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BitTorrent For Dummies 1st Edition

by Susannah Gardner (Author), Kris Krug (Author)
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Share your home movies or download new software

Find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business

There's certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks. This book not only shows you how to acquire BitTorrent, but also how to use it without picking up worms, viruses, and lawsuits.

Discover how to
* Select, download, and install a BitTorrent client
* Manage and store files you download
* Choose software for making movies and audio files
* Understand the legal risks of file sharing
* Trim business costs with BitTorrent
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  1. ISBN-10
    076459981X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0764599811
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    For Dummies
  5. Publication date
    October 14, 2005
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.44 x 0.75 x 9.2 inches
  8. Print length
    336 pages
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Share your home movies or download new software

Find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business

There's certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks. This book not only shows you how to acquire BitTorrent, but also how to use it without picking up worms, viruses, and lawsuits.

Discover how to

  • Select, download, and install a BitTorrent client
  • Manage and store files you download
  • Choose software for making movies and audio files
  • Understand the legal risks of file sharing
  • Trim business costs with BitTorrent

About the Author

Susannah Gardner is the creative director of Hop Studios, a Web design company specializing in custom publishing solutions, and the author of Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies. She has also worked for The Los Angeles Times Web site and taught online journalism for the University of Southern California.

Kris Krug is a writer, designer, photographer, and Web aficionado based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 1st edition (October 14, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 076459981X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764599811
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 0.75 x 9.2 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  1. Susannah Gardner

    Susannah Gardner

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    Susannah Gardner is the co-founder and creative director of Hop Studios Internet Consultants, a Web design company specializing in custom Web solutions for content publishers.

    Susannah is also a freelance writer and author; her latest book is "Blogging For Dummies, 4th Edition." She is the author of 'Buzz Marketing With Blogs for Dummies,' "BitTorrent for Dummies," and co-author of 'Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Dummies,' from Wiley Publishing, and 'Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004,' also from Wiley Publishing.

    From 1997 to 2003, Susannah was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School for Communication, where she taught in the School of Journalism. Her classes in online publishing took students from zero to Web site in one semester.

    Prior to running Hop Studios, Susannah worked in the Online Journalism and Communication Program at the University of Southern California, writing curriculum, teaching, and conducting research at the intersection of technology and journalism. She was a senior editor of the Online Journalism Review, still the media industry's only Internet-focused journalism publication. Susannah also spent four years at The Los Angeles Times, one of six editors responsible for launching that newspaper's Web site. During her time at LATimes.com, she established the site's multimedia lab, which produced ground-breaking Web audio, video and animation. She also launched and edited MetaHollywood, an online-only publication that covered new Hollywood technology and was LATimes.com's single largest revenue source in 1998.

    Susannah earned bachelor's degrees in Print Journalism and American literature at USC.

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  2. Kris Krug

    Kris Krug

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    Vancouver-based author, photographer & technologist has written 2 books: Bittorent for Dummies & Killer Photos With Your iPhone.

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dennis
5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I needed.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2015
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Taught me a lot.
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NDHF
3.0 out of 5 stars Gives you the basics, but a bit digressive
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2013
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This book provides a good overview of BitTorrent technology: its history, its wide applications, how it can be abused, and how to use it to distribute your own work. The step-by-step guide to using the technology to make and receive files is made as easy as possible.

However, the book devotes two whole chapters to the creation of audio and video files, these sections have nothing at all to do with BitTorrent and will be skipped by most people. BitTorrent for Dummies begins with a short section of "assumptions", like assuming the reader has enough hard drive space. One of those assumptions should have been that the reader has audio or video files ready to share.

Lastly, the book takes a pro-copyright stance, which is good, and an early illustration shows a illegal copy of a movie on The Pirate Bay as something you shouldn't do on BitTorrent. Later, the book cites The Pirate Bay as an example of a legitimate BitTorrent tracker. The anti-copyright stance of The Pirate Bay's creators is well-known, and I find the book inconsistent on this part.

Good for the basics, but then again, a few hour's research online would provide the same information.
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John Matlock
5.0 out of 5 stars Complete Users Manual With Additional Information
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2005
Napster was a program/company/concept that excited millions of people before it blew up because of violating copyright laws. Other organizations such as KaZaA came in to do the same thing but were careful to not violate the copyright laws that got Napster. The critical thing was that Napster facilitated illegal copying by providing users with technical support. Huh? you might well be saying, but this comes from Chapter 6 on Understanding BitTorrent and the Law.

BitTorrent is a freeware package (but the developer will accept donations) that facilitates peer to peer file sharing. It is perfectly legal to use for the copying of non-copyrighted material. This book, like most of the 'For Dummies' books is a complete introduction to using the software and includes a lot of extra comments on sites that have BitTorrent materials for downloading, on searching for additional content, on using BitTorrent for distribution of materials inside large organizations.

Like with most of their books, it is well written, covers the material well, and is quite complete.
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Roger
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2015
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God information - Thans
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W Boudville
4.0 out of 5 stars easy to use client
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2006
Gardner describes the basic idea behind BitTorrent. How someone downloading runs a BitTorrent client that can in turn upload portions of a file to another client. This is the distinguishing characteristic of the network, as realised by Bram Cohen.

You can see from the book that the client is easy to obtain from various websites, and easy to set up and run. The etiquette is that if you download a file, that you should keep your client connected to the net. So that it can answer quests from others. Which is probably how you were able to quickly get the file in the first place.

While the book advises that you should not download copyrighted material like movies, one has to wonder how many readers will actually desist.
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jonathan
1.0 out of 5 stars Freeloader Heaven
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2013
Now the publishers are suing people for using what they've learned to rip them off.

What were they thinking?

How stupid can you get?

[...]
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Andre Jung
3.0 out of 5 stars Evaluation "BitTorrent for Dummies"
Reviewed in France on May 3, 2010
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La partie la plus intéressante du livre est a mon sens trop courte. Comment installer BitTorrent, trouver du contenu (torrent files) sur le net et faire en sorte de réussir son premier son premier téléchargement ... le tout est couvert sur les 2 ~ 3 premiers chapîtres. Le reste du livre est un peu limite hors sujet (comment produire du contenu que d'autres utilisateurs pourrait télécharger ??)

Ceci étant, le format "for dummies" est bien respecté, tout utilisateur "lambda" peut ouvrir le livre à la première page et lire le livre en évitant de se perdre dans un jargon incompréhensible
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