Boy in the Dress video

[Betty]

Missed most of the movie because I had some company over. I see there's already torrents of it though.

https://kickass.so/the-boy-in-the-dress-hdtv-x264-tastetv-ettv-t10007296.html

For those unfamiliar with torrents, you just don't download & play them. You have software gather bits & pieces of it from many users, or in bits from a single user, & your torrent software assembles it back into it's original form. So you need a torrent software like bittorent, or uTorrent. An version of uTorrent from over a couple years ago is my favorite.

Much modern software has to much useless fluff & bloat compared to some older versions. Many software creators feel everybody should have a 3ghz or higher quad processor, 16gb of RAM, & a couple terabyte sized fast or solid state drives in their computer. So little consideration is given to any efficiency, streamlining, or waste. They tend to throw everything they can in them rather than only what you really need.

It's nice to have a car that can drive through a lake like a boat, or fly through the air like a plane, that has a toilet, sink, fridge, TV, bed, & bar in back. But it's not very practical, efficient, or compact, if you just need a car to get from point A to point B. Most of us don't buy limos or RVs because they're not practical for everyday use. Software, OS, & browser designers should learn that very simple lesson someday.

[andyg0404]

Hi Betty,

I confess to being totally inept at stuff like this but I downloaded a bitorrent program and then downloaded the show from kick ass and it doesn't open, it just gave me a bunch of tabs saying it wasn't available. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I have no idea what it is.

Thanks

Andy G.

[Betty]

It wouldn't open to download, or the completed download wouldn't open? The download itself won't open until it's 100% completed. I can't say much about bitorrent because I haven't tried them in years, but remember headaches with them so stayed with an old version of utorrent.

You click on "download torrent" or the magnet link... the icon that looks like a horseshoe shaped magnet. Make sure your OS, antivirus, or firewall have permission to run the program & download the file. Those permissions should have been set automatically when you installed the program, but if you have customized some of your computer settings, they may not have automatically set properly. Some may have to shut off their antivirus only during the install of the software. Some antivirus is prudish & may try to block torrent software & activity, other antivirus just protect your computer, & let you decide what you want to do with it.

You may get a message that say's "open with" when you click on the file, then you select to open with your torrent software. In utorrent, the software starts automatically. Other software you may have to click on the software to start it running first, before you click on the file to download.

When I got the show, it showed 3 people sharing had 100% of the show, & about 1/2 dozen more that had 40-75% of the show that were sharing what bits they had of it so far. I think it took around 12-15 minutes to completely download.

Right now I'm sharing it to others at about 75kbs... a clear indication of many others who are sharing do not have 100% of it yet. Please keep your torrent program & the download online for a while after it's downloaded so you can share & others can get the show too.

BTW, it's not a real movie after all, just a TV special. It's only about 1hr long.

Be sure to install peerblock so the BBC & others can't track your downloading or sharing habits. But you are far less likely to ever get into trouble for downloading media freely available off the air, cable, or satellite. They primarily like to go after people sharing popular new copyrighted music, & movies. So they won't be looking for who's downloading this, A Christmas Story, an episode of I Dream of Jeanie, or your favorite old classical Bach album.

[Betty]

From the link I provided, you want the file at the top of the page. If you scroll down you'll see other stuff, including a link to another version available. It only has 1 seeder, so you don't want that one as long as the version above has more seeders.

I'm using an older utorrent build 3.1.3 because it works better than the rest & flawlessly. Your security will be provided by your antivirus, firewall, & common sense, not the version of your torrent software. Like, don't download rar, zip, & exe files unless you know exactly what you're getting & what you're doing. Video files are almost never in wmv, qt, & mov formats anymore so are almost always infected, unless you're downloading a real old file (some of my YCDTOTV episodes & very old porn are in .wma, .mov, or .rm).

Video will almost always be in h264 versions of mp4, mkv, flv, or avi. Some files from asia to save on bandwidth & space may be in RM or rmvb formats. Files that end in .dvx or .divx are fake. Real DIVX files end in .avi. If you try to play a file or stream, & you get a message to download or install special codex or a player to get it to play, don't do it! HTML5, flash, & VLC player is all you need to play almost anything legitimate out there. But there are a few live webcams that still need Java to run, that I can live without. Over 1 year with  no Java & it's security risks on any computer at home, & I'm doing fine (Java is not javascript & is totally unrelated).

It may all sound dangerous, but all the torrent risks are out in the open & obvious, so getting a torrent is usually safer than surfing the web. You can get infected visiting a site with no warning or signs to indicate there might be a problem until after you caught something nasty. Common sense will tell you that a file ending in .rar, .zip, or .exe is not a real video or music file.

A good torrent lnk site also has a link to comments about the file. The comments will tell you the quality of the file or if it's safe. I downloaded lots of exe files anyway because I like free software, or some of the ones I like are not available anymore. But out of the thousands of torrents I've downloaded over the years I've never caught anything. Twice ever my antivirus refused to allow a download that it said was bad many years ago, when I was desperately trying to find a very rare file (I accidentally didn't notice it was a rar file). Also, last year a video offered a URL to download a codec to play a video, so I deleted the video.

[Betty]

5 out of 10 people currently downloading this file are using uTorrent 3.4.2 (I guess I'm one of the few happier with the old free 3.1.3 or know were to find it), 1 is using VUSE, 3 are using bitorrent, & 1 is using an odd Chinese torrent client. I find that it's typical for people there to be using utorrent the most.

The complaints about old utorrent versions are that it has no special features. Features? I don't need any stupid features. Just easily & simply download or share the damn file for Christ sake & I'll be happy. I can never understand why software developers feel the need to throw everything but the kitchen sink into their software, with all sorts of fancy or bright flashy things. And I don't want my interface to look like a children's Romper Room coloring book, or a telephone either.

I don't need it to convert files to other formats, there's other free software that does it better. I don't need it to protect me from malware, because their protection is almost useless. I have my own firewall & antivirus that do it better. I don't need it to play the files, I already have a better player. Torrent software should be designed to just get the torrents fast & easy. We don't need it to do 10 other things half-assed instead. Just make it do what it was designed to well & forget the fluff, glitter, & garbage we don't need.

[andyg0404]

Thanks Betty, I think I already brought stuff onto my computer that's not great, I'm running Avast now to clean it up and I think I'll just wait until the show is available through normal channels. I've always been leery of torrents and I see I'm not technically savvy enough to do this without endangering my computer.

Andy G.

[Betty]

It was on the normal channels, just not available outside the UK except through underground streams. You might have to wait till next Christmas before it airs again... if it ever does. Believe me there's a lot of UK programming that never gets here unless you go underground to get it.

Let me guess. You downloaded torrent software other than from the site of the company who actually makes the software. Or when you installed it, you clicked on default or regular install, so it installed adware or toolbars too. Just go to control panel, programs, & just delete the programs you didn't want. The free new versions of utorrent has ads. You want the old versions or the pay version to get rid of ad support. But why pay when the old versions are just as good or better than the pay version?

I'm using uTorrent 3.1.3 Build 27498, from June 26, 2012 & it works excellent in XP, vista, W7, W8, & W8.1.

Yeah, I know I just implied that it's best to get the software from the creator's website, but for the old version you want to go here, http://www.oldapps.com/utorrent.php and here, http://www.oldapps.com/utorrent.php?old_utorrent=7871

Pay very close attention to the install when you install this or any software. More often than not it will ask you to install a toolbar or browser helper you don't really need. Those apps pay to be there so you get the software free. But they are no good or can even be very bad. So decline installing anything but just the software you wanted. Be careful, the wording may make it seem like you are just approving of the software you wanted. Read it very carefully, it's worded to fool you into agreeing to install crap ware. If you use the regular & default install, it might install all the crap automatically too. Whenever it's an option, always choose custom install, & carefully read what you select. They're worded to even fool the best used car salesman to trick you into clicking & installing stuff you don't want.

It's free software. To get something or a lot for free it should be worth your time to be cautious, & read carefully so you know what you're clicking for.

I consider torrents & most good torrent software to be much safer than surfing the web. But torrents should not be confused with other p2p fileshare systems out there like frostwire, emule, & edonkey. There are no peer comments, ratings, & control on those types of systems, so are much more risky.

[andyg0404]

Hi Betty,

I was pretty careful in the downloads, always doing the custom and declining the dreck. The biggest problem for me was I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea about the magnet but once you pointed me to that I clicked on it and it appears that I now have the show. It's currently seeding, something I had to Google to find out what it meant. I'm going to watch the show, assuming it lets me, but I think I'm going to uninstall the torrent stuff afterwards as it makes me uneasy. Thanks for all your help and technical know how.

Andy G.

[andyg0404]

Hi Betty,

Just watched it and it was charming.

Thanks for all your help.

Andy G.

[samantha1]

i have just finished watching it and it was brilliant and hiliouslies .