Graboid Content
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Great site but you need to know how it workes...read on
I've been a member for around 10 years, spending quite a few as a moderator on the site until work pressures meant not having the time to continue. Graboid is NOT a P2P site. It acts like a search engine and you download direct from the server, not other users' pcs. Therefore, what Graboid does is legal. What you choose to do...well, I'll say no more. Most content is uploaded by newsgroups and therefore, quality of content is variable but by and large good. Graboid itself DOES NOT host the content and therefore has no control over quality, other than the ability of users to give a file a thumbs up/down. You can then choose whether to d/l the file or not. I'm in the UK and pay $19.99/mth (about £12) for unlimited d/l bandwidth which I see as excellent value, especially as I get to see many TV shows the day after they're aired in the US. Be aware that DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) take down orders are becoming much more commonplace, meaning files are often only available for a very short period of time before they are removed. The link remains however, and this means Graboid can still find the file, even though it's "broken", meaning bandwidth can be used up on a duff file d/l. Graboid has NO control over this. Liken it to a Google search that brings up results which, when you click on the link, inform you that the webpage is no longer available. So, there are some shortcomings but they're not of Graboid's making. There are many, many more files which d/l incredibly fast and are of superb quality. Well worth the subscription I pay, in my view. As I'm not d/l files from other peoples computers, there's nearly no risk of a virus (never had one in 10 years). Also, tracking my IP address is unlikely as I'm not u/l any files to anybody else. Finally, why the name Graboid? Not sure why, unless it's because the guys who "made" Graboid were fans of the movie Tremors but a Graboid is the underground "worm" monster in the movie. Now you know :-)