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- sgr215, on 02/08/2008, -3/+141I'm probably just being paranoid but anyone else thinking this might be another miivii.com style project?
- laaabaseball, on 02/08/2008, -20/+114***** u RIAA
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: : : : : : : :¯’’~~~~~~’’’ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : : : - BigBallistix, on 02/08/2008, -5/+72Subscription to use their services? But... that's profiting directly from illegal activity, right? I wonder how long they'll last. They would be very useful for cloak and dagger organizations, but they'll get the pants sued off 'em.
- franklymister, on 02/08/2008, -3/+67Lame. $140 a year / $17 a month.
- TheRemoteViewer, on 02/08/2008, -2/+59Honeypot?
- darkcss, on 02/08/2008, -3/+55This is pretty funny on their download page:
Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Users
Step One
Upgrade your damned Windows OS.
Step Two
Seriously, what the hell?
Step Three
Why are you still reading this? - Malevolant, on 02/08/2008, -1/+51No, you're not. I was thinking the same thing. We need a sacrificial lamb to test the waters...
- derpoopflinger, on 02/08/2008, -1/+47smells like a trap, taste like a trap, looks like a trap odds are it's a trap. It's got admiral ackbar written all over it
- Mr.Gone, on 02/08/2008, -3/+46I'm surprised your headline made it up here with "Anon" in the title. Hail Xenu!
- miakeru, on 02/08/2008, -2/+39Too bad their signup form is already broken: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: checkusername() in /home/tfreedom/public_html/buy.php on line 48
- one2gamble, on 02/08/2008, -1/+36errrr..
legit? - qbyte, on 02/09/2008, -2/+28The requirement for a sign-up makes it a sure thing. Steer clear of these guys. If they were as open as they claimed to be, they would do it anon.
- CasaMan, on 02/08/2008, -17/+42"Be quick for a free account!".. Spam... Burried....
- TheClone, on 02/08/2008, -2/+24I think either I'm a bit confused on their concept or their a bit confused about the point of torrents. OK, so they're using servers running some sort of VPN magic stuff that routes the torrents through they're servers before sending them to you. One: Couldn't your ISP just throttle bandwidth coming from TorrentFreedom's servers and Two: Isn't the whole point of using bittorrent to be decentralized so that a server or two going down won't cause the files to be inaccessible? This seems to create a single, centralized server to take down.
I really like how they talk about how the information cannot be traced back to the user but then go on to talk about how companies promising to protect you is not enough. It needs to be impossible for them to incriminate you. They even make an example out of Hushmail handing over copies of e-mails to some government body. IIRC, didn't HushMail state that all your e-mail was encrypted and they had no way to access it without your password? Seems to be a lot like what TorrentFreedom is saying. - hater2win, on 02/09/2008, -2/+19You know, legit or not, for $17 bucks a month, I would much rather pay for usenet/newsgroup service. You can find good ones for $15 bucks and you don't ever have to worry about seeding or anything. Not to mention they pipe it to you as fast as your connection can take it. I get 1 megabyte per second on my 8 Mbit cable line. I would much rather do that than use torrents.
- digichris, on 02/09/2008, -0/+17..for the low price of $17 dollars a month.
- OrangeSoda31, on 02/09/2008, -0/+17TOR is not for torrenting, you are a plague.
- capiCrimm, on 02/08/2008, -3/+19So basically, what's the difference between using encryption and the onion router besides it being free?
I was all ready to sign up until I realized it was $17/mo. All for something I can basically set up for free. Plus, centralized servers are evil. All it takes is one hacker or disgruntled employee to modify it and it's RIAA ass-***** for everyone. (admittedly, I only glanced over the article) - dawnraid101, on 02/09/2008, -1/+17***** this dosent torrent freak say its FREE? pft $17 a month, i thought it was anonymous , how are they going to send the re-accuring charges to my credit card huh?
Something smells fishy. - colonels1020, on 02/09/2008, -4/+20You have to pay for their bit torrent service? I thought the point of bit torrent was to get things for free. :-P
- mCanada, on 02/09/2008, -3/+19Torrents ARE NOT illegal.
- GhostyBoy, on 02/08/2008, -13/+28Anti-piracy people need to realize that for every site they shut down ten more will show up.
They just need to face the music: It's OUR game now.
If they want to keep up they should find ways to compete instead of clinging desperately to a dead business model. - gavin422, on 02/09/2008, -0/+14Of course they can charge people. You're basically paying for a good HTTP tunnel service. They're just marketing it at Bittorrent users. And for all those people who are crying foul that they're making money off illegal activity, they're not. They're just saying they'll route your traffic, and that it works well with Bittorrent, wink wink, nudge nudge.
- ganlet, on 02/09/2008, -1/+15except torrentfreak is the source, they were the ones who figured out miivi.com was a trap
- RocketGib, on 02/08/2008, -9/+23LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY!
DOWN WITH THE RIAA! - Ausome1, on 02/09/2008, -0/+13Yeah real anonymous with everyone's IP in the logs! http://www.torrentfreedom.com/server-status/
- Reziarfg, on 02/09/2008, -1/+14I once had a friend who played around with Linux distros a lot. So he was downloading hundreds of ISOs a week at around 650 megs a pop. The point is that there are plenty of people downloading large, perfectly legal, files.
- MagicBobert, on 02/08/2008, -2/+15Strange? I usually wait until I'm almost finished with a project before I buy the domain, and I rarely register it for more than a year. It's not that uncommon...
- Kenzan, on 02/09/2008, -8/+20Except the funny thing is, you contribute nothing to technology except using it, kiddie.
YOUR Game, you say?
Hardly.
But you are correct in that file sharing will not go away, as it's an awesome technology when used properly and legally. - D3koy, on 02/09/2008, -1/+12I'm not going to pay money to steal *****...I want it for free...If I was going to pay someone, it'd be the person who deserves the money....
- emezeske, on 02/09/2008, -2/+13They aren't charging money for access to copyrighted material... They're charging money for anonymous and encrypted access to the internet. You could choose to use this access to download copyrighted material, or you could just use it to surf digg and read email anonymously -- or download the Anarchist's Cookbook without worrying about big brother looking over your shoulder.
They are not going against the "knowledge is free" principle, either. The reason they charge a fee is because to offer their service, they have to pay for as much bandwidth as you will be using. And bandwidth is not free. I'm sure they're aiming to make a tidy profit also, but that's a good thing -- it gives them motivation to keep their service going. - robdiggity, on 02/08/2008, -0/+11Hard to say... although after reading this:
"The backlash from the praxis of stasis threatens to drown the organic reinvigoration that innovation technology has always brought forth - there would be no 95 theses without Gutenburg, remember."
I'd give 3:1 odds that "Faust" is really Don King. - zatrix, on 02/09/2008, -0/+10I'll stick to my encrypted and leech free usenet thanks. Oh and cheaper too!
- adooga, on 02/09/2008, -5/+15A paid service for this is so wrong. I'm all for piracy but they're just trying to make money off the back of stuff that they don't own. Share and share alike, I say, but once you profit off it you're just a common thief.
- Ausome1, on 02/09/2008, -0/+9Real anonymous with them showing all our IPs. http://www.torrentfreedom.com/server-status/ Also just keep an eye on this page and get free accounts when people log in.
~ courtesy of http://www.engimagroup.org - tjlsmith, on 02/08/2008, -3/+12So here's what happens.
They let this operate for a while then they sue them to death.
When this new thing is broken open, the RIAA gets ALL the names, IPs and dls of EVERYONE in it.
Then - they take legal action against all these people who think they're safe. - darkcss, on 02/08/2008, -0/+9what list?
- Coffeedemon, on 02/09/2008, -0/+9So does the FBI
- Cymrubeats, on 02/08/2008, -4/+13I'm old school, all my theft is done for free, no lamer get my money (not even through advertising...sorry kids.)
- grapesofbaath, on 02/08/2008, -2/+10Always "just an article about another site or something way better than theirs"? That's the point, you moron. It's a collective news site about the world of bitorrenting and legal issues affecting p2p.
- derpoopflinger, on 02/08/2008, -7/+15sounds like a trap to me
- thumperings, on 02/09/2008, -1/+9It absolutely does NOT prove you were doing anything illegal. It simply proves you were scambling your signal because you don't like spies spying on your ***** business. That's liek saying that all people with tinted windows must kidnap and rape children.
- drefined, on 02/09/2008, -2/+10sponsored by RIAA/MPAA... :)
- studdenfadden, on 02/09/2008, -2/+9According to your logic, the police could arrest and charge someone with cocaine dealing because they had a lot of incoming cellphone calls. Nonsense, police may suspect something illegal is going on; however, the police need to prove it.
- Aensland, on 02/09/2008, -1/+8Not all of us are hypocrites, some of us just want free stuff period.
- Coffeedemon, on 02/09/2008, -1/+7Yeah but it could just as easily be someone working from home downloading disk images for applications. its unreasonable for them to come and kick down everyone's door. Although I'm sure someone is trying to make it legal to do that as we speak.
- LittleFishChan, on 02/09/2008, -3/+9If you have to pay to subscribe, isn't that illegal? They're charging money for access to copyrighted material. That goes against the whole "knowledge is free" principle that people use to justify piracy.
- pcghost, on 02/09/2008, -2/+7Nope. You still suck...
- johimself, on 02/09/2008, -0/+5Usenet and HTTP tunnels are a perfectly legitimate business. Do you think they run server farms for free?
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