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Cassette Tape -> VHS -> DVR -> Torrent

All part of the same line. Problem is, the step size between the last two is very big, because it takes too much power out of content owner.

It will eventually settle out. People will laugh about this in the future.

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http://music-torrentz.com

pirates and anti-pirates (as the names suggest) have the *opposite* goals. pirates want content for free, and anti-pirates want to erase content sharing portals from the world.

no, they don’t want to remove 1 or 2 torrents. they want to handle them on a massive basis. they want them ALL to be removed. just look how they still go after TPB. and look at their demands regarding mininova… 100% filtering system? how stupid you are? of course there are no 100% solutions in the IT! what is it for, then? it’s in other words: remove everything or we ruin your lives. that’s all.

what the anti-pirates still fail to understand is that there’s a DEMAND for these services. and as long as it exists, there will be supply too. they can kill 1000 sites, there will be 10000 new shortly. coz again, there’s no 100% solution. they can’t control everyone in this world.

if you want to do something serious (run a tracker or so) go to a developing country where there are still more important tasks than copyright claims, like deciding which neighbour to invade and things like that.

in this “liberal” (read: jew) world every judge and politican has a price tag, so there’s no escape.

Did you know that when amazon sells a book for 27 dollar, and later sells it for 9 dollar to its ebook users, the author makes no less or more money? Its all covered in the contracts that way. Neither does the publisher. But from those parts, the publisher receives the most. And the rest goes to taxes AND the so-called RIAA/MPAA “protectors of”…

Funny thing is, that when I, as a pop-icon, step up and say: screw you RIAA etc. You are NOT needed OR entitled to “protect” my work, they still go their effing way. So THEY are stealing from me. Noone else is.

Isn’t the federal government supposed to protect us from these mafia practices? I mean, if I were to step up and call myself a “copyright protector -protector” and take away the RIAA/MPAA’s income since they clearly are incompetent in every way imaginable and even blackmail/pressure artists that are saying: NO! PAWS OF MY WORKS FOR THE MPAA/RIAA/BREIN etc. In which case I really would be protecting the interests of the author(s), then I would be considered an outlaw. While in reality they are themselves no different.

Again… I wonder why noone….

It’s the copyrighted content that attracts the vast majority of customers and you know that. Take a look and see how Mininova does from this point on for a good laugh. You can’t deny that a lot of these sites and services make money purely because of the access to copyrighted content they provide. It’s also not in their interest to effectively filter/remove access to the content because that’s precisely what keeps the people coming. That’s the big attraction, and that’s what brings money in.

Who’s ‘they’ in paragraph 2? Media companies, I guess? Well sure, they could offer it up for free but with advertisements, but just how much would that bring in? Peanuts is what. It wouldn’t pay s**t relative to the cost to produce the content. For an industry it’s probably not worth it to do that, but for a few chavs with a credit card able to run a server it is as they never needed to create the content in the first place.

BitTorrent’s a great protocol but the centralised aspect to its design attracts an endless stream of sleezy c***s looking to profit from it. Even TórrentFreak here probably does; selling ads, pushing recommendations for VPNs, pushing sites heavily laden with their own sleezy pushes for various services (Vertor #1, lol?), and so on. It’s f*****g sleezy, and from the perspective of media companies I don’t blame them for a second for doing what they can to have it all shut down. Sites like Mininova built their success on access to copyrighted content users provided, then fearing collapse, and in a last ditch attempt, tried desperately to legitimise by pandering to the media companies – the actual content owners – the key to the whole Mininova service as a successful business. They failed, and now that there’s none of the attractive content there, soon they’ll be no people there either.

If by any chance all the copyrighted material started to be offered for free they`d still get their money from the people accessing the site and seeing the ads. Basically the argument used against most torrent sites – that they profit on the content the users share – is completely flawed.

On a side note, Funimation requested their material to be removed from a torrent site I`m registered to. The request was granted but now, since I don`t know what they are releasing the probability I`ll buy new stuff from the is null. Not to mention I`m not buying if I can`t watch anyway. So we both lose. Same happens to the other media.

Those who downvote content upvoted by a lot of people will be recognized and their votes will lose weight.

There are several ways to catch out down-vote scamming.

Also, you can make downvoting flag content as fake, etc. but make it so that people can still view it by clicking a link. (A bit like spam-tagged comments on youtube)

Hinder me at your peril.

especially since the supreme court just recognized that timeshifting using a cloud was not only legal but service provider of that cloud is ALLOWED to make money from that service.

someone needs to stand up for fair use

we still have H33T

all r welcome at

http://www.h33t.com

And you know something… I hope they do, because a lot of these sites are about nothing more than profiting which they can do because the content they offer access to attracts an endless stream of suckers happy to donate, buy merchandise, buy anonymity, buy status, click advertisements,…

And you know something… I hope they do, because a lot of these sites are about nothing more than profiting which they can do because the content they offer access to attracts an endless stream of suckers happy to donate, buy merchandise, buy anonymity, buy status, click advertisements…

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=t&b=ffffff&r=2y&u=mininova.org&

In about 1 month mininova will become a simple stone from the mountain it once was.

(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;

(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;

(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The moral of THIS story is that you should do the right thing. Not that you should find a weird country that lacks the proper legislation to prevent you from doing the wrong thing.

You know your site is pretty useless without stolen content Gary. You even tried to prove yourself otherwise and failed at it.

And you know something… I hope they do, because a lot of these sites are about nothing more than profiting which they can do because the content they offer access to attracts an endless stream of suckers happy to donate, buy merchandise, buy anonymity, buy status, click advertisements,…

P.S. if you’re looking for a Mininova alternative, I recommend torrentzap, extratorrent and kickasstorrents :)

Do you know what law that would be under? I would like to research what your saying, as most things I look for are of the old or out of print items.

1337.org is a great example of a kick-ass site..

TPB has been kickin ass and taking names for a long time, and they arent giving in anytime soon…

Demonoid has had their share of bullshit and they manage to adapt and hang tough…

Isohunt, another sitte thats taken a few punches and is still there…

It can/has been/is being done by many sites, if Mininova cant handle it then I say F-king SEE YA!, aint gonna miss ya!

Mininova removed drug-related material? O.o

how can someone claim the royalties to something if its not being sold or even made available and state it never will be again

It’s in the USA’s laws’s Check it out

69 Dec 01, 2009 at 07:41 by Candy

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mininova.org

Woah! huge drop in traffic.

“The DMCA is widely known in BitTorrent circles. It is the US copyright act (but accepted by many indexers and trackers regardless of location).”
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That’s where all the problem lies.

When any of you (owners of torrent sites) accept an ILLEGAL law (in this case, DMCA) which is foreign in your country, directly or indirectly, you are legitimizing this law. In other words, you are supporting to the enemy by accepting their rules without any opposition. The only way of nulling to the fascists from the corrupt USA entertainment industries is NOT recognizing DMCA at all, and there exist many ways for doing this.

very well put

@56 Dec 01, 2009 at 05:27 by Rekrul

In week or two, they’ll be able to learn another lesson from Mininova; Delete all your torrents and your site will go down the drain.

yes hopefully they will learn this and start adding ed2k:// to the files instead and allow people to post that stuff.

A tf reader said that they copied all of the torrents from mininova.org

Can you please up them somewhere so people can build off of them? Thanks!

Also I have to question the hypocrisy of many commenters here as well as TF. Why is it ‘OK’ for Mininova to make a profit… and yet many readers as well as TF in the past have acted outraged that private tracker owners make a profit from donations. Indeed the line is often ‘private trackers are bad because they profit off piracy’.

I think it might have to do with the context of the money being made, although money/profit is not the only concern I have with private trackers.

For others, see both my posts
here and here.

(Hope my HTML above works :)

Trackers aside, apparently, all we need now or will need are the PEX/DHT/magnetic links anyway and/or distributed searches becoming more sophisticated.

That’s where all the problem lies.

When any of you (owners of torrent sites) accept an ILLEGAL law (in this case, DMCA) which is foreign in your country, directly or indirectly, you are legitimizing this law. In other words, you are supporting to the enemy by accepting their rules without any opposition. The only way of nulling to the fascists from the corrupt USA entertainment industries is NOT recognizing DMCA at all, and there exist many ways for doing this.