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P2P: intro to IRC,TORRENTS |
sinesi
Joined: Jun 17, 2005
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I'm new to these terms..plz tell what its all about?
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gojnik064
Joined: Sep 18, 2003
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From: Subotica, Serbia
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Irc means internet relay chat. P2P point to point
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sinesi
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So how is IRC different from normal chats? Ain't P2P-peer to peer?
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dude_se
Joined: Dec 16, 2004
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From: Evesham, UK
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yep its peer to peer
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gojnik064
Joined: Sep 18, 2003
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From: Subotica, Serbia
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Normal chats? What r u reffering to? Yes, its peer to peer, my mistake.
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sinesi
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I mean how is IRC useful? What exactly does it do? What is 'relayed' in it?
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Gigs
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IRC is a way to chat to people. It IS normal chat. (If you're referring to MSN, y!, aim, etc they're called messenger programs and are a different way to chat)
How you use iRC is upto you, but you log in to a network, ie dalnet, undernet, efnet (ick), starnet etc, then join a room (you can get a channel listing in most modern irc programs) and start chatting with other like minded or completely wrong individuals.
It's kinda like making a thread here then discussing it realtime.
If you're looking at downloading via irc then theres a few ways: people can send you files, and you can also use bots (things that automatically respond to messages) to send you files.
If you're on a PC, Mirc or Pirch aren't bad, if you're on a Mac, hmm who knows, ircle still around? 
Just download an IRC client (like mirc or pirch, or ircle etc) and then try it out.
Given the subject is about torrents, I take it you're trying to download torrents from IRC?
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Melik
Joined: Jan 24, 2004
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we had some torrent topics here... all of them were deleted in a violent way... 
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zMastaa
Joined: Jan 16, 2004
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torrents are totally different from irc...irc is a chat client which ppl have 'hidden' the feature of file sharing ... p2p
irc looks scary but it really isnt
torrents are based on many other p2p programs but is very flexible e.g. u cud not use kazzaa to connect to limewire ... were as torrents programs can all connect to each other meaning bittorrent...azureus...bittornado can all connect to each other...meaning faster downloads
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nickorooster
Joined: Sep 28, 2004
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If anyone wants a quick guide to downloading using IRC, I've written one ages ago for someone, but take it as a rough guide, written for one specific person, so its just to get the gist of it.
http://www.wootish.com/files/irc.txt
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sinesi
Joined: Jun 17, 2005
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Any security risks ?piracy,virus,trojans?
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mkush
Joined: Nov 15, 2003
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Yeh can be , but generally irc is where the scum of the internet hang out. It's the oldschool way of downloading. My advice would be stay away from irc lol it not that easy to get wat ur looking for anyway.
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zMastaa
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well...anything to do with the internet is a risk hehe
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Cornholio_666
Joined: Nov 30, 2004
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From: London
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there has been a few things i got off p2p which were named something which they weren't. a few of them had been viruses and trojans. lucky i had pc-cillin doing a real-time scan. so far no viruses or trojans off of bit torrent
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mkush
Joined: Nov 15, 2003
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Lol,Yeh but irc is still considered the 'underground' of the net and is full of virus and other crap. And well irc is crap for most tings anyway, its a dying protocol.
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