Comments on: Smelling Blood, BREIN Targets Mininova, Torrentspy and Btjunkie

By: jimjam32

jimjam32 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:32:55 +0000

im a new user on bt junkie and i think its great i try to seed as long as possible.i dont see how they can justifie the use of police manpower to chase “illegal torrent sites”this country has gone mental!!!!UP YOURS BREIN!!!!

By: TheDude

TheDude — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:00:54 +0000

It’s hard to stop these sites because they work outside the laws of the United States. Sure you can shut them down in the States, but the majority of them are run outside of the United Stats. Where U.S. Laws can’t touch them. So as long as other countries continue to do nothing about piracy. Piracy will live on forever.

By: Crimson

Crimson — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:48:22 +0000

Actually, I think it would make sense to come up with a new way of funding the artists and associates. I mean, to create the art, everyone got paid. So that’s covered, you just have to repay the guy who paid them.
There should be an easy way to find the bankroller of the artwork online, a centralized copyright-credit database; and having found the bankroller of the aristic work, there should be an easy to contribute money, like an associated one-stop site where you select the bankroller to pay, you select the work you are supporting, and you select the amount of money you want to contribute.
If online money transfers could be simplified and popularized, I think this would be a great idea: instead of FBI warnings on downloaded movies, there would be a “If you like this movie, please visit make a payment to (bankroller) for (this film)” , right before the credits.
Ideally this would be the prime method of getting money from us to the creators of artistic work; obviously that’s not possible, immediately or ever. However, I think it would be a great idea to implement right now _concurrently_ with the other sources of revenue they get.
Because honestly, I’d rather support the work directly by paying back its bankroller, then support the mafIAA by funneling the money through them.

By: Proper Concerned Father

Proper Concerned Father — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:09:40 +0000

[quote comment="237717"][quote comment="233126"]Last week my wife and I dropped the kids off in the local mall’s parking lot and there we waited for their natural father to show up for there weekend visit. We handed the kids over, they got in the car, and it wasn’t until AFTER they were all back in his SUV did I realize he must have been drinking (maybe a 6-pack or so) and noticed empties in the SUV on the floor. He drove off after a little discussion so I called the cops, they did nothing. I called the cops in the next county over, they did NOTHING. So let me get this correct, The police forces of this world are more interested in protecting movie publishers and cracking down on little Bobby getting his next MP3 song to walk to school with than to stop a drunk driver with open containers and kids in the back? Hard to respect any police agency that puts this much effort into a so called crime when in many countries it is legal so long as you do not make a profit off downloading. Get back to real crime fighting and stop lobbying to make things a crime when they are not in some countries and shouldn’t be in the others.[/quote]

You’re a complete idiot. Way to put your kids lives in danger. You and Mrs. Lohan are front runners for parents of the year.[/quote]

You have a big mouth, Mr. Why, but its a ‘k lot easier to talk badass online than it is to in real life. Same goes for this situation.
Offline, Mr. Why, if you had just realized that your spouses ex has been drinking, as he begins to drive off, would you have the balls to call him out / chase him down / drag him out of the car? Even if you did, (which I doubt), not many other people do.
There’s always a “holy shit, I can’t believe this is real” factor that makes you hesitate for just a couple of seconds. And it looks like that’s what happened here.
Don’t judge until you have been in the same situation, we’ve all done stupid things that we regret.

By: Mr. Why

Mr. Why — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:46:20 +0000

[quote comment="233126"]Last week my wife and I dropped the kids off in the local mall’s parking lot and there we waited for their natural father to show up for there weekend visit. We handed the kids over, they got in the car, and it wasn’t until AFTER they were all back in his SUV did I realize he must have been drinking (maybe a 6-pack or so) and noticed empties in the SUV on the floor. He drove off after a little discussion so I called the cops, they did nothing. I called the cops in the next county over, they did NOTHING. So let me get this correct, The police forces of this world are more interested in protecting movie publishers and cracking down on little Bobby getting his next MP3 song to walk to school with than to stop a drunk driver with open containers and kids in the back? Hard to respect any police agency that puts this much effort into a so called crime when in many countries it is legal so long as you do not make a profit off downloading. Get back to real crime fighting and stop lobbying to make things a crime when they are not in some countries and shouldn’t be in the others.[/quote]

You’re a complete idiot. Way to put your kids lives in danger. You and Mrs. Lohan are front runners for parents of the year.

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:03:23 +0000

What happened to Demonoid? BRIEN chased them out of Europe, then the CRIA scared them into shutting down, but this time Demonoid don’t seem to be moving. Instead, they’ve started subdemon where people are allowed to chat about anything but filesharing. They said this is to “keep the community together.” Unless they plan on restarting Demonoid, don’t bother.

By: Raiders

Raiders — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:41:45 +0000

[QUOTE]Last week my wife and I dropped the kids off in the local mall’s parking lot and there we waited for their natural father to show up for there weekend visit. We handed the kids over, they got in the car, and it wasn’t until AFTER they were all back in his SUV did I realize he must have been drinking (maybe a 6-pack or so) and noticed empties in the SUV on the floor. He drove off after a little discussion so I called the cops, they did nothing. I called the cops in the next county over, they did NOTHING. So let me get this correct, The police forces of this world are more interested in protecting movie publishers and cracking down on little Bobby getting his next MP3 song to walk to school with than to stop a drunk driver with open containers and kids in the back? Hard to respect any police agency that puts this much effort into a so called crime when in many countries it is legal so long as you do not make a profit off downloading. Get back to real crime fighting and stop lobbying to make things a crime when they are not in some countries and shouldn’t be in the others.[/QUOTE]

I don’t agree with drinking and driving, but your just as much an ass as he was. Lets say he got in a wreck, and the drinking was proven to be the true cause(Which in most cases it gets the blame, but more often than not, it’s something else that really caused it). You should be held just as responsible for the injuries the kids may have suffered in said crash, because you knowingly allowed them to be carted off by the alleged drunk driver. That alone made you no better than him.

Then to call and narc him out?! Don’t you realize their is nothing worse in this world than a tattle tale? A truely responsible adult would have taken the keys, drove him and the kids home, and not let him out on the road to begine with. If he didn’t agree to that, then you should have removed the children from the vehicle, and told him to fugg off.

I would say in this case, that the police had better things to do than deal with parents who can’t be competent enough in that situation to begine with. Every single one of you were at fault.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:47:05 +0000

Oh and incidentally, to set up a foundation (like BREIN) in holland all you have to do is go to an office from the government and pay like $80 for a paper and wham you are a foundation, there’s no questions asked apart from an ID.
So I could go out and start ‘stichting superbrein’ and start pressuring people into giving me money and threatening sites as if I were some official, all the while keeping my administration secret and just pretend to support artists.
And that would be a 1:1 copy then.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:38:50 +0000

The ‘brein’ foundation has only one goal, to get more money for themselves, there have been investigation and questions asked about how they sit on information about their finances, how their director pays himself insane amounts, how they force artist to sign up and pay a few grand for the privilege and how they get nothing much in return.
Their actions are meant to get american sponsor money into their organization I’m sure, that then will disappear into their pockets.
They are more shifty than the MPAA/RIAA, and possibly even more than mediadefender..

By: MPAA

MPAA — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:36:42 +0000

What would Michael Jackson do?