379%
hehehe
Wasn’t there already an artical about this not long ago?
Please don’t say “idiots” when you’re talking about people that maybe aren’t as knowledgeable as you when it comes to torrents/internet/general PC knowledge. You didn’t know everything when you first started. When you are new to this, it’s hard to know what is true and what isn’t. That’s why I point people to this site so they can learn a little bit about how it all works.
[quote comment="325183"]Wasn’t there already an artical about this not long ago?[/quote]
Yes, but that didn’t contain the information that they are trying to sell you. Although we expected as much as this…
here is a link to the guide if they take it off the site
http://www.sendspace.com/file/g9kfpl
here:
http://APRILFOOL.COM/ACE.HALLS-LOOK-HERE.HTML
my uTORRENT speed up guide,in line with aprilfools day.
guranteed 32-77% speed increase for public torrents.
for fuck’s sake. stop it with these useless tutorials. people on torrentfreak know this shit already. fucking post something worthwhile instead of this fucking bollocks
Calm Down Dear Its Only a Bit Of Fun!
@ a/s/l
We get messages all the time about people who have been caught in some scam or other. If we don’t get the word out, who else is going to do it?
Hey torrents 450% faster. No way where do i sign?
[quote comment="325249"]@ a/s/l
We get messages all the time about people who have been caught in some scam or other. If we don’t get the word out, who else is going to do it?[/quote]
by the sweat of our brows and the sweat of our backs we’ll show the scamers for who they are, to try and deface the new people from scaming them.
arrgh i am ready for war enigmax. give the order and thy will die for the blood of the torrents.
enigmax said:
“If we don’t get the word out, who else is going to do it?”
…Jesus? o_O
look how happy that dude is!! it must be fast! sign up today!
I thought linking to files that were copyrighted could land you in trouble?
I’m curious if any of the content in these guides is plagiarized directly from your website…
I have pay £5mo for great advice also. It help me to open all ports, and set bandwidth up to lowest 1 setting for great speed.
The speeds they are lots % better as before it did not work.
wow this site is like the BBC, repeats repeats repeats, why not just have a scam site link or something instead of repeatedly reposting this stuff
@16 LOL
@18 You shouldn’t have paid for any of that when you can find it for free quite easily -_-
Are they really charging money for an 18-page PDF file? Since when did file-sharers pay for rubbish?
@18 = Backwards rationalization, unfortunately you can get that stuff for free
http://www.mywinks.net
P.S. At the foot of the HighSpeedTorrent website is a link to http://www.salviacult.com/
These people want you to believe that a plant can cure AIDS and cancer. Fucking snakeoil merchants.
I thought people who dwell in torrents would know not to pay for anything :)
[quote comment="325177"]POSTING YOUR COMMENTS ON TORRENT FREAKS WILL SPEED UP YOUR DOWNLOAD BY 379%[/quote]
i like it
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