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torrent download discussions not allowed on forums?

ethionethion Member UncommonPosts: 2,888
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Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....

 

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Ethion

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  • JeowanJeowan Member Posts: 79

    Torrent, superly easy way to get a virus/trojan etc.. my guess is that this site doesn't want to be held responsible for that liability.

     

    not saying it's a bad idea, just answering your question with my opinion. :)

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  • kal08kal08 Member Posts: 90
    Originally posted by ethion


    Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....
     

     

    Torrent is great. True. But if someone puts a virus/malware/spyware or just a fake file ? Who will people blame? 

    Cryptic is going the safe way: download from us, we cant control what other people do with files not hosted by us or our partners.

    Would you do any different?

  • ethionethion Member UncommonPosts: 2,888
    Originally posted by kal08

    Originally posted by ethion


    Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....
     

     

    Torrent is great. True. But if someone puts a virus/malware/spyware or just a fake file ? Who will people blame? 

    Cryptic is going the safe way: download from us, we cant control what other people do with files not hosted by us or our partners.

    Would you do any different?

     

    cryptic could always put the torrent up.... However in this case the files being shared are not executables but the hogg files.  So the chance of a virus is pretty slim.  I'm guessing the patcher checks the files when figuring out what it needs to patch.

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    Ethion

  • DevalonDevalon Member UncommonPosts: 496
    Originally posted by kal08

    Originally posted by ethion


    Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....
     

     

    Torrent is great. True. But if someone puts a virus/malware/spyware or just a fake file ? Who will people blame? 

    Cryptic is going the safe way: download from us, we cant control what other people do with files not hosted by us or our partners.

    Would you do any different?

     

    I can understand asking to stop discussion of torrent on their forums for liability reason. I don't understand. Them demanding people to take down the torrents. =/

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  • ethionethion Member UncommonPosts: 2,888

    Nobody would even care about things like torrents if the patcher worked....

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    Ethion

  • choujiofkonochoujiofkono Member Posts: 852

    Torrents are a fantastic way to download files. 

    They aren't any more dangerous than any other method of transferring files, if you know what you're doing. 

    Just got to make sure you have all your ducks in a row.

    Antivirus: Avast!

    Firewall: Comodo

    Firewall assist: PeerGuardian2

    Isolator: Sandboxie

    Antispy; Spybot Search and Destroy

    Cleaner/optimiser: CrapCleaner

    These are all the free ones I can think of off the top of my head. 

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  • fervorfervor Member Posts: 145

    Seriously, I don't give a crap about viruses, trojans, etc.  I can handle all that.  There are a bazillion torrents out there that are distributing files without any problems.  The gaming population is savvy enough to figure out whether a torrent is legit or not.

    I do care about Cryptic torturing me with their crappy patching process and forcing me to waste hours babysitting their patching...and still failing.

  • choujiofkonochoujiofkono Member Posts: 852

    I've used both and just prefer Avast! cause it seems to catch bugs faster than AVG.  I've good things from both though so I'm not knocking AVG at all...

    Here's a AVG vs. Avast! review for you to browse if you're curious :

    http://www.hwdot.com/avast-home-or-avg-free-antivirus-whichs-better-to-protect-windows-xp-vista/

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  • Protoman1Protoman1 Member UncommonPosts: 36

    There was a torrent running with the pigg files downloaded already, but cryptic asked the seeder to take it down and he did.

    “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
    -Plato

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