Downloading torrents...can over-use lead to trouble or detection? [Archive]

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Charlski

Oct 5, 2009, 04:58 PM

will i come under scrutiny if i use downloading services..i.e torrents, Azureus, uTorrent etc...will i get busted? ofcourse i havent tried it yet.....

ucfgrad93

Oct 5, 2009, 05:13 PM

ofcourse i havent tried it yet.....

No, of course you haven't. We believe you.;)

DiamondMac

Oct 5, 2009, 05:13 PM

Well, I highly doubt it but there are other questions

What ISP do you have?
What exactly are you downloading?
How much are you downloading?

Macjames

Oct 5, 2009, 05:48 PM

will i come under scrutiny if i use downloading services..i.e torrents, Azureus, uTorrent etc...will i get busted? ofcourse i havent tried it yet.....

In the UK, my ISP would email or ring you up to tell you to cut down on your traffic (fair usage policy and all that) if you ignore the three warnings they then would privately throttle your connection on an evening to some horribly slow speed making downloading useless. They know what your doing but they never mention it because everyone is doing it, i bet the employee ringing you does it.

Dagless

Oct 5, 2009, 05:53 PM

Even legal torrents get throttled too. So no matter what you're doing, unless you do nothing, you're gonna get throttled :p.

Zombie Acorn

Oct 5, 2009, 06:17 PM

I get good downs all the time on torrents. I download game beta's via torrent most of the time because they are much faster than direct download.

Charlski

Oct 6, 2009, 09:41 AM

thank you all for your responses!

i am having trouble downloading photoshop..i have just bought a new mac with osx snow leopard...does this effect the availabilty of cs4 extended? i had it for pc and that was fine...is it rare for snow leopard or am i just being a mug! lol

thanks!

IBradMac

Oct 6, 2009, 09:44 AM

And this is where you stop getting help. Right here.

thank you all for your responses!
i just want some musical content...a few albums..!

i am having trouble downloading photoshop..i have just bought a new mac with osx snow leopard...does this effect the availabilty of cs4 extended? i had it for pc and that was fine...is it rare for snow leopard or am i just being a mug! lol

thanks!

Charlski

Oct 6, 2009, 10:05 AM

Thanks for that

robbieduncan

Oct 6, 2009, 10:09 AM

MasterDev

Oct 6, 2009, 10:11 AM

A simple step to not getting caught...

STOP PIRATING ASSHATS. :D

Charlski

Oct 6, 2009, 10:12 AM

ok i wont, i dont want any trouble..is it still available as a 30 day trial? id prefer to try before i buy..

yellow

Oct 6, 2009, 10:38 AM

http://guides.macrumors.com/Help:Forum_Rules#Things_Not_to_Do

We're not big fans of pirating software here.

Thanks.