Torrents not Working?

Question

Hello,
It seems that after installing Snow Leopard, Vuze (formerly Azereus) has stopped functioning.I DO NOT USE TORRENTS FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, and I use the Vuze HD Network, which cannot download stuff anymore. Vuze also gives an error while opening torrent files. In fact, none of my torrent clients (Vuze, Transmission or Limewire) work at all. They add the files to the download list, but don't download, despite having decent seeds. Thus I concluded that there is some problem with the OS. Please Help.
Regards,
AJ

Answer 1

I was not aware of that, as I've never actually heard of Vuze. In that case, downloading via Vuze sounds like it would be safe. However, many other P2P programs, like Limewire, do not have such controls.
Limewire is a different thing altogether. Many files can be mislabelled and yes you are crazy to use limewire.
The protocols used in Bittorrent are not specific for Vuze they are for all torrent clients.
Downloading from a trusted source is not what P2P technology was designed to do. P2P file sharing is designed to allow downloading from any average Joe who has the file on his hard drive.
P2P was designed to allow any sharing of any files trusted or not. Bittorrent is a technology that is way more advanced than the early sharing protocols and has been adopted by many legit sources. I still think you have a misconception of the meaning of peer to peer. Other p2p apps became legit the most famous being napster.
The technology was never risky or illegal how users chose to use it was a different story.
Most torrent files come from a tracker website. So if you went to a site that specialises in Music from bands that release their material under the Creative Commons License. They would release their material with a torrent file. Users then comment on that release. You can be sure that this is safe and if something was bogus then the feedback against that release would be reflected in the user comments.
However, I would still stand by that statement except when you are using P2P software to download from a trusted source (which seems to be contrary to the design of P2P,
You are missing the point. P2P was designed to share data thats all. In the same way an email can send an attachment. That attachment could be an illegal copy of an mp3 or a legit word document with the latest company shareholders report. Are you saying email was mis designed ?
Most people who are using P2P software, though, probably don't understand the concept of a "trusted source.
I would wager that 99% of torrent users know exactly what they are doing you have to be a bit savvy in order to configure your network to run bittorrent in the first place. I also wager many people however dont understand the concept of a trusted source or how else it so many pc's get viruses, and many people get scammed via phishing websites.