Lets hope the replacement will live up to its expectations.

NewlBoy

LMAO @ the Hydra, take your American Imperialistic book ‘the star fish and the bullshit’ somewhere else.

That book is fundamentally flawed, centralisation V’s Decentralisation.

Central or decentred is a completely conceptualised ideology, what one considers central is NOT considered central by others.

The Alcoholics anon example in the book states that Alcoholics Anon is decentralised because it has no infrastructural bases. How erroneous is that???

What on earth are the 12 steps if not a central premise? What on earth is the whole buddy system if not central?

What on earth are ISP’s if not a central premise to the internet?

The book is rubbish DO NOT REPEAT IT’S CRAP.

‘Like yeah, we should all be catalysts’ get the f%*k outta town man.

In every example that book gives, there is an ongoing lack of sophisticated broadened knowledge.

Such as when it cites that the Native Americans were successful in defending their country because they were decentralised, LMFAO.

TELL THAT TO THE CENTRALISED US GOV WHO SYSTEMATICALLY STARVED THEM TO DEATH… read bury my heart at Wounded Knee, FFS.

Our governments have now made it law that people can be extradited without a trial in their own country. See the Enron British banker three.

Centralisation here is the power to change the law, Torrent site creators can now be taken from countries such as the Netherlands to face charges in countries such as the US, even though they did NOT break any law in their own country.

FACT and other lobbyists have made the UK government agree to make ISP’s responsible for the net.

Soon one may be banned from the net and still have to pay the ISP. Furthermore, the number Of ISP’s in the UK that are dropping all P2P traffic is on the increase, due to centralised lobbying and government law changes.

Encryption, Proxy’s and tunnelling are fine for geeks such as I but the main bulk of Torrenters are not going to be able to use P2P networks, without facing extradition, ISP banning, and even legal fines. (not the suing of yester year)

AOL UK/CARPHONE WAREHOUSE already enforces this as do BT and Tiscali although all to differing lengths.

The power of centralisation then is kicking in, and P2P’s will have to lobby, hide or simply not be able to use.

Do not quote that starfish bullshittery because it’s wrong beyond belief.

Regards

P.S. if a dam spider got wet it would move its leg, anyone who knows anything about spiders know they have a unique arachnid nervous system, one of the most complex in the world. It certainly wouldn’t let its foot drowned as the book would have you believe.
A spider is no more a centralised hierarchical system as a starfish, and to compare biology field notes to a complex human ideology is simplistic and erroneous.

Would really like to see what other tv-links (or other name of a site like it) that even comes close to top 100 most viewed pages on the internet, tv-links.co.uk was at its best on rank 78 right along with mininova and apple.com.

Take alluc just for an example since it started just around when tv-links.co.uk did (at it’s old host 50webs). At it’s best the site has been on ~600 in ranking, and now around 2000.

I do however agree that the shutdown lead to many other sites popping up, and that is good in one way.

Good: many sites to choose from and if yet one or more gets shut down, there’s probably always another to go to.

Bad: I’ve been around on many of them but the “service” (speed of new series, functional links and the amount of them) just doesn’t compare to tv-links.co.uk.

And the revenue from all those banner ads was given to charity.

The Hydra principle is still in full swing and will hopefully last indefinatly.

Never let little sh*ts like this push you around. Get your lawyer to keep pushing for your stiff to be given back, and get them to ask what are they planning to do.

Introduction
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (?Regulations’) implement the EU’s E-Commerce Directive 2000 (?Directive’). The Regulations came into force on 21 August 2002 and seek to promote e-business and help build consumer confidence and protection.

Who do the Regulations apply to?

The Regulations apply to those who provide and receive “information society services”, which are defined as services “normally provided for remuneration at a distance, by means of electronic equipment at the individual request of a recipient of a service”.

Are there any exceptions to the Regulations?

The Regulations do not apply to a number of areas including taxation, particularly VAT, agreements or practices governed by ?cartel’ law (e.g. the Competition Act 1998) and betting, gaming or lotteries.

What are the key features of the Regulations?
Introduction

The aim of the European Copyright Directive (“the Directive”), ratified in 2001, was to harmonise and update the copyright laws of member states to take account of the Internet and other new technologies, and address the concerns of copyright owners over the threat posed by infringers. The Directive was implemented into UK law with effect from 31 October 2003 by the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003.
Scope

The Directive concerns the legal protection of copyright with particular emphasis on the information society. The Directive does not affect the legal protection of computer programs and databases; rental right, lending right and related rights; copyright and related rights applicable to broadcasting of programmes by satellite and cable; or the term of protection of copyright and related rights.
Core Rights

The Directive clarifies the exclusive rights given by copyright, in particular the right of reproduction of a work, and the right of communication and making a work available to the public, so that the rights are “technologically neutral”.
Exceptions

The Directive provided a limited exception for service providers, telecommunications operators and certain others, for temporary and transient copies made as an integral part of a technological process.

In addition, the Directive contained a number of optional exceptions and limitations, some of which have been taken up by the Regulations, and the existing exemptions found under UK copyright law have been amended in a number of ways. The exceptions for research, education and librarians are now limited to non-commercial use. The exception for criticism, review and news reporting now only applies once a work has been lawfully made public. The optional exception under the Directive for private copying for non-commercial ends, subject to rights holders receiving fair compensation, was not implemented in the UK.
Technical protection measures and rights management

The Directive required member states to provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of technological measures to control the use of a copyright work through an access control or protection process such as encryption, scrambling or other transformation of the work. The Regulations widen the existing provisions aimed at those who circumvent copy-protection, and introduce new civil remedies and criminal offences. In the related field of digital rights management information, there are new civil remedies but no new criminal offences.

The law stated in this guideline is believed to be correct as at 1 March 2004.

This guideline does not purport to be comprehensive or give specific legal advice. Before any action is taken on matters covered in this guideline, you should obtain professional advice.

©Davenport Lyons 2004. All rights reserved

Ouch

to think they have nothing better to do with their lives.

next we hear about 12 year olds being busted for looking at porn because you technically have to 18 to view it. p-a-t-h-e-t-i-c.

and the grammar nazis can suck it.

http://www.aquariumfish.me

WOW what a concept, me being responsible for crossing the street with a red light.

Me being responsible for aiming a loaded gun at the mpaa presidents head and firing.

Me being responsible for my own actions.

WHAT A CONCEPT.
Guess what the MPAA/RIAA is saying is you are TOO STUPID to be responsible and therefore everything you do is your fault already.

my equipment was sent for forensic tests 9 systems and terrabytes of data were seized. anyway all this equipment and data was printed out i was looking at rather a long stretch and or a massive fine.

lo and behold the police sent the systems to a private organisation for testing and under the present law this is breach of DPA the case was thrown out of court and they had to return not only my systems but all my counterfeit materials including some rather dodgy documentation.

i have since been a good boy but after visiting a solicitor and talking much on this and its relation to piracy on the net and people having there equipment seize by FACT, note this all.

1 the only ones that can conduct a lawfull interview at a police station are those warranted to do so

2 all equipment seized must be forensically checked by an organisation granted license to do so by a court, make sure you get their name

and lastly The biggest pirates are those that rake in cash for goods freedom of speach freedom of choice is yours

shad

“you whole article is riddled”

Yes, ‘you’ is actually misspelled. It should be ‘your’. How dare you accuse me of making a mistake.

Please pack your belongings; you are going to the grammar camps.

The “teh” is just like the “relaity” that he also typed, it was more of a mock than a real typo. Also, “you’re” is used correctly in this case, break it down to “you are an extremely poor writer and speller.”

Do appreciate the grammar policing though, but, maybe like FACT and the police, you just got one little part wrong. Cool, I linked it to the article, haha.

Great read, I missed the old TVLinks…

DOMAIN: H33T.COM

RSP: LeaseWeb BV
URL: http://www.leaseweb.com

owner-contact: P-CLZ29
owner-organization: LeaseWeb BV
owner-fname: LeaseWeb
owner-lname: BV
owner-street: J.W. Lucasweg 35
owner-city: HAARLEM
owner-state: Noord Holland
owner-zip: 2031BE
owner-country: NL
owner-phone: +31(0)203162880
owner-fax: +31(0)203162890
owner-email: technical@leaseweb.com

admin-contact: P-CLZ29
admin-organization: LeaseWeb BV
admin-fname: LeaseWeb
admin-lname: BV
admin-street: J.W. Lucasweg 35
admin-city: HAARLEM
admin-state: Noord Holland
admin-zip: 2031BE
admin-country: NL
admin-phone: +31(0)203162880
admin-fax: +31(0)203162890
admin-email: technical@leaseweb.com

http://www.tv-links.eu

A very interesting read, we are quite happy to know that there are no grounds to present linking sites as illegal services.

What happened to THINK before you ACT?

*the
*your

You have received criticism of your site. Why not address it – agree, disagree, explain why you think however you think instead of just saying “well, I don’t see you making tracker sites” because what someone else does or does not do does not change anything about your site.

fyi h33t is about 1) quality descriptions 2) torrent moderation”

That would be very, very easy. H33t is a fifth rate pile of crap. It sits awkwardly between fully public and private trackers.

Quality descriptions? Sorry, I see nothing special: people already know what they want usually… and moderation? What does that mean: labelling your torrents with your crappy website & uploader tags – taking credit for putting together a torrent file and copy and pasting a description looks pathetic. Really, you’re focusing on side-issues when the real problem is slow speeds, no ratio enforcement, limits on filesizes, lack of focus to get races for scene content, lack of community produced content and no uploader restrictions. H33t also lacks essential content for a general tracker: HD content. In short it’s just unfocused, does nothing really well and generally feels very mediocre both in it’s design and content.

Frankly there’s good reasons why the public crowd doesn’t hear or stay very long and the private crowd won’t even bother trying your site – it tries to be the best of both and ends up a sorry mess.

“h33t is everything you mofa MAFIAA fear in the free internet”

Oh dear, that’s so pathetic I almost feel guilty about laughing to myself: the authorities and anti-piracy entities have got much larger fish to fry then your little place: as far as publics they’re going after TPB, Mininova and the like and they’ve claimed some big scalps in the private tracker world such as Oink, Elite Torrents, etc.

I suppose that’s why you insist on labelling all your uploads and spamming the h33t address here over and over with meaningless little quotes that you think are clever: you realise that few people want to visit – lack of reasons to – and the MPAA & Co. don’t consider h33t a major priority – after all, the slow speeds and small size mean not that much piracy is actually going on right ?.

http://www.h33t.com where we have a high opinion of ourselves that is unjustified.

Thanks Dave!

Ahem – this is BS. Under UK law, in order for this to be used in any criminal proceedings, this Dave Rock character must have agreed to the interview – or it was an off-the-record conversation. He was under no obligation to agree to either option. Some of this article feels like a beatup frankly: perhaps it’s a case of the “victim” being too submissive and agreeing to whatever he is told to do – it sounds like this is the case.

@9 jacob: Your whole long-winded, shoddy post reads like something a slightly retarded 11 year old would write. Hopefully most people will skip the whole block after 3 lines because it has no paragraphs – then realise how mind numbing and idiotic the whole post is.

Basic words misspelled repeatedly; ideas that are fanciful and out of kilter with the realms of remote possibility and sounding like a long drawn out ravings of someone who is deeply out of touch with reality or basic common sense.

Just an example: “And if you add on compound deflaution and allso consider the current reseccion and then considering what he might of done if he had that money e.g. buying 25 lotto tickets and winning over a billion dollars in prizees because it is possible just hihgly unlikely well couldnt he claim 100million dollars in dammages.”

That’s right, this moron jacob is arguing that Dave Rock should seek compensation because he had 1 in 8,145,060 (6 numbers, 1-45) chance of winning lotto… only he can’t leave it at that and somehow extends this to suing because he could have won 25 times in a ROW! ROFL!…

Jacob, your either very stupid or way too young to be smoking the amount of cannabis that you are. It’s painfully obvious that you believe yourself to be very intelligent and above most other people – so much in fact that you think that anything you say without thinking makes a lot of sense and that people will be impressed.

Nothing could be further from teh truth: you whole article is riddled with grammatical errors – it’s obvious that you’re an extremely poor writer and speller. Also you have the out of touch ideas that bear no relation to relaity that a drug-addict has so I hope your that. If not you have the mind of an 11 year old child and your idea of reality, and your own intelligence, is deeply flawed. Although you dont know it.

If you were smarter you would be embarrassed right now.

nobody.gives.a.shit

(Im not Frozen)

how about you put your money where your fat mouth is and make a better site

fyi h33t is about 1) quality descriptions 2) torrent moderation

h33t is everything you mofa MAFIAA fear in the free internet

http://www.h33t.com AGAIN

Your site has to be one of the most disorganized, amaturish and unfriendly sites I’ve seen for torrents. If someone can’t find what they want to find in a matter of a minute or two on your site without the need to use great effort, you failed. I’m assuming your goal was to provide access to to people but you didn’t, you just confused them.

How about you stop plugging your site everytime you post here, and just post an opinion about the issue at hand.

why has “Dave Rock” not used UK law to throw the book at FACT?

http://www.h33t.com up for the fight you just bring it on wankers

And allso didnt they knowingly arrest and search his [property under laws which he didnt break just so that they could search his property knowing that their was a high chance that they would find one pirated product on his property and then they can scream hell and charge him for distributing or something. I mean that is wrong and there must be laws that prevent it. Otherwise what stops me arresting fact people everyday and seizing there gear on accusations that had no basses and just search their computers forever juust hoping to find the evidence i want that i can use in court to say that they are doing dodgey things.

Unimi
http://5chan.ru

The two police i can grudgingly understand, why the FUCK…oops, i meant FACT members? and “trading standards” officials?

Gimme a f*cking break. BASTARDS, the whole lot of them including the cops for going along with this sh!t.

The biggest problem I see is the lack of any public resistance. It seems like there are very few people out there who are willing to stand and say that it is just plain wrong for FACT to do this.

Roze
http://www.10ch.org/

“That really seems unfair. He’s innnocent so give him back his stuff!”

That is what i said when i was busted with pot.