Dawoodcock wrote:
You have to be a member and membership tends to be full. But keep trying as they drop inactive members so there are small windows of opportunity to register and persistence is the only way to get on board.
I think I was lucky there. I managed to register in my first attempt.
john_quays wrote:
I wonder if you might run into problems though; the torrent file, as I understand it, is unique to each downloader and (especially) if your friend isn't registered with Dime I'm guessing some sort of hitch will occur. You could always get him to log-in under your name and download the torrent file and torrent - that way you're doing everything by the book and there's no risk of it looking like you're trying to fudge your download stats...
That's precisely what I did. I read all those guidelines for the new, and understood only half of them. I couldn't gather whether the problem with giving the torrent file to other person was a matter of 'legality', or of running the risk of his ruining my quota in case he starts downloading things without uploading anything (I understood the quota was something related to that). He hasn't arrived to work today, so I still don't know whether he had any problem last night (he said he'd start dowloading it as soon as he arrived home).
john_quays wrote:
The easiest thing to do would be to download one of the free torrent clients, open the torrent file and leave your PC running overnight (or for a day or two). I use Azureus Vuze (
http://http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) which I find very straightforward.
Be warned though - once you get the bug, you'll be downloading more stuff than you'll ever have time to listen to...[/quote]
Thanks for the info. As I said, I had no intention to install any of these programs, because my computer at home is so slow that I'm not sure it can dowload a one-page pdf file in a reasonable time, let alone one of these big files. However, my hard drive just died last weekend, so if I cannot fix it and must buy a new one, I might be updating the computer a bit while I'm at the shop.
john_quays wrote:
Be warned though - once you get the bug, you'll be downloading more stuff than you'll ever have time to listen to...
I know. When I first bought a couple of books at Amazon I said 'Well, it's just once'. It wasn't just once. And I've seen they'got a few other Hawleythings.