Lost and Found :: cable and BitTorrent

Well our new upstairs neighbor decided to get cable. It didn't dawn on me that our free cable might be in jepordy. Well they guy was out and saw our hook up in the basement (I didn't set it up , it was there, I hooked up the tv for better reception and wa-la, cable tv.). We thought we lost it a year or so ago but then after we got a new TV I reconnected it and it was working agian. This time the guy took out the splitter so it gone for good this time.

So what do we do now that we are addicted to show like the family guy, Curb your Enthusiam and the like. Well even the broadcast channels have horrible reception. So until we can get Direct TV or cable or intent TV I turned my friends on the internet. I have Limewire but its hard to find TV show there. I decided to give BitTorrent another try. I choose Azureus : Java BitTorrent Client this time and along with portforwarding instructions from www.portforward.com I was able to get it working.
Azureus is very user friendly compared to the ones I tried before. Also nobody has yet to have "legel" problems using Bit Torrent. It sounds like it is harder to track and the files don't hang around very long. You don't ahve a shared folder like the others. You upload a file as you download the same file and then ou are done. Sounds odd but when you are downloading you are actually pulling the file down in parts from many, many different sources at once. Once you have some pieces other downloaders can than draw on your pieces. The more you allow to go out the faster you get yours down. And when you are done there is nobody poking around a shared folder on your PC.

So, I was able to "borrow" episode 1 of curb, episodes 1 and 2 of My name is earl and a Family guy that we had missed. Its so much faster than the other P2Ps also. The Earl show is pretty good, our kind of "funny". And hey its Jason Lee represent'n the skateboarding scene. I even had one of his boards back in the day.