How To Get New TV Episodes for Free Before They are Shown in UK

Every wondered how people sell these TV episodes and movies on eBay months before they are shown in the UK?

Read on and I will explain.

BACKGROUND

The method is a form of file sharing called Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent is file sharing, someone who has the file (i.e. the episode you want) is sharing it. Bit Torrent in a way is like other file sharing programs, Kazza or Ares or Morpheus, but bit torrent is better when sharing large files. The file is cut into small pieces and these pieces can be downloaded from different sharers and then put together to allow you to receive the full file. There is also less risk of spyware and viruses.


STEP 1 DOWNLOAD TORRENT MANAGER

You will need to download a bit torrent manger first such as BitTorrent which is available at


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Click the link and then click download now to download it

Once downloaded, open and follow the instructions to install BitTorrent.


STEP 2 DOWNLOAD TORRENTS

Now you need files known as Torrents which basically control the file that you want to download. These are very small files taking a few seconds to download. They are then opened and used by BitTorrent to manage the download of the much larger file.

There are various torrent sites on the internet that provide TV show torrents. Here are links to some:


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(click the TV show you want)

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(on right hand side there is a menu. Go down to series and pick the show you want)

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(click the TV show you want from the list)

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(click the TV show from the list on the page)


When you have gone to one of these sites and clicked on the show you want you will be given a list of Torrents available. Typically it will say ? ????? s03e06 ? this means ???? season 3 and episode 6 where ??? is the show you want.

The other columns that may be present are:

Size: tells you the size of the complete download (not the torrent)
Files: Number of Files in the Download
S: Meaning Seeders- This is the number of people sharing the file
D: Meaning Downloaders sometimes know as leachers or peers. These are people trying to download the file.

Obviously you want a lot of people sharing and as few as possible downloading.

Click on the torrent then on the next page click download now. The torrent is only small and downloads fast. Save the file and once it is downloaded click on open. This will open the file using BitTorrent.


STEP 3 DOWNLOADING

Now BitTorrent will download the file. You can check how long is left, what speed the download is at etc.. I would recommend leaving your computer on overnight as the file downloads if you do not have a particularly fast internet connection.


STEP 4 AFTER DOWNLOADING

STEP 4.1 ? UNZIPPING (ONLY APPLICABLE IF FILE IS DOWNLOAD IS COMPRESSED)

Once downloaded the file may need to be unzipped which can be done using winzip or winrar. By zipped I mean that the file has been compressed to share and now needs to be decompressed. This is not always necessary as sometimes the file is left uncompressed for sharing. To check if the file needs to be unzip, right click the file and go to properties. If the name ends in .zip or .rar it is compressed and needs to be decompressed when downloaded. If you do not have software to unzip here is a link


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click download now and once downloaded install. Then double click file and this program will unzip it.

Some downloads may need a password to unzip them. To get the password go back to the site where you got the torrent from and usually the password will be posted on the same page as that where you downloaded the password from.

STEP 4.2 - VIEWING THE DOWNLOAD

Finally to view some video files you may need extra codecs to be installed on your computer. This is just so that the program being used to view the video can understand the format the video is in. These are freely available on internet as codecs. A good codec pack is available free at


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This is why when you go to buy some episodes of eBay the description will say these are only viewable on PCs. This is because the format that the files are in can not be understood by a normal DVD player.

You can convert the files and write them to DVDs so that they can be viewed on a DVD player but I won?t cover that here. If you really want to know, go to google and look for ? converting dvd from avi guide?. You will get all the information there.


THAT?S IT

Any one that is selling new TV episodes is getting them from this method. The show is shown in the US, months before the UK. The episode is then copied to a computer and the file is then shared by Bit Torrent. Sellers on eBay will download the episodes for free, put them on a DVD and sell them making profit.

Pretty simple.

But why should you have to pay when they don't. That's the information.

Also, you receive the episodes much quicker via this method than buying them. The people selling them on eBay have to download them the same way as I have explained, then put them on DVD and then send them to you. By this method all you have to do is download them so much faster.

Good luck.