common sense, retard. perverts, hackers, and pirates all have a direct need for extra anonymity. saying that only pirates are “technically minded” enough to use VPNs is an absurdity based on absolutely nothing. whether you want to admit it or not, the same programs and technical loopholes that allow YOU to hide are also being used by criminals far worse than you. hope you sleep well at night!

[...]it can force ISPs to hand over the names and addresses of illicit file-sharers to copyright holders.[...
]

How do they do that?

Last I heard that the internet funtions with IP adresses and not with names and addresses of “illicit file-sharers”.
All that the ISP can give (when the law really allows that) is a name and address of a person that signs responsible for paying the ISP’s monthly bill.
Remember enigmax, the RIAA does not get that one right either, that’s why they claimed that 80 year old grandmas were pirates or persons whose hardware was unable to run the software that was allegedly infringing copyrights.

ISP’s can NOT hand over names of illicit filesharers, only names of customers that pay the bill.

No, your right, I don’t know anything about pedophiles and their practises… I thought I made that clear. Care to share your information on how you know so much better?

And again no, to be clear my point is that piracy started with the hacker scene, and more of the general public have joined since the start of the internet. But because of this there’s a link between the technically minded and the majority of hardcore pirates.

I wouldn’t assume the same of pedophiles.

And as much as I don’t agree with the sharing of child pornography, TPB are right to let ANYONE upload torrents (as long as it’s correctly labeled).

Yes, 10 times! Google-translated article: http://tinyurl.com/cayl89

The norwegian Data Inspectorate, who once gave Simonsen their licence to investigate file sharers, has responded and say that in light of this new decision by NPTR they will now consider to withdraw Simonsen’s licence. The condition for the license was that the information Simonsen collected would be anonymized so that no one could be identified, and that further investigation were to be performed by the Police.

The Data Inspectorate also considers to force all ISP’s to delete their logs after maximum three weeks, to hinder people from getting identified. There will be no minium time to keep logs, and they suggest that ISP’s can start competing for customers over who deletes the log fastest.

“This is not just about file sharing. When you are online you should be able to feel safe that what you do is something going on only there and then, not stored forever in a log” says Ove Skåra, Data Inspectorate.

Lol, well that’s something you must have from experience.

Typically it’s considered most pedophiles aren’t actually smart enough to even cover there tracks when it comes to their computers let alone using VPNs.

The only reason modern pirates are is because they started as an offset of the hacking scene.

Yeh… you forgot to add the other anti-pirate slander… you know, that we all own 5 stack dvd copiers, give tech support to extremists, tell pedophiles where to buy the best camcorders & supposedly bite the heads off live kittens… not so much the last one but hey it’ll come up sooner or later.

Man these troll comments are getting old.

ROFL.

Nice try, but don’t you think that’s a bit transparent?

I’d say you’re losing your edge, but you never had one to begin with. :D

I know. You’ve been posting a lot of comments lately.

Oh wait… I forgot I’m supposed to be under the illusion that you aren’t just another pseudonym from the same troll behind NubCakes and Reasoned Mind. Whoops, sorry. Let me try this again.

*ahem*

What!? freetard!? But… But… I thought you left Torrent Freak forever!!11!

Sorry, bit out of order with the troll statement.

I’m English and kinda a bit flippant with the tongue sometimes.

I’m a hardcore privacy advocate.

I’m a slight pirate.

I’m an even lesser comment whore, but since sharing is in my instinct, UB40 was the most popular TDK-80 cassette I’d copy for my mate’s.

Absolutely bemuse’s me that I can buy an overpriced DVD to watch and share at home, but get denounced on ‘the internets’ as a scumbag pirate/knockoffnigel

I currently have a HD cinema at home basically, and, with the current economic climate, watching a movie at home is more viably affordable/enjoyable/can have a smoke/pause/piss etc but the ‘Lobby (theres lot’s I could mention here) MAFIAA/TWAT/ groups’ want to take a slice of what I like to ‘consume’.

I cannot afford what they want for their apparant service to me.

Age Ratings? – Not needed, decent parents should be there for that. Period.

I was introduced to EncyclopediaDramatica by my own accord/misfortune(I quite enjoyed their parody on these internets actually).

There is no other service they provide me with. Their downfall, is, inevitable. 3rd party/middle men really do not know how to take this lying down. Why, upon why, would I want a corporate scumbag to introduce me to a movie thats been dugg twice.

‘Rec’ https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4677532/REC_2007.DvDrip.Avi_(English_Subtitles) is an excellent example of this.

‘Blank’ http://www.mininova.org/tor/2401251 is another.

Hopefully, with the god knows how many diggs/views the TPB case has had will make the general audience of passive bystanders rise up against the corruption that exists in this ‘New World Order’ that our ‘Governments’ would like us adhere to.

Well, I a’int one.

i’m still here you teenage idiot.

“imonsen Law Firm is one of them, and they have no right to actually gather things that doesn’t belong to them…”

the irony! the irony!

The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly coloured, and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question – is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say ‘Hey! Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.’ And we…kill those people. Ha ha ha. ‘Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because: it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.
Bill Hicks

Technology has changed nothing else has. People will always have the need to share. It’s part of the human condition. The musicians that get it, go on tour and make a very good living. Ask Dylan.

The days of reaping the profits from cd’s is down but not gone. I think the cd has become the promo for fans to get excited about seeing them on tour. Can anyone say Coachella?

The bigger picture is always lost in the shuffle. If all people care about is money, that’s what they will have, not much else. What a lonely existence.

Life is short don’t forget to enjoy the ride.

This is only an opinion. :)

a) Isp’s want to monitor their bandwith and control users that they feel abuse their connection.

b) New European directives and stuff are being passed or have been passed, making web service providers OBLIGATED to log user’s activities. All this in the name of ‘foreign threats’ and ‘terrorism’ but of course we all know who’s really behind it. So even vpn’s might not be able to help us in the future.

Tor and I2P will become very attractive…

http://tinyurl.com/c55ljf

END OF “¤%#¤% SARCASM

With JAWS, I was able to read that just fine. Didn’t you see the word, sarcasm, after the symbols?

just TPB

“IPv4 22.340.253 peers (10.349.625 seeders + 11.990.628 leechers) in 1.745.461 torrents on tracker.
IPv6 32.210 peers (15.477 seeders + 16.733 leechers) in 31.800 torrents on tracker.”

that is 22+ millions UNIQUE IP AT GIVEN MOMENT, not for all day. at any second there are 22+ million sharers connected to tpb trackers.

that is just tpb tracker, although there are many others, and only at one given second, not for whole day.

you cannot predict how many different people are there if you count whole day. for sure much more then 100 000 000.

Sharing is caring

Education to all

Stop the poverty

They also say that they are looking into forcing ISPs to delete any personal user information after at most 3 weeks, and expect that ISPs will compete to provide the better privacy and optimize their purging activities for market share.

Story, in Norwegian only, at: http://www.siste.no/teknologi/article4270662.ece

http://www.riaaradar.com/zeitgeist_topamazonsafe.asp

in fact that would be the most clever way for a ISP to conduct it’s businness.

If I had to choose between a Logging ISP and no-logs one, it’s obvious what my choice would be.

If this legislation becomes widespread, the first ISP to adopt the no-logs policy, would absolutely corner the market.

So, even if regulated to be possible to obtain the logs, without any logs to be given, everything would stay the same.

This, because the ISP’s know who their clients are. Eventualy, laws would be created to make them keep the logs. Until then, a lot can change.

In a few years, the sharing generation will be in the power sits. They can oppress us now, but, they will not outlast us. My only wish is to live until then.

True enough. The RIAA does not need assisted suicide. They’re doing just fine all by themselves.

what you saying is very sad thing to come out of some who is able to post on internet.

to connect everything that is bad on internet and generally in life with people downloading music and films, is ridiculous and idiotic. fact is, that you forgot to mention is that, and also to point out to someone other comment before, that movie and music industry are every year breaking profit records. you can find that information online.

to connect everything that is bad on internet and generally in life with people downloading music and films, is ridiculous and idiotic. and sad.

no matter how harsh laws can be, that will not stop real criminals. stealinga credit card number is same as stealing someone purse. crime no matter how you look at it.

one other mistake you are saying is that youth is chaotic.. i mean, take the stick out of your ass, will ya? i am way over 21, i support free software movement and i support sharing, as it is till this moment in our history best thin that this specie made for its evolution since fire and wheel usage.

you say downloading shittywood and etc movies and music is anarchy bad for this world. i agree, but because those films are so dumb that it is actually slowing down a progress, and they are making false stars, bounding real geniuses in art and science to annonymousity for larger public

I say: BAN those fuckers all together from torrent sharing sites. let only pro-sharing artists make usage of trackers. let only art older then 40 years be shared.

and get the fuck off with connecting criminals and sharers in same line. look around, idiot. all the bad things in life. and you are pointing out on sharing community. we are not criminals. i am all for punishing real criminals already by law punishable. but i am not criminal if i am sharing with people art that i like.

let me repeat what i think about big companies and their “art”.

I say: BAN those fuckers all together from torrent sharing sites. let only pro-sharing artists make usage of trackers. let only art older then 40 years be shared.

making profit was never a reason why humans evolved. make science books free, make knowledge free for all. let someone poor but with talent to educate himself.

and then we will see where we are. i say, in a better place then now.

Stop loging IP adresses Period, Full stop! You can advertise how you preserve the privacy of your customers.

This way none of these snooping entairtainement parasites will either have a way to know from which ISP an upload is comming
from.

There is a huge market there. Do it before anonymity become the rule of the internet.

You see, the entairtainement industry is full of pederastes. Therefore it is their interest to anonymise the Internet. Don’t let them do this!

I disagree for leaving these RIAA/MPAA parasites alone since they are destroying our societies.

I will leave them alone the day they all die and not a second before.

Continue and expend the boycott!

Companies to boycott:
Vivendi Universal,
Sony BMG,
Warner Bros,
MGM,
Columbia Pictures,
20th Century Fox.
EMI

Also use the RIAA radar since these pigs have a lots of subsidiaries:
http://www.riaaradar.com/

The RIAA/MPAA problem can be solved easily just by not maintaining anylog. Without log there is no Ip adress to go after.
This would benefit justice because an IP address is by no mean a sure way to identify an ISp customer yet alone a person. it is too easy to hake.

OMG, I thought you permanently retired your Reasoned Mind pseudonym after its credibility was blasted to dust for the nth time. But at least you did have the sense to retire NubCakes and freetard.

There’s nothing wrong with brining the occasional alt position, and what a pitty you’ve never managed to do that. The only things you have ever offered are lies, propaganda, and trolling.

Don’t confuse yourself for holding a legitimate position of any kind.

@RIAA/MPAA troll with multiple screen names
“The key to this entire issue is not in the sheer number of pirates ”

ROFL.

The sheer number of pirates has everything to do with the issue. When 20+ million people are breaking copyright laws every day without their moral compass telling them it’s wrong for even a moment, it’s a sign that copyright laws have completely lost touch with society, and a law which has lost touch society is a law which is no longer valid.

Society will not conform to copyright laws. Copyright laws will conform to society.

@RIAA/MPAA troll with multiple screen names
“our natural instincts towards justice”

…Are a death sentance for the MAFIAA.

They don’t know, that TPB isn’t the only source for torrents, and, apparently ignore all the other systems we have available. Let’s not educate them.

Leave them in their blissfull ignorance of the real world, leave them to feed the one’s that hold them prisioners. Leave them to live in their limited mentalities and narrow mentalities. Stupidity and ignorance are their natural born rights, don’t take that from them.

If they wanna feed the one’s they so blatantly defend, who are we to say they can’t. Let them.

We know better, and they will never learn. So, why bother.

One day, eventualy, they will wake up and discover that they have been stupid by paying way to high prices for what they could have for free, but, it’s not up to us to wake them.

Let them be. Their poor minds can’t go any higher.

Yes, I’m being paternalist, condescendent and overtly insulting to you all that prefer to pay top dollar for what you shouldn’t. Feel bad about it? Well, your problem, not mine.

Ipredator is a bloody expensive system to run, running a VPN in itself is no simple task let alone, running an industrial VPN that can route terabytes of data across the world with out comprimising bittorrent traffic, EXPENSIVE. the prices they are offering are pretty damn cheap.

I’ll admit they might make a little bit of cash, but I assure you Ipredator will barely cover the time and effort it takes for that kind of operation.