arstechnica.com— TorrentSpy breaks down and implements a hash-based filtering system for copyrighted content called FileRights.
Jun 25, 2007View in Crawl 4
This will get dugg down, but how is a site respecting copyrights "breaking down". I realize everyone here wants everything for free, but soon everyone will have to realize that all their shouting about DRM is a bit of a joke, because the only reason it's not liked is that it stops you from "stealing" it--not from enjoying it.Now, prepare for a load of posts about how downloading copyrighted works isn't stealing because it's not a criminal offense, etc, and so forth. Let the sugar coating begin.
Whoa there buddy. If we've learned one thing from this thing call technology, it's that having a monopoly on something is NOT good. Digg needs competition just like everything. If shoutwire want to be bland, and just copy the Digg style, so be it, but we all see through it, and eventually come to Digg for the real deal. Look at shoutwire as more of an advertisement for Digg. They are basically saying "Check it, we liked what these guys were doing, so we tried to make a half assed version". Look at the amout of "Shouts" any story gets on that site though, not ever 1/4th of what a Digg story gets.Actually, you were right, f**k SHOUTWIRE.
jibbergeorgeJun 26, 2007
What's even bigger news IMO, is wtf will happen to ShoutWire, since their whole userbase comes from TorrentSpy.
bilbravoJun 26, 2007
This will get dugg down, but how is a site respecting copyrights "breaking down". I realize everyone here wants everything for free, but soon everyone will have to realize that all their shouting about DRM is a bit of a joke, because the only reason it's not liked is that it stops you from "stealing" it--not from enjoying it.Now, prepare for a load of posts about how downloading copyrighted works isn't stealing because it's not a criminal offense, etc, and so forth. Let the sugar coating begin.
somasynthJun 26, 2007
Survival of the fittest, this is just thinning out the herd. Btjunkie baby!
schmidtopolisJun 26, 2007
Whoa there buddy. If we've learned one thing from this thing call technology, it's that having a monopoly on something is NOT good. Digg needs competition just like everything. If shoutwire want to be bland, and just copy the Digg style, so be it, but we all see through it, and eventually come to Digg for the real deal. Look at shoutwire as more of an advertisement for Digg. They are basically saying "Check it, we liked what these guys were doing, so we tried to make a half assed version". Look at the amout of "Shouts" any story gets on that site though, not ever 1/4th of what a Digg story gets.Actually, you were right, f**k SHOUTWIRE.
shadow250Jun 26, 2007
good thing The Pirate Bay will never go down. Besides, mininova is way better then TorrentSpy anyways....
celkinJun 26, 2007
And good 'ol boys were downloading Windows and WINE, singin' "This'll be the day my computer dies, this'll be the day my computer dies..."
random19Jun 26, 2007
Exactly. Was that supposed to be a point against Scrapetorrent?