The Weekend Herald was taken through the process of downloading the recently released movie Miami Vice by a New Zealand “pirate” this week.
All we needed was a broadband internet connection – and a lot of time.
It began by downloading a software “client” that connected us to a so-called peer-to-peer sharing network. There were lots to choose from, the most popular being those that used BitTorrent system.
It took 10 minutes to download and five minutes to install it.
We then went to a popular file-sharing search engine called mininova.org. We searched for Miami Vice. It was up on another computer ready to be “shared” with whoever wanted it.
To much attention being paid to NZ these days i’m getting worried we are going to be the next target.
Obviously there still living in the dark ages?? 2 days my ass.. TWO HOURS for dvd5.. Biatch =)
or someone with a slow broadband as they needed alot of time
the article looks like it was written from the perspective of someone who has never even turned a computer on