A Short Introduction To Torrents

18 Apr

First of all: what exactly is a torrent? To put it in as simple terms as possible, a torrent file contains information. This information directs your torrent client towards certain people who have certain files and allows your torrent client to download from these people and store a copy of the files in question on your hard drive.

So from your perspective, a torrent file gives your torrent client (which can be anything, but we’re focusing on Ares Galaxy here) the necessary directions to start downloading a file that you want.

Where To Get These Torrents

Torrents are available all over the internet. Plenty of organizations have made giant collections of books, videos, lectures, music, and other digital information legally available via their own torrent trackers and of course there are also plenty of illegal trackers who proudly display less than kosher content for download.

Obviously, we can’t spell out to you where exactly you should go, because there are so many of them. Nonetheless, none of the most famous legal trackers should be hard to find if you know how to use Google (neither are the illegal ones to be frank) – hint: try adding the word ‘torrent’ to something you’re looking for on Google.

Once you’re browsing a collection of torrents, all you have to do is find one that contains some files you want.

How To Use Torrents

If you have a torrent file which has interesting files you’d like to have, you might be wondering what to do next. If you download the torrent file, you’ll discover it’s only a few kilobytes big and doesn’t really do anything by itself.

What you need to do is open the file with Ares Download. You can do this either by dragging the torrent file into your Ares Galaxy window, or by right-clicking on it and selecting ‘Open With…’. In the following dialog box, choose Ares Galaxy (you may have to browse for it), check the box next to ‘Always use…’ and you’re good to go!

And that’s it! Ares Free Download will now connect to the tracker and then to the people who are sharing the files and it will download them to your hard drive automatically. Have fun torrenting!

How To Download Torrents With Ares Galaxy

18 Apr

The native Ares network is great for downloading a few songs or videos on the go, especially considering the integrated search feature. But nowadays, everyone uses torrents to download the big files. Indeed, torrents have become ubiquitous on the internet and you’ll be lost without a good torrent client.

There’s no shortage of torrent clients online. Apart from the big three (uTorrent, Vuze and Deluge), there are hundreds of other clients all vying for your attention. Unfortunately, many people seem to forget that Ares Download has evolved far beyond its original capabilities and can play the part of torrent client extremely well nowadays.

Most among you have probably downloaded torrents before, and I suppose you can stop reading this right now if you already know how to use them. However, there are still a great many people for whom torrents are something new and unknown. If you feel as if I’m speaking directly to you now, then read on and discover how to use Ares Free Download to get your hands on those sweet torrents!

Having Their Cake And Eating It Too: P2P Users Buy 30% More Music According To Survey

18 Apr

It seems obvious that people who share music and movies online spend less money on those things, but recent research actually yields surprisingly counterintuitive results. While some individuals certainly purchase less creative content legally, file sharing in general seems to cause more of this content to be bought on the market.

The research in question was published earlier this month on the Huffington Post and Ars Technica and is of particular interest to users of Ares Free Download whose file sharing experience is slightly different from that of ‘pure’ torrenters.

Sharing Before And After Ares Galaxy

People have been sharing music and movies with their friends and family for many decades. This leads to the somewhat surprising insight that the majority of songs and movies in the collections of non-file sharers is actually of a less than legal nature.

Most of us don’t even think twice about borrowing a DVD from a friend, lending a CD to a family member or making a mix tape for a significant other. Yet these are all examples of file sharing. According to the research the average American has a song collection of 1,300 songs, of which 582 (about 45 percent) were purchased according to the letter of the law.

Ares Download – along with a plethora of other file sharing software – takes the principle of sharing content with friends and family and applies it to an even greater circle of friends and family: the entire internet. Now, people can share their collection with anyone in the world and borrow from anyone as well.

It seems obvious that this should lead to decreased legal purchasing of content, but the research tells us that this is only half true. The average American file sharer has almost 2.000 songs in their collection. A smaller proportion (38 percent) is legal, but in absolute numbers, this translates to a higher absolute amount of legally-bought songs (760).

In other words: the collections of file sharers have a larger proportion of non-legal content in them, but because these people have more than 50% songs in total, they also buy about 30% more music.

Ares Galaxy And The Discovery Principle

18 Apr

So what might be the cause of this? Well, the researchers point to the fact that file sharing makes the discovery of new content much easier than before. Because of this, file sharers learn about many new artists, directors, genres, etc. than they otherwise would have known about and end up spending more money on their entertainment than non-file sharers do (who are stuck with their own collection and that of their friends).

Ares Free Download is particularly useful for people who want to discover new things because our Ares free download offers, among other things, a live chat feature, an integrated search module and free internet radio with tens of thousands of stations.

All of the above can be used to facilitate discovery of new things and broaden your horizons. So use Ares Download, download to your heart’s content, seek out new content producers and support the artists you enjoy!

Listen To Internet Radio

18 Apr

Traditional radio stations are nice, but internet radio is just so much better. The reason is that there are just so many stations available on the internet that there is bound to be one out there that caters to your most specific niche. Feel like some Caribbean party music? No problem. Want to hear the news in Tel Aviv? It’s just a mouse-click away.

The internet radio bar is located at the bottom of your screen and it’s begging you to use it. You can easily spend many hours listening to your favorite stations and discover new artists you would otherwise never have heard of!

Chat To Some Random People

Isn’t it amazing that the internet allows us to chat in real time with people from across the globe? We take it for granted now, but it really is a fantastic and very new innovation that is absolutely unique in the history of the world.

Ares Download’s built-in chat module is your direct liaison with the rest of the world. Fire it up, choose a chatroom and start talking! You might make some friends or learn something. And Ares Free Download even puts an exciting twist on traditional chatting with the ability to look at which files other chatters are sharing. Feel free to take a look at what they have and download directly from them!

Four Ways To Overcome Boredom With Ares Galaxy

18 Apr

One would think that, with the amazing innovative technologies that are being rolled out on an almost daily basis all over the world, boredom would be a thing of the past. None such luck however. In the midst of this glut of entertainment and leisure possibilities, we still find ourselves bored, alone, and strapped for something to do.

Luckily, Ares Galaxy posits the solution to this modern problem of having too much free time and not enough things to do. Have a look at these four ways you can stay busy and enjoy yourself with nothing but our Ares Free Download.

Browse The Ares Network

Just like shopping is almost as fun as using the items you’ve just bought, browsing for new things to download on Ares is almost as fun as actually consuming digital content. Look at what’s available and discover some new music or videos. No one will pressure you to download anything, but if you see something you like, remember that everything is free!

To browse the network, just type in the name of an artist, band, actor or genre you like. Check for things you don’t recognize and then do another search for these. You might discover some very interesting things this way.

Watch A Movie

Nothing is better to pass the time than a good movie. Though there are plenty of dedicated media players on the internet, why bother when Ares Download is really the only program you need?

Simply drag a video file into Ares Galaxy to have the Ares Media Player start playing it. All features you’re used to are available on Ares and as an added advantage, you can easily keep an eye on your downloads and chat communications via the tabs at the top.

Ares Galaxy As A Distribution Platform

18 Apr

The other way innovative media creators are incorporating torrents and Ares Download into their business model is by using it as a platform for distribution.

Famous author of ‘The 4-Hour Work Week”, Tim Ferris, is the best and most recent example of this. When Ferris launched his latest book, ‘The 4-Hour Chef’, he made chapters of his book and parts of the content such as recipes and videos relating to it available for free download Ares Galaxy –wise. The media storm that this generated surely made his strategy a very lucrative one.

Of course there are still other ways torrents will impact the way we consume online media, but these are two of the most promising ones. Get your own Ares Free Download right now and start discovering newly distributed content!

Legal Torrent Technology Paves The Way For Media Innovation

18 Apr

Most of us use torrent clients like Ares Galaxy and uTorrent to download movies, music, software, and much more. In this respect, torrents have become an essential part of the online experience. However, there are several ways in which the torrent protocol is now being used by companies and websites around the world to streamline their media distribution methods.

In other words: P2P in general, and torrents in particular, are becoming a staple technology for media innovators. According to the experts there are two main ways in which Ares Galaxy or Ares Download and other torrent clients can play a legitimate and central role in the evolution of media in the early 21st century.

Ares Galaxy As A Discovery Platform

What we mean by ‘discovery platform’ is an online platform that helps people find and discover new media content they would otherwise not have come into contact with. Websites can be discovery platforms, and so can forums, chatrooms, television, church, and pretty much anything that is in any way connected to communication.

With respect to torrent technology, there are two possible approaches. The two approaches are embodied by the two main contenders for the title of best torrent client: Ares Galaxy or Ares Free Download and uTorrent.

uTorrent’s approach is one of discovery through features, advertisements and other producer-led methods. Both the uTorrent website and the latest version of the uTorrent program are now offering ‘featured content’: advertisements and promotions of content, based on your previous downloading behaviour.

Ares Galaxy’s approach is one of discovery through peer-communication. Ares Galaxy allows you to communicate with other users of the program through its integrated chatroom function. In these chatrooms, people discuss and recommend media content, and bowse and download what these individuals are sharing directly.

If you think about it, this difference in approach to media is similar to the different approaches that Google and Facebook take when it comes to all online content: Google (uTorrent) organizes content and lets you discover it based on what you input in the search box while Facebook (Ares Galaxy) users get most of their recommendations through social interactions with the other members of the network.

Media innovators are using both methods to popularize their content. In uTorrent’s case it’s led by producers and in that of Ares Galaxy by consumers.

How Does Ares Download Work?

18 Apr

Before telling you how it works, we’ll tell you first how it doesn’t work.

The real world is different from the online world because, for the most part, real, tangible goods are exclusive. For example, if you have an apple, and you decide to ‘share’ it with your friend, you don’t suddenly have two apples, as would be the case on Ares Galaxy or Ares Free Download. Rather, you’d have only half an apple each. Collaborative consumption is not a ticket to material abundance (unfortunately).

However, a more durable good like a car can be ‘consumed’ many times over. Additionally, when you own a car, chances are that you’re not driving it 24/7 and it’s just standing around gathering dust for a significant part of its ‘life’.

The Sharing Economy then proscribes: share your car ‘consumption’ with someone else, and ‘consume’ something of theirs (let’s say their apartment or their video game collection) in return. In this case, both parties are better off, and the original owner didn’t lose any value, as long as the good is returned in excellent condition.

Ares Galaxy In The Real World

As we have mentioned above, collaborative consumption or sharing doesn’t transcend scarcity, and economic laws still apply. However, in so far as goods can be consumed multiple times by multiple people, like is the case with digital goods via Ares Galaxy or Ares Download, Ares concepts can, to a certain degree, be applied in the real world.

Google some of the concepts we just discussed and see if the Sharing Economy is something for you. Regardless of whether or not it really works in practice, know that Ares Galaxy has worked online for many years and will continue to provide you with free content for many more to come!

Ares Galaxy As A Model For The Offline World: The Rise Of The Sharing Economy

18 Apr

Is Ares Galaxy only possible on the internet? Or can the principle of free Ares downloads, international collaboration and altruistic sharing be applied to the real world as well?

Answering this question can fill many books, and we’ll refrain from doing that for now. We will, on the other hand, give a short outline of the ways in which the free open-source model of Ares Galaxy can become a true inspiration for the offline world – and our focus here will be on the concept of the ‘sharing economy’.

What Is The Sharing Economy And How Is It Similar To Ares Galaxy?

First of all, let’s answer the more obvious question: what is Ares Galaxy?

In short, Ares Free Download software that enables people to share digital information with one another for free. There are no strings attached and then there is never a ‘quid pro quo’. Rather, you download from others what you want and you share with others what you want. Somehow, this model works, and it leads to many terabytes of content being available for all to download via Ares.

Crucial to Ares Galaxy is the idea that ownership of and access to a digital good is not one and the same: one person who owns information can share it with others, while the original ‘owner’ is none the poorer after the new owner consumes the data.

‘The Sharing Economy’ is an attempt to put this idea into practice in the real world and has also been called ‘collaborative consumption’ and ‘the peer-to-peer economy’.