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- AcePup, on 10/11/2007, -6/+135Or be at work like me right now and find this stupid firewall message when trying to go to zeropaid:
Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "Peer-to-Peer File Sharing" is filtered. - DarkStalker, on 10/11/2007, -10/+136PeerGuardian is completely useless. It does nothing but give you a false sense of security, especially when using torrents. No one needs to connect to you to see that you are on the torrent, they can just get a full list of who is sharing from the tracker itself.
Yep, it's like a condom... that broke. - rebotfc, on 10/11/2007, -8/+120"Waiting for someone to say "By not sharing at all!"
Well the guy you are waiting for is the guy you replied to, so what does that make us?
Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become. - avoidance, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11711. Don't leave a trail of your pirating aspirations by digging an article titled, "Tips on how to not get busted for file-sharing."
- soopertoll, on 10/11/2007, -3/+114You totally forgot: "Move out of the United States!"
- totorototoro, on 10/11/2007, -4/+110" * Disable the "sharing" or "uploading" features on your P2P application, if your application allows it (see below)."
Uh...lets see..if everyone does that, we'll all be "safe" :p - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+88Must have been someone using my wifi.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -18/+97@michaelfitz,
The article is titled, "Tips on how to not get busted FOR file-sharing". Notice the "for"? I made it all caps. That's for you. - Rocketbird, on 10/11/2007, -8/+76@bsiviglia9
That's a pretty crappy analogy. I can't believe you just made file sharing as equally important as feeding the entire populace of the earth. - anothernobody, on 10/11/2007, -6/+67"Disable the "sharing" or "uploading" features on your P2P application, if your application allows it"
This completely defeats the object of a community P2P system - if you're going to do this why not just abandon the system entirely, there's always going to be a risk but without uploading you're ruining it for the community that provided you with the content originally. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+60Gee golly willikers, you're neat!
- B0jangles, on 10/11/2007, -6/+60So true, move to Europe because "being a pirate is all right to be, do what you want because a pirate is free, you are a pirate"
- Havs, on 10/11/2007, -7/+54usenet
A lot of the more renowned hosts now have encrypted downloading. The only way someone would get caught is if a subpoena was sent to the usenet host, and most don't keep logs. On top of that, the majors (RIAA, MPAA) still don't go after people for downloading, they get you for uploading. Usenet doesn't require you to upload at all, just download. Granted, you'll have to fork over ~$15/month, but the benefits are tremendous. I'm able to max out my 15Mbit connection; I'm lucky to get > 8 Mbit via torrents. - synapticcleft, on 10/11/2007, -0/+44Tip 7. Live in Canada.
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -5/+46SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
- pap3rw8, on 10/11/2007, -2/+32I got a DMCA notice and had my ISP account suspended while using PG2 on maximum paranoia mode. It was from BSA and Apple for bittorrent stuff. PG does pretty much nothing.
- pipes27, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28Not dugg because they actually advised to "Disable the "sharing" or "uploading" features".
- miles32, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30You dont sound like a plant at all.
Is your username (diggfan) cleverly designed to gain my trust?
I am happy to pay for my stuff only when I can do whatever the hell i want with it.
Till then the MAFIAA can bite me.
//Ps new contest:
Its called spot the hit man. You identify RIAA plants and win a prize - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27That, combined with the "use private tracker sites" advice and you've got yourself a ban at most of them for low ratio!
- Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28Just don't download 10,000 movies and 100,000 songs and then keep them active in your Bit Torrent application. I mean, your never going to watch all the movies or listen to all the music, so why download so many.
I think some people are obsessed with downloading free content even when there isn't enough time in a lifetime to view or listen to all the content. I know a guy that downloaded the Garfield movie just because it was available online. I won't even watch Garfield when its free, let alone pay for it.
If you want to prevent getting slapped with fines or charges for piracy, simply chill out and either buy the occasional movie or CD or download stuff your actually going to listen to, give it a few days to propegate on Bit Torrent, and then remove it. But if your intending to be a server of pirated content, don't be surprised by the results. - DreKor, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26And we all thank you for the use of your wifi. We also thank you for not setting an admin password so we can remove ourselves from the dhcp tables. Please enjoy your CAD order and subsequent suit from the RIAA.
- FreddieD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22I think he means, don't download any HBO shows. This would make sense, as the premium networks have lots more to lose than the regular networks. How many people do you know pay for HBO specifically for Sopranos or Entourage? Allow those shows to be shared and they directly lose money. Although NBC may not condone broadcatching of shows like Heroes, they just have Hiro say "Nissan Versa" about 6 times per episode and they make up the lost revenue.
- anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU
- SplitZX, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24The best? Don't use Limewire, never put in your email address and never download anything from HBO.
Simple.
Trust me, I see the cease and desist orders, these are 95% of the ones we have coming in. - SteelFrog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21I love our loose, undefined laws.
- MercedRocks, on 10/11/2007, -13/+34Try a proxy or use the Torpark browser
http://www.download.com/Torpark/3000-2356_4-10586816.html - FreddieD, on 10/11/2007, -6/+26I hate to spoil your goody two shoes rant, but the "victims" of piracy are multi-million dollar executives who did their fair share of throat-cutting to get where they are now. You may say theft is theft, but to me downloading an album off of bittorrent is not the same as taking money out of the church collection plate.
I quote Richard Dreyfuss:
"So the guys who started this business all cheated somebody to get there, and now they're being cheated, perhaps, by all these crazy, geeky people all over the internet. I must say, my anguish level is not great." - whataboutdave, on 10/11/2007, -7/+26@ Merced
Torpark? I suspect there are many people living in countries with restrictive internet policies who need onion servers much more than you or I do, and for reasons more serious than torrenting a new album. - po43292, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19and all the horse-mounted police eh?
- arcooke, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Speaking of Tor, for an almost surefire way to get out of trouble for file-sharing, just install a Tor server on your computer and blame any legal issues on that. I was looking into this last night actually. Running a home proxy server makes it difficult, and a major pain in the ass for the "big guys" to bust you for anything since so many IPs are being routed through you. Tor's website even has templates for legal letters if you ever somehow get busted sharing files. (here: http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html )
Their legal FAQ says nobody using Tor has ever reported getting into trouble using the service. (source: http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en )
Q: Has anyone ever been sued for running Tor?
A: No. Further, we believe that running a Tor node, including a Tor exit node that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic, is lawful under U.S. law. - buyer687, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20Pirates are His chosen people.
- strictnein, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16So, then they busted you for uploading?? What's your point again?
- erikerikerik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16They would have to decrypt your harddrive.
true case.
FBI busted a suspect for downloading "child pornography"
the suspect "forgot" the hash/key and the FBI would have to brute force the encryption. This task would take at the time, over 200 years to finish.
the Suspect was let go because they only evidence the FBI had they couldn't prove was child-porn nor could they hold the man in custidy because he requested and has a right to a quick and expedient trial. 200years =/= speedy - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18we don't talk about that to "outsiders".
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18On Azureus, go to Options, Connection, Transport Encryption:
Click Require Encryption, set to Plain, and have only the middle box checked of the three below "Allow non-encrypted incoming connections"
This protects from the RIAA as they use a modified Shareaza client that doesn't support any sort of Bittorrent encryption scheme (or so I've heard). - dodus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Sure, website, you'll "help" me not get busted if I just follow these simple procedures, is that right. I know who you are man, the gig is up!
/what's that noise outside - bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -31/+45If you had a magical box that could, at no cost, duplicate enough loaves and fishes to feed the world -- would you use it? Would you use it even if it was illegal to do so?
- DesuKN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Another tip that is commonly overlooked: Leave the United States.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15"It doesn't matter if they see you or not, in order to sue you they need to download a certain amount from you, that's why peer guardian works."
No offense, but that's complete *****. I got one through Cox cable, then my brother got one with Comcast. Both of us were using PG at the time. Again, all they need to do is see your IP on the torrent. PG *used* to be useful, but now that they know about it, it's just to give you a false sense of security.
Don't think you're invincible just because you're using it. - gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14"3. Try to use campus DC Hubs:
The RIAA and MPAA have sued college students for using publicly-accessible file sharing networks, including systems like i2hub. However, with one particularly notable exception, the RIAA and MPAA have not targeted users downloading or uploading music over closed, college campus intranets -- in other words, students sharing with other students at the same school over the school's own network. Tracking intranet infringements is practically more difficult, though not necessarily impossible."
*****, RIAA sent a cease and desist to UT's hub two years ago. But that's because it was 1) public 2) all over face book
Having a a few users hand out passwords over aim on request (aka word of mouth) and only allowing the campus IP's fixes that. - kjizzle, on 10/11/2007, -6/+18websense blocked me too haha. enter: SSH tunnel + foxyproxy. Problem solved.
- MacParrot, on 10/11/2007, -8/+19@caintrain
Aren't you just an unpleasant piece of *****? - Dracker, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Leeching isn't the answer.
Private trackers do a good job at keeping lawsuits out. Really, someone downloading a hit movie that just came out in a massive torrent is going to attract a lot more attention from the MPAA than a private site with a limited total number of registrations - ronnienunn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13I say ***** it. Download what you want and share twice as much. Let the chips fall where they may.
- kungfujedis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10this articles advice is crap. I can tell you as the recent recepient of a violation notice from FOX, that private torrent sites do not save you. BayTSP (the guys hunting us) has accounts there too.
- Pirkel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Does anybody else have some comments on that? I'm curious if it's true.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14@Sodade - That's what things like www.v3.newzbin.com are for.
- computergod, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9@erikerikerik
Usenet has been around since before TCP, 1979 in fact. IRC didn't come around until 1988. - cheesehead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Unfortunately the situation in Canada may be shortlived. I've read three articles outlining the MPIAA lobbying being done in Ottawa to make this practice illegal. Arnold Shwartznegger also lobbied Harper over this. Given the high standings of corpratists, lobbyists, and the love of wealth and power so evident in Ottawa and BC. I expect our freedom to file share may soon be a memory
- mateo60, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9USENET is older and safer than IRC.
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