-=PCTechTalk=- Re: BitTorrent

This may help with your first question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Legal_issues
Terry


On 8/24/06, Sammi <sammi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is anyone here familiar with Bit Torrent?
> http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html Is this legal? I surely do not want a
> problem.
>
> And if there is, would that someone be ever so kind to tell me how the
> heck
> to download something from there. We have 2 XP SP2 Home pc's running on
> the
> same network through the router (NetGear MR814).
>
> Apparently my router isn't allowing the downloads, the last part of the
> log
> in BitTorrent always says: "[snip-snip]
> Problem connecting to tracker - urllib2.URLError: (10060, 'Operation timed
> out')"
>
> I have read the FAQs and tried to understand them. Hah. I also went to the
> Port Forwarding web site at
>
> http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netgear/MR814/BitTorrent.htm
>
> And then to http://www.portforward.com/store/porttrigger.htm where they
> offer a program which you may purchase for $24.95. If I knew it would work
> for what my teen wants to use it for, I would probably cough up the money.
> I
> see they offer some TV series downloads also. Is this part legal?? I am
> way
> out of my league here, and really need some help/advice/.
>
> TIA,
> Sammi
>


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