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- ReaverKS, on 03/28/2009, -0/+41In other news, the RIAA fabricates lies and tries to scare people into submission, so far scientists have determined it to be ineffective.
- inactive, on 03/28/2009, -2/+40I'm just here to remind everyone to seed.
oh and yeah, ***** the RIAA!
edit:this might help
http://i.gizmodo.com/5187630/how-to-use-bittorrent ... - Me1000, on 03/28/2009, -0/+23***** THE RIAA/MPAA
- ChinezePanda, on 03/28/2009, -1/+23I got a notice in the mail from Cablevision that the BSA was targeting my IP for downloading supposedly Adobe Acrobat.
Now... whether I did this or not is completely irrelevant. I promptly called Cablevision and threatened them with a class action lawsuit if they ever released my confidential information ever again.
They assured me they would take care of this "misunderstanding" and everything would be fine.
We will see.
I have no problem taking down a cable company that infringes on it's customers privacy rights. - torrentfreak, on 03/28/2009, -0/+16Some good tips in the gizmodo piece, except this one
"To be safe, cap your uploads around 20 kb/s. "
If everybody does that no-one will get decent download speeds anymore. The upload limit should be relative to the max upload speed (80% or so). Also, BitTorrent uses tit-for-tat algorithms, so limiting your upload speed too much will actually slow you down. - ChinezePanda, on 03/28/2009, -0/+16My name and address.
This letter came directly from the BSA with all my information written all over it..
time stamped. dated, packet size, pc, EVERYTHING.
My firewall aint doing ***** turns out. - craftyguy, on 03/28/2009, -0/+13Do NOT use Tor for downloading torrents... It puts unecessary strain on the nodes.
- adml_shake, on 03/28/2009, -0/+11"Blocklist software such as PeerGuardian is often recommended, but it is also highly ineffective as the lists are never fully up-to date or accurate."
Finally someone says it! Hopefully all the diggers will remember this. - MOP06, on 03/28/2009, -0/+11finally, a good explanation on RIAA *****
- Nephrastar, on 03/28/2009, -0/+10If they do it again, be sure to give them one hell of a ride ;]
- fishshogun, on 03/28/2009, -0/+7Well sounds like the riaa/mpaa need a hobby.
- cannonball, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6I download pirated media from my neighbor's wifi network and watch free cable television because the cable company forgot to disconnect it.
I just hope these actions are enough to say ***** you RIAA/MPAA. - mineforlife, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6I've never recieved one. Decent ISP's don't forward the messages on. Plus those messages have no legal merit.
- pigfister, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways. boycott all sony hardware, and only purchase second hand software & media.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the ***** capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006) - kevine, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5Limiting your upload speed *may* slow you down. It all depends on how many seeds and leechers there are and what's going on with them.
- pirivan, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5Now I can't speak to the end game of Pirate Bay etc, but I can speak to what I would LIKE the end game to be after all is said and done between the media industry and the pirate supporters. It will never happen but this is what I would like to see. Basically, my issue the MPAA/RIAA/music/movie industry is that they are not providing a product with a cost structure that would wager a fair number of customers will ever want. What is currently available boils down to two choices:
1. Buying physical media and having to figure out a way to rip it and encode it decently manually which takes a bunch of time and usually isn't as good a job as someone who really knows what they are doing.
2. Subscribing to DRM laden downloads or formats I do NOT have interest in (iTunes) for a price I don't care for OR streaming (a la Hulu or Net Flicks).
Now I know MANY people are happy with either paying a buttload for option A and "owning" something (plus going to a ton of trouble ripping on their own) or paying less for option B and essentially "renting" it. I have a feeling though many are not. What I envision is a subscription service fully supported/owned/operated by the music and movie industry that is an "all you can eat buffet". I could see people easily paying $50 a month, maybe even $100 a month (perhaps more) for a service where they could download all the movies/tv shows they wanted in HD and music in either FLAC OR VBR MP3 (my choice), in nice DRM FREE containers. Until they provide something like this (and they never will) they will continue to net $0 from some potential "customers" rather than revenue they could be getting in a flat subscription. I would propose that they have a tiered approach where there would be a "cheap" subscription to just stream everything to people who wanted that ($10 a month or whatever), then a second tier where users could download a certain amount of content per month ($20) and then a final tier where users could download an unlimited amount ($50).
They are too stuck on the model of how much they can make selling physical discs or "1.00" a song or the "rent" model of streaming. Sure, they COULD make more money this way (particularly the physical media route) if they could FORCE all potential customers into this model. However, as rampant piracy has proven they won't EVER be successful in forcing all users into the models they have chose (be it physical media OR streaming/DRM). Thus, they will continue to receive no revenue from large segments of their potential customer base because they refuse to provide a service at a price point that meets their needs.
Also, to avoid any comments that might follow pointing to services that might already exist like what I am describing outside of the media giants control, the first rule of fight club is don't talk about fight club. - Me1000, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5alright, you said you received a letter from Cablevision in your first post, had me a bit confused.
- Darkkshadow449, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5Previous legal threat and responses regarding the TPB: http://thepiratebay.org/legal
XD - ozydingo, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4"Also, BitTorrent uses tit-for-tat algorithms ... "
Can you elaborate on this? I've heard this before, but I've definitely noticed several times when I've had a few >100 kBps downloads going where limiting my total upload speed to even 10 or 20 kBps didn't slow my downloads down at all. I usually keep it around 75 anyway, but sometimes depending on what my housemates are doing I do need to limit it more. - mbcolt, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5Death to RIAA/MPAA
- saranagati, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4Just this week I got my first notice from verizon that they received a complaint from a copyright holder and was 'urged to stop' and that copyright infringement was against their TOS. I really need to find some sort of torrent solution to hide my address (yes i know its not really possible without a proxy) without limiting my speed because i really don't want to lose my FIOS service.
- gkskillz, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4@ozydingo
http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Cho ... - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4The ultimate result of the digital age will be to break up the monopoly/racketeering of the big five media content creators.
It has already happened in music (i.e. Radiohead's In Rainbows release), and is starting to happen now in television (i.e. Joss Whedon Dr. Horrible, Sanctuary's webisode start).
This will increase the money artists get for their works while decreasing the prices consumers pay for their goods (see examples above) .
In other words, it reduces the obscene profits made my talentless middlemen who've gamed the system for over 50 years now.
This is what the RIAA is paid to stop, or at least slow down, which is all they are doing.
Vive Le Revolucion! - connorbevans, on 03/29/2009, -0/+4Alright, now this fight is just getting pathetic on the RIAA/MPAA side.
- fr3ddie, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4I came
- inactive, on 03/29/2009, -0/+3Yes, there is a setting. No time to be a babysitter here. Look and you shall find it.
- inactive, on 03/29/2009, -0/+3To clear your cache go into "Program Files", then "PeerGuardian2", then find and delete the file called "cache.p2b".
Peer Guardian will then start building a new cache and in another year you can delete it again.
I haven't deleted my cache in about a year and it is only at 6 MB, you must be downloading a lot of files! - PorcusWallabee, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3If you've ever said "***** the RIAA" then you MUST watch this movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oar9glUCL0
RIP: a Remix Manifesto
"To build free societies, you must limit control of the past" - DDION, on 03/28/2009, -1/+4Who said anything about relying on facts with those crooks?
At least the mob had principles.... - pandawa, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2a lot to read but right-on dude/dudette
The RIAA/MPAA are so entrenched in their own philosophy of selling non-digital songs/movies that they are alienating their consumers. A lot of people are pissed off at the companies and suing people isn't solving the problem. - Treshnell, on 03/31/2009, -0/+2He meant that he got a letter from the BSA with all his info on it. He mis-typed in his first post.
- antdude, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2"Will they take my Internet away?
No. Although there is a lot of talk about “three strikes” policies, no ISP has agreed (or was forced) to disconnect users after they receive their third warning. In New Zealand they came close to implementing a law that would require ISPs to do this, but this proposal was pulled."
How come Adelphia did the three strikes and you're out a few years ago? - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 03/28/2009, -1/+3This gizmodo article is mostly *****, unfortunately.
No discussion of obfuscated connections, etc.
20kb/s is ridiculous and the obvious LEECH only comment defeats the whole purpose of bittorrent.
It seems like a thinly veiled add for Vuze/Auzureus, which everyone knows is buggy bloatware and therefore *****.
utorrent ftw. - PorcusWallabee, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2If you've ever said "***** the RIAA" then you MUST watch this movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oar9glUCL0
RIP: a Remix Manifesto
"To build free societies, you must limit control of the past" - 4321234, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2I recommend Led Zeppelin.
- zman666fu, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2***** THE MPAA AND THE RIAA. that is all
- mabsark, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2Technology is killing capitalism, and the media industries are the simply the first casualties.
If something can be transformed into a digital form, then it can be reproduced an infinite number of times at no extra cost. If gold could be reproduced at no extra cost, it would be worthless. It's value is due to the fact that it's pretty rare. Yet we're supposed to believe that media is different?
Digital reproduction is just the beginning. Within the next 100 years we should be able to reproduce any physical object, and capitalism can't possibly survive that. What will idiots be saying then? That reproducing food is theft? - XFireAlchemistX, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1I think you're on your way.
- Skurt, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1Ahh something I can sink my teeth into...
According to the moderators on the programs forums
qNation
OS X Developer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Country: United States
Posts: 855
Default Re: What is the xxx.qNation.pghistory file?
That file contains the connection history used by the PG menu bar item's stats window (to display monthly, yearly, etc stats). The file is capped at 500MB and will never get larger than that. There is no option to turn it off.
They say the option is 500MB and there is no way to turn it off.
Then why was mine 24GB? And others 50GB...
Babysit someone who can't google answers instead.
Tell me where the setting is then, if the developers say there isn't a way to turn it off... - mabsark, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1In 100 years time we should have a very cheap and efficient method of power generation, which will likely be small enough to be portable. Nanotechnology should be a well developed area as well. Think about the implications of that. People will no longer have to work to earn a living, because robots will be be doing everything. People will be free to what they really want to do. This will change us from a society obsessed with wealth to a society based on the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. I'm not saying this will be simple, as there will be those who try to prevent it, but knowledge and technology can not be suppressed. The change is inevitable, and will allow humanity to finally look out into space with realistic hopes.
New storage devices are always being created and the process is not instantaneous. Therefore given the infinite amount of time needed for infinite replication, it would be possible. - Me1000, on 03/28/2009, -2/+3Your IP address isn't private.
What am I missing? What did they give out? - PorcusWallabee, on 03/28/2009, -2/+3If you've ever said "***** the RIAA" then you MUST watch this movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oar9glUCL0
RIP: a Remix Manifesto
"To build free societies, you must limit control of the past" - eleete, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1I wish there were as much fury for the fact that the public domain was being harmed each Government(Representatives/PUBLIC Servants) extended the terms and reach of copyright. There's really no secret as to why.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?in ...
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?c ...
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting IP for 'limited terms' and Scope(fair use). Yet when a song(video, picture, book) is protected for the life of the artist + 70 years after their death, I think we've gotten far away from copyright's original intent. Is it proper to allow one organization to use someones content and not allow the original author to use that organizations ( http://tinyurl.com/con3nc )? Who are we giving incentive to if the author/artist is already dead ?? The corporations that have continually paid for the law to be streched? It sure would be great if we could all earn money on those terms. What if I walked in and announced to my boss that I would be working for the next year (or two or more) but then I would retire and expect renumeration for the rest of my life, PLUS 70 years ? Does it even sound plausable ? I realize that earnings come slowly on some items, But giving someone 170 potential years of a MONOPOLY might just hold a greater interest for a single entity Far More than the public domain, or We The People. Notice the US Constitution excluded one of the most heavily used words in the english languages. I.
Am I still a cheap pirate, torturing the lives of artists if I head to AnyTown USA and 'check out' 2 albums, 3 books and 2 videos from my local library ? Have I deprived an author and his children of future meals ? I realize Someone/library paid for a single book, but is a library not based on free access to information, and fair use? Not to mention how helpful it is to have a grand, flourishing public domain so that you may use my work, just as I might use yours. (Imagine how much incentive that would be to creativity and innovation) Jeez given how many citizens there are and how many libraries, I sure feel sorry for the Music, Television and content associations that cry, those poor poor artists, that we keep ripping off. They must be so hungry.
Unless its all based upon Greed ! - eleete, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1I wish there were as much fury for the fact that the public domain was being harmed each Government(Representatives/PUBLIC Servants) extended the terms and reach of copyright. There's really no secret as to why.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?in ...
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?c ...
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting IP for 'limited terms' and Scope(fair use). Yet when a song(video, picture, book) is protected for the life of the artist + 70 years after their death, I think we've gotten far away from copyright's original intent. Is it proper to allow one organization to use someones content and not allow the original author to use that organizations ( http://tinyurl.com/con3nc )? Who are we giving incentive to if the author/artist is already dead ?? The corporations that have continually paid for the law to be streched? It sure would be great if we could all earn money on those terms. What if I walked in and announced to my boss that I would be working for the next year (or two or more) but then I would retire and expect renumeration for the rest of my life, PLUS 70 years ? Does it even sound plausable ? I realize that earnings come slowly on some items, But giving someone 170 potential years of a MONOPOLY might just hold a greater interest for a single entity Far More than the public domain, or We The People. Notice the US Constitution excluded one of the most heavily used words in the english languages. I.
Am I still a cheap pirate, torturing the lives of artists if I head to AnyTown USA and 'check out' 2 albums, 3 books and 2 videos from my local library ? Have I deprived an author and his children of future meals ? I realize Someone/library paid for a single book, but is a library not based on free access to information, and fair use? Not to mention how helpful it is to have a grand, flourishing public domain so that you may use my work, just as I might use yours. (Imagine how much incentive that would be to creativity and innovation) Jeez given how many citizens there are and how many libraries, I sure feel sorry for the Music, Television and content associations that cry, those poor poor artists, that we keep ripping off. They must be so hungry.
Unless its all based upon Greed !
I was taught to share at age 3, why is any government discouraging THAT ? "He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without lessening mine", TJ. http://tinyurl.com/22udzn - leamanc, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1I'm with you on your outage, but:
#1) A class action law suite requires multiple plaintiffs. Are you just throwing this term around because it sounds good, or do you have other Cablevision customers united in your stand against them?
#2) How did they release confidential information? As the article linked here states, the copyright holders don't know your name. They only know your (already public) IP address. They contact your ISP, who in turn contacts you without giving your information away...unless the copyright holder decides to take it to court. - nightkhaos, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1I agree with the sentiment, but it won't be as simple as you say. For one think, in order to produce a physical object, you will require some mass or energy. So it won't be completely free, it will be cause of the "raw materials."
Also, data cannot be reproduced an infinite amount of times because we do not have an infinite amount of storage space. Data must be stored somewhere. - Skurt, on 03/28/2009, -2/+3WTF? This is what is wrong with Digg's -digg me down- feature
I just got two digg downs and I have no idea why? Am I using PG wrong? Is there a setting I don't know about that will prevent this cache from getting gig in size?
No, no constructive criticism no assistance only digg down.
Digg used to be a board that discussed articles, not just blindly dugg down because you didn't like something. Instead of digging me down, how about telling me/advising me on how to fix the issue. Now the top story on Digg is how to hang toilet paper.
And I wasn't ripping on PG, only mentioning what my issue was. -
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