How many of you use Bit Torrent to download Linux Distro ISOs?

Just curious.

Not me, But maybe I should start
I hear it speeds up downloads ?
im going to be adding another linux distro to my harddrive.

i dont use it, but i think it's a GREAT concept, not sure how long before it gets cracked though, seeing as people are pulling files (or parts of files) off other user's systems, i guess it could be insecure at times.

I am a jerk.

Bit Torrent is completely and utterly safe! Not a crack anywhere in this armor.

Maybe, you're right... but I'm willing to take the chance when it comes to Linux ISOs.

Well, there's always gonna be bugs, loopholes and things related. But if the source is open, most of the time security holes are patched up rather quickly. You are likely taking less of a gamble using Bittorrent than you are using your distro's default server(s) setup generically (which I'd say more people do than not).

Cool

I use Bit Torrent extensively ever since Blood Glutch series came out, I am just a bit upset that it won't use btdownloadgui.py application, but I got around it using curses btdownloadcurses.py instead, just an extra step - download .torrent file and then fetch it to btdownloadcurses.py

Must be insider info I have, on several occasions, gone to the bittorent website, intending to download/install it, and ended up just getting sidetracked somehow. I guess I'll have to dedicate some time later tonight on it.

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I never heard of it until now. With a quick google search I now know it's an file sharing protocall.
To bad I get my IP assignd by dhcp. Since it requires static IP, it's not for me .
Could it be subject to the same prosecution that other peer-to-peer services suffer? Seeing you can also download music and stuff.

The legal aspect of the software has never come up before, to my knowledge. It would be harder to do that with this since you're downloading from many people at once, and only small pieces of the out of sequence.

I've been using bittorrent for a while now. Its good, especially when you have a swarm of people downloading the same BIG file. Then you get the FULL speed

But once everyone is sick of download this file, and your the only one downloading it gets really ennoying becuase there's no seeders (people sharing full download).

However you should keep in your mind that this is still in development stage.

I here that someone is making a p2p type program where you can _search_ for torrent files, like you do in Kazaa etc.

Then it would become a great peice of software