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Originally Posted by WWFlybert
nearmiss,
I respectfully disagree .. whoever seeds a torrent has control of the content, and the particular name and it's MD5 hash can be published as the 'official' torrent.
I can almost guarentee 4.09m official will end up on the torrent tracking sites anyway, it's wiser to have a known good version made available, than to risk multiple copies showing up that could conceivably be "poisoned' .. though I can't imagine why anyone would poison a legal and legitimate file.
Once the 'official" torrent is up, and dozens download and seed, from that point another differrently named 4.09m won't attract use anyway.
And no matter what you download from anywhere, it's wise to run a good anti-virus scan on the archive .. btjunkie.org does have "verified by the community" numbers and comments.
I can almost guarentee also, that no matter how many mirrors you set up, I'll be lucky to pull down 100kbs, where through a torrent and sufficient seeds, I get about 300kb/s (2.4Mbits), my maximum download speed.
TD .. how big is 4.09m in a .rar or .zip file ?
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IMO = In my opinion. I've used them before, and gotten all kinds of junk in them. The bad part... it often took several days to get the file fully downloaded because people weren't seeding. Then when I spent all that time the file has some bad Pelosi in it.
I remember getting DLLs that were disguised as system dlls and corrupted the Pelosi out of my system.
So, no I would prefer not to use Torrents. Yet, if they were put up by trusted members of the Il2 community I would probably be fine with torrents.
10-01-2009, 01:33 AM
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