Comments on: Military Intelligence Used to Shutdown BitTorrent Site

By: sav

sav — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:34:49 +0000

Think about it guys, why all this, Let’s fetch the filesharing down.
If you look back before the torrent community started sharing files PRICES for movies/Music etc where sky high, now the price has fallen on a lot of these cd’s/dvd’s, what they’re trying to do is stop the sharing of movies/music etc so they can start robbing the public again with high prices and shit, let’s face it, 90% of movies/games etc are not worth the plastic they’re burned on.
So I say to them that are anti p2p like the ones that posted here, do your maths first, learn what this shit is all about, then post your opinion, don’t just read some crap on net coming to places like this trying to look leet with your useless comments.

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Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:48:35 +0000

[...] and leeching in France now. With the support of an industry group, French military police have shut down a BitTorrent tracker and seized their equipment. Regardless of where one stands on the filesharing debate, this news is [...]

By: beatnik

beatnik — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:04:36 +0000

First of all, there is no way that the government should be an compliant instrument of the industry. With military police it is even more worse. WTF indeed.
It is true that the music industry behaves like an arrogant and spoiled brat which give a fuck on democracy and community.
But on the other side we have to be honest to ourselves. When we load illegal music from the web we are as weak as the people believing in the shallow role models of the music industry. In this case we are not strong enough to bear the commercial pressure inflicted on us. And that is a bad sign.

Give “real musicians” a chance to earn for a living.

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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:55:01 +0000

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By: Capitan Manhatan

Capitan Manhatan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:06:29 +0000

French army has been always usless, so no wonder they fight their own people and obviesly not a real crime! Thats too scary for them!
But French kids will kick their ass’s like they did in the past!

By: Francia cierra un sitio BitTorrent con ayuda del ejército | Globbos

Francia cierra un sitio BitTorrent con ayuda del ejército | Globbos — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:32:59 +0000

[...] se suponen son las responsables de la creación y el mantenimiento del buscador. Además, según Torrent Freak, 20 servidores fueron requisados una vez que los localizaron por medio de un programa espía de la [...]

By: El Ejército francés colabora en la clausura de un enlace BitTorrent de descargas P2P | Shadow Security

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:12:11 +0000

[...] Francia mantiene su empeño en terminar con las descargas P2P. A la reciente aprobación de la ley que planea cortar el acceso a la Red de aquellos internautas que descarguen archivos protegidos por los derechos de autor, se suma ahora la intervención del mismísimo ejército para proteger a la industria audiovisual, según ha publicado The Torrent Freak. [...]

By: Proness

Proness — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:35:27 +0000

The Staff of WhiteTiger became greedy with donations and expensive invites, tbh they deserved it.

By: Rhayonne

Rhayonne — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:26:41 +0000

Come to brazil guys!!!!
Fuck off this mens, come to brazil!!!!!
and go tiggers!!! HAUshauhauha

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:07:12 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:24:32 +0000

If you read Adam Smith and Karl Marx and think a little, you will notice that the State is there to defend the capitalist way of life.
That means in other words, the simple citizen is there to provide workforce for the capitalists, that generate the “more-value” (dunno if its said that way in english), to get even richer, while the majority of the population gets poorer.
Since the rich people are the ones that are stronger in the society, there isn`t much left for the State than following what they order.

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França Vs Torrent « Mc Info – Ligado nas novidades! — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:10:54 +0000

[...] Snowtigers, o maior indexador de BitTorrents da França está perto do fim. Dez membros foram presos e vinte e um servidores estão apreendidos, segundo o site especializado TorrentFreak. [...]

By: RIAASS

RIAASS — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:53:26 +0000

Blame french society for voting ultra conservative puppets.

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Fransk militär slår till mot torrentsajt | Bloggen Bent — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:13:35 +0000

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By: Georges Danton

Georges Danton — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:30:58 +0000

Looks as if the French is in need of another Revolution.

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:16:31 +0000

[...] semana los grupos “antipiratería” acaban de conseguir cerrar uno de los trackers de BitTorrent más grandes de Francia, Snowtigers, que con 250.000 usuarios es probablemente el tracker más [...]

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Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 9th - The zeitgeist daily — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:44:18 +0000

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By: Rain

Rain — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:21:33 +0000

the french army finally wins something .. took them long enough

but .. viva la revolutione

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Piratas del Caribe: El abordaje al Parlamento « Aldea Tecnológica — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:34:10 +0000

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By: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:17:47 +0000

The French government is becoming increasingly corrupt, and now (like the Bush administration) the Sarkozy government is using French tax payers money, and the “classic” military pretext to accomplish a dishonest agenda. Sarkozy third wife is a singer, and may have here too a vested interest. May time be rape for the emergence of a French Pirat party, as an answer to Sarkozy corruption? It is up to the French voters to decide. Everything indicates it is time for a change in Asterix’s country.

T-J

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:39:06 +0000

[...] Publicado el 08 June, 2009 por Sonic Francia mantiene su empeño en terminar con las descargas P2P. A la reciente aprobación de la ley que planea cortar el acceso a la Red de aquellos internautas que descarguen archivos protegidos por los derechos de autor, se suma ahora la intervención del mismísimo ejército para proteger a la industria audiovisual, según ha publicado The Torrent Freak. [...]

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Military Intelligence Used to Shutdown BitTorrent Site : Snug’d — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:10 +0000

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By: Beliboy

Beliboy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:39:21 +0000

Hi! I just want to ask, are there any alternatives for snowtigers? After all, 250.000 users’ torrent needs must be satisfied somehow:D

By: Americanus

Americanus — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:25:16 +0000

As stated, I think “military” was a mis-translation Gendarmerie would be more exact. It’s like a federal police force, the same as the GRC/RCMP in Canada for which there is no equivalent in US. This is rather a non-article, as the fact is that the Gendarmerie is the only police force which deals with online crime, like the FBI. It would be strange if the NYCPD did it.

By: EdmundG

EdmundG — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:09:00 +0000

Now I know what the French military is for, and now I know what they were doing during the past two world wars – stopping ‘copyright’ infringers.

Note to Germany – go ahead and have France – the rest of the world will never rush to the aid of this group of surrender monkeys – never again you filthy bastards!

By: LOST IN TRANSLATION

LOST IN TRANSLATION — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:30:34 +0000

Yeah when he said “military” that just meant “Gendarmerie Nationale”.

Its basically the police, but they are attached to the Ministry of Defense instead of Interior. These guys can be usually be found patrolling the countryside, and historically are in charge of all internet related issues (cybercrime, pedophile networks, and whatever lawyers ask them to do)

If it had happened in the USA, the title would read “FBI intelligence used to shutdown BitTorrent Site”…

By: Swopyl

Swopyl — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:06:32 +0000

Ahh shit, I had a good ratio !

By: jason01

jason01 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:09:39 +0000

No doubt the French will protest.. they seem to protest about everything.

By: @all

@all — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:18:07 +0000

Well in france there are two polices, because politics never wanted to rely on a single force. Traditionally, democrats trust more the police, so there’s a national police force, and conservatives trust more the army, so there’s a military police force known as gendarmerie, which is exactly the same. It’s not really military, it’s just like the other police, but with other chiefs and another employee status.

Concerning the bust, except for the site zataz that was quoted, absolutely nobody relayed the information. But the movie _home_ was released and many voters went to vote for the greens, who are pro-file sharing.

Finally, there is no pirate-party in france.

And for those who said france is a police state, it’s absolutely true, and it’s getting worse day after day.

My 2 (french euro)cents.

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By: Argentinean

Argentinean — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:43:41 +0000

Ha!

They are simply afraid of the pirates.
It’s a shame we don’t have a “pirate’s party” here in Argentina. At least we have the soul (a big one, trust me).

One minute of silence for France.
(Although I won’t pay for a torrent service, ever)

Freedom FTW.

By: xentar

xentar — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:30:03 +0000

Suppose, next time it’ll be strategic bombing.

By: Eponymous

Eponymous — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:41:47 +0000

Military Intelligence is THE oxymoron. Thank you, Anonymous. ((The Department of Redundancy Department))
As well as a euphemism for Secret Police, KGB, Gestapo, SS, STAZI, OSS, CIA, MRR, Mr. Ranger, always on the alert for stolen Picanic baskets by notorious criminal mastermind anarchists, like those two talking bears Yogi and Boo-Boo, etc…
Oh and good for you, ddl_ROCKS. You are, as you say, ” now settled for like 5-6 years on a variety of file hosts with premium accounts.” What a bargain.
Have you considered that people who do not subject others to annoying advertising need money coming in because they have to buy or lease servers, bandwidth and pay the people to host them ? I gladly donate a few Euros to these “private trackers,” to avoid propaganda like yours. There are many trackers that lose money every month. Month after month.
What have you done for anyone lately, except criticize? The “warez sites,” you tout are notorious for loading one’s hard drive with spyware. And as for your wonderful, “file hosts.” They do not charge the average customer that you so gleefully herd toward their sites? Yeah, right. You must be very proud. And why are you posting on TorrentFreak if your motto is, “So, no bittorrent for me, noooo thank you,” a free ad for your fantastic blog, perhaps? Even if it doesn’t exist… By the way,it is not bittorent, which sounds like a very bad mouthwash or a studio apt. It is BitTorrent, meaning a Torrent of Bits.
To paraphrase, “a pompous tw@t of the highest order.”

By: annoyance

annoyance — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:25:42 +0000

to all you pimply faced, basement dwelling pierates. the military is coming and they’re gonna blow up your mommie’s house to smitherenes.

hehehehehehehehe.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:50 +0000

Lol, that why well know groups put their album on PB…

By: sawlight

sawlight — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:35:02 +0000

It’s not over or done yet actually, most of the servers were based in Canada, they only found interesting database stuff such as statistics. The tracker, the user and donating system servers are still abroad.

I used to be on that website, since the beginning, never had to pay or whatever, and I basically miss it.

By: McPirate

McPirate — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:31:21 +0000

Meanwhile, someone blows up a building killing hundreds all because I got a copy of Fallout3…???!!!

By: drummer

drummer — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:27:34 +0000

military to catch file-sharers?

what the…

are the taking “pirate” term literally or what?

By: THSNWGRBVFDLC

THSNWGRBVFDLC — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:44:55 +0000

P2P will trump industry. Dying paradigms that refuse to adapt and evolve will be deselected to extinction.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:44:38 +0000

P2P will trump industry. Dying paradigms that refuse to adapt and evolve will be deselected to extinction.

THSNWGRBVFDLC

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:30:11 +0000

isn’t it a lil sad thats the most important thing they could think of doing… shutting down a bit torrent site… good job guys one p2p site at time thats whats gonna solve all our problems

By: me

me — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:19:13 +0000

The closing down of a tracker aside, there’s something very wrong with your country if the military/ intelligence establishment is colluding with private interests. God help the French public.

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By: addorange

addorange — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:55:54 +0000

Looks like we have an addition to our list of “worst countries to be in”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:34:16 +0000

Thats ridiculous are any of you going to tell me your going to pay for something when its free?

I want to see a world where the internet is free internally and we all share information instead of charging others for it or shoveling out money to massive world-owning companies.

America is having its rights to guns and organic foods taken away… lets see if we can rip down all of our rules against ISPs blocking sites for a little more of a push toward a complete control.

Will the next revolution be about religion and the reformation of logical thinking, or will it be about money? good job world.

By: neoshillz

neoshillz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:59:56 +0000

Woohoo, Hooray (hoorah?) for ______.

Finally the PIRATES get what’s comming.

Soon _____ will be ______ and you will see.

Hah hah, har.

(screenshot for “proof”, email for to payroll)

By: Wisconsinite

Wisconsinite — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:26:57 +0000

More whining from the lazy defenders of this criminal act. (file sharing) please go rent something. buy something. your selfish actions are hurting the worlds economy.

By: blackHat

blackHat — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:15:41 +0000

Well, at least now we know who the world’s militaries work for…