P2P Differences

Last weekend I decided to catch up on all of buffy that I'd missed this season. Luckily I found tvtorrents.com. It's a cool page that provides links to bittorrent downloads of tv shows. It works well enough that I was able to get around 9 episodes in two days. Last night, someone pointed me at the Digital Archive Project, a site that provides links to people sharing out old TV shows. Things like MST3K, SCTV, and Invader Zim. But specificly, shows that aren't available any other way (ie on DVD). I discovered they have some episodes of The State (though they haven't added any in ages and ages). Now, they use a filesharing system called eDonkey and it's been one of the more difficult programs I've used. It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X, but at least for OS X there is a command line client and that's about it. So far though, I can't see what makes it better than any other P2P software. I also have been spoiled by the whole 'just click here and download' aspect of bittorrent.