re fakes
Dawnie, do you know about forums / link sites that can help you avoid fakes?
like sharereactor or filenexus for ed2k, or
FastTrack's P2P Movies or
FastTrack Central for Kazaa/Grokster/iMesh.
here's a small but growing FTC page of fakes to avoid:
Fake Movie List (some probs with damn bravenet host, so might not be visible in Opera)
Most times now, I don't d/l a movie until I'm sure it's verified on a site I know.
If the site doesn't have a verified file for the movie I'm interested in, then I search, d/l a small piece, stop, then play the piece in VirtualDub to check if it's for real.