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Old 12-07-2003, 14:45
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I noticed the post about this seems to have disappeared. Is this for legal or technical reasons? I managed to view ep.1 but no luck finding ep 2 yet. sites appear to have closed up shop.
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Old 12-07-2003, 15:12
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Check your Personal Messages!




[edit]
and these two threads:

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/73586/ds.html

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/73812/ds.html
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Old 12-07-2003, 21:58
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I'm not really sure on the whole downloading thing. I heard somewhere that it is all illegal, and I have also heard somewhere that it is legal as long as it is for home use.
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Old 12-07-2003, 22:02
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bah i think this is different with it being BB and anyway i think most of us here who have paid for the feeds are entitled to download the shows.

Anyway 5 more downloads and we can then watch it on E4
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Old 12-07-2003, 22:11
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There was a court case (no i dont have any specific ref) over the first episode of Enterprise that was captured off a wildfeed and distributed via the net. The upshot was that it wasn't considered illegal in the US to tape and share something that was broadcast unencrypted .

Ultimatly, BBUSA is funded by advertisers/sponsors whos tgt audience isn't in the UK so its not like they are losing out on revenue. (although i suppose E4 could put up a case they are a subscription service - but then agiain its not like ther are going to show the early episodes either).

Download and be damned thats what i say.
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Old 17-07-2003, 10:21
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Well, not being one for those sort of things, but if you know how to use binary newsgroups (if not - find out..!) then there's one called :

alt.binaries.tv.big-brother

which currently has all the Aussie, US ans UK BB episodes posted on it in their entireity.



Personally, I don't watch, but if you feel like it, it's there !
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Old 17-07-2003, 16:33
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How do I access alt.tv ? do I need to download something or register somewhere?
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Old 17-07-2003, 16:42
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Psycho, who is your isp? Hopefully they will provide free access for you.
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Old 17-07-2003, 20:21
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OK Iv'e found alt.binaries.tv.bigbrother newsgroup in Outlook Express, all the episodes are listed. What do I do now to view them?
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Old 17-07-2003, 20:34
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Use grabit instead... www.shemes.com/grabit (tutorials).

OE is not an option, grabit is the best thing to use imo.
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Old 17-07-2003, 21:26
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Coljj showed me how to do it the other day and i forgot to say thanks.

Thanks. Im loving it so far.
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Old 17-07-2003, 22:52
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OK, well I've got as far as downloading Grabit and tried to download some BB USA ep 5 files but I cannot play the R00 or RAR format on Real Player, Media Player or Div X. Any ideas?

P.S. what do all the different posts mean: are all the episodes in bitesize chunks?
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Old 17-07-2003, 23:25
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Psycho, www.winrar.com

install winrar then click on the .rar file and extract the main avi file.

rar, r00, r01, r02, r03 etc will all join together to form the video file.

Btw how far back can you see? I can send you the first couple of eps if you can only get as far back as 3 or 4. Better to watch from the beginning.
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Old 18-07-2003, 19:36
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Thanks Coljj. I managed to see episode 5 but 4 was corrupted. Still not quite sure how this particular technical marvel works really, eps 2,3, &4 would be handy.
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Old 20-07-2003, 00:12
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i have decided to watch it, and have followed all the very helpful advice above, but I can only go back to episode 4, is there any way I can go back to episode 1?
Thanks
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Old 20-07-2003, 00:29
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james do you have an ftp setup?
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Old 20-07-2003, 00:30
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what is an ftp?

(i aren't exactly knowledgeable with computers compared to many on digital spy)
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Old 20-07-2003, 00:33
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Go and download www.mirc.com and install.

When done type in the status box...

/server efnet.demon.co.uk

and hit connect

Then once connected, in the same box type...

/query coljj

Then say hi
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Old 20-07-2003, 02:07
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hmm RealOne player won't play it (it did once but i stopped it)
always a general error
Any ideas!?
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Old 21-07-2003, 15:45
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jamesthemonkey - I had a thread on the computer forum about DL binaries. Typhoid gave me some good advice. Check out the thread and links on there and ask again if any questions? Warning.. it took me about 4days to figure it all out. but I am blonde.
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Old 21-07-2003, 18:11
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thanks...i have managed to figure it out now, and it seems to be working fine
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Old 22-07-2003, 19:26
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Apologies for posting yet more technical queries... but well I actually have no technical knowledge lol so while I'm impressed to have got this far, I'm still stuck..

I had planned to use the newzbin site to download the episodes, so I bought credit and installed Grabit... but for the life of me I can't work out what the 'Internet News (NNTP) Server' is called and I can't seem to get Grabit to work without it..

This may well just be me being incredibly stupid, but if anyone has any way of helping me out here it would be greatly appreciated

edited for spelling... another of my weak areas heh heh
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Old 22-07-2003, 19:30
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Which newsservers are you useing HZ?
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Old 22-07-2003, 20:23
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I think it's alt.binaries.tv.big-brother
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Old 22-07-2003, 20:28
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Thats the group HZ. News server would be news.easynews.com or something like that.
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