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Sites where you can download American TV shows? (2 Viewers)
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BitTorrent is the best in my opinion. I don't know why people download television shows in advance though
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Thanx.. I cant wait for season two cuz i was in America a month ago and saw an episode of it so im all confused... But it was worth it cuz i went to newport beach n stuff so it was fuN!
Can u just play the eps thru windows media player or sumthin simple?
Can u just play the eps thru windows media player or sumthin simple?
routemarker
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dramatically reduces the risk of spoilers (esp reality shows). getting clean versions of the shows without commercials or on air graphics (expt NBC shows they have tons of popups)Merethrond said:BitTorrent is the best in my opinion. I don't know why people download television shows in advance though
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OH, I am so jealous of yougo_swans said:
!Yes, Windows Media Player should play the files finego_swans said:
.Reducing the risk of spoilers is a fair point, that is the only reason I am downloading The O.C. Season Tworoutemarker said:
. I would rather use my usage on other stuff if I could avoid it though.No, have a read of this site if you have never used BitTorrent before. It should answer all of your questionsgo_swans said:
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crazyhomo
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bittorrent cannot be 'closed down'. it doesn't work that wayAnnegelic said:
you need a bittorrent client (i suggest abc)
and if you're looking for tv shows, the best place to go is www.tvtorrents.tv. they had a fuckup recently, so many of the older episodes aint up anymore, but they are still the best for getting the latest releases on time. if you can't find what you're after on that site, try google. for example 'alias torrent' or 'oc torrent'
also you may need xvid installed if you haven't already in order to view the shows. if you still have problems viewing the downloaded files, then try nimo
and to answer that guy's question about why download tv shows in advance. firstly, you get them months earlier. secondly, there are no ads. finally, and most importantly for me, i can watch them whenever i please, and don't have to revolve my life around a tv schedule. conclusion: i very rarely watch tv anymore, even though i do watch an incredibly large number of tv shows (oh, dvds help too)
crazyhomo
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answer: yes, but not from tvtorrents. as the name suggests, you will only get tv shows from that site. try www.torrentspy.com, www.torrentreactor.net or www.lokitorrent.com. you will most definitely be able to find 'new' games on those sites. old games are a completely different matter. bittorrent is the best choice for anything new, very fast, reliable speeds. older files are harder to find, and will be slower. bittorrent is always the first place i check for something, but i don't always expect to find what i'm after. again, googling 'world of warcraft torrent' can always work if you cannot find something on the sites mentioned above
= Jennifer =
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it wasnt bittorrent it was suprnova which uses bittorrentAnnegelic said:
mizz_smee
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yeah and i think alot of sites temporarily closed= Jennifer = said:
because they were using suprnova i a way
but all is fine now
and bittorrent is so easy to use and is heaps quick
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www.btefnet.net is another good one for TV shows.
New Simpsons and Family Guy's in 2005, should be awesome.
New Simpsons and Family Guy's in 2005, should be awesome.
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As "= Jennifer =" said it was actually www.suprnova.org that was shutdown, which was the biggest site on the Internet that listed ".torrent files" (it was an equivalent site to the others that crazyhomo mentioned earlier). I am aware of one mirror that is still up though. I don't know if I can give you the link on this site though because some other sites don't allow it. I gave you the link to www.suprnova.org because it no longer lists illegal filesAnnegelic said:
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I suggest Azureus (I won't give you the link because I am not sure if it is allowed on this forum) but you can easily find the site by searching on Googlecrazyhomo said:
.OK, sure you get them months earlier but I can deal with the wait, there are always other shows to keep me busy. Ads aren't such a big deal either, although I would of course rather not have them. You can tape the shows and watch them whenever you feel like it to solve your last problem. The main reason I am against it is that you only get to watch it on a little computer screen. Anyway, everyone is different. Just for interest sake though, may I ask what connection speed and download limit you havecrazyhomo said:
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SoCal
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Yeah, that is what I don't like about BitTorrent. For instance, I missed a couple of episodes of Arrested Development so I wanted to download just those episodes which I missed but all I could find was the complete season onecrazyhomo said:
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That is not the reason. Most closed down due to legal threats and a few others closed down voluntary because they didn't want to get legal threats and a few more went down because of the increased traffic that the closure of www.suprnova.org brought to themmizz_smee said:
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crazyhomo
under pressure
i'm on a 1.5mbit adsl connection. theoreticallyi get 20gigs a month before i'm shaped to 64kbs, but in practice it usually take them awhile to shape me, so i get more like ~25gigs a monthMerethrond said:Just for interest sake though, may I ask what connection speed and download limit you have
SoCal
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Ah, that would be awesomecrazyhomo said:
.I just thought I would warn all those people who are thinking of starting to use BitTorrent that the MPAA (The Motion Picture Association of America) is now targeting the BitTorrent network. People are being sued in The United States. The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (which comes into force on January 1, 2005) will mean that Australia will be inheriting the United States' Copyright Laws and penalties that come with it
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