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- TheGalacticFork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Is it wrong that I found out about more torrent sites through the MPAA and RIAA filing legal action against them?
- colinemckay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hmmph.
I just spent $150 on DVDs today, half of which was on stuff sampled through bittorrent files. - CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Like water, the tighter the grip it, they more slips through their hands.
- krazedkaoz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Take down those sites and there will be a 100 more to take their place. Look what the end of Suprnova did.
- jonohull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3AAA?
- bacchus101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use old boring torrentreactor.net
.....must not be on the "geek" radar anylonger as the torrents are slow and the scope limited. However, it gets me where I want to go. - Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No pirate bay, I'm good
- vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3First rule of bittorrent, do not talk about bittorrent!
Second rule of bittorrent, do not talk about bittorrent!
If nobody knows these sites exist, then they are less likely to get sued! - letmereplynow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"torrent users are like the wal-mart shoppers of warez"
lol best reply of all time. So sad that it is so true. - roasted_almonds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i got a DMCA warning from my ISP after torrenting files from mininova.com
- TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting. I'll have to try that.
- 0Troy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How exactly do you sue a provider that provides means to obtain content put on it by anonymous people? It's like suing the owner of a forum for having offensive material posted on it...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"torrent users are like the wal-mart shoppers of warez"
OWNED!!!!
FTP for the win, baby! been up for 10+ years but the mainstream is too dumb to use it, so they never get shut down! - mhl12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i give pirate bay credit for being a great tracker but isohunt >> piratebay when it comes to torrent searches.
- Craig1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The MPAA and RIAA won't kill all of these Torrent sites, but dead trackers and unseeded and abandoned torrents will.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not exactly, they said they want to add legit content. That's another story..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ time to get a new ISP.
- Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"All they are doing is driving more and more people to boycott and/or avoid "legal" media all together."
Or, just avoid evil companies that sue you :)
Magnatune is the wave of the future, I hope. - bchow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
So what's the problem here anyway?
Last time I looked the distribution of copyrighted TV shows and movies via Bittorrent was illegal
(at least by US laws) - so why should the MPAA not go after Bittorrent?
I'd be suprised, if they were not collecting IP addresses of bittorrent users right now and then go after those Comcast users with semi-fixed IP addresses that have been downloading several shows in a certain time period.
Personally, I do not consider downloading of TV shows stealing. Still it has a similar effect:
You stop watching the shows on the channels that pay for them. In the end someone will have
to pay the price - even for a "free" TV show.
Until now, the quality of TV downloads was below cable TV. But things have changed. Current Bittorrent downloads can come from high quality HDTV sources and as good or better than SDTV. So the MPAA has every right to go after people uploading their content for free. - TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your logic is faulty. Certainly there are other avenues, potentially easier avenues, by which these people can discover torrent sites. And these litigious groups can use those other methods, with success I'm sure, to find people to sue. What you have failed to explain, however, is *why* it would be ever be a good idea to make things easier for these people. ;-) Just because there are easier places to find this information doesn't mean we should just hand over a list of torrent sites on a silver platter, regardless of how obscure a digg article is compared to Google.
When a story is posted about a torrent site being sued, regardless of how "easy" it might be to find that information elsewhere, it's best not to attach a list of potential candidates for future litigation.
Your argument could be compared to the defense "well, everyone else is doing it, so I did it to." It's shortsighted and uninformed, to say the least.
And implying I use Kazaa? I have no idea what you're trying to prove there. :-D - stoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, can't they argue something like most of the content provided is legit and bittorrent saves huges amounts of bandwidth, etc...
- SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All they are doing is driving more and more people to boycott and/or avoid "legal" media all together. The MPAA and RIAA will pay dearly for their crimes. They will pay by losing everything and hopefully more.
- TheSolomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whoops... my apologies about the Kazaa comment. That wasn't you; that was another comment entirely. hah.
- _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ automagically:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent#How_BitTorrent_works - invertedzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1any invites left?
- sendmesomejunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@skyshock21
I guess you missed my point: torrents are helping to even the playing field. I said nothing about wanting total socialism.
By the way, the US is a capitalist society that uses socialist laws i.e. welfare and minimum wage laws.
Get out of the habit of taking small comments and running with them without knowing what the comment was about. If you don't know what someone is saying, ask them. - Joshua2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i know the guy who runs http://www.binnews.com he's gotten nothing in the mail and his site is labeled in the press release by MPAA.
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mininova.org not under attack right? They seem to be the best when it comes to interface and speed.
- Abyss_908, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pirate Bay is full of people with 2 second attention spans that only download stuff like 2 days old at the oldest. But Pirate Bay the biggest one in terms of popularity is hosted in Sweden so it will be a long time before they are gone. Niteshadow all their main stuff is less then 200 seeds and they are a private site. The only ones that have more on Niteshadow are ones that are externally linked. Anyone know where mininova is hosted? I don't mean to sound paraniod but are they going after the site or users of the site. Are they going to be tracing IPs of the users? I think I haven't used any of them very much. I never download popular mainstream stuff. That is most likely to get you noticed. Downloading older things and non mainstream stuff will pretty much keep you safe I thought. Until they are attacking a specialist Sci-Fi site that really only hosts Star Trek season DVD rips that are old.
- qwerty967, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the bigger news here is the lawsuits against newsgroup indexing sites. Though the MPAA/RIAA have traditionally stayed away from usenet, this may be a sign of change.
- jayf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what.
New torrent sites will pop up elsewhere.
The MPAA should sit down and watch one of their older movies called Fantasia and learn what happens when you axe away at magical brooms. - pomaybo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So you'll be the first to say "YES SIR" when the RIAA and MPAA tells you what to do with the content you've bought legally? I hope you don't have music from your legal cd's on a music player or your computer. According to the RIAA that's not cool.
Hope you don't wanna watch HD-DVD's through that sweet ass new HTPC you have hooked up to your sweet ass new HDTV, your MPAA overlords won't let you.
Should I go on? Or do you have more self-righteous crap to spew out. - frontbrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Quick!! Destroy the logs!!! It should be ok to download TV shows that you just missed or that didn't get recorded right on your mythtv box, Tivo or other DVR.
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lets not start passing out invites to closed sites again and hinting at places where to download from. cant we have an intelligent conversation?
- dharm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1torrent users are like the wal-mart shoppers of warez
- Ribald_Jester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so when is someone gonna do something about the riaa/mpaa? We should sue them or something. lol.
- bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey Joe, me love you lonnng time if you e-mail me Demonoid invite password. 5 dollar sucky sucky.
bigpeeler@gmail.com - tmcleroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ahh, *****. for every one they kill, 10 more take its place. File sharing can not be stopped! why can't those MPAA and RIAA douche bags get that through their heads!? If you can't fight em, join em!
- LtData, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some users do use pirate sites to just pirate stuff, but some people use it to sample stuff and end up buying it. Its like a free rental system. Yes, its not entirely legal but normally it ends up people purchase music/movies they would not have otherwise. Anyone have a hammer so we can see if we can drive this home?
- GeorgeZimmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0torrent sites are like ant hills, sure you can crush it with your boot, but it wont stop the ants from making a dozen more ant hills
- stonedgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh no. Now I'll have to spend another 3 minutes on google looking for new torrent sites. DAMN YOU MPAA!
- mgreenwald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@MedHead
"Because fighting for what is right, even when there is no victory in sight, is far better than succombing to that which is wrong."
Couldn't agree more, good thing BitTorrent is clearly on the right side! - spikes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How the ***** can they sue ISOHunt? They are Canadian based.
- Sophistifunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0/| Cheers DUDE =D
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0isohunt is just a search engine. i'm reminded of one of the reasons why i never pay to see movies (apart from the fact they are all *****)
- LatvianHedgehog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aaaand so ? we still got plenty of other hubs, and most of these hubs were in torrent-networks, where each site provided same content
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For more information please contact:
Kori Bernards or Michelle Greeno
MPAA Los Angeles
(818) 995-6600
John Feehery or Gayle Osterberg
MPAA Washington, DC
(202) 293-1966 - harpdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I also do not consider downloading TV shows as stealing. I pay for my TV license, I pay for £50 a month for Cable TV. All the shows I download are currently screening here in the UK (albeit 6 to 9 months behind the rest of the world) on SKY1 and E4 so downloading a show is no different to recording it anyway.
So called acts of Piracy increase the popularity of Content thus making it more valuable. When will the MPAA realise this. - adbatstone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If this is true, good riddance.
- jnorris441, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The MPAA doesn't understand how easy it is to set up a tracker. Unless they get a court to say that bittorrent is inherently illegal it will never end.
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