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This guide is not exactly scientific and will not
guarantee 100% accuracy but it will, in general, help you to avoid fake
files!
One of the biggest problems plaguing the edonkey network
is renamed files! People will take a file that they already have and
rename it to a popular movie that has recently come out in the theaters
but isn't yet on the edonkey network. One location where the names of fake
files are located is at the unofficial
edonkey request forum. Another good way to find out if a file is fake
is to send a message to the people who have the whole movie and ask them
if it is real! To do this, click on the plus sign next to the file name
and find a person whose bar is all black. Then, add them to your friends
list by right clicking their name and selecting 'add to friends'. Then
click on the friends tab, find their name, and send them a message!
For newer files (i.e. movies that have come out in
theaters recently) go to www.isonews.com
and do a search in the dupe check are for the name of the movie and see
whether or not the movie has been released onto the internet yet. If it
isn't listed on isonews, then I'll guarantee that the movie is not on the
edonkey network yet.
Common sense is also a good weapon against fake files. If
a movie has just recently come out, then any file that is labled a DVDrip
is definitely a fake as the dvd wont come out for a few months. They will
most likely be either two or more .mpg files which can be burned to a VCD
and watched on a standalone DVD player or it will be one or two smaller .avi
files that have been converted from the .mpg files.
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