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Author: Bryan O'Neal
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Subject: Re: Torrent
Is no that what an open source project is? ;)
After all we assume this "movie" is perfectly legal and freely
licensed. Other wise that would be theft from those who spent their
efforts making the film. The actors, producers, etc. Sure but also the
writers, animators/special effects artists, film crew, greps, and even
those of us who own shares of the production houses / studios.

Torrent is a perfectly legitimate distributions system that is,
frankly, way cool. Piracy is not cool. The two are not the same.

Back to the original question, open the .torrent file with a
bittorrent application and it will start the download. It may take a
while but eventually (depending on your, and their, bandwidth) you
will have the full movie. There are a number of applications that will
compress and burn the movies for you but let us cross that bridge once
you have the movie.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Harris <> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be great if you could torrent labor so you wouldn't have to pay
> for it?
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Jim March wrote:
>
> Yeah, what you have is the "pointer" to all the bits of the file.  Note the
> size of the .torrent file - WAY too small to be the actual movie...most of
> which are 700megs.
>
> Once you get the movie, it'll generally be a .mpeg or .avi or one of a few
> other video formats.  Once in a while it'll be a .RAR archive, in which case
> in most Linux distros you're OK - open the archive, double-click on the
> lowest-numbered file inside, it will pack 'em all into the actual video
> format file.
>
> Next, why burn 'em to DVD?  Play 'em right there on your computer if you
> want...
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jordan Aberle <>
> wrote:
>>
>> A .torrent is just a script file to tell bittorrent where to download
>> the file from.   It sounds like you need to read a bit how torrents
>> work.
>>
>> -Jordan
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Eric - A <> wrote:
>> > it's a *.torrent and it's 28kb and I can't play it from the desktop
>> >
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>> > Eric - A
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>> > A fully legal freely licensed movie of course ;)
>> > The first few questions are what is the format of said movie, what is
>> > the file size, and can you play it on your desktop?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Eric - A <> wrote:
>> >> I downloaded a movie torrent, now how do I burn it to a DVD so I can
>> >> watch it?
>> >>
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>> >> Eric - A
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