Torrent sites under attack
Written by Ernesto on February 24, 2006The MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub. This could have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community since Torrentspy and Isohunt are two of the most frequently visited torrent sites.
But on the other hand, Isohunt and Torrentspy are torrent search engines and DO NOT host any torrents so the MPAA may have a hard time to built a strong case.
Slyck got a chance to talk to the operators of Torrentspy and Isohunt, and they responded quite relaxed:
“Funny, they didn’t email me,” Gary from ISOHunt said. “I’m not too concerned because we deal with copyright requests everyday, some of them from studios MPAA represents.”
“Justin” from TorrentSpy echoed Gary’s skepticism. “I guess I will learn more when I see what they have filed exactly. I’m not sure why they are suing when we comply with DMCA requests but I guess we will learn more down the road.”
Let’s wait and see, here’s a copy of the press release. Besides the 5 torrent sites ed2k-it.com (Edonkey), nzb-zone.com, binnews.com and dvdrs.net (newsgroups) are also targeted.
Previously: Tribler: A social based, BitTorrent powered p2p network
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191 Responses
Thanks mpaa i was always thinking about news groups now i know the best ones ha ha :-)
^ Seriously, I just found a couple more torrent sites thanks to this, lol.
Ebay is the best way to get around stuff any way buy and resell
who gives a fuck. those sites are the worst going. invite only sites are where it’s at any ways :P
Invite sites? got any that i might get invited to =D
Leave them alone u stupid MPAA!
they did nothing wrong.
i wonder why they didn’t target the pirate bay? haha it’s cause they can’t, long like the bay!!!
the internet is boundless! MPAA is juz playing with fire… The more work they do, the more better the programs get! in YOUR face MPAA!
Googles a torrent search engine. Just try googling for something then space torrent.
Can’t wait to see the lawsuit against google for indexing stolen files
you’re right… :)
filetype:torrent
http://torrentfreak.com/google-filetypetorrent/
Ya’ll remember the fracas over napster right? Major victory for the assholes that was, but low and behold instead of killing p2p it started a revolution. They blame price increases on piracy, price increases drive MORE ppl to piracy. Kill a few BT sites, we all go looking elsewhere and they cant go locking up the MILLIONS of pirates around today.
Fuck em. Fucking slimy thieving capitalist punks.
WHO THE FUCK GO AND SPREAD OUT THE NEWS BOUT TORRENTSPY AND ISOHUNT? GOD DAMN FUCKING ASS HOLE… HOPE THIS SITE EILL NOT DOWN..IF YES ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…
dude its just a bunch of bureaucratic fucking tennis kids that are looking for some attention. all they do is charge someone for a bogus reason because they want to advertise their fucking company name
You guys are laughing at how idiotic the MPAA is in regards to BitTorrent. Everyone of the posts previous to this are laughable to anyone who knows anything about tracker sites (apart from the first one :P ), you guys are moron n00bs. Slyck … lol … yeah they produce some accurate reports! lol
People brag that hey have all these programs, sell them, people ask where they got, word spreads, eventually wrong people find out its really stupid.
So yea whatever…cant these fuckers just leave us alone to our downloading…
Its starting to get easier to just shoplift a cd than to download with all this bullshit. Just be a ninja and take what you want the easy way! Most Hot Topics dont even have sensors at the exits. Just muscle a cd or two at a time!
“Hi, I’m the MPAA. Can I play on your team?” Everyone in the free world: “HELL NO you can’t!!” MPAA: “Then I’ll take away stuff you like. Nya, nya, nya.”
That’s pretty much the gyst of this whole thing.
omg if mpaa win….
if mpaa win…
bittorrent will be a paid service. :D
and then everyone will be ‘happier’! yay! :D
If we all stand back for a second though downloading content that you did not pay for is stealing and as such the mpaa blah brein and all the rest are like the big fat security guards you get in hmv scary looking but dumb and easy to evade :-)
torrents are stealing, so yes the mpaa does have a right, but i only donwload stuff like SG-1 and SG-Atlantis before i go and buy the actual dvd’s - kinda try-b4u-buy.
besides, if you download everything you can get your hands on, you’ll never watch the hours of video, never listen to all the hours of music, and never play the masses of games… unless you have no life…
We use broadband to download and watch movie not to surf net only that what my comment… Dun come and disturb use for our downloading. once torrent site down we must CUT OFF OUR telephone line so that the company can ready for shut down pack their backpack go home sleep.
its stoopid :) u download stuff.. play/listen/watch it a few times… get bored and delete da file neva to play/watch/listen to again… if software makers cud make software dat worked for everyone then piracy on software would b quite low.. peopl download software as a try-b4-u-buy an some may find that the software/games dont work so no sense n buyin da game in da first place
WATS WRONG WITH DOWNLOADING…???..its just an advance in technology that occurs on everything right….we use to have sun glasses…then …we have sunnies with mp3 on tham …evolution ..like recording songs from radio and recording tape from tv video recorder…that wasnt illegal ….downloading mp3 n avi are an evolution of recording right?….who agrees with me?…
shit i can’t have those sites go away
I love the comment about google being a torrent search engine, although not directly marketed as such it none the less can be used for nefarious purposes. This argument alone should be able to get the case thrown out on torrent search engine sites, I would love to see the RIAA go after google that would last about 2.2 seconds. Piracy will NEVER end it doesn’t matter what they do, before BT there was P2P programs, before P2P there was FTP and before the NSF created what we know today as the internet there were BBS’s, and before that there was sneakernet.
simple fact, if they close down any website/service 2 more spring up or everyone moves onto a different way of downloading things, just think though, if they DID manage to defeat piracy, what would they do all day then? they’d be pointless and out of a job lol
I use BitTorrent on a ‘try before you buy’ basis. If the MPAA fuckers come and examine my PC, they’ll find illegally downloaded copies of albums that are sat right next to my PC in their original purchased packaging. The MPAA are cunts. Capitalist wankers. Die.
the mpaa have made a few copies of a film called not yet rated, by kirby dick, currantly as we speak mr dick lol, has asked a team of legal’s to build a case against the mpaa because they were made without his permission, how the fuck can they talk, sue or charge anyone for what they call piracy when they practice it themselves. Oh yes i was forgetting, it’s ok were the mpaa
Feel free to harass the following if you feel you can do so without getting caught ;)
Kori Bernards or Michelle Greeno
MPAA Los Angeles
(818) 995-6600
John Feehery or Gayle Osterberg
MPAA Washington, DC
(202) 293-1966
hahaha well said, a massmailer might come in usefull for that.
But really, we all know why we download.
Could someone just make a list of the different “digital” ways MPAA can be counterattacked, vaporised, nuked?
if the mpaa waNTS US TO WATCH MOVIES MAKE THEM CHEAPER
but i still wont go to the cinema
Just as the music industry took down Napster in order to usher their own pay per downloads services, I expect taht these moves by the MPAA are only an effort to curtail free downloads in order to give them the time to set up official pay per dowload services.
Look for a Universal motion pictures dowload site next year.
All of this is an effort to tighten their grip on the common man and milk them for everything imaginable in ever form possible.
With the evolution of new technologies I wouldnt put it past the movie industry to pioneer new efforts much like cell phone music and video downloads. All of which are billed automatically to you by your cell phone company on a per download basis. Everytime I see one of those comercials where she changes her clothes to “My Humps” by the Black Eye Peas, I see droves of children hemoraging funds for stupid downloads that they will never own or be able to use again.
It all saddens me because these people paying massive amounts get ripped off as they have no substantial product for the payment. I beleive that is exactly what the industries want. They are just shitting themselves over the concept of pay per view services where you watch a movie or hear a song and then aftwards have nothing to show for it. If you want to hear it or see it again, ha ha ha ha you have to pay all over again. And they win Win WIN.
The MPAA didn’t even register the software used to create the press release!
link
I think their lawsuits will fail miserably becuase TorrenySpy and isoHunt are search engines, just like Google except that they have torrents.
You can’t sue Google for pornography, so you can’t sue TorrentSpy/IsoHunt for illegal downloading.
And they will never stop stealing. Mankind has been stealing since like forever, and it will never stop.
What can be said except seeeedddddddd
They claim $5.4 billion was lost in the film industry because of offline and online piracy. You can’t prove this whatsoever first off. Second, where is that $5.4 billion then? Is it in my pocket? Did I spend it on something else? No. It’s no where. Because I didn’t have the money to begin with. That’s why I downloaded it. Lost sale? BS. First off… for the record the majority of my downloads are music. 2nd: I don’t burn any music I download. 3rd: the only reason I download the music is to see if I like it. If I do, I go out and I buy the CD. I don’t steal music. I borrow it though.
Hey… if I was a musician… and someone wanted to download my music, I’d say GO FOR IT! Cause at least someone want’s to listen to it… and they shouldn’t be denied that right…otherwise no one would ever know who I am. The music industry is TOTAllY different than the film industry…in respects to the artists behind the art. No musician is doing it for the money. Only a select few in the film industry are actually doing it to make good art or whatever you wanna call it…The less creative simply want to put out as many shitty movies as they can and take our money.
Sorry for the ignorant post.
you are all idiots, ooo, I’m cool, i talk in web lingo and talk about capitalist pigs being bad. Capitalism is what everything in your wolrd is based on, even you, you freakin’ morons. Grow up and get a job. Who cares if you use torrents and download crap illegally, just quit sounding like 10 year old idiots, or maybe you are 10 year old idiots….
Capitalism Rules!!!!
hey does anyone know about some invite only sites…..i would really like to join one i have lots to offer……….
If all else fails, everyone input their AIM screen name into an online database, and put what files they have, and then send them that way, but meh, leechers would screw that system up. Either way, there are so many ways to share files.. the community shall never die out!
I went two houses down and borrowed a friends copy of Terminator 3. Was that illegal? No. Now if I do the same thing over the internet with the same neighbor I’m breaking the law? What is that? It makes no sense and they know it. These people DESERVE to lose their jobs and their profits for being greedy shits.
ha i love the comment with the phone numbers from the guys from the MPAA. If someone gets there email addresses use a program called ghost mail to send them shit because it doesn’t place your email address in the from box, you can make up your own i.e. shithole@toilet.com and thats who it will say it is from. Just watch the ip trace but i don’t think it will send ip with it. Also the only reason that i download is because the tv networks take too long to bring tv shows that are popular to my country. For example we have been waiting 2 YEARS for stargate season 8 and they are filming season 10. So fuck the MPAA cause i want to see stargate and such without waiting for years for it to come on tv.
The MPAA tries to make us scary, especially the beginners who try torrent for the first time. I know many people who have a paranoia to download something. they think that every moment police will knock on their doors. GUYZ dont try to sell torrent-stuff and you are nearly fine. DONT SELL, a golden rule. MPAA has no chance, in no way, like someone said here… we are tooooo many, how many appz passed by… hotline..e-mule..torrent…icq and maybe some others I forgot. They harder they try, the more they will lose. The whole industry stuff is to xpensive. And even if they could forbidden the whole stuff, how many people will have an DSL-account then??? How many people would buy even a PC ??? Come on guyz, lets laugh at them…. HA HA ha…No chance for the horror messages from MPAA. It doesnt matter what are you closing: Razorback2… Isohunt or whatever…. WE WILL WIN, WE ARE THE MASSES
LETS START some ROOT-KITS…… hua hah aha haa ha
The fact simply is more and more people are downloading every day. They will never have the money, man power, time, or ability to legally persue every downloader. It is not possible. What’s sad is for instance if I went and stole say Alien on DVD from my local Wal-Mart I’d at the worst get a 1000$ fine (plus allowed personal civil suit which covers financial and personal losses resulting in) and a day in jail. Mind you, at the maximum allowed penalty in my state for shoplifting. (Altogether I can go pick Alien up for 10$ and at worst let’s say I broke a 50$ store display making my getaway.) After doing the math my total personal cost of getting caught, mind you at the maximum allowed, would be 1060$ and a day in jail.
Let’s say I went and downloaded Alien off the internet….I could be pursued for up to 250,000$ in a federal court (plus of course those handy dandy personal civil suits), spend up to 3 years in a federal prison, and not to mention a mountain of legal fees. (Mind you this is in the United States.)
Doesn’t that seem a little backwards? With the internet I’m actually stealing less, the production cost of the actual item I was taking was nothing, and on top of that it’s a lot less hazardous. (yes I’m the kind to take a weapon with me when carrying out my “Alien” heist lol)
All in all, they’re screwed. They just have to make it look like they are doing their jobs to substantiate a paycheck.
Face it, we’re becoming, if not already, the majority.
Lmao the mpaa have no case ,what they gonna do shut down SKY next as i get loads of my stuff off there now might not be the latest stuff but i can download it without any comeback .These sites don,t host any of the files they involved in they host torrents so go away and get something solid to start a case on.I reckon we get these sites moved 2 servers in countries where the mpaa have no authority that,ll shut em up
The quote about niteshdw.com was actually not posted about myself, but by one of the members.
My god, this is bullshit.
The greed-ridden shitfacedness of the MPAA makes me sick. What is it that corportate people have about anyone being happy without paying money for it?
Well, it’s kinda like the war on drugs, or terrorism. No they will never win and they know that, but it is necessary for them to do as they are that way it doesn’t get out of hand. These tactics do deter alot of people to pay online for their songs so they know it’s a losing battle but they are keeping a balance.
Listen, the MPAA knows what they’re doing. Everyone says “They can never win that lawsuit because the law is on Torrentspy’s side.” Well, that doesn’t realy matter. The RIAA and MPAA has won tons of lawsuts against individuals because a lawsuit costs money. Lots of it. Even if these sites can put up a decent defense it would cost a sh*tload of money to beat them. It makes me sick to see this shit happening to these sites and people. I feel worse for the individuals that are sued because these assholes bankrupt them with settlements.
downloading movies music or whatever is just as illegal as copying music off the radio or films off the tv. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO IT! you’re just supposed to erase it within 48 hours (or maybe a week). most people do this anyway so there shouldnt be a problem. the law needs to be clear and well known. if so more people would stick to it. (these laws apply to the uk at least!)
here is the real question though that really will answer if p2p should be legal… would you PAY to download?
if prices were cheap and you paid like $1 per movie or something… would you pay it?
I do agree that they have to make some money, I mean it pays for the people that all work to make something but, how much profit do they really need? Perharps if they were less greedy then people would be more willing to pay for things.
On another note… notice that with the “piracy increase” there prices go up yet they still try to sue people… I mean if they are covering there losses by raising prices why do they need to try to make even more money? If they spent less money trying to get blood from a stone in court maybe there losses would be substantialy less! Afteral alot of people that pirate would rather not own the item if they couldn’t download it… so in reality they are losing nothhing, I fi was never going to buy it there were never going to get the money from the sale and hense they shouldn’t miss those profits they never had!
I don’t wanna seem all gay and such over here, but i download and listen to music to just get by in life. 1, i purely dont have the money, if i did i would probably buy music but the music i listen to *maily techno* i dont really see in stores or anything all i see is *no offense* rap and i really dont like it. 2,im in my high school years, im not the brightest student, and music is what keeps me from going insane and getting angry, streesed out, and just ready to explode on someone.
downloading gives me a good thing to think about and do which helps me get rid of stress about school work, just teenage depression, and to just survive and i dont think im the only one.
dont take down torrent spy, plus if u do we will just go look for over ways so not really to smart, i mean omg torrent spy goes down *5 minutes latter* downloader plus or some pirate system comes out, no stopin it.
just respectfuly getting my opinion out, thanks
the best thing to do is to host torrent sites in countries wich do not have piracy laws…. the MPAA can sing and dance all they want.. they’ll wont be able to do shit all… if the country does not recognize piracy as illegal!!!…
happy downloading…
didnt bit torrent emmerge becuz p2p like napster and kazaa got fucked…??
if bit torrent goes.. some thing better will come along… it always does…
Those who get sued in this battle between the MPAA and P2P are P2P Martyrs and MORE people will find out about P2P and Torrents, and it will just help us! Stop wasting ur time MPAA.. Piracy will never end. ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY P2P!
MPAA or RIAA or FCKAA … they think they exist for a purpose, but everyone else realises they’re obsolete. What is their mission exactly? Close down torrent search engines? Not very realistic. First, the lawsuit fined against them will be substance-less bullshit anyway. Secondly, torrents will keep on expanding, they exist for a reason, don’t they dare close one eye because torrents spread like an infectious disease, when they’re hot movies or albums or whatever. Like Brokeback Mountain. Damn I love the movie. Jack Twist… Jack Nasty.
Man, them ISOHunt and Torrestspy niggas reacted like bitches. “We will learn” and the other dude thinking it’s funny. Yeah, buddy,…it’s real funny and that other joker needs someone to teach his ass. Man, their on the MPAA’s dicks and their sites won’t last long.
HERE IS AN ARGUEMENT
p2p and bt’s are search engines like google and yahoo.
with google or yahoo you can look for dvd covers for the pirated dvd and cd’s.
yahoo and divx has teamed up to make dvd players to play avi’s and other formats that you can download like movies and mp3’s that you can’t buy at department or video stores.
ipod and other company’s make mp3 players yet you can’t buy mp3’s a your local record store.
there are now dvd recorders to copy movies and tv shows from your tv.
cable company’s have machines that also allow you to record shows on tv.
microsoft has software that helps you rip cd’s and burn them.
what about the companys that produce cd and dvd writers.which are used to copy pirated media.
how come they don’t go afterall these people (acompplices).why don’t they go after msn,mac ipod,sony,yahoo,every company that has a hand in making machines that help copy and play these formats or just fuck off!
the vhs has been around for years and i never killed the movie industry.same with cassettes.and yet there are still no talent losers making millions of dollars
is it still piracy if you own a store bought copy on another format?
if some one was shiping stolen goods through the mail would you sue or charge the postal service?
Just going to say two things.
1) I can’t believe people pay to use Napster and the like, b/c MP3’s are horrible, horrible quality. I can’t listen to them (I’m an audio person though). You could argue that MP3’s aren’t even songs b/c they’re missing 10,000 herts of the original! Not too much intelligent compression and “recreation” of repetitive sounds. So, don’t waste your money to pay to download shit quality… it’s just plain stupid!! Also, we downloaders don’t really want to “archive” XVID’s. We download to watch and discard. And don’t say that and XVID is a pirated movie, b/c it’s a compressed, digitized, and eletronic recreation of an original. It’s like a printout of a digital snapshot of the mona lisa. That’s not worth anything, now is it?!?
2) If DVD’s weren’t 20 bucks for a 10 cent piece of plastic and a 15 cent plastic case, then maybe piracy wouldn’t be so bad. When the RIAA offered refunds to pay for a DECADE of overpriced CD’s, all I got was a check for 14 dollars. Wow, THANKS! That really made me back my $100’s. Assholes. SEE: they admitted that they’re price gouging, and yet they’re still apathetic to it.
So, I say, leech and share with one another. Maybe they’ll finally get it that the majority of people don’t want to pay 18 bucks for a CD of a horribly overproduced, untalented singer/band that cost the studio 25 million to record, produce, mix, master, and sell/advertise/pimp to the world. We just don’t want that. Figure it out!!
Maaderchod They can never closedown bittorrents ever. People will find other sites to search torrents if torrentspy or isohunt goes down.
P2P will never die.
We all pay a monthly subscription to our ISP right? So why not include in that a fee for artist royalties and such. That way trackers can be used to pay royalties to an artist each time a song/album is downloaded. All legal, just like a radio station.
Now back to reality - this will probably never happen because it cuts out the middle man (MPAA etc). IMO music should be about the artist and the audience, no one else.
Their argument is that downloading is stealing (from the artist) but what they really mean is “Where’s my cut?”
You lot are no better than the petty thievin chavs that steal cds from high street music stores. Get a job so you can actually buy one and stop whining about the threat of not being able to steal so easily. And no I’m not from the MPAA.
I don’t see the problem w/ downloading. I’ve done alot of research into this, including many a college essay/paper/etc and ALL of the legal documents I find describe peer to peer downloading as LEGAL! It’s the same principle as me recording a song off the radio on to a cassete, then giving you a copy of the cassete(this is actually descibed in digital protection act documents). Exept we do it electronicly over much larger distances and many thousands of times.
As a search engine TS, isohunt etc will be fine. Unless they want to take on google for any kiddie porn or ‘how to make a pipe bomb’ sites that may just happen to show up. They might as well be consistant as ‘internet police’ and go after everyone.
THIS IS GREEDY LAWYER STUFF! NOT 12 YEAR OLD KIDS GOING TO JAIL STUFF!
You are right, p2p will never die, once one falls another one rises.
Sharing is caring. Fuck the RIAA!
link
I rest my case.
i think the mpaa sucks and whats a matter with idiots saying the mpaa is right hahah yea right the only thing there good for is abusing people stealing money from them and what you mean those sites are shit isohunt is a good site to dl from i been using it had no probs pluss its got plenty on it so if i cant find a file from one site il go there for it so as far as im concerned the riaa and mpaa can kiss my ass i hope those sites fight them to the bitter end and win hahaha screw you mpaa and riaa also it doesnt matter if they take down the best site another one starts up so they are never wining anything wont get them anywhere look what happend to suprnova that got taken down but now there is a simalar site called newnova so there ya have it p2p will never die no matter what p2p rules
The whole thing is completely ridiculous. First of all you get all this new stuff i.e. dvd burners dvd software from sites and you cannot use it to the way it should be used.
However my main gripe is why the hell do they not bring the movie out on dvd at the same time as the cinema. Reason I am sick of going to movies as you either sit next to somtime who sounds like a cow when they are eating or they make a noise or talk whilst the movie is on.
I like to watch the movies in the comfort of my own home.
Also there has been a 45% drop in people between the ages of 30-45 and it was not because they were downloading the movies it was because that there is a load of shit coming out at the moment. Why should I pay $25 to go and watch shit.
what irks the hell outta me is that the MPAA SUPPOSED to be doign thier jo by trying to get sites like that to stop. What they need to do is stop the bullshit of artists relasing albums with 2 or 3 really good songs and 12 shitty ones!! trust me, for someone who has accumalated over 4000 cd’s in 15 years - alot of the stuffi bought was not worth the damn money!!
There’s no way I’m going to believe the magnitude of loses they claim. Those figures are sensationalized with the math. I purchase a $50 pay-per-view and “illegally” invite 10 friends over to watch for free, I guess that counts as a $500 loss to the industry. I’ll bet the artist would not notice a change in their income one way or another because it’s not like the numbers per recording or movies downloaded are in the millions where noone goes to the movies or concerts anymore. The industry spends huge sums on sometimes bad investments and need a scapegoat. There has to be some concession for technology. DivX is the leading format for internet downloads so now they make DVD players that can play this. DVD9 makes it so you don’t have to “shrink” a movie to fit a dvd. They can’t stop technology! Damn the inventor of the vcr!
Pay to pay,
Ask yourself:
Why when i buy Blank Cd i pay a tax for piracy? (even if i dont download anything)
Why CD/DVD burner exist?
In which ways i make compagny lose money if i download it?, if i couldnt download it (example photoshop) i couldnt afford to pay for it anyways. so where i make them losing money? isnt logical…
Why i paid for a ADSL/DSL (or simply high speed internet) ? for my email? dont make me laughing… In the ISP publicity at TV they said (and im not lying) DOWNLOAD MOVIE, MUSIC and ..blablabla … ok so if p2p has never existed, if bitttorent and all these program never existed, then the “movie” they talk about is what?… a preview in weak quality Mpeg? the music is what? MIDI FILES??? … i dont need a high speed internet connection to download these.. Sorry but MPAA SUCK and they are in the wrong side of logical evolution, we, the peoples are tired to be manipulated and not taken serious so MPAA can go fuck herself, i’ll not have fear of any of these nonsense organisation. I am a pirate and i’ll stay…
Stealing is bad, but they do it from the beginning, now it’s our turn.
yeah!, its call retribution! lol
KEEP ALIVE TORRENTSPY!!
MPAA SUCK
I hate the stupid bastards tat yeah you are stealing go get a job and buy the shit let me make a few points
1 I have job so yeah i could afford to buy but wont :-) (i have been scamoed long enough)
2 I doubt you got to this site without knowing about downloading with torrent and you downloaded copyright stuff yourself.
3 We sound like 10 year olds ? why were the fuck did anyone say power rangers .
4 Yes a law will be made in that place you call freedom that makes it wrong to link a file to copyright material it will go if a goes to b to c then a is illegal etc etc
nitsdw why you closed up man ? gzip and move ask zippy here he can help
so many good points made so far! At the end of the day, shutting down these websites will spawn more! This is something that cannot be controlled. Think about IRC spy, i never hear about about the MPAA looking to shutdown the IRC clients! Personally i hope they do shut them down, it will only create newer and better downloadig options for us. Ad until it does, we can all use the Pirate Bay!
Long live Torrents !
Don’t this people got something’s better to do? then trageting torrents site and it user…this piss me off.
MPAA SUCKS DONKEYS DONG ,
I HOPE THEY BANKRUPT SOON !!
This reeks of desperation.
We can only imagine the failed meetings and research grants which lead up to this action being taken. There’s allegedly $5 Billion dough on the line, so at least say $100 Million sitting in the kitty to any dude who can come up with a workable solution to the industries woes. And yet _ZERO_ takers!
With SO much at stake, and technology marching on, they’ve got no better solution yet than lobbying the US Senate to build copyright protection into “ALL” silicon chips - which Intel and others (correctly) maintain is “not in their interests” ..if not downright laughable.
These ongoing lawsuits are the equivalent of putting out a rampant forest fire with gasoline.
Niteshdw’s sci-fi torrent site used to be a good site but this MPAA scare has resulted in moderators threatening their members with giving away their IP addresses. Such a violation of privacy rights is a wrongful action and I think the Niteshdw forum site will dwindle in numbers, not only after the loss of their torrent site but also the threat to members who post on that forum.
“If we all stand back for a second though downloading content that you did not pay for is stealing”
If you see $20 in the middle of the road, and you decide to pocket it, is it theft? NO!
You see avi or mp3 floating accross the net, and you pick it up, is it theft?
Doesn’t matter, because the matter is academic anyway. Songs, music, lyrics, screenplays, scripts, producers, the whole works claim that they are artists. People create art for the purposes of sharing their vision with others. That’s primary for a TRUE artist. And sure, it’s not asking too much for wanting a little money for your art, after all, if it’s appreciated, help him continue making more art that you enjoy. However, all these so-called “Artists” have more than enough to feed their families (and damn near their whole community as well), in fact they have WAY more than a whole town of average people, so what are they whining about? Attacking people (finacially or otherwise) because they want to enjoy some art, imho, means that they are no true artist. They’re just another beaurocrat with way too much time and money on their hands, and have nothing better to do than act like a banker instead of creating art. Take for example Metallica suing Napster. What happened to the “I don’t care / Anarchy Rules / Rock on!” attitude of their art? They got what they preached then rolled over and belly-ached like a bunch of snot-nosed spoiled little brats.
Point is, they tighter they squeeze, the more they lose. Try it with a tube of Colgate…
And as for suing these search-engines, then they better go all the way and sue the ISP’s for providing the bandwidth we use, and sue the companies that make software for playing these illegal files (like WMP… g’head, sue Microsoft… no? didn’t think so), and maybe mitsumi, Fugitsu, and all thses other companies that make ginormous hard-drives to store all these files on, maybe Intel, Dell, IBM, Seanix and a slew of other PC manufacturers for providing the machines to do all this illegal stuff too, and then how about my employer for paying me enough to buy a machine that can play these files… … … …Fuck it, sue the world, because we are all guilty to some extent in this matter, if not directly, then as an unaware accomplice/accessory.
Or, they could say “screw you hippies, I’m gonna go find an honest line of work.” That, I think, would be much simpler, more productive, and probably make the world a much more civil place. Besides, the RIAA is based in a democratic country, and I don’t remember voting for their stupid laws that the vast majority of the public they claim to represent is utterly disgusted by..
RIAA, go away. You were never sanctioned by the majority, Just some idiot who collects a majority of his pay from a minority and thus caters to the lowest common denominator.
Hear that RIAA?
Not F-A-S-C-I-S-M,
Not D-E-S-P-O-T-I-S-M,
But D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y.
And the majority say’s “KISS MY TOE!”
mlm
Ok few more things to add
1 hknbuyvyui i would like to here from nite himself about giving user ips away which i think is pure donky doo shit
2 If you find 20 pound in england and you dont hand into the local police station yes it is theft i doubt they would act on it but it is the law
3 You dont find things floating on the internet you have to search them out and yes you are stealing face the facts
BUT the record people have been stealing for years and years and you know what they say goes around comes around.
MPAA THE SOLOUTION IS SO OBVIOUS IM SHOCKED YOU CAN SIT DOWN USE THAT BIG POT OF GOLD TO BRIBE THE SITE DOMAIN OWNERS HOST OWNERS ET ETC Lets see how many shut up shop then mpaa i expect a cut of th epie for this great idea.
C’mon people, quit acting like what you are doing is legal and moral. You are stealing music, video and software. You are installing/listening/watching WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. It’s not called ‘Trial Version’ it’s called PIRACY. I do it, you do it, fuck it. Let it be what it is. No matter who they shut down next, another dozen places will open up. I personally don’t try to justify my piracy by saying it’s ‘try before you buy’ or ‘i only watched it once then deleted it’. That’s bullshit. Nobody goes out and buys an album that they already have, or software that’s already installed. What, do you just sit the software on your shelf just to ease your conscience? Grow up people. We’re all thieves. MPAA & RIAA are stupid to think they’ll stop it, but they aren’t wrong for trying to.
MPAA sucks
MPAA could prevent piracy by regulating movies, releasing good movies so people don’t feel ripped off in the theater after they saw a totally awesome, must see, do not miss, advertizement.. if MPAA loves $ so much, they’re gonna hurt themselves in the long run by trying to shut down main torrent sites!
What piss’s me tot he bone the mpaa only have a say in the usa yet they bug all of us.
Lol well i need to thank them LOL thanks to them i found some more sites lol nice work
Is this why torrentspy.com has been experiencing “high volume” on it’s latest torrents page? ..
And I love how everyone justifies everything, by the way. It makes me chuckle.
All the people that are saying FUCK da MPAA! are complete morons..
Although I agree that movies are overpriced, you (we) aren’t exactly helping the situation.
THey realize they’re losing this war, so they bitch and complain. Sad.
These new movies are shit to begin with. Most of them don’t even deserve a download. Same goes for music. If I had to pay somebody I’d rather pay to artists directly, not sponsor some middleman’s swimming pool. Fucking greedy bastards. Making money out of nothing, they should get a real job, not me!
So What happened to freedom?
I downloaded Transporter 2 a few monts ago and i liked a movie so i invited my two best friends to watch this movie in a teater. I dont know what is really wrong with this caind of downloading things.And i think it is wrong to download stuf and making money with selling them to others.
Nah, capitalism does fucking blow. It’s based on a mans right to be filthy stinking rich and charge what he likes, whilst his neighbour is poor and has nothing.
Tom Cruise doesn’t need 6 million for a film. In my lifetime, I’ll get by without spending 6 million. So can he.
I’m not a 10 year old. I have a job. I recently got in contact with a frontman from a very popular swedish band and told him I own his entire collection twice. Once, illegal copies on my computer and the second the enire collection I’ve bought on CD. He said “Well the collection on your PC is entirly legal then, in my opinion”
I explained how if it wasn’t for bit torrent, I’d never have heard his music, ever. As clubs around here play the popular shit and I don’t ahve the money to go and buy a CD without kowing what it is like. I don’t have that money and I don’t want to waste my money on potential crap.
I don’t download films. I don’t go to the cinema. I own more illegal music than I do legal music. If the MPAA want to come and track my IP and sue me, take away all my money. I’m not going to be able to go out and finish buying my collection, Am I?
Now I’m sure they are losing some money from this. But they need to realise that one man, downloading one album, is not going to destroy you. Because he might go buy it. One million men downloading one million albums is a bit crippling, so they go all out and start to sue people when they see these figures, do they wait around to see if album sales actually spike? As I predict they will? All my friends downoad music illegally and we all go buy our CD’s too, fucking hell, we buy the same ones at times. How can they claim we’re losing them so much money? When they’re only interested in making profit? Who isn’t? Right, but it’s this capitalist world that lets them oligopolise and monopolise this industry, charging what they want and bitching when they dont get everything thier way. The thing is, it’s free, we want it free, but we know it’s wrong to take it for free, we all do, no-one can claim they think it’s right to steal this music, after the hard work the artist put into it. but we also know the artist has no say in it’s sale and how much it will cost. Make them cheaper and more people will buy them.
See. You make an album £17. Its expensive, everysale brings in alot of profit, but not many will buy it, so let us say that 1 million people buy that CD, that is 17 million currency. That CD did not take 17 million to make. Now, imagine you make the CD cost £10, that’s alot cheaper, this time 3 million people buy it, why? Because that is affordable for most. That makes you a cool 30 million. Now unless you are fucking stupid, that is significantly more than 17 million. Now imagine you make the price £5 and demand fucking sores…instead of being big business pricks and raising the price to “fit” the demand (which CD’s wise is bollcoks, there are more than enough CD’s and the time it takes to make them cannot ever claim that there isn’t enough) So yeah, £5 and 100 million people buy them. That is 100 million happy fucking people,who get to listen to music they LOVE and that is £500 million in you pocket. Now I’m fucking sorry to say, but if I was a business man witha roduct so good as music people like, I’d be selling it for high profit. Now £500 million is more than £17 million, furthermore on a basis wher ei can feel good, that is 100 million people who are happy to pay £5 for a CD.
Also, Napster was just seized and forced into the pay to download thing. Either comply or be sued.
ok so they take down torrentspy ( if they actually could) then they would just have to go searching for all the other sites people have turned to to find torrents. Doesnt it just seem easier to quit, and know that torrentspy, isohunt, whatever, are the sites being used, and not some sites that they have no idea about?????
This is an obvious attemp to bring torrents into the spotlight! In hopes of turning it into something else to make millions off of. Lets face it to all the companies out there this is a huge untapped resource, and its potetial is obvious! Look how they used napster as a scapegoat and created things like itunes for devices making you pay for songs and have made billions! Its all about money people isnt it clear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All this about “try b4 u buy” is a bunch of BS. I dont download stuff to try before i buy! i download music and movies and software becuase i dont want to give my money to these fat white middle aged a**hole business men corporate jerk offs for over priced crappy quality software , movies and music. its all a bunch of useless BS anyways so why should I pay for it if i dont have to? I have other things I would rather spend my money on. on the other hand i will buy a cd from a local band who is starving and touring just to put gas in there tanks to make it to the next gig! I know, i am in one of those bands. And “OH NO! my name is Roger Waters and i put out an album like 30 years ago and made millions off it and you are downloading it for free and I’m not getting paid royalties becuase this guy loves my music and is listening to it without paying for it!!” they are a bunch of BITCHES! FUck em!
people dont say “oh no the website i find torrents with is gone, now i’ll just have to quit downloading and buy the real thing” mpaa is retarded for even trying
fucking gonna seed all i can now fuckem
its crazy that people in other parts of the world, also become the dupe of a shitty us organisation. in holland the most of this is legal.
if downloading via bittorrent is illegeal than what about sites such as altavista, dogpile, and singing fish that offer music searches?, shouldnt they be sued too?, good luck MPAA, you (equally) greedy bastards.
Torrentspy isnt doing anything bad, and plus…movies make enough money, they make millions…movie theathers over charge, and buying and renting movies ads up after a while. Even with people downloading movies, the producers and actors are still millionaires living in huge houses with 20 cars.
Suing websites like these is like suing Google Earth for helping terrorists. It’s like suing your bank’s website because it shows the addresses of the bank branches to would-be bank robbers!
MPAA just give up the act we no u download from BT also and we love torrentspy and isohunt y wud u do sumthin so stupid and file against them???
screw the mpaa
I find this extremely amusing.. to a point.
I’m a music fiend… I’m always on the hunt for something new. When Napster was alive and thriving, I got introduced to so much music that I would have never heard otherwise. And I don’t just mean new stuff, but old stuff as well (classic rock). Then KazAa.. did the same thing for me. I live in an area where all you need to do to hear the same song twice on the “best” radio station here is listen for less than an hour. It sucks. Sucks hard. And it’s all that top 40 shit.
Radio doesn’t surprise me anymore, and that’s what is sad. Anyone remember the days when DJs would bring in shit from home to introduce to people, or play B-sides of records because they liked what was on it, and as long as they didn’t cuss on air or threaten to kill the President, it was ok. Then, those fucks at ClearChannel decided to take over, and while the genres change from station to station, the format remains the same - you play what’s popular, and you play it A LOT.
Satellite isn’t all that much better, either. They play more music, and have more stations and genres, but it leaves little to truly discover. I just heard “She Wants Revenge” today and I’m definately buying their CD, as soon as I can find it (is it even out yet?!)
I truly don’t feel that people are stealing music… if they’re anything like me, they listen, then buy. Simple enough. The RIAA just needs to get their panties in a knot over everything. They should try going commando, maybe then they’re relax.
FUCK THE MPAA!!! Man Pumping Ass Attackers FAGS!!! BURN BURN BURN
i download mmorpg games mostly, like world of warcraft, but thats because of the private servers, they free, i dont want to go out and buy the game, and basically pay for game time i dont want, as id have to keep on paying month after month to keep the characters i made, when theres servers i can connect to for no cost. I download music on a try-before-you-buy basis too, il download afew songs, if i like them, il go out and by the full album/s, if i went out and bought the album and didnt like it, iv just wasted money on something im never going to use.
DOH! Im uhh… STOOPiD!!! I am liking very much to TRY bring to down torrent but I will go down in flames.
DOHH!
-MPAA
why is it that everyone from outside the US seems to blame all of us in the US for these problems….
Listen…yes…our world is run on capitalism…yes…it’s a shitty system, but can you create a better one?
Next, No…I don’t like the MPAA or the RIAA…personally I think of them as the life support systems on a dying industry…
Now, something that was mentioned here before…no…downloading these things isn’t leagal…we are pirates and we are the majority…but the real question is “is it moral?”
Answer: FUCK YES…the socio-dynamics of the world in any age can be described as a class system…on top you’ve got the rich fuckers who hold almost all of the money and all of the power and on the bottom you’ve got everyone else….throughout history there has always been, and always will be those that steal from the rich to give to the poor…call us Pirates, call us modern day Robin Hoods, call us whatever you will…but something we must look at is this…there are something around 8 billion people on this planet….there are also something around 500,000 million of us downloading whatever we want…the question of the day is not how are they going to try and stop us, but how are we going to spread this “stealing” to the other 7.5 billion people around the world?
Pirates of the World Unite!!!
oops
*minority^^^^^
Fuck yeah ^^^
They’ll never shut down all the pirates. The more attention they bring to bear on us, the more people hear what we have to say, and they will join us. They’re recruiting for the next generation of pirates :) thanks MPAA….wait…no fuck mpaa.
HAHAHA this is one one of the sentences in th press release regarding MPAA lawsuits:
“Approximately 75 Torrent and
eDonkey sites have been shut down in the last year as a result of these efforts”
My question is… how many other Sites must have opened meantime??
AND
“any product which can be reproduced endlessly by anyone at virtually no cost has, in any reasonable estimation, a market value of zero.” (sentence expressed http://torrentfreak.com/?p=133)
I will stop downloading when Game developers stop charging 50 pounds+ per game… simple
Its always over more money whatever it is
and piracy is unstoppable ;>
last desperate twitch… just give up and die
Just another perspective - those who download games/videos/music are never EVER going to purchase the things they download simply because the cost would be too much. However, they do provide a great marketing platform by giving good reviews about all the great movies/music/games etc they download.
Shutting down internet sharing technologies is just going to limit the spread of their products. They’ll lose money without a doubt.
The loyal fans will ALWAYS prefer to buy the original copy.
that robert guy up there is a moron. no idea about how things really work! what an embarassment to society!
btw i am taling with respect to the robert that made this retarded comment:
“you are all idiots, ooo, I’m cool, i talk in web lingo and talk about capitalist pigs being bad. Capitalism is what everything in your wolrd is based on, even you, you freakin’ morons. Grow up and get a job. Who cares if you use torrents and download crap illegally, just quit sounding like 10 year old idiots, or maybe you are 10 year old idiots…. ”
pffft some people have no clue!!!
Dear Torrentfreakz,
As co-director, producer and executive producer of the feature documentary “The Corporation” I’m perplexed about the whole torrent thing.
For a film with a radical critique, The Corporation has enjoyed remarkable success, with theatrical releases, TV broadcasts, and DVD sales in several countries. The film has also found a huge audience in the world of torrents, with over two hundred thousand downloads that I know about. No idea how many edonkey downloads, but there’s multiple copies of my film available there.
Now, I realize that downloading leads to word-of-mouth promotion, forum discussion and to some sales, but the grim reality is that the revenues generated by this film have yet to cover the costs of making and promoting it. And for me, it’s been almost 9 years of working on nothing else.
So this is a different story, I think, than the kinds of films the MPAA is upset about. Those films are largely the product of major corporations whose legal mandate, as The Corporation points out, is profit above all else.
I’m perplexed because I want the maximum audience for the film. That’s why I made it in the first place. But I also need to survive financially.
I wish there were a way for torrent users to distinguish between the output of gigantic media conglomerates, and that of independent filmmakers to whom 200,000 downloads can mean the difference between financial success and financial disaster. There isn’t even a mechanism in place, if someone did actually want to contribute a couple of bucks for a download it via torrents. Could there be? I’m interested in your perspective.
I’m in the process of putting up a “Downloaders Donation” button on my website http://www.thecorporation.com. I know that the people who have uploaded The Corporation did it out of enthusiasm and support for it, and I deeply appreciate that.
But I’m asking you now if you’ll please consider the personal implications of hundreds of thousands of people watching my film, yet most of them not making a financial contribution to materially acknowledge and support the efforts of the filmmakers who made it in the first place.
Best,
Mark Achbar
I love downloading music :D
but bands and all th e music industries gonna get fucked if we dnt buy there shit .. so support them a little bit and download everyfucking song. Lazy asses.
Pluckin at straws thats all they are pluckin at straws. bittorrenting is bigger than they think. plus individual users aint gettin targeted and there will always be a new torrentspy or torrentbox. hard luck Mpaa u lose.
yeah also forumw.org for paying the fines..
Lets be pratical guys however big u gonna shout mpaa and riaa ain’t gonna shutdown or become bankrupt so fast.Because they r being supported by the the legal music industry and the legal movie industry so starting thinking pratically than just righting anything in this forum.According to me torrentbox deserves to shutdown because of a piece of crap it is it is basically offline anytime i try to dload anything from it.Even the best torrent client Azureus 2400 can’t connect it.I have been trying to dload sleepless in seattle for such a long time but as it is tracked by this piece of crap i have been never successful i hope mpaa and riaa kick the hell out of torrentbox and sue the administrators to hell.
I think they are sueing because they want in on the goods! Bottom line is: it’s all about greed and money!
HERE IS A LIST OF PEOPLE WHO R TO BLAME…………..U GUYS SHOULD KILL ANY ON SIGHT AT ONCE
1. BILL FUCKIN GATES (COS HE WANTS TO MONOPOLISE ALL MP3 PAY PER DL SCAMS)
2.LOUIS WALSH (THE FUCKIN IRISH BOYBAND CUNTFUCK)
3.GEORGE CLOONEY (HE NEEDS THEM OSCARS AND DUE TO HIS WANK ACTUAL ACTIN ABILITY HE HAS TO MAKE 20 FILMS PER YEAR TO ASSURE HE WILL GET NOMINATED AS THIS YEAR HE GOT BEAT BY SOME FAGGOTS PLAYIN PUFFS RODEO IN STETSONS WITHOUT A HORSEY IN SIGHT!!! AT 35 MILLION PER FILM HE DONT COME CHEAP.
4. ANY IDIOT WHO HAS EVER PURCHASED FOR CASH ANY TYPE OF MEDIA FILE AS WITHOUT THEM DOING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE EVERYTHIN WOULD BE FREE.
5.SADAAM HUSSIEN (COS HE`S HAD THE BLAME 4 EVERYTHING ELSE SO WHY NOT?)
6.BILL GATES….AGAIN… COS HE WANTS TO BUY MORE EX SOVIET NUKES WITH WHICH HE WANTS TO KILL EVERYONE EXCEPT HIMSELF THEN HE CAN GET BACK TO WHAT HE LIKES BEST….FINGERING HIS OWN BUTT HOLE AND FUCKIN HIS GURD DOGS IN HIS COMPOUND WHILST SURFIN THE CYBER PORN SITES WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING CAUGHT BY A SECURITY BREACH,,,,,
SO THATS IT!!!!!!!!!! I THINK I SAID IT ALL IN A LANGUAGE THAT IS MULTILINGUAL……….
OH BY THE WAY ISO HUNT AND TORRENTSPY R FUCKIN SHITE!!!!!!! IN FACT ALL THE NON INVITE SITES R SHITE!!! ONLY PEOPLE WHO DONT SHARE ON TORRENTS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH NOT KNOWING HOW TO GET TO EM (I WONDER WHY?) SHAREWARE IS SHAREWARE IF U DONT LIKE IT THEN FUCKIN DO IT!!!!!!!! U WANKERS
I was wondering…
If I copy MY own DVD, that I bought, and is entirely MINE, I’m a theif by MPAA’s standards. (Now that’s fuct up enough as it is).
If you were to download a movie, all sorts of nosey no-lifes will call you theif. (Ok, maybe their right because I didn’t pay for it, but…)
Now, if you record a movie, TV show, music (video), et cetera… then it’s ok. After all it IS a public broadcast, most copyrights are defunct at that point.
The way I see it, the internet (in all it’s glory!) is nothing more than a hyped up broadcast network. First, there was the Press, then there was Radio! ooo!! Then they adapted that technology to include a picture, and TV was born (IQ scores drop worldwide! lol) Then came Cable.. so much better quality A/V, faster transfer rates, less distortion, and a much MUCH wider market. Now they use those same cables to broadcast digital media of any type to anyone that’s capable of “tuning in” to the right address (aka the Internet).
Now what makes them think that me downloading and sharing something that was publicly and freely broadcast to me makes me a theif? The only theif in this instance is the guy that made the copy and broadcasted it without a license. Nail him (sorry man), not me. I’m just being generous with the gifts I have.
But that’s not even the issue here. They’re shutting down and suing nothing more than Indexes for this media content. That’d be like suing TV-Guide for advertising that a certain channel is airing a movie at a certain time (and lo, unbeknownst to all, the Station didn’t have a license). That’s just rediculous already. So yea, if your going to sue anybody, sue the ones making the unlicensed “broadcasts.” Either that, or stop discriminating against those helpful people who index this stuff for us, and sue TV-Guide too, and the printers for your phone-book (There’s drug-dealers, rapists, murderers, theives, and criminals of ALL sorts listed in the phone-book!)
Rediculous already. It’s just unreal the lengths they’ll go to just squeeze the last few dollars out of people.
Let me put this into perspective:
The money the MPAA and RIAA spend to shut down these sites… is it even economically worth it? Is shutting down such sites paying off to even the slightest degree? Or are they just flushing millions upon millions of dollars, in the name of profits, to ammount to nothing more than a minor annoyance to the “Pirates”? IS THERE ANY CAPITAL GAIN TO ALL OF THIS? No, just simply, no. It’s all for the joy of really, with no real goal in mind. They managed to form a mob, and are now running their war-path, searching out people that don’t agree with their ideals (which we have the right to disagree!!!). Is this what “Capitalism”, “Democracy”, and “Freedom and Liberty” been reduced to, a “Mob-Mentality”?
Whatever, I’m so complacent to this worlds workings and aimless ambling. I just don’t care anymore. Take away torrents (if you can), I’ll still get what I want on MY terms one way or another. So, call me a “Pirate”, call me an idiot, call me an idealist if you want, cuz here’s my mlm to everyone, and go ahead.. try to stop me!
(For all those that actually do pay, or want to pay for the downloads that are worth the money, you can get ahold of the artists/company directly (they’re in the credits) and can pay them directly. I’ve done this MANY times, and have recieved nothing but “Thank-You’s” from them or their parent companies. After all, recieving my humble donation for a download that they did nothing to help me get IS better than nothing.)
My last RSS gathering was at 5:00 pm CST and Torrentspy.com was responding. At 8:00 pm I went there to check on some anime and the whole site had changed. No more torrent listings. No more RSS feeds.
RIP torrentspy.com
*sigh*
correction:
Must have been a work in progress. Old site info and RSS apppear to be back up and working as of 10:00 pm CST
is isohunt down?
ok first off i like to say u all r a bunch of crying litte moma boy bitches
ok now that out the way
lets start off by saying it becuz of people like u and the fact that u r buch point and click opertor who think cuz they go to a torent site and download a program,movie,song whatever that u some how elite underground hackers who know about computer u all talk like u part of something type undergound ring first when u download a program that got a crack that tell u just copy paste u didnt crack when u download movie that some eles rip geting by the security that wasnt u and any fool can toss a cd and upload the song from it to there computer hell windows made that point click so at what point in time do u dumb fuck swinging from the nut of hackers got to stay about shit u just sit wait for us to come up with next great p2p client or network and be happy they toss u scraps so in other shut fuck up and let let big boy talk cuz it so clear u all dont seam to get u all dont care about infortion being free having right not to be over charged for software no all u care about that u get your next fucking eminem cd free cuz u loser bastard spend all his money weed u dont even care if torentspy goes down a place that that basicly save your nut swinging asses from having to actuly get a realy job pay for shity ass eminem cd u dont beleave read all the post that all u guys care poor poor pityful me learn to do shit for self for change
it like what the 1 guy said invite site but wait none of can get on them site on yeah cuz u usaly have to be some who can contibute to it as wel just take u fucking leacher dont worrie some haker or prgram writer will come along and toss u all bone if bt sites start going down after all they need people to test there virues on
Hi, you all.
I seem to agree with ‘marlboro’. Although when you look at an average user of the p2p networks, not many of them are ‘hackers’. Nevertheless, they are the ones whose support is needed.
You are starting from the wrong end - gotta rock the system itself. In my country Estonia (by the way napster and kazaa were created here and i happen know these guys :)) a similar organisation like MPAA collects royalties to artists- or so they say. The problem is that these royalties (or intrerest earned on the funds to be exact) seem to dissapear in the bookkeeping… Go figure. Even Russia is now considering cracking down on software piracy: reason => they want to become the members of the IMF. It’s all politics my friends.
In my opinion the only reasonable and practical thing to do is to set up a trust or some other financial instrument on a voluntary basis to help the plaintiffs to fight and eventually, may be, drive MPAA and IRAA to dismissing their claims when big entertainment stocks take a dive and shareholders start asking unpleasent questions. Something to think about….
Anyway, power to the people and all that crap :))
Files (especially music files and movies) should be available freely for download, but you pay a small fee when you play them (or the first time only or something). That way, any one can have a large library of music files available from his home computer, not having to pay for crap he never plays. And the artists will get their share. So like: Just download anything, it’s free. But play it and like three cents or something is drawn from your paypal or whatever web-account.
Well it was about time that something as crappy as torrentbox was shutdown because it basically sucks also nowadays piratebay’s ship is also headed for the rocks due thier foolish popularity stunts which they seem to be putting up a lot nowadays look at thier tracker its the most crapiest tracker around with the likes of torrentbox which is always offline god knows why?also instead of doing such foolish stuff like putting up notices on thier sites which piratebay does most of the time they should concentrate on improving on the quality of thier torrents.Look at demonoid its one of the best torrent site with the top quality tracker which is inferno.demonoid.3391 which never goes offline.I think seriously piratebay’s days as top torrent site is basically over also torrentbox can’t be shutdown because how can you shutdown something which never started as for torrentspy it was gonna go legal anyway.I only regret for isohunt it was a top quality torrent search engine but still we have option of torrentz.com for searching torrents.
Most file sharing programs use direct connections to download or upload, making your identity available to spies from the RIAA, and other unscrupulous organizations.
“MUTE” is a File Sharing peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy, using virtual addresses to route messages through the network, avoiding direct connections and using military-grade encryption (4096 bits).
MUTE is free software.
Official website of this anonymous P2P:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
More info of How MUTE Protects Your Privacy:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/howPrivacy.shtml
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You Mates, bad news they have closed one torrent site down witch was really good, its in the processed of getting fined so i am told 1 min it was open i was downloading next min it was closed,
the site is called http://www.torrentit.com/
so there one down ive also head that loads of torrents sites are getting closed down and they tryin to stop them all ive only new ow to do torrents less then one month and now they all going
I have made the switch to Blockbusters 2/day unlimited rentals from downloading. Now, I realize I have to go to the store on my way home….But isn’t that faster than waiting for the download… I would also like to add that although I do believe the less known artists, out of print, and home made stuff is almost impossible any other way, I still think people should consider the fact that if you were the one making the music/movies as a less known artist, you can not continue to do so if you have no money. On another thought, If I write software for my company, cook a burger, weld a building, am I paid each time that software is used, burger chewed, or building entered? I believe some of the wages are outrageous. Wouldnt you work harder for another promotion/position like everyone else in the world? It’s the same people that complain about this that drive the demand for the movies/music which directly drives the industry to charge so much to make a movie because the actors (supply and demand here) can ask for more.
Just some less spoken insights…
c’mon guys, we love our downloading. Its never going away. (and if it were, we will find other things to do on the street, biting people’s balls off :P)
Make things a lot cheaper so no one will spend money on a computer or a fast connection.
This sueing sh*t is really usless in court.
Bleh - :P
yeah, its really pointless.
These moron lawyers are going up to the masses.
It’s like a wanna-Be-rapper from the streets … a Dawg
*Versus*
an insane caged mad free fighter
ready for anything … a Tiger *
To Tear the Dawgs BaLLs of. (or Bite’em off)
Dawgs are No Match against The Tiger*
Its no competition
Its no battle…..
Its a Slaughter :P:P
So if u wanna keep them Balls,
Keep ‘em safe and go Home !!!!
(while u still can;) )
^Smackdad^
uh guys, another Era is now ending….
This just in:
To all users of WinZip,
Winzip will later be known as:
Coral WinZip.
(who gives a sh*t…)
Oh yeah ??? Now the Catch:
From then on: EVERYONE must PAY in order to get Coral WZ AND Updates AND Patches.
So for all you Torrent Users that use WinZip….well… it’s over.
(read the above comment)
you gotta be joking about the winzip thing, ’cause if that’s the truth, then i’m stickin’ with the version i have, which works perfectly on my computer, and has since i downloaded it.
Best of the text i read about a problem.
Quoting this guy……………
“By (__Arshfard_Tendinum__) on 05.21.06 11:15 pm
uh guys, another Era is now ending….
This just in:
To all users of WinZip,
Winzip will later be known as:
Coral WinZip.
(who gives a sh*t…)
Oh yeah ??? Now the Catch:
From then on: EVERYONE must PAY in order to get Coral WZ AND Updates AND Patches.
So for all you Torrent Users that use WinZip….well… it’s over.
(read the above comment) ”
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U R SO FUCKING LAME….IF I TOLD U THAT I WAS THE KING OF THE MOONON THE NET, WOULD U BELIEVE THAT TOO??? SHITHEAD!!!!
END OF AN ERA MY ARSE…….SO ACCORDING TO U MATE TORRENT ARMEGEDDON IS ON ITS WAY… WIPE UR MOUTH AND PULL THE CHAIN WHEN UR DONE U MORONIC TOILET SPLATTERING TWAT…
OH YEAH, I THINK U BETTER OPEN A WINDOW TOO… IT STINKS OF BULLSHIT IN ERE NOW
Just dont tell them about demonoid! shhhhhhh!!
Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox arent even good and never heard of Niteshadow or Bthub. Thanks!!
I do not think any sites should be mentioned or messed with.
We are the internet we make it what it is. Why should fbi,riaa,mpaa have a say in WHAT we chosse to do.
Its our Right!!!!!
I lets stand up and FIGHT BACK!!!!
i just started using torrents to download movies ive seen hundreds of times for my daughter becuse im to broke to spend 15 dollars per dvd. As far as im concerend its a crime to charge soo much for an old kids movie why should poor kids get denied seeing movies that we’ve all seen
For those of you out there, here’s a bit of actual civil law that you won’t find on TNT with Sam Waterston:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=04-480
As it stands, the ruling is a vague middle ground. Essentially it can allow for the RIAA and MPAA to weild their financial hammer and threaten, but because the fault of piracy falls on the distributors (i.e. not the designers) there really isn’t much that can be done, and this case will have to be revisited.
As you can see, there are many references to the BETAMAX case. Which bodes well for Internet File Sharing as it is clearly an outdated example when it comes to copying. This legislation has a chance to become groundwork, one way or the other, but the Supreme Court has taken a half-way step.
Until the case is revisited, go ahead and share away where you can. It’s not illegal, and you’re not the targets anyway.
Eh, correction. It *IS* illegal, but it’s unenforceble.
they came out with a new movie about mpaa tells about the dumb mpaa people that work there they should be be sued and shut down by a group of people
filesharing is legal and should not be targeted
Torrentspy owns!
fuck em all.I`d upload a picture of a mouldy haggis if someone wanted it.
world of warcraft where can i downloade it for free so id otn have to pay 15 dollars a month
I’m amazed by the stupidit