-=PCTechTalk=- Re: BitTorrent

And I should be shot for not noticing that you already received a reply to
your question.
Terry

On 8/24/06, TD <davisunit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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