How did you learn to fileshare?

[100%]

I have a feeling no one learnt this from school.

I heard about it in newspapers, tv
looked up kazaa
found this forum
learnt tricks
and the rest is history

thank you media

[roflol12]

i sort of just found it myself and went from their

[peat moss]

I use to visit Warez sites looking for goodies found the fosi bear and went from there .

[DefX]

My friends are self-proclaimed pirates and i learned from them

[peat moss]

My friends are self-proclaimed pirates and i learned from them



The best kind ! :D

[Freqel]

I remember seeing Napster on the news and that's when I started

[gustafo]

was at university and saw few friends doing "somethin". all the rest is history...

[Barbarossa]

Heard about Napster from work colleagues, took it from there

[Damnatory]

Used Morpheus and Napster back in the day and learned quite a bit. Upgraded to Kazaa then K-lite and found this forum. I then realized I opened a whole lot of new gates.

[Barbarossa]

Used Morpheus and Napster back in the day and learned quite a bit. Upgraded to Kazaa then K-lite and found this forum. I then realized I opened a whole lot of new gates.

:lol:

You mean "ports". they're called "ports" :P

[Sneakydave]

I was just wondering round the internet as you do and i found limewire

few years later i was doing the same and found torrentspy

bit later i was doing the same and found filesharingtalk and thus private trackers :)

[backlash]

It all started with Napster. Found out about it from media and friends. When that was shut down I went to Morpheus -> kazaa -> kazaa lite -> emule -> newsgroups. I could've gone straight to newsgroups had I known about its leetness. ;)

[eCh]

it started with bbs then the internet come and it just got better and better :)
but , yea i found out about it via friends.

[Skiz]

I have a feeling no one learnt this from school.

I heard about it in newspapers, tv
looked up kazaa
found this forum
learnt tricks
and the rest is history

thank you media

Ditto, the whole thing. :)

[tDB/SCI]

Learned from friends in the begining.

Used lots of different sites to become accustomed.

Still learning and love it

[Damnatory]

Used Morpheus and Napster back in the day and learned quite a bit. Upgraded to Kazaa then K-lite and found this forum. I then realized I opened a whole lot of new gates.

:lol:

You mean "ports". they're called "ports" :P

I suppose you're right. :lol:

[mildthrill]

Learned about Napster in College, moved to Morpheus, Kazaa, Soulseek (of which I'm still an avid user), and then while trying to download some giant file from some dude p2p stylie, he (a software-pirate yoda of sorts) messaged me and taught the ways of torrents.

Then like a week ago, while trying to find a list of leaked music, I learned there was such a thing as private torrents! Still learning and exploring, which has just led me here.

[tut123408]

I found out it while I was at my neighbors house, he was using napster.

[Panther]

friends using kazaa at school, digged it and used it for a long time, then found out about torrents at work and use it alot, always learning more and trying to get into better sites

[General2k]

Self-tought Sharer

[Kulli]

Originally since 9/11/2001, at that time my cousin Ice was
here visiting me and so he was showing me how Audiogalaxy
was working :-)

[tdoar]

I belive i was blessed with this ability at birth.
Uncanny isnt it?

[covertmeat]

My cousins showed me napster and then later audiogalaxy
later in schoo I heard of kazaa (from friends not the teachers)
then dc and finaly torrent

I use both dc and torrents now

[straightjacket]

Where I live, people are not particularly technology-proficient, so I learned through various sites and some discussion forums.

The Internet teaches me many things. Thatz wai im smrt.

[Curlz31]

Web ftw. Specialist forums are excellent for these things. I refuse to believe some people learned from their mom.

[Sickfit]

After the fall of Napster was publicized, I started with Morpheus and other crappy p2p apps.

[kiosk]

It was all trial and error from what I recall. A case of downloading the client and jumping feet first into it. Used every way possible except WinMX.

[andreqm]

I learned how to fileshare with the cops, ;P j/k

[shlomok]

Started of downloading from warez sites...man that was slow :) then found audiogalaxy..then got broadband then found torrents...
Took about 4 years ..

[ikdedinges]

i read a lot on forums and sites,
when i'm in school :P

[honeyb]

i learnt from trial and error, alot of blood sweat and tears lol and google

[100%]

My friends are self-proclaimed pirates and i learned from them

At what stage can one self proclaim yourself as a pirate? :ermm:


was at university and saw few friends doing "somethin". all the rest is history...

giving wedgies? :huh:


I belive i was blessed with this ability at birth.
Uncanny isnt it?

:lol:


Web ftw. Specialist forums are excellent for these things. I refuse to believe some people learned from their mom.

I meant "your mom" :P


I learned how to fileshare with the cops, ;P j/k

best place to learn anything; drugs, stealing, murder etc

[NA_Magus]

Self-taught. Plus I've helped many ignorant teenagers thinking Kazaa and Limewire is all kickass nowadays think otherwise.

[lisa82]

My girlfriend told me about it.

[mattnmarley]

Everyone at school was using this new program called "Napster" I took it from there.

[kello]

my first step to filesharing was thru my friend, i was 13 years. iv learned napster

[phoen|x]

Am i actually the only one who learnt it from Ramzee? Now that man is a true h4xx0r-1337 :)

[petra1210]

ive found something on sites and forums and im still learning i think ;)

[StriderZ]

Forums!

[mr. nails]

when i moved here to austin my room mate mentioned it, but didn't think nothing of it. then one of his pot smokin' budz came over and we all got high and had a lan party strictly playing quake3arena. afterward he showed us how to use newsgroups. i fell in love. from there i went on to using napster, then audiogalaxy, limewire, morpheus, kazaa, morpheus (yeah, no type 0, morpheus was great then sucked ballz, then was great again, just to end up dying), kazaa then on to the beloved bittorrent. i think my bt clients are as follows in this order... bittorrent, bittornado, abc, azureus, and now utorrent.

thru the years i've had multiple conversations with ppl using p2p so i voted via several friends.

[TheFoX]

I haven't seen one post where someone says they were scammed, nor is there an option in the vote...

Quite a few years back, I decided to do a search to see what movies could be found, and located several sites that all professed to offer movies, music and other sundries, for a small fee.

Needless to say, I paid that fee, and downloaded a copy of BearShare from their FTP server.

A lesson learnt that day. I discovered almost immediately, by running another search, that such filesharing engines can be acquired freely, so I knew I'd been scammed, but it set me on the right road.

Never used Kazaa (even when I started, it had a bad rep.), and found BareShare, and ShareAZA, rather slow. Located my first torrent while doing a ShareAZA search, and discovered the speed surpassed regular gnutella speeds, so started investigating this new method of sharing.

Joined one or two dedicated torrent sites (no longer around, except FL of course), and became a torrent addict.

Truth to tell, I didn't have friends or family to advise me on how to fileshare, and had to find out the hard way. Have never looked back.

[Schab]

via internet:)

[dodgy368]

A friend told me to use kazaa which led me to here, soon as I got broadband I started using torrent sites like ET.:D

[essamgame]

The best kind ! http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/../images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[MosheB]

via google ^__^

[damned123]

i started with edonkey then went from there

[damned123]

and then a lot of trial an error

[cubkiller89]

Friends.

[bunny67]

myself its easy even my 10yr can

[mags23]

Shamong taught me!

...then her 10-year old showed me how to work my VCR.

[weenden]

first it was winmx 3.31, then kazaa then torrents could never get the hang of mirc too many things to remember and my short term memory is ....what was i talking about never mind now winmx 2.6 and emulemorph and utorrent 1.6

[trevorob]

First used kazza a couple years ago.

[donnied]

I'm usually like a year or so behind the state of the art. I caught on to Napster and then Kazaa pretty quick, but i tried a first gen gnutella client and was totally turned off to it, so didn't hit on limewire until a bit late. It was a godsend for single-song and obscure downloads. Finally figured out torrents well a year or so ago, but need to get into oink me or something for a good selection and less frustration it sounds like.

[mbucari1]

It's funny, I learn about new cracks and a good location to find them through news articles in google news.

[wonderferret]

Via IRC, I guess. Which I abandoned as soon as Napster came out.

[hassan2810]

i first used kazza for several years and then switched to torrents 3 years ago when a friend told me about it.

[mievmo]

most from a friends

[popopot]

Started with WinMX, then KaZaa, then DC++ and now BT.

[Curlz31]

Web & Trial and Error

[stumbleover]

Can anyone tell me what type of file is a NBZ in your movie downloads?
Is it a torrent ?
I also notice that there is a zipped file, do you have to download both ?

[Finn_1337]

I think you're referring to NZB not NBZ, correct? I think you ought to post your question in the appropriate forum. This thread is for 'how did you learn to fileshare'. good luck.;)

So, I first learned to file share by hearing about Kazaa through a friend. I only dabbled a little because I found too many corrupted files and viruses. Then a few years later a gaming buddy showed me how to use utorrent and that was it, I'm hooked! :naughty:

[stumbleover]

where do i post questions for NBZ ?

[Liran3331]

my freind tolod me about that

[SIGMA-ZERO]

Trough Dvd4arab Its A Forum

[ziggyjuarez]

A friend installed kazaa without me knowing and i self tought my way from there.Then a friend installed kazaa lite,then i found this forum,Which lead me to bitorrent (never got into newsgroups).
bitorrent>kazaa lite>kazaa

[TYPE R]

friend

[selector]

My wifes brother told me how to. And he is a nerd :D
regards selector

[Vogel]

I learned it myself.

I just wanted to buy a music track that I couldn't find in a department store,

so I searched the Internet for information.

Started with Emule and now I'm using BT :yup:


Greets,
Vogel

[pesser]

when me and my bro first got our broadband connection (cant member wot speed it was) we knew that there were ways of getting films of the net we just didnt how so on the tinternet we researched for days on end nothing but then we stuck gold. & from then its been happy days

[Fulanito]

Friends :D

[b33st]

Pretty much just figured things out for my self. Over the years have used all the popular tools....IRC, napster, Morpheus, Kazaa. For the past few years Torrents have been my tool of choice...

[redMonster]

I have learnt mainly from 'a' forum. And from the web, of course.

[DoctorX]

Foums

[GhettoPlayer]

me too...via forums n friends

[filli]

I started in on irc talking with friends where I learnt about dcc, moved onto to ftp and sites, back to irc, kazaa, and now torrents.

[wpsatisfide]

like pretty much everything else, on the web

[007™]

napster from family
limewire/kazaa/morpheus etc from friends
public bittorrent from friends
private bittorrent from forums
newsgroups from self
ftp from friends

[imapotato]

Just kind of fell into it, I guess. Started with Napster, dabbled on usenet. Then Scour (remember?) turned me onto video, which led to FTPs, which were replaced by Direct Connect. That reigned supreme for many years and now torrenting just makes the most sense for the majority of file sharing.

An internet search here, a link from a friend there and you're on your way.

[ceil2]

Maybe he is using gates in an abstract sense, opening gates as in, finding more free stuff?

[s8vo]

don't remember actually, started a long time ago, it evolved from something else

[Texan]

My first attempt was on Kazaa , then i tried out virtually every clients and protocols that i can lay my hand on.

[maxehhh]

Via Google ;P :D

[kirktrix]

Via web. i first use limewire for 2yrs. then use torrent just this year.. i have to learned more about torrents. so that i decided to join here.

[Slapnut]

Cross between myself and the web.

[menlyman]

First used kazza and then started BT

[shar]

Via Google

[joeyg37]

my friend told me about it a few years ago

[catalyst05]

My friend was downloading mp3 from kazaa. I learnt via him

[yoyogi4]

I fileshared whe n I was 5 yrs old