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.
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