Stop Downloading Fakes and Junk From BitTorrent
Written by enigmax on December 04, 2007Many experienced file-sharers can’t understand why relative novices manage to download so much junk from BitTorrent. Fake downloads that never finish, video files which refuse to play, movies that require special players and unwatchable video are easily avoided by those in the know. But how do they do it?
Although it’s quite a small problem, BitTorrent is sadly being used by a minority to generate money for scammers through trickery and deception. We’ve reported before how people download movies only to learn that they require a special media player to play it, or others which come with a payload of malware to infect their PC when they install it.
Other people get other problems such as torrents never finishing or when they watch a downloaded video it turns out to be completely the wrong thing - i.e the file was deliberately mislabeled. Sometimes the video download is of such poor quality it’s simply unwatchable and of course all this adds up to a lot of frustration and wasted time.
There are many techniques employed by experienced file-sharers to ensure that the torrent is what it says it is and of a good enough quality to even bother with. We’ll look at just a few of them here.
Remember that sharing certain types of media via BitTorrent may not be legal in your country.
1. Always read the comments
Before downloading any torrent, it’s always prudent to read the comments on the site. It only takes a few seconds but it’s time well spent. Very often there are requests from previous downloaders for a password to access the file or some might be asking where to download a special video player to view it. Movies should never come as .zip or an .exe file, if they do there is every chance the file comes with some sort of catch. If the movie won’t play with VLC Media Player there’s every chance it’s a fake. Any files needing 3WPlayer, DomPlayer or any that direct to other sites and ask you to fill in forms or install stuff, are also fake.
2. Can the source be trusted?
A good way to find out if a .torrent is real or not is to find out who uploaded the file. There are several well known users that always release new torrents on the same account, aXXo and EZTV are some good examples of such users. If the user is anonymous, you could look at the tracker, and see if it’s widely used. There is no guarantee that files on a well known trackers are safe, but you can almost be certain that files tracked by trackers such as bittorrent.isthebe.st are fake.
3. Is the file actually released already?
Many people use sites such as VCDQuality and Nforce.nl (sites that rates the quality of media releases on the internet) to not only ensure that the video is of a good quality, but also to weed out malfunctioning releases and identify real ones. Recently a movie producer was grateful to the BitTorrent community for spreading his movie ‘The Man From Earth‘, so we can use this movie as an example:
The VCDQ page shows a lot of information but let’s look at the box marked ‘folder’. Here you can see the release name. By copying and pasting this exact filename into Google, a list of almost guaranteed non-fake torrents appear.
4. TorrentSpam?
Another place to check is TorrentSpam. If you already have a torrent file in your possession, you can either paste the full name (or hash value, obtainable from the ‘general’ tab in uTorrent) into their search engine and if someone has reported this as a bad torrent, the results will be shown. Equally, if despite all the measures you still end up downloading a bad torrent, its possible to report this fact for the benefit of other TorrentSpam users in the future.
Do you have any tips or tricks not mentioned here that you would like to share? Feel free to leave a comment!
4. Other suggestions
We asked Matthijs from Mininova for some good tips on how to avoid downloading fake or scammy torrents and he came up with the following suggestions in addition to what we already posted.
In the end it’s experience alone that helps identify the fakes. Most people who have been file-sharing for a little while can easily spot these bad torrents but it’s clearly not so easy for the novice, judging by the number of emails we get at TorrentFreak each week. Let’s hope that number reduces soon.
Previously: MPA to Christmas Movie Pirates:”You’d Better Watch Out, You’d Better Not Try!”
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135 Responses
indeed, I agree.
Very informative article. Although I didn’t know all of them, I knew some. Appreciate the heads up :)
a tip: join a serious private tracker, and you will have no fakes
Join a scene tracker etc..
Movies and music shouldn’t come as .RAR either in an ideal world. Yet many do.
Unfortunately .rar or a series of .rar files doesn’t allow you to download small parts of a movie first to check it out, or to download the first part of a movie to watch it (such as VTS_01_1.VOB) then download the second. The same applies to music, you cannot just download one track to check the band out.
The other problem with .rar is that often you cannot afford the disk space for the .rar version to seed and the extracted version to watch.
Yet many scene releases are in .rar format. :-(
“The other problem with .rar is that often you cannot afford the disk space for the .rar version to seed and the extracted version to watch.”
1. HDDs are cheap.
2. Once you’ve downloaded a movie/TV-series you watch it every day? No? Then why have it unpacked all the time?
Why do they even put single files in gazillion rar’s - there has to be some insane reason ?
#7 - scene rules to pack stuff in small rar files with a sfv.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez) and scroll down to packaging
oh and also, TF themselves has addressed this
http://torrentfreak.com/unpack-rar-archives-before-you-release-a-torrent/
The best way to avoid being suckered is to download from trusted websites, public or private. As for the rar part, while i agree that rar files are annoying many people prefer them because you can download them to different partitions in case you do not have sufficient space on a single partition but enough with all partitions combined.
ooops that was a TPB essay
all i want 2 know why thes people make this fake what thy earn from it plz some one tell me
I don’t download movies at all unless the ARE in rar format. If it comes just as it does from the scene its much less likely to be a fake. Also if you want to ftp the movie to your friend it helps - ever try to ftp a 700mb file? Doesn’t work so well. Also on the new hddvd/bluray rips you can split movies across dvd5s instead of buying dvd9s which cost more.
.rar ftw
In regards to the .sfv, some programs such as dc++ will check the files against the .sfv to see if the files are corrupted and alert you if they are.
Bottom line leave the shit alone, you are not the scene, so don’t rename, unpack, or otherwise fiddle with the releases. Watch your video, then delete the unpacked version, problem solved.
Mookey,
I am not the scene, therefore I don’t give a crap about scene rules. Rars in torrents waste disk space. Rars in torrents break selective downloading. EOS
Sincerely,
b
With a lot of scene releases, there is an un-RARed “sample” file that you can download first from the torrent and look at to get an idea of the quality of the video. That would be a good way to know if the release is good.
@Mookey:
You’re absolutely right. RAR is the way to go, it has a ton of benefits, and the uploaders on the torrent sites need to stop messing with the file structure. If you leave the release with the scene naming and file structure, you don’t have any of the problems you would otherwise. You can check NForce or ORLYDB to see if the release is valid, and you can use the .sfv file to make sure the release hasn’t been tampered with. There’s no way I would download a non-scene release.
it won´t get any different before all the rookies are gone….
alot of them don´t get it, regardles how many times you write about it.
i think that the trackers are also responsible for this, hey should remove the torrent when it gets recognized as a fake.
many people report fakes to the admins and nothing is done!
i try not to download files that have been rarred.
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You’re absolutely right. RAR is the way to go, it has a ton of benefits,[/quote]
Packing it in a bunch of RAR files has little to no benefit for bittorrent users.
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2. Once you’ve downloaded a movie/TV-series you watch it every day? No? Then why have it unpacked all the time?[/quote]
But why waste the time?
“Hmmm, I want to watch this DVDR now. Time to unrar it… Oh, I’ve gotta wait 10-20 minutes. Great.”
Looking at all the responses to my initial post concerning the .RAR format, I can see that there is no advantage to it. Hard disk drives may be cheap, but I don’t want two copies of the damn thing. Just one unpacked copy is fine thanks. If I do download RAR’d torrents, I never seed them after they’re finished and I’m sure many other people think this way.
“Unknown/new trackers (that can’t be found on google anywhere) with large amounts of seeds/leechers”
A good way is just to look at the seeders, I always does that. If a torrent have 10′000+ seeds and the next in the list only have 700+ seeds then it is 100% a fraud. Even so if the 10′000+ have zero comments and the 700+ have 100+ comments. (Typical Heroes episode) :P
The idea behind using WinRar for P2P is added privacy and security. So when I .Rar a file of say, a movie, such as Star Trek, the ‘unpacked’ .Rar files will have the name of the actual movie, the .Rar files I am uploading or DL will not. Get it? WinRar has many other uses to numerous to mention here..suffice to say it is an essential tool when used with common sense. The features should be intuitive to the ordinary filesharer. If you are a disturbed poptart probably not….
Many DC++ hubs also have a requirement to have all the files packed. (Sometimes even in 47+ files…)
I hate getting calls from people, “Why won’t my torrent work?” “Errr, did you read the comments before you downloaded it?” “Ummm, no. Ok. ummm… oh. Looks like its a fake.” Grrr.
[quote comment="230537"]Unfortunately .rar or a series of .rar files doesn’t allow you to download small parts of a movie first to check it out[/quote]
You mean all this time when I’ve downloaded only the first file of a rar series (.rar or .part00.rar) extracted the episode (keep broken files option) and watched that little poortion (VLC) I really havn’t been able to do that? Darn :/
(Or as mentioned, download the sample when available)
This way I don’t need to wait for my random bytes to come in a big enough group to do a preview, and find that lucky spot of video. (Still need VLC to play it too)
Add the ability of a few .rar players, or winrars ability to extract to temp space, and no wasted HD space. Or just extract and delete when done
I know this is way tricky, so I see why the mass torrent community can’t handle it.
experience is the key word in this article. when i started using bt, i dl my share of fake files.
READ THE BLOODY COMMENTS!!!!!!!
Tricky? Is something that basic considered tricky? The bittorrent community sure have low standards.
let the stupid people download fakes and the people who actually give a shit and bother to work out how to use bittorrent properly get the good files, we deserve it.
let’s face it anyway, if you’re reading torrentfreak, you’re probably going to know your torrents.
I think that rar-partition is essential to big files, such as games and HD-rips.
Have you ever downloaded a 5Gb single_file with very low speed/connection and in the end you recognize that the 5Gb .iso file is corrupted and useless. I have…
In rar-partition that problem doesn’t exist. If there are any corrupted files, it’s easy and fast to replace them (15Mb).
Movies (700-1400Mb) i don’t care wether it’s rarred or not. Though, i prefer rarred rips.
[quote comment="230614"] Rars in torrents break selective downloading. EOS
Sincerely,
b[/quote]
Actually, Selective downloading breaks Torrents - Its a bad idea, and significantly slows down torrents. I believe its somewhere in the region of 30-50% slower, on average, because of selective downloading breaking the ‘rarest first’ philosophy that makes bittorrent such an efficient and effective transferer of files.
[quote comment="230568"]The best way to avoid being suckered is to download from trusted websites, public or private.[/quote]
Not necessarily, mostly not at all! Most fake torrents spread from public trackers and sometimes private trackers. Famous public trackers let the anonymous (or even newly registered) people to upload any tracker. Search engines such as Google index it and lead people directly to fake files. In private tracker it’s of course harder to upload but when it is uploaded, a lot of people trust and download.
Here are some of my bitter experience in downloading and thus avoiding downloading fake files. I use a very low speed (at most 7kB/s) so I have to learn carefully!
* Do not try to search for a file on Google, yahoo, etc. search engines to find torrents. It is a good idea to find “torrent sites” not “torrent files”. Try to stick with tow or three trusted torrent sites and search for your files from their own search engines. It is also beneficial to be familiar with the site so that if there’s any report on comments, etc. if there’s a fake file and you’ll notice right away.
* Too good is too bad! If you find a (rare) file with hundreds of seeders and leechers in the first place, there’s a good chance it is a fake file. A good reason to use torrent is that you don’t need to have numerous seeders to download a file. Once I downloaded a 4GB file with only 3 seeders and 2 peers.
* Previewing is always good. Find ways to preview files. Don’t give up if WMP always nag about not supporting. Try VLC Media Player, GOM Player and other editing software to work around and make them preview for you. VirtualDUB is a good one for avi files and MPEGVcr for mpg and VOB files (I’m talking about old MPEGVcr not the new versions).
* Always before previewing copy partial files to other folders and NEVER try to play with the original files as you could harm them forever. Specially while your torrent software id still downloading.
* (You can skip this one and go directly to next tip!) Movies shouldn’t come in RAR formats because of good reasons such as they don’t need to be RARed because movie file do not compress! Or the fact that it is better to share the torrent file while you are actually using it rather than keeping useless RAR archives on your precious HDD. I personally delete torrent files after downloading unless they are in their respected format (i.e. Mp3, Avi, pdf…). But unfortunately stupid people that download files from rapidshare, make torrent out of 100MB RARs or even more stupid ones spend half an hour to make a RAR out of beloved avi file! “Fakers” love these stupid people and use this way to upload junk. So we have to work around this and not fall into their trap:
* There’s a good way to preview RAR files: Wait until 10% of the file is downloaded. If it is a single rar file you probably have to download a more deal of data, but if 10 rar files in the torrent, tell your torrent app to not download 9 on them and only download the first one (If they are splitted the fist file ends in .rar). After downloading a little, copy the file to another place. Right click on the file and select “Extract files…” from Winrar’s menu. In the following box, check “Keep broken files” option and click OK. Wait until it is extracted and ignore any error report unless says there’s no archive or can’t extract so probably you need to download more before previewing. Then you can use your media player or other softwares to preview the avi, VOB, mpeg, whatever file to see if you must continue or go on and start from scratch for another file.
* There’s much doubt about a “RAR inside RAR”. If you extracted to find another RAR file, it is better to cancel downloading! Fakers use this way to prevent you from using above tip!!
* If there’s a read-me file in the extracted file always read it! Fakers suggest to go on a site to download/register/enter Email/f*ck their mother etc. in these read-me files!
* If you don’t have VLC Player, download it now!
* Don’t rush to download newly born torrents. Waiting a few hours would revel if the file is fake. There’s always royal users to come back and report.
* Teach torrent sites’ moderators to remove fake torrent at least after 24hours and not after everybody else downloaded it! Sometimes they are not moderator, only inactive users who are only interested in heavy traffic.
* Summarize this text and post it in another comment!!
I think there’s a bigger idea behind uploading fake files rather than simply a Trojan or scammers. It is not simply economic neither mony-wise nor time-wise to spread trojans, trap people into scams etc. using torrents! There’s always a good chance that it would be removed almost instantly and not a good chance of downloads more than 500.
The idea is to try to tire people from using torrent, specially new users. Recent behaviour of RIA and others and the history of fighting torrents in 2007 clearly shows that they want to play dirty. Because there’s no reasonable doubt to completely stop torrent sites and they do not have enough energy and money and power to stop it all around the world, they try every way it may come to their corrupted almost-look-like brains.
This is the reason we must keep up to date and torrent moderators to fight back.
Don’t forget: fake torrents don’t have 100% availability.
Its obvious these little poptarts have their brains toasted if they can’t grasp the advantages of WinRar. Read the instructions
no one has stated the obvious: multi-part .rar files (often) come from Usenet, as does much of Scene material on Bt.
oh and ‘b’, you may not be ‘Scene’ but seeing as they are the primary content provider, you have no choice but to abide-or at least tolerate-their rules/standards of release. feel free to start buying dvds if you don’t like it.
[quote comment="230777"]Its obvious these little poptarts have their brains toasted if they can’t grasp the advantages of WinRar. Read the instructions[/quote]
I think it is the other way around. The ones with their brains toasted would be the ones who think that rar actually add anything to bittorrent downloads (unless the data is the compressable).
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Have you ever downloaded a 5Gb single_file with very low speed/connection and in the end you recognize that the 5Gb .iso file is corrupted and useless. I have…
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Fortunally bittorrent is a modern protocol that features error correction, so this is a non-problem.
The error checking is completly automatic, but if you are paranoid or are suspecting corruption, you can recheck any data you have downloaded against the torrent file, and if any part is incorrect it will be refetched from the swarm.
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Actually, Selective downloading breaks Torrents - Its a bad idea, and significantly slows down torrents.
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It only slows down the download for the one doing the download, since he will have a suboptimal offering of data. And what he doesn’t get, someone else gets. There only is so much upload bandwidth to go around.
Of course, when there are few seeders and leechers on a torrent, selective downloading can cause some problems, because pieces can become too rare or even go extinct.
Felt like I had to say a single good thing about RARed files:
* Often avoids fragmented files.
I had a 700mb movie with over 10′000+ fragments, and that was after I had defragmented the HDD (with O&O Defrag).
Well, that’s my point.
Yet another advantage or .rar files is that files greater than 4GB can be downloaded to fat32 drives. I keep all my drives except for one in NTFS but, the FAT32 drive was a lifesaver when my laptop hdd crashed and I was able to use Knoppix. NTFS support is still sketchy at best in linux distros.
this makes me miss demonoid :(
Id like to reiterate to my closest friends… That downloading that stupid play3w-all crap - Is obviously fake.. A novice would even eye that out!…
Well the bottom line is the scene will never change these rules. They have been put in place for some very good reasons. Don’t like it stick to your “NON-SCENE Releases”!
There are a lot of FAKE COMMENTS - many made by “one-post-wonders”. Wary downlaoders need to consider the history of any user making a comment insisting that a file is or is not genuine. Most sites list every users previous posting history as well as how many times that user has posted a comment. With a little digging, it’s not hard to figure out who’s lying and who’s telling the truth.
It’s well known that the first several releases of a new movie that appear on P2P are usually fake. Downloaders who simply wait a day or so until a verified release shows up can usually avoid all the fakes.
People new to using P2P should join an online community (forum or chatroom) where there will be plenty of others willing to help a novice in the finer points of file-sharing - and in particular, avoiding the ever-increasing amount of bogus files out there.
Even Mediadefender’s leaked emails show them openly admitting that their efforts to poison P2P have proved useless against the more educated filesharers.
this post is cute.
[quote comment="230814"]no one has stated the obvious: multi-part .rar files (often) come from Usenet, as does much of Scene material on Bt.
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ACtually, most of the scene stuff on torrents comes via FTPs, not via newsgroups, and quite often it goes onto newsgroups from torrents.
There is a very good reason why torrents don’t come from newsgroups, and thats the fact that if you check something like mininova or piratebays irc chans, you can often see things appearing there before newsgroups, sometimes within minutes of the scene releases. Newsgroup posts are usually a bit slower.
This article is stepping somewhat out of the line. Now you are telling us what to do and what not? Think about it and stop doing it!
And think about how you got your experience - through trial and error. Allow those who are inexperienced to gain the same experience. Trackers then do their part i.e. by cleaning up their sites, to create quality and thereby competing with other trackers. It is going to work out fine.
And last but not least, there will always be junk. Even the best DVD rip can contain a junk movie. Where do you stop?
This list is USELESS and just dupes the novices again. EVEN IF you find the release on vcdquality, chances are its been altered by media defender… They can put out fake hash code and your movie ends up blank or not able to play at all. Use NEWSGROUPS and private sites where everything is moderated. And of course you wont get a nasty cease and desist letter by the big FOUR.
RARs for bit torrent are a lot like the Q-ray bracelet. If you are happy with them, fine. Just realize that the perceived benefits are all in your head.
Remember that sharing certain types of media via BitTorrent may not be legal in your country.
And you point is ?
On Torrentz.com, there are special “rankings” that can be attributed to torrents. Although completely transparent and easy to use, some people still seem to miss it.
- register with them (free, no funny stuff)
- read comments (some people are amazingly graphical with the labeling of both genuine and fake torrents) whenever someone says “fake”, don’t take the risk.
- compare “good quality torrent” count to “bad torrent” count.
- If a torrent is highlighted green in main search screen, it’s A-OK!
I surprised this isn’t mentioned.
Use Peerguardian (or similar prog) and import the lists from bluetack.co.uk
There are a lot of lists and many include IPs of people who upload spyware, bullshit files, viruses, etc. And of course, they also block many known **AA IPs as well.
digg for torrents would be good.
What about the .rar within rar………..thats as unholy as it can get
[quote comment="231122"]What about the .rar within rar………..thats as unholy as it can get[/quote]
Not to mention stupid. You’ll need three times the size just to unpack it and you’ll only “save” 50-200 megabyte.
Nice links. Very informative.
[quote comment="230537"]Movies and music shouldn’t come as .RAR either in an ideal world. Yet many do.
Unfortunately .rar or a series of .rar files doesn’t allow you to download small parts of a movie first to check it out, or to download the first part of a movie to watch it (such as VTS_01_1.VOB) then download the second. The same applies to music, you cannot just download one track to check the band out.
The other problem with .rar is that often you cannot afford the disk space for the .rar version to seed and the extracted version to watch.
Yet many scene releases are in .rar format. :-([/quote]
Scene releases are a lot easier to get fills from. They also invariably come with samples.
Most movie formats allow you to view their broken files. Download the first couple rars and open in Winrar. Click ‘Extract to’, tick ‘keep broken files’, then view in player. The only way this doesn’t work is with isos.
Releases are in .rar format because that is the best way to move them from one FTP site to another.
I find that they end up on torrents and usenet about the same time, if you know where to look.
The “scene” could care less what we think as they don’t want their stuff out in the public domain anyways.
hopefully the n00bs will read this and stop spreading the junk
Another good “brand” of Torrents you can trust is Darkside RG.
the worst torrent file i ever downloaded was Lust, Caution DVD rip from btjunkie. The search for a password lead to a rollercoaster ride of spam sites. was still unable to unlock it. later i read about the virus that spread through the movie torrent. In btjunkie, the file is still doing its rounds inspite of several warning comments. just sad.
yeah, i hate those rar torrents.
One suggestion, use linux for your p2p downloads. no viruses there…
We can only hope.
For movies I have found going to rlslog.net to be the best.
Its a bloggish type place where the mods stay on top of the scene. There are categories with rss feeds.
Usually DVDRip DVDSCR and R5 are what you are looking for. Live bookmark these in Firefox. It rulz!
If the movie you want is not in there then its probably only cam or telesync still and not worth the effort.
For other medias pbay is great when you look at the comments.
basterdn torrents
Use Dziobas Rar Player to play Scene rars.
http://ds6.ovh.org/drp.html
Problem solved.
use a moderated tracker site, there are plenty out there
http://www.h33t.com is a good moderated tracker
1-Download torrents from trusted sites. That would be the most important 4-me. Private trackers are usually better, I never got fakes from there. Also sites likes Releaselog, rlslog.net Those guys are experts, they’ll show you the way to the promised land. The Moderators do a good job.
2-Avoid single .rar/.zip files, especially if the torrent comes from shady sources.
3-Read the comments
4-Don’t rush to download something, I usually wait at least 24 hours, sometimes more. This way if there’s something wrong with the file, you get to know about it from other users.
I have rarely downloaded fakes, it happens usually once every 6 months for me. (And the last time it was because I hadn’t followed my own *Gotta wait 24 hours* rule !
Enjoy !
aniway,
if you dont wanna down load fakes, do not download axxo, since he’s a filthy thieving cocksucker that scams people into R5 DVD-rips
download movies from the known names that are PACKED!, if you are whining about that you cant open .RAR’s and tht it takes so much space, etc. please think again, since you are obviusly retarded. and you are lying to yerself.
and saying that you dont care about scene rules please fuck off from torrents and go back to yer edonkey p2p-crap as most people know that 95% of all the illegal torrents is scene or raped scene releases, and you download thm too.
stay off from pay to leech crap and sites with “SCENE” in the name, as they are trying to make money from piracy and thus are evil.
and more, tough these are just jmy 5 cents
Use the preview option liberally. VLC will allow viewing of partial video downloads.
Use peer guardian to block bad/hostile clients.
download only hardcore pornography, those guys are far more honest than movie and music file sharers 8-).
[quote comment="230557"]Why do they even put single files in gazillion rar’s - there has to be some insane reason ?[/quote]
Usually these are files that are downed from usenet (aka newsgroups). They allow individual binary files to be downloaded from there servers at approx 15MB a piece (I believe, its been a second since I’ve used usenet or a downed a torrent like this). Why this is I’m not sure. I can speculate that originally usenet was intended as something similar to BBS or a Forum but each post/comment/article/whatever-the-fuck had a character/file-size limit.
gonna wait for the aXXO release
Splitting into several Rars is also for private trackers, so you can download just 1 random part of a popular torrent and use it as a rayio booster without havign to dl the whole thing.
dom player files are coded.
They can be decoded by UnZixWin.
But it it’s not worth it.
it works, but in that file were different movie - porn.
[quote comment="231905"]aniway,
if you dont wanna down load fakes, do not download axxo, since he’s a filthy thieving cocksucker that scams people into R5 DVD-rips
hmm As i heard axxo is set up by evil people?
thankx 4 d info
I say faggifakers should be put in a line and shot after a donky rapes them first afcorse. I know it seems harsh (not) but trust me they deserve it. Even an oldtimer can get *ucked sometimes so we need to *uck them right back donky style. Any idea how? Pray That Masterhaxor will come down with vengenc and furius anger and yes you guesst it donky rape em. I know i know stop with the donky but let me tell you FAGGIFAKERS DESERVE IT! Thx for listening and good night. ROCK ON!
this is bs if it is indeed a password file it will tell you in the comments if it is a repitable site, second rar files are great they word off the chance of virus’s autoplaying therefor you can scan them first.
third off if it dont work in VLC player its fake!
forth an final… if you are going to dl movies wait till axxo or pukka make a relese they are trusted uploaders!
both relese on tpb
listen i am not from america i cant bread all this can someone explain clearly what do i need do i wont be getting the dom player shit all the time???
I think it is a handy little guide for beginners - despite it being raped in the comments - so thanks enigmax !
One point that serious torrent users should take a minute of their time to do : use the comments tabs (or sections)to the torrents -in order to help newbies out, and do Not abuse them. A sharing community is supposed to be a caring one, and not an “I got what I want now screw you” one .. There seems to be more and more flaming in comments on torrent sites, rather that constructive comments and it really doesn’t help anyone
@Alup : axxo no longer uploads on tpb - only at http://www.mininova.org/user/axxo (and unfortunately he is now on a ‘break’ after recent events)
@ ‘need help’ : I think the article above is clear enough ?
try fxm on mininova i donloaded a bunch of them and it seems that they are working really good
@oldrocker: break after recent events? what happened?
RAR is a compression tool to reduce the filesize of the download, i dont mind them, you unrar, watch the movie then delete the rar, problem solved, or if you wanna watch your hard drive space then why not just unrar it, burn the avi to disc then delete the rar and unrared file, disc space problem sorted, whats wrong with you moaning gits, your getting this stuff for free and your moaning that you have to spend a bit of time on your downloads, get freeware security tools, antivirus, firewall, spyware and trojan scanners and you shouldnt have any problems with your rars….bloody amataurs……
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2. Once you’ve downloaded a movie/TV-series you watch it every day? No? Then why have it unpacked all the time?[/quote]
But why waste the time?
“Hmmm, I want to watch this DVDR now. Time to unrar it… Oh, I’ve gotta wait 10-20 minutes. Great.”[/quote]“Hmmm” that sucks to be u . but it does not take 20 min. to unrar something and if it does ,dont be cheap and buy a better cump.
[quote comment="232053"][quote comment="230557"]Why do they even put single files in gazillion rar’s - there has to be some insane reason ?[/quote]
Usually these are files that are downed from usenet (aka newsgroups). They allow individual binary files to be downloaded from there servers at approx 15MB a piece (I believe, its been a second since I’ve used usenet or a downed a torrent like this). Why this is I’m not sure. I can speculate that originally usenet was intended as something similar to BBS or a Forum but each post/comment/article/whatever-the-fuck
had a character/file-size limit.[/quote]
Hehe lol, they use multiple .rar files to be able to race between scenesites.
i noticed u didnt mention rlslog with nforce and vcdquality … i dont blame you after they said you was gay
its better to avoid the .rar files except for the scene releases..
and ofcourse check for the movie/music’s availability in popular sites like amazon or rather google for it.. if its for sale then its a genuine file..
Most of the time the fake torrents come either in the name of axxo or any popularly running movie..
so its better to watchout for this trap
hope my cents were useful :)
What’s the website of axxo?
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[quote comment="230531"]Join a scene tracker etc..[/quote]
[quote comment="230566"]The best way to avoid being suckered is to download from trusted websites, public or private. As for the rar part, while i agree that rar files are annoying many people prefer them because you can download them to different partitions in case you do not have sufficient space on a single partition but enough with all partitions combined.[/quote]
heres just one thought if u didnt have the divx player or codec would u still be soooo retarded and give that same advice because people who come accross shitty people who are sooo blinded and cant take 30 minutes ,and find the solution is downright un nerving, no wonder novices are having problems with torrent STICK TO LIMEWIRE AND USE COMMON SENSE!!! Worried about spyware which u get with EVERY page u go to , then get a SPYWARE REMOVER, ANTI-VIRUS, FIREWALL, avg free, McAfee, Norton , free limewire just do a little research and b willing to try, to learn for u , get spyware no biggie if u get it remove it when the computer slows theres no harm in scanning, mislabeling and movies that dont work come with trying to download everything free , coming from a computer programer / computer maintance person for 11 years my own business yes yes thank you thank you so the internet is knowledge at ur fingert tips , get google toolbar for all ur question and just take ur time knownlegde come to those who seek the truth not wait for someone else to find it . Goodluck
u dont even need limewire ir a torent site , just use ur browser and search the web usually every moovie u watch online can be downloaded right there on that page , need info terrytripz@hotmmail.com
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and by the way just because a movie is labelled dom player doesnt mean that it is of course some are for it but others are labelled it so people dont download it how do i know u may ask cause i have about 200/450 movies i have burnt and 200 said dom player in the description but played perfect on divx player , so just google “watch moves online for free” and download the free realplayer (it gives u the option to download almost every movie u watch) and just for the new peoplego too http://www.download.com and get ad-aware free , avg free and spybot search and destroy 1.4 for vista users and 1.5 for xp users all free easy to use just remember to update before scanning at least once a week , dont forget email if u have any questions
Recently i’ve downloaded a movie “Hitman[2007]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo.avi.torrent” file through BitLord. Once downloaded, it shows that the media file requires “dom player” to play this file. what can i do with this? i tried whether this is a valid file and of good format. many says, such are scams. and then i tried to verify the torrent file, but it said nothing bad reported on that torrent. the file size is of 716MB. Please help me out
i am one of those novices you were talking about who always downloads the most corrupted files possible…. This article was an eye-opener about all the things i have been doing wrong till date while selecting the torrent to be downloaded.. thanks :)
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2 times i got bloooooody dom player
Yea it sounds silly but i used to directly click the download arrow on btjunkie
i advice novices to click on the torr name first to get to the comments first
do not ever dl torr widout readin comments
ignore torr’s wid confusin comments
problem solved@!!
[quote comment="230507"]indeed, I agree.[/quote]
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[quote comment="230863"]NTFS support is still sketchy at best in linux distros.[/quote]
Um what? NTFS support is rock solid these days. NTFS-3G has been stable for what - a year?
there is an open-source application, which can decode all domplayer-encoded AVIs into original AVIs:
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=113052&start=15#309656
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I have already downloaded more then 100 movie kind of these.. are really loosing my mind.
Do anyone know some way.. so that we can watch the movie while its downloading?
just got my first and last u need a domplayer for a movie i will try and find a good torrent site any one know one
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I dont see a problem with passworded torrents, which leads you to page where you enter any e-mail or zip. So this method is legit and not a scam for me. The really scam is filesharing itself.
The only problem i have are faked files or torrents with password but without a chance to get it.
I downloaded a so called movie file ( 700mb ) only to find that it had no audio and played a clip for about 3 mins.the rest was junk.
The clip told you that your media player was not good enough and to visit a web site called divxmovienow.com.
what I didn’t understand was why the hell was MediaSentry trying to slow down the connection for a torrent that was fake…
[quote comment="230557"]Why do they even put single files in gazillion rar’s - there has to be some insane reason ?[/quote]
A very high compression rate. Also common for games as well.
[quote comment="230632"]i think that the trackers are also responsible for this, hey should remove the torrent when it gets recognized as a fake.
many people report fakes to the admins and nothing is done![/quote]Mininova.org renames the fake file as either ‘Obviously a virus’ or they delete the .torrent and remove it from their database
[quote comment="248659"]heres just one thought if u didnt have the divx player or codec would u still be soooo retarded and give that same advice because people who come accross shitty people who are sooo blinded and cant take 30 minutes ,and find the solution is downright un nerving, no wonder novices are having problems with torrent STICK TO LIMEWIRE AND USE COMMON SENSE!!! Worried about spyware which u get with EVERY page u go to , then get a SPYWARE REMOVER, ANTI-VIRUS, FIREWALL, avg free, McAfee, Norton , free limewire just do a little research and b willing to try, to learn for u , get spyware no biggie if u get it remove it when the computer slows theres no harm in scanning, mislabeling and movies that dont work come with trying to download everything free , coming from a computer programer / computer maintance person for 11 years my own business yes yes thank you thank you so the internet is knowledge at ur fingert tips , get google toolbar for all ur question and just take ur time knownlegde come to those who seek the truth not wait for someone else to find it . Goodluck[/quote]Limewire is full of shit. Haven’t you realised by now? Try http://www.thepiratebay.org or http://www.mininova.org
[quote comment="295535"]I have already downloaded more then 100 movie kind of these.. are really loosing my mind.
Do anyone know some way.. so that we can watch the movie while its downloading?[/quote]
informative , indeed
someone should destroy divxmovienow.com
Don’t forget that before Bit Torrents and private torrent tracker sites, we used something called Emule and Edonkey back in the old fashion days.
Guess what? You can still download Emule free from emule-project.net to download on these networks.
The longest running, and most trusty Emule private tracker site is the iwannadownload project at :
http://links.verotel.com/cgi-bin/showsite.verotel?vercode=23268:9804000000707116“
[quote comment="357700"]Don’t forget that before Bit Torrents and private torrent tracker sites, we used something called Emule and Edonkey back in the old fashion days.
Guess what? You can still download Emule free from emule-project.net to download on these networks.
The longest running, and most trusty Emule private tracker site is the iwannadownload project at :
http://links.verotel.com/cgi-bin/showsite.verotel?vercode=23268:9804000000707116
divxmovienow.com I got a bunch of players to make porn movies work!! What the hell is that about ?
@badrat1430 Can u plsease provide the link for software to decode divxmovienow.xom encoded file and also some others.
Thanks
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Here’s another little tip. It’s a good thing to read the comments, but make sure that the comments weren’t made by the uploader. I’ve seen a few like this.
If the uploader is posting positive comments, but nobody else is saying a damn thing, chances are it’s crap.
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i agree 100%,rar. files ussualy needs password which i cant find. and i need VLC coverter for some files- i dont even know what is it!! Anyone?
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the torrent’s legit-the comments were good-but it just won’t finish downloading! it’s stuck with only a few tenths left-why???
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