On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:34:49 +0900, puntspeedchunk
<puntspeedchunk@gmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:26:35 +0300, "Haluk Skywalker"
><yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote:
>
>>In my part of the world bittorent is not as much popular (frankly it is
>>unheard of). So I get by using Kazaa to dl southpark episodes and other
>>stuff. But I can't find much Japanese TV programs etc in Kazaa network.
>>
>>I googled for bittorent (I heard it here) and the first site I found
>>(www.bittorent.com) had some suspicious links (you know the kind that fires
>>up a security message and asks whether you trust the stuff from Mainpean -
>>GmbH). Now I don't trust anything German since WWI so I click no and
>>obviously nothing happens..
>>
>>What is the safe way of getting bittorent software? Is it some sort of
>>subscription service or a free network? Do you recommend it? Or do you have
>>anything else to recommend?
>>
>>I have permanent connection to net (256Kbps ADSL) and I'm looking for
>>Japanese TV dramas etc. in particular.
>>
>
>I read somewhere that Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ is
>an excellent client, but that  BitTornado
>http://bittornado.com/download.html may be a bit easier to use
>for the beginner.
>
>Also, make sure to get some kind of IP blocking protection to
>use with ALL of your P2P utilities. I've heard that ProtoWall
>http://bluetack.co.uk/index.php combined with the Blockist
>Manager http://bluetack.co.uk/blm.html is the best way to
>protect yourself from "the initials". No P2P application is safe
>without something like this installed. It's also been mentioned
>that it works with all major P2P apps. 

Nice. It doesn't make any specific mention of DC++, but I hear from a
very reliable source that it works fine with it.





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