Please explain ..what is gnutella?
what are the different file types?
what is bittorrent?
and what are the bad things to look out for?
thanks...I'm new to all of this

Hopefully this will fill in some points you're looking for: http://edrikor.dyndns.org/pwp/wiki/r...utellaForUsers

Perhaps you should have posted in the Gnutella Discussion section.
Spam, porn, files that don't match up to what file size they should be for any type of file. These things have been discussed many times on the forum but perhaps in scatterings of threads. Search the forum for the key words of: spam, spammers, t3, riaa, porn, THIS, Quality of Content on the Network, Fake movies & why

I'll leave bittorrent up to others to explain.

Thank you for your reply...I'll post in the correct areas. On another note, I'm one of those people who "PAID" for a two year membership to limewire...$24.95....that's why I want to ask questions about bitorrent

Then I suppose you saw this: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28751
If possible cancel your transaction thru your card company. Sorry to hear your issue - it's just so easy to get caught! LW has a free version so try it before you decide on anything. Bittorrent is to my knowledge best for downlding movies but you can only downld as much as you upld. It's also quite good from what I've heard.