Peer to Peer File Sharing ebooks?

renbud · 05-28-2003, 12:57 PM

I realize it may be frowned upon (as well as hazardous to your hard drive), but has anybody used any of the peer to peer file sharing networks (such as Kazaa) to locate recent ebooks? I stumbled upon the first four Harry Potter books some time ago (from an extinct site), and would love to find out what else is out there. Is it worth joining?

Thanks!
Gregg

Alexander Turcic · 07-11-2003, 12:06 PM

Well, it depends on what you mean by "worth joining". Most of these ebooks are not legal and those people who offer the download most certainly break laws of copyright. From the recent developments with P2P file-sharing services like Kazaa and RIAA’s announcement to actively fight people who offer illegal downloads, I'd be careful if I was you and don't want to get into trouble.

sUnShInE · 07-11-2003, 12:53 PM

Funny. I saw this story on Reuters yesterday about German readers impatience with getting the new Harry Potter translated.

Not that we condone this kind of stuff, I can understand their frustration!

TadW · 07-11-2003, 04:02 PM

You should use Kazaa K++ instead of the original Kazza.

Quote:

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(New!) Block RIAA and other organizations from connecting, downloading and uploading to you.
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Bad IP ranges, eg. the ones from the RIAA and others, are now blocked automatically by K++ thanks to the PeerGuardian IP range file. K++ blocks all these IP ranges from ever connecting to you (both TCP and UDP), and the connections are closed immediately without them getting a single bit from you.
No-one can get a listing of ALL your files through a "Find all files from this user" command (you're still able to share, though).
Port 1214 (aka Kazaa's port) is disabled so no-one can scan your computer to see if you're using Kazaa K++.
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K-Dat (v1.2.0 Build 22)
AVI Preview (v0.21 Alpha)
Speed Up (v2.0.1)
KaZuperNodes (v1.4.0)
Kazaa resource sections based on Paul's Kazaa versions

istomtom · 07-21-2003, 11:34 PM

To be honest there really isn't much on p2p in the form of pdb files. Alot of huge pdf's. I didn't find a single pdb book on Kazaa, found a couple on eMule, and a few on Bearshare. Your best bet is binary ebook newsgroups or websites. Memoware.com / Gutenberg Project / Blackmask.com are good places for some quality reading materials.

For some good commercial books check microsoft's reader home page every friday for 3 new books for free throughout the whole summer. I found this just in time, got there the day before they were set to remove Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a book I was keenly interested in and am currently reading.

05-28-2003, 12:57 PM	#1
renbud Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 74 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: New Jersey Device: Axim X51v	Peer to Peer File Sharing ebooks? I realize it may be frowned upon (as well as hazardous to your hard drive), but has anybody used any of the peer to peer file sharing networks (such as Kazaa) to locate recent ebooks? I stumbled upon the first four Harry Potter books some time ago (from an extinct site), and would love to find out what else is out there. Is it worth joining? Thanks! Gregg

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07-11-2003, 12:06 PM	#2
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Well, it depends on what you mean by "worth joining". Most of these ebooks are not legal and those people who offer the download most certainly break laws of copyright. From the recent developments with P2P file-sharing services like Kazaa and RIAA’s announcement to actively fight people who offer illegal downloads, I'd be careful if I was you and don't want to get into trouble.

07-11-2003, 12:53 PM	#3
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	Funny. I saw this story on Reuters yesterday about German readers impatience with getting the new Harry Potter translated. Not that we condone this kind of stuff, I can understand their frustration!

07-21-2003, 11:34 PM	#5
istomtom Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 16 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: United States Device: M500	To be honest there really isn't much on p2p in the form of pdb files. Alot of huge pdf's. I didn't find a single pdb book on Kazaa, found a couple on eMule, and a few on Bearshare. Your best bet is binary ebook newsgroups or websites. Memoware.com / Gutenberg Project / Blackmask.com are good places for some quality reading materials. For some good commercial books check microsoft's reader home page every friday for 3 new books for free throughout the whole summer. I found this just in time, got there the day before they were set to remove Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a book I was keenly interested in and am currently reading.