Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Thing #6 (Bit, bit, bit, BitTorrent!)


I am a music lover and admit, I love to share music and get music in return! With BitTorrent I have been able to "download" shared music from other users for free and have updated my iPod many times using this database! It has been controversial to the point where people think that it is pirating.  So if you want to use this website, use with caution and make sure you are sharing too!

But it is like if I buy Taylor Swift's newest CD and put it on my computer music file. And I go onto BitTorrent and download my new cd on to the website for someone else to listen to it. But at the same time, I want to download Maroon 5's newsest album and I see that one user has it and I can take bits of the album from him and all the other users who also have the album on BitTorrent!

I look it as "trading" or "borrowing" a friends' cd or even video (they have those on there too! BitTorrent tutorial

I can see how a teacher can use this program if there are National Geographic videos on there and I want to use it in my classroom or even as simple as a song that I want to use to demonstrate something in my class for a lesson plan.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM

    Wow, Rocky, this BitTorrent seems pretty cool. I must say that I am greatly behind the times when it comes to music and pretty boring about technology, but I like the idea of this website and that I could possibly borrow from others downloads and even share my own. I am getting more in touch with technology, but maybe I just stick with the necessities because I am cheap and I wasn't always good with working computers, but I am coming out of my shell and emerging into an average computer person!

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  2. Dr. JFebruary 13, 2011 at 1:53 PM

    Anything you do that helps someone else avoid buying the album or the single is a violation of copyright. If they get it free from you, why should they pay for it at all?
    Imagine someone looking at your project, then downloading all your files and turning them in under their name. They didn't have to "pay" their "work" for it.

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