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[Sawell]

pfff rapidshare is quicker lol.

I use both, but rapidshare is never quicker from my experience, just tends to have more of the less-common requirements (templates, books etc). With newsgroups it's one file, stick it in the application and done. With rapidshare you're relying on links not being dead, the content being relevant, the user getting it right, there's no kind of reliability with retention and it's generally a lot more deceptive.

 

[MentaL]

you aint looking in the right place .

 

[MiloFoxburr]

you aint looking in the right place .

And that be rapidshare's issue. At least worst comes to worst with Usenet you can access the groups directly and download the files. No hassle of finding a rapidshare link forum/site and hoping it stays up

 

[MentaL]

only one way to settle this, battle to the death.

 

[Sean]

SSL, your ISP can't see the contents of encypted data exchange. They're only allowed to view unencrypted customer traffic data with a warrent regardless, but it just adds an extra piece of mind.

But for me it's also good because I can do it at work and all they see is high bw usage, rather than me downloading illegal software and media which would get me instantly fired.

It's more a peace of mind thing, usenet/ftp/http downloads will always be relatively safe so long as p2p mediums are used by the general public. Then again I still wouldn't rely too heavily on http downloading such as rapidshare, they're still one entity and have logs of all the **** you download.

It's certainly safer but i'm sure it wouldn't take long to put you viewing a report on Newzbin for 5GB and then 5GB of traffic coming down from Giganews together.

Certainly safer than torrents though!

 

[Sawell]

It's certainly safer but i'm sure it wouldn't take long to put you viewing a report on Newzbin for 5GB and then 5GB of traffic coming down from Giganews together.

Certainly safer than torrents though!

True, although there's nothing to prove what I'm downloading isn't perfectly legal. Which is what I would say :P

 

[JealY]

Fight to the death!