Christine3449

I would like to back up what Hobo has said and, as a parent myself of two grown up boys, add a couple of cautions of my own.

First, LW does have an adult filter which excludes adult orientated material from your search but it cannot filter out files that have been deliberately given false names. Unfortunately, for us, the P2P community is awash with files that have been deliberately mis-named.

An example of this is a young lady, like yourself, tried to recently download a blockbuster movie, she spent days downloading what she thought was this movie only to find out it was a porno film. She wrote to this forum thundering in self-righteous anger (which most of us laughed at).

I later found out that this lady was the victim of a scam site, she had bought a two year membership enabling her to unlimited downloads, all she really got was a URL link to LW Basic and nothing else. I advised her to try and get her money back.

This brings me to the question: when you installed LW on your PC what were you hoping to get?

The reason I ask this because LW is not really suitable for anyone under 16, not that the software is bad, but you (or your children) may come across some very strange things, as an adult you can deal but children may have an adverse reaction.

Remember that the P2P community consist of thousands of individual PCs and their owners, it is up to that individual what he shares with the rest of us. Because there is no central authority, no central server where downloads come from, you are at the whim of whatever an individual (no matter how strange) may want to share. Also remember, the internet can be dangerous but P2P can bring those dangers that much closer.

Saying all that, P2P-ing can be a lot of fun for someone who has their wits about them, and I would recommend it for anyone keen to explore and search out hidden knowledge. However, it is not suitable for prudes, people with closed minds, the naïve or unsuspecting and certainly not suitable for those under 16.



UK Bob