How did you learn to fileshare?

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.

via internet:)

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

The best kind ! http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/../im...es/biggrin.gif

via google ^__^

i started with edonkey then went from there

and then a lot of trial an error

Friends.

myself its easy even my 10yr can

Shamong taught me!

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

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

First used kazza a couple years ago.

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.

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

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

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

most from a friends

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

Web & Trial and Error

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 ?

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:

where do i post questions for NBZ ?

my freind tolod me about that

Trough Dvd4arab Its A Forum

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

friend

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

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

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

Friends :D

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...

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

Foums

me too...via forums n friends

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.

like pretty much everything else, on the web

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

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.

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

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