Porn Industry Gloats Over Hollow Win vs BitTorrent
Earlier this week we reported on how the porn industry planned to wipe out sharing of its content via BitTorrent. Right now the porn industry is gloating over the shutdown of a major porn NZB site. Coincidence? Probably not.
This week we reported on the porn industry’s plans to stamp on internet piracy. A posting on the GFY forums by ‘ServerGenius’ declared the industry’s initial anti-piracy plans to take down an NZB site (a site which makes downloading from Usenet easy). Not any old NZB site but one indexing the latest Usenet porn releases - releases which move from there to BitTorrent.
Their theory is that if you take out part of the source, the torrent sites won’t have any content for others to download.
According to a source, the site ijsklontje.nl was a very important source of latest release porn NZBs: “It’s the biggest Usenet pr0n (porn) posting community. It’s been going for years, everyone into Usenet knows about it.” Indeed, a quick search on Binsearch.info for ‘ijsklontje’ reveals a huge amount of porn.
Yesterday, visitors to the ijsklontje.nl forum were greeted with a sad message with suspicious timing:
Hello fellow members of IJsklontje
After 3 years the staff had to decide to stop all activities on this forum.
The busy life of admins and moderators is the main reason.
This forum has been brought to the top by lots and lots of hours by many staffmembers, posters and spotters. It doesn’t deserve to melt bit by bit …… So we stop at our highest level and get on with our real lifes.
We made an example for many other usenet forums, the groups are now filled by many posts from other places than IJs, so there will be no shortage of erotic binaries.
We would like to say thanks to all who made IJsklontje to the world’s most famous erotic usenetforum….
Sorry for this sad thread, we are mentally broken as well… we love you all and may you all live to see the dawn.
We salute all our friends… maybe we will see each other at other places.
Staff IJsklontje
At this stage, it has been impossible for us to verify if this shutdown is in fact the result of some legal pressures from the porn industry but judging the amount of gloating on the GoFuckYourself forums, it’s difficult to see it any other way:
ServerGenius breaks the news:
Hello everybody….as I have posted before Usenet Piracy Forum IJSKLONTJE
the site is now shutdown. This will be a HUGE blow to a lot of other piracy sites on the net as many torrent sites used this place as their main source for content.
He goes on to acknowledge the non-profit nature of the community:
I do know that these guys and their site didn’t generate them a lot of revenue
unlike a lot of other sites……as big and popular as they were they didn’t advertise or took advantage of their traffic in any way that would have made them a lot of money…….which probably made their decision to close shop a lot easier for them take….
and then makes some comments about the BitTorrent sites he believes he’s starved of content by closing ijsklontje:
….however a lot of others sites that feeded from their content do/did make money indirectly of them…..so them closing still hurt quite a few others than them in their income revenue…….and writing this down….makes me feel a little warm and happy inside
ServerGenius says he has a hit list - the sites ‘youporn’ and ‘megarotic’ are on it apparently.
As one of the forum posts quite rightly points out, closure of this site will not stop the digital flow of erotic pirate binaries. Even if this action does turn out to be the first victory for the porn industry, it will prove very quickly to be a short-lived one as the file-sharing hydra strikes again.
Stay Tuned
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LOL
a few weeks ago i was wondering when the porn industry was going to do something about porn sites.
There is to much porn in the world >,
Because of rule 34 of the internet, porn sharing will never end.
I say good riddance. The popularity of porn {along with crude shows, games, and movies {such as Family Guy, S{t}uperBad, and Manhunt}} only serve to show that there’s something seriously wrong with the societies we live in.
[quote comment="166094"]I say good riddance. The popularity of porn {along with crude shows, games, and movies {such as Family Guy, S{t}uperBad, and Manhunt}} only serve to show that there’s something seriously wrong with the societies we live in.[/quote]
What’s up with the troll comments lately? I wonder if they all trace back to the same source…
[quote comment="166099"]What’s up with the troll comments lately? I wonder if they all trace back to the same source…[/quote]
Who’s a troll? I’m just stating my opinion, though your welcome to view it however you want.
On the subject of trolls, pretty much everywhere I go online where public posts can be made, there’s a troll. Get used to it, because they aren’t going to go away.
ijsklontje??? i just went to the site and it seems up.
[quote]Hello everybody….as I have posted before Usenet Piracy Forum IJSKLONTJE
the site is now shutdown. This will be a HUGE blow to a lot of other piracy sites on the net as many torrent sites used this place as their main source for content.[/quote]
Wow, & here I was all this time thinking that IJsklontje forums was just one of many ways & places that usenet posters network & that it didn’t actually have any content.
& the claim that many torrent sites even organise the obtaining of torrent content at all is laughable, let alone that they did so mainly through one forum.
It’s the people fools, millions of them that will always find a way to share & network no matter what you do.
Meanwhile, while you are wasting your time having press conferences advertising for file sharing, stroking each others egos & propping up delusions on the gfy board, your competitors who know better are out there thinking up new ways to scam & rip off consumers & stay one step ahead of you.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, your over priced shit stinks as does your dishonest marketing & bad service, your affiliate programs have filled the web with spam & other crap & made it virtually impossible for the average consumer to efficiently navigate your industries offerings. The way you treat your customers/suckers it is no surprise you do not have the respect of consumers.
You are your own worst enemies, you actively drive consumers to develop their own networks they can trust.
The fact you think your survival hinges on 4 measly % is testament to your failure & the shortcomings of your last century business model.
You remind me of spoilt brats always blaming any & everything else for your own faults & failings.
Look out, the future is coming & you either adapt or get run over.
Some producers are smart, they are allowing content into the wild & reaping for free advertising benefits far exceeding your outdated methods. Becoming rich, worldwide legends via the strength of file sharing networking.
Much cheaper & much more effective than your spam sponsoring, trust destroying affiliate programs.
Here endeth todays lesson
rls log down?? rls log . net
[quote comment="166103"][quote comment="166099"]What’s up with the troll comments lately? I wonder if they all trace back to the same source…[/quote]
Who’s a troll?… did’t read the rest lulz…[/quote]
you’re a troll now GTFO.
OMG! The pr0n is g0ne! What will we d0?
pr0n industry? There’s no shortage of people willing to get funky before digital videocams, or bittorrent bandwidth. If there’s one industry on an outdated business model, this is it.
This really reminds me of that Robot Chicken sketch where Al Qaeda erases all pr0n from the ‘net.
Bush: “C’mon, give us back our prOn.”
If the pronsters insist on following the model of the MAFIAA, then they’ll suffer the same fate:
Dying from obscurity.
As far as pron goes, I wouldn’t know who the current ’stars’ are if it were not for bittorrent.
I’m not their target market anyway, there’s a whole pile of treasure beyond the great firewall of China.
Is there really anything innovative about the actual content of porn? Well, no, there isn’t anything new. I wouldn’t really mind if porn was gone. Most of it is just boring crap.
However, the porn industry can whine all they want, sue all they want, etc, but they simply will not impact p2p/bittorrent in their favour.
I just went to the site and it’s up. Registration is closed for the time being, but it’s up.
[quote comment="166094"]I say good riddance. The popularity of porn {along with crude shows, games, and movies {such as Family Guy, S{t}uperBad, and Manhunt}} only serve to show that there’s something seriously wrong with the societies we live in.[/quote]
I did a stody last year of typical US TV networks. It turns out the likes of Terminator 2, Bad Boys, The Godfather pt 3 - all suitable for lunchtime viewing on a weekend. Of particular note is that Lethal Weapon 2 was also on, but whilst the cop shootings were in, Patsy Kensit’s nudity was right out.
What’s up with society? Hows about cops being shot is acceptable, yet a naked woman isn’t? Odds are most males will encounter several naked women in their lives, and yet hopefully will not kill anyone. Thus, why is something everyone will do is considered bad, and something you get locked up for, or sometimes executed for, is so horriffic, it must be protected from children at all costs?
The study is available on my blog by the way (http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com/2006/07/media-crazy.html)
Really makes you think.
What about rlslog.net it says “This domain is temporary suspended.” anybody know why?
[quote comment="166365"]What about rlslog.net it says “This domain is temporary suspended.” anybody know why?[/quote]
Yes. Inquiring minds would like to know.
i’ve been told on the rlslog irc chan that maybe they have bandwidth limit exceeded and the host have suspended temporarily their account until they purchase more bandwidth .
rlslog is truly a sad site.
i welcome the new dos attacks with great anticipation
I used to be a part of the porn community. In as much as i was an affiliate for many sites and did make a LOT of money generating sales. But then one day the “magic money tree” died. Not because of coporate interference. Not because of piracy or even goveremnt pressure. It was because greedy, manipulative fucks like servergenius (with whom i have had a few run in’s myself) came along and changed the face of the industry. The reason he’s gloating this way is because he knows it’s neither a victory or even anything to do with him. It’s a simple case of timing and coincidence. For which he will quite happliy take all the glory. He knows, as do all the other porn producers of this world, that you will NEVER stop file sharing in whatever form. I remember the same thing happening when password sharing sites were the big thing. A site called “oldschoolpasswords” got closed and they acted as if they’d just won world war three using sticks and rocks. But literally within days 100’s more pass sharing sites sprang up. They know there is no real solution to this. It was once suggested to use DRM for the files on poon sites but they then realised that membership would drop by a staggering 200% and that idea was quckly dismissed. Personally i think it’s just the hollow bleating of a very insecure and withered old scrooge.
hmmm this is funny to me
“This will be a HUGE blow to a lot of other piracy sites on the net as many torrent sites used this place as their main source for content.”
I have a membership at several Porn Torrent sites, some are “scene” only others are open uploading (empornium.us). And I can honestly say no uploader(a worthwhile one, with a good server) gets their files from usenet. Usenet is used by people who don’t want to hurt their ratio on torrent sites, they download from binaries and help seed on their favorite torrent sites.
I haven’t even visted them and truly looked for something to download, because (as said by previous posters) porn is the same shit rehashed time and again. Only thing that changes is the faces…
“shutdowns” like this really only lead to smaller sites popping up, at first their rather “quiet” in terms as activity, but when people who used the previous site look for what that site use to provide them, they will find those smaller sites.
[quote comment="166345"]I did a stody last year of typical US TV networks. It turns out the likes of Terminator 2, Bad Boys, The Godfather pt 3 - all suitable for lunchtime viewing on a weekend. Of particular note is that Lethal Weapon 2 was also on, but whilst the cop shootings were in, Patsy Kensit’s nudity was right out.
What’s up with society? Hows about cops being shot is acceptable, yet a naked woman isn’t? Odds are most males will encounter several naked women in their lives, and yet hopefully will not kill anyone. Thus, why is something everyone will do is considered bad, and something you get locked up for, or sometimes executed for, is so horriffic, it must be protected from children at all costs?
The study is available on my blog by the way (http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com/2006/07/media-crazy.html)
Really makes you think.[/quote]
I don’t remember being indoors watching television as a child. I was probably out playing or something. I think that’s what most children do.
I was beginning to think when the hell porn sites were going to go down. I’m sick of getting a flood of porn sites whenever I search for some unrelated subject on Google. Now on the other hand, MediaDefender’s emails and such… >=D
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