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- isaiasv, on 04/21/2009, -6/+35***** the SKMM !!
- BrownieMix, on 04/22/2009, -4/+23The government should not be regulating the Internet.
- Kanten, on 04/22/2009, -2/+20Malaysia hates everything (see their list of banned films), is this really a surprise?
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -4/+20The site was called LEECHERS Lair! Why seed at al? They apparently want you to leech.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -3/+18No! i had a 3 to 1 ratio there :(
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -6/+20The thing that pisses me off the most is that the people who are passing this kind of legislation have no idea what they're ruling against, it's like Reefer Madness all over again.
- SwitchBoardCo, on 04/22/2009, -1/+13time to call in derek zoolander for a runway assasination
- CalcProgrammer1, on 04/22/2009, -3/+13We should declare this the United Tubes of The Internet, its own country ruled by its own government. Who says a country has to be physical? The Internet has enough community and culture to be viable as its own entity, and the users know what's right for it. We need to declare independence!
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -2/+12what are they doing?
Oh...I see. You are cool because you are on a private tracker, and you THINK that that keeps authorities away. Gotcha. - nepidae, on 04/22/2009, -1/+10A torrent snob? That's like bragging that you drink bud lite and not the beast.
- yano, on 04/21/2009, -6/+14What's with everyone shutting down trackers and disabling access to certain BitTorrent sites? It's like all of a sudden BitTorrent went from being the most used protocol on the Internet to something you should be ashamed of for using.
- dvsbastard, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7So... when are we getting server farms hosted on rigs out in international waters?!
- linagee, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7Until pirates or governments with submarines/battleships attack? I think you'd be better off with something mobile in land/air/water. Change location every week or so.
- overridemymind, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7contrary to popular belief, Caps lock is NOT cruise control for cool.
- Exhibitionist, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7The Malaysian people don't hate everything, but their ***** Islamist government seems to hate most things.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7they still demanded a 1:1
- ARTLUKM, on 04/22/2009, -1/+6I am glad you live in your parents' basement and have no living expenses, but some people have families to feed, ya know.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -4/+9Isn't greed awesome.. when it's the RIAA/MPAA being greedy it's legal.. when it's everyone else it's illegal..
- latrosicarius, on 04/21/2009, -6/+11lame
- uberduger, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4Dugg because, intentional or not, your comment made me think of Madagascar / Pandemic II.
SHUT.
DOWN.
EVERYTHING. - linagee, on 04/22/2009, -2/+6How can you declare something when you don't own it's foundation? You don't own the underlying switching fabric or internet interconnects. Come back to me when you've set up some sort of neighbor-net.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -4/+8just because it is most used does not mean that 99% of itt is not used for illegal purposes.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3If we could all just WiFi the nethood using P2P protocol.
- Dr3w, on 04/22/2009, -2/+5Isn't Shinjiru the evil webhosting provider in Resident Evil?
- cloudberries, on 04/22/2009, -2/+510 years ago I would have had to put a lot of effort into piracy. These days, it's as easy as searching on Google.
Piracy isn't "ok", piracy is "easy". There's a big difference, and content manufacturers need to adjust massively to keep up with this idea (or sue everyone into the ground and piss off the entire world) - mr5150, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4so long as Port 80 exists everything and anything will be possible.
- SCXtyler, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3I had a 43:1 ratio there :(... and i know of a few other users with several terabytes uploaded with ratios of several thousand...
at least there is some good news from Merlin in the comments on TF:
http://torrentfreak.com/government-shuts-down-bitt ... - ARTLUKM, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4I think music can make money without CD or song sales. I agree with you on that. Movie piracy is a different issue though.... there is no equivalent live act. Going to a theater and paying $10 for a bag of popcorn doesn't count.
I think movie and software piracy are pretty big problems. Everything cannot be advertising supported if there is nothing left to sell!
And btw, my NYT comment was a bit different. Saying a bloated company must change to match realities is not quite the same as the piracy issue. It's sort of like saying a grocery store should stop charging for food because they keep getting robbed. - ARTLUKM, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Not sure that will work for a $250 million motion picture
- Reaperc, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3I have been to Malaysia. They probably shut down the site because they were losing money on the streets selling that pirated stuff. Because that was going on almost everywhere over there.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3I definitely don't think it's okay. I KNOW what I'm doing is wrong. I don't try to ***** myself into thinking it's right. It's free stuff that's easy to get.
- uberduger, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3All they need to do is set up an official tracker, with all their movies on it, and charge you a few dollars a month. Then everyone's happy. But those morons will keep fighting this until it crushes them - which will be a very sad day indeed, because while I thoroughly support independently-produced music, films need the huge budgets or the CGI/crazy-stuff will be gone forever...
- uberduger, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3@ All of you saying that 'big budget =/= good film':
--I want you to think of Iron Man. Great film, huh?
--Now think of Iron Man on half the budget. Robert Downey Jr has been replaced with Rob Schneider. Instead of a sequence where Stark blows up a terrorist camp and flies off, he simply sneaks out the back while a couple of guys shoot at him.
--Now think of Iron Man on a shoestring / independent budget. Suddenly you have flight sequences that were filmed using fishing wire and a modified GI Joe doll. You have the cast of Days Of Our Lives playing the lead roles. There are no terrorists, criminals, Obadiah, or fights. There is only a paper-thin love story between Stark and Potts.
--Enjoy. - jabela, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3Chill, the Malaysian Government just wants to be seen to be doing something... They make a few headlines and then quietly let people carry on downloading, buying pirate DVDs etc. The other thing is that banning a film in Malaysia doesn't mean people won't get a hold of it from their friendly pirates who hilariously provide a far better 'returns' service than the genuine DVDs. In Singapore on the other hand you can expect people to burst into your house for downloading illegal films...
- delynnium, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Piracy earns a lot of money in Malaysia because our ***** government censors everything worth watching. People have to turn elsewhere for and the pirates realise this.
- linagee, on 04/22/2009, -3/+4Higher bandwidth content always kills lower bandwidth content. The book (high bandwidth) killed the campfire story (low bandwidth). You can mass produce books and get your story out there a lot faster. Even without the campfire person's consent. The CD-R killed the audio tape/retail CD. The MP3 killed the CD. MPEG-4 killed all previous versions of video media because of it's high compression. The only "problem" out there is that we are still spoon fed lower versions and formats because the license holders (and RIAA/MPAA/etc) are still able to milk these revenue streams. If you really let loose creativity and engineers, we'd have VR videogames/etc commonplace by now. Something that's so high bandwidth, that it would not make sense to distribute the entire thing over the internet. (Maybe a multi-disk bluray game. Or something completely new.)
Try copying a DVD verbally over the telephone using verbal speak encoded using MIME. It just wouldn't be worth it. Higher bandwidth available to average users means higher bandwidth content is needed in order to keep your material unpirated. (If the average pirater gets bored after 1 year of downloading your thing and if the average bandwidth available these days is 1 megabyte/sec, that means you need to produce content that uses 31TB.)
I propose if we have some sort of new media that uses 31TB (or maybe half that or 1/4 that) and is distributed via some printed/inked/lasered/diamonded/etc medium, it would not be worth it to pirate using today's internet speeds. Perhaps some sort of VR ultraporn? - QuackMasterDan, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1TorrentLeech's servers are located in Malaysia, I hope they don't get shut down as they are one of my favorite trackers and I've got a solid 8.0 ratio there. Anyone think the Swedish courts dealing a guilty verdict to The Pirate Bay crew is emboldening other governments to crack down on BitTorrent?
Another point for Malaysia is its desire to remain in good standing with the World Trade Organization, it is a hotbed for physical media piracy as well, perhaps they want to improve their international image. - delynnium, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I'm sad to be a Malaysian.
- delynnium, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Me too :(
- ABadPerson, on 04/22/2009, -2/+3Remember the Renaissance when artist just did stuff for free and people just donated money to them?
- Lane, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1nah man, in fact they demanded the bandwidth be reallocated to SeedersSanctuary.com
- linagee, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2So then a way needs to be found to increase the movie to take up 50GB while at the same time discouraging bitrate reduction to redistribute. (transcode) Maybe a choose your own adventure movie with hours and hours of footage?
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Pirates!
- computershack, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2Riiight.
- linagee, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1People copy it. (Copy/upload. Same difference.) Which is exactly my point for a solution. Increase file sizes with no easy way to shrink them or transcode them and you will have more pirate-proof content.
- s0nicfreak, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2But you can say that about ANY internet protocol. Should http servers start shutting down?
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1They will jail you for that!
And don't insult the Thai King either! Yep Jail for bloging it... - Elranzer, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2If we went back to those times, every movie would be Juno and there would be no The Dark Knight or Watchmen.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2I am seeding 10 different versions of free software ATM including Damn Small Linux so what is it you were saying?
- c010rb1indusa, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2It's ***** Malaysia, would anyone suspect otherwise?
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