Macs & torrents?

[Interstella5555]

Prove that he's illegally downloading them...


Anyway, if your ISP is like mine, it will restrict DL speeds for certain times of the day. I get a maximum of 5KB/s up until 12am when they release the chains and allow the full 40Mb potential, up until 10am

If he's using torrents to download a season of a tv show, he's illegally downloading it since no company releases torrents of their shows legitimately. I'm not making a judgement call here, I'm simply stating that if it's a broadcast tv show, there's no legal way to download them using torrents.

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Since there are no viruses for Mac OS X in public circulation at this time, it is safe to look at "pirated" porn, one should stay away from pirated applications though, as they can contain other kinds of malware.

Sorry, didn't mean to make the implication that you would get a virus from the torrent on a mac, I'm assuming the OPs fears are from doing this on a PC, likely getting a virus from one of those two options. I've My friend has also seen a fair amount of porn in a exe or similar wrapper which I guess could be changed to a DMG wrapper, but still, you're totally correct.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Sorry, didn't mean to make the implication that you would get a virus from the torrent on a mac, I'm assuming the OPs fears are from doing this on a PC, likely getting a virus from one of those two options. I've My friend has also seen a fair amount of porn in a exe or similar wrapper which I guess could be changed to a DMG wrapper, but still, you're totally correct.

Porn in .exe format? Wow, astonishing what is out there, but probably logical.
Even if they would use a DMG wrapper, it would not work, as a DMG is not really an executable, but just an image/volume one can mount, which can then contain an app (needs to executed manually) or any other data. But I guess, porn will not be distributed in such manners. But who knows?

 

[cubbie5150]

I keep flip-flopping between Transmission & uTorrent. Before Lion, I used Transmission about 90% of the time, but now on Lion, I'd say I use utorrent more: I suffer many kernal panics/system freezes (necessitating hard shutdowns by holding the power button). If I'm in the middle of a download w/ Transmission, I often wind up getting a corrupt file when it's completed (& I don't know that until DL is cmplete); whereas w/ utorrent, once I re-start & resume the DL, it checks the file first before resuming downloading. At least that's been my experience... YMMV