killzone 3 leaked on torrent site

[slowmo]

mantlepiecek said:

slowmo said:

If you download via torrent you can lose connection and resume at any point in your downloads.

Copying 41G to an external USB2 HDD doesn't take long.

I can download and browse the internet fine, perhaps you don't understand how to limit your upload and download speed in your torrent client.  The point is, this really isn't hard for anyone to do if they really wanted to.

Hmm, I forgot about the torrents. I see. Its still a lot of hassle for a person to await that long to download 41 GB even on the torrents. Don't torrents work P2P? So the speed depends upon the no. of people downloading the thing at a particular time?

I am not sure though.

It depends, if the uploader is on a huge upload connection then you get it very fast.  Alternatively if lots of people are downloading off one uploader it is slow to begin but as more and more parts propogate across all the downloaders those leechers become uploaders too vastly increasing the speed.  A torrent such as the Killzone 3 one would probably be slow for the first few days then have a few weeks where you could probably pull your connections theoretically maximum (assuming you're not on a 100Mb line).  I think I answered your question but yes torrents are P2P.

The fact that they're P2P does mean though that they're not anonymous so your IP and hence yourself can be implicated as having downloaded that torrent.  A torrent that size would take me about a week to download which might be worth it if I was desperate to play the game early, but I aren't and haven't hacked my PS3 as there is nothing much I really want on the homebrew scene happening yet.

I would add that this will be on newsgroups too though which give you far better speed and privacy so shutting down torrents is pointless once it's out there.  I really don't think this will be downloaded that much though and certainly it wouldn't affect sales imo.