"SR" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:3f9b5b5b$1_4@cosmos.uncensored-news.com...
> I received the following email
>
> http://www.247downloads.com/promo4/access.php
>
> and wonder whether this is true. According to this enterprise, the number
of
> online users is very close to 14,000,000. That's 4 to 5 times that of
> Kazaa...
> If this is true, it might be well worth to join this 1.99$/month goodie.
> Has anybody experience with it?
>
>

No one other than yours truly lauds the praises of Bittorrents much - so
I'll do it again - great speeds, very few dodgy files (in that everyone
basically downloads the same file - if it's not what it claims to be then
they don't bother seeding it on and waste everyone's time) - and at the
moment at least the whole thing seems to work on an honor system - the
download clients tell you when you've seeded as much as you've leeched of a
particular file.

So what if Paramount and Universal studios contacted several leecher's ISPs
to complain that their users were downloading copyrighted material - in
Universal's case they were monitoring downloads of a dvd mirror image of
National Lampoon's Animal House - seems very appropriate.  The ISPs probably
put their users on "double secret probation".

I must admit - or rather a 'friend of mine' must admit - that the sheer
volume of material available is somewhat daunting.  Like Japanese tourists
claiming American shopping malls are too large for them to comfortably shop
in - kaimono overload!



-- 
jonathan
--
"Never give a gun to ducks"