Anyone know a good link to Penn State Torrent?

I downloaded this game off a torrent file a few months back. It took me probably 25 minutes to find it one day. It's out there....buried deep within the bowels of the interweb.
 
I downloaded this game off a torrent file a few months back. It took me probably 25 minutes to find it one day. It's out there....buried deep within the bowels of the interweb.


It can be a dark and dangerous place. May have to put my trojan armour on and venture in.
 
I found quite a few games from this year on torrentz.com. It is a database that searches all torrent sites. I found the first 9 games from last year but after the loss to NW they stopped posting. Would be nice to have NW OSU and Minny. Thanks for the Orange Bowl.
 
Why not just call it a link then?


A torrent is a downloadable file seeded by others online that have previously downloaded it(basically hangs in the dirty, mangy interwebz for anyone to access for download).

It is not a link, per se, it is a file that can be downloaded as long as there is a seeder.
 
I used that site a ton(ten yard torrents). It is great if the game you are after has the seeders. Follow the rules though. They will kick you off pretty quickly. I am still a member but I watched a ton of new users get kicked fast. I don't use it much anymore because ESPN 360 has pretty much every game you could imagine. If your provider doesn't have it there are supposed to be loopholes but I am not that smart.
 
A torrent is a downloadable file seeded by others online that have previously downloaded it(basically hangs in the dirty, mangy interwebz for anyone to access for download).

It is not a link, per se, it is a file that can be downloaded as long as there is a seeder.


OK, now I'm officially, LOST!!!! :eek:
 
OK, now I'm officially, LOST!!!! :eek:

I'll try to explain it better.

It's best to first talk about why you would use a torrent. The reason you do this is normally because the file you are looking to get is a large file - normally a ripped video, an entire album collection of an artist, etc... A torrent allows the user to download pieces of the files you want (that music or that video) from MULTIPLE people. It's called a distributed system. You get different pieces of the file from different people, so if the download you want is big, you will get the file much much faster than if you were downloading it from one source.

An example would be, if you were downloading a file from Microsoft and they went offline (not likely), you wouldn't have a backup to get it, and the speed you would get would be depend on how fast Microsoft could get it to you. On the other hand if you wanted that same file and 5000 people had it, you could get different pieces of that file simultaneously and if one person went offline, it wouldn't matter because you would have 4999 others to continue grabbing pieces from.

With that in mind, the torrent itself is a file (just like a picture, mp3, etc...) however instead of its function being that of containing an image or sound, it's sole purpose is to keep track of the little pieces you have sent/received.

Or the long and short of it - a torrent lets you get big files quickly by downloading pieces of it really fast from other people all across the Internet, who in turn, are also downloading/uploading pieces of it simultaneously... it's like Napster back in the day.
 
I'll try to explain it better.

It's best to first talk about why you would use a torrent. The reason you do this is normally because the file you are looking to get is a large file - normally a ripped video, an entire album collection of an artist, etc... A torrent allows the user to download pieces of the files you want (that music or that video) from MULTIPLE people. It's called a distributed system. You get different pieces of the file from different people, so if the download you want is big, you will get the file much much faster than if you were downloading it from one source.

An example would be, if you were downloading a file from Microsoft and they went offline (not likely), you wouldn't have a backup to get it, and the speed you would get would be depend on how fast Microsoft could get it to you. On the other hand if you wanted that same file and 5000 people had it, you could get different pieces of that file simultaneously and if one person went offline, it wouldn't matter because you would have 4999 others to continue grabbing pieces from.

With that in mind, the torrent itself is a file (just like a picture, mp3, etc...) however instead of its function being that of containing an image or sound, it's sole purpose is to keep track of the little pieces you have sent/received.

Or the long and short of it - a torrent lets you get big files quickly by downloading pieces of it really fast from other people all across the Internet, who in turn, are also downloading/uploading pieces of it simultaneously... it's like Napster back in the day.


Thanks for the explanation. But one question. Would it be equivalent or take the same amount of time just to download the entire file instead of looking/surfing around for the multiple torrents? What about the wasted time that is spent lurking around for all the separate smaller files?

Or, is it that once you have one piece(torrent), it automatically finds the other components?
 
Thanks for the explanation. But one question. Would it be equivalent or take the same amount of time just to download the entire file instead of looking/surfing around for the multiple torrents? What about the wasted time that is spent lurking around for all the separate smaller files?

Or, is it that once you have one piece(torrent), it automatically finds the other components?

The single torrent file does all the work for you.
 

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