Comments on: UK Government Uses BitTorrent to Share Public Spending Data

By: Seedpeer

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By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:07:28 +0000

Wonder how they would react to Microsoft if they found people on “Messenger” talking about file sharing. Wonder who would win that court case?

By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:00:16 +0000

Don’t tell anyone but there is a bank on the corner. Damn I must be guilty of something now.

By: obnoxious prick

obnoxious prick — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:37:25 +0000

…or maybe they just want to make it as difficult as possible for people to view the documents by making them download a torrent client first

By: Truther

Truther — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:43:50 +0000

“It sure sounds like a great technology to share films on the Internet”
Torrents for movie distribution, I don’t think that could ever happen.

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By: reality

reality — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:15:13 +0000

The government’s mantra is “Do as I say, not as I do”.

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By: the united hackers association

the united hackers association — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:23:41 +0000

in the usa lawyers will sue you for showing court documents and other “data”
this is why everyone ignores the usa on this issue now.

AND on this good to see the uk doing it. AND with stuff like this WHO NEEDS a news website that uses a paywall now…..haha saving its citizens money = smart

By: Random

Random — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:11:09 +0000

Just downloaded the transparent document and found it completly in comprehenasable. Im sure the newspapers (quality ones) will manage to extract all the info from them though lol. A spreadsheet would probebly have been more usefull.

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By: tosser

tosser — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:28:19 +0000

Against my better judgement… I like this government :P

Now repeal the Digital Economy act!

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By: me

me — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:14:32 +0000

Movie and music industrys would be all too happy to crush and destroy such useful and valuable technology all in the name of expanding their own proffits and control.

By: uber fail?

uber fail? — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:09:42 +0000

@33 its a @seperated text file, with a lot of duplicated fields. e.g. @NULL appears a lot of times.

They could have just uploaded the original sql database…

Also there is http download below the BT download option.

And they are using amazon aws as a tracker, and last time i checked there are about 100 seeders and 50 peers for the 2010 file. (downloading from http was much faster)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:59:50 +0000

How long til ACS:Law sues the UK gov for allegedly sharing copyrighted material?

By: loch ness troll

loch ness troll — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:29:51 +0000

“Perhaps it’s time for Hollywood to look into BitTorrent as well, it sure sounds like a great technology to share films on the Internet.”

oh we know how that will turn out…

By: WTF!!!!

WTF!!!! — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:40:46 +0000

@ 19 wtf how can they get that kind of compression ratio ? some special government software ? this is not f*king fare! if bittorrent user could get this high of a compression the shit would hit the fan :D

By: Doink

Doink — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:04:10 +0000

@17

how bout you STFU.

By: mack

mack — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:29:04 +0000

your all(at least the posts i read) missing the point, theyre doing wat every politician does pointing at predecessors to cover their current acts

By: Egomaniacal

Egomaniacal — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:36:17 +0000

Al the big studios need to have their own bittorrent site. They could charge a nominal fee (20 bucks a month maybe) download any FOX productions you want… Or any Showtime shows, or HBO. I mean HBO only costs like 15-20 bucks & I can TiVo that so what’s the diff?

By: Pirates+Viruses=HELL

Pirates+Viruses=HELL — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:22:26 +0000

The perception that P2P/bittorrent is all about piracy was an invention by the liars in the MAFIAA.

By: internetlol

internetlol — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:07:58 +0000

The funny thing is that they probably chose this format because most people wouldn’t know what to do it with it (thus making them officially transparent, but actually useless).

By: Lothor The Evil

Lothor The Evil — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:21:00 +0000

Movies on the internet? I’ve never heard of such a concept. That would be great if someone could come up with a way to do that. And free too. Yeah. Free movies on the internet would be awesome.

Kinda pathetic those music and movie bastards are still refusing to adapt to new technologies while everyone around them, especially consumers, are finding ways to use it.
I guess the politicians pull their heads out of their asses once in a while to wipe their faces off.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:20:31 +0000

So how does this work then for the mainstream of citizens using BT for ADSL services? BritishThieves heavily throttle torrent traffic. When I’ve had to used they’re network in the past the only way to effectively torrent was to VPN or use an SSH tunnel.

I’ve never paid any ISP for a connection, so I’m not going to claim others are better or worse.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:51:28 +0000

“BitTorrent link to zipped 2009/10 Fact table, 67MiB (4.28GiB uncompressed)”

Damn thats some nice compression :P.

By: Lucky Man

Lucky Man — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:29:53 +0000

so Hollywood movies need to be release lot of movies so they need accounts such as rapidshare, megaupload, hotfile, depositfiles, filefactory, and bittorrent account like utorrent so they can make money for sharing. so problem SOLVED!!

By: Nice

Nice — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:07:36 +0000

People talking about the DEB, this was passed in the final days of the terrible labour government. It is likely to be scrapped by the new and young leaders (Cameron and Clegg) who can see why it is so stupid.

They can not only see that the DEB is misinformed, but also Bittorrent can be used for good purposes as shown here. Expect some new things to come from this leadership.

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:38:50 +0000

Ironic how they dont mind sharing it on the very same high profile bittorrent sites they would most gladly shut down (after the check from the MAFIAA arrives, ofcourse).

By: onf

onf — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:07:08 +0000

Sharing movies on ze interned, zhats a great idea..i wish i had thunkt of zhat!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:50:15 +0000

“Perhaps it’s time for Hollywood to look into BitTorrent as well, it sure sounds like a great technology to share films on the Internet.”

I’ve actually seen said protocol actually being used to do just that!!!11234

By: anon

anon — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:59:13 +0000

Please correct “uncompressed” with “compressed” because that

BitTorrent link to zipped 2009/10 Fact table, 67MiB (4.28GiB uncompressed)
BitTorrent link to zipped 2009/10 Adjustment table, 31MiB (405MiB uncompressed)
BitTorrent link to zipped 2008/09 Fact table, 78MiB (4.96GiB uncompressed)
BitTorrent link to zipped 2008/09 Adjustment table, 38MiB (488MiB uncompressed)
Zipped 2009/10 Fact table, 67MiB (4.28GiB uncompressed)
Zipped 2009/10 Adjustment table, 31MiB (405MiB uncompressed)
Zipped 2008/09 Fact table, 78MiB (4.96GiB uncompressed)
Zipped 2008/09 Adjustment table, 38MiB (488MiB uncompressed)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:38:58 +0000

if the UK government can now see the advantages of using torrent, it’s a pity they cant change the entertainment industries way of thinking and do as has been asked by consumers for ages. low cost, drm free, easily accessible files at good speeds. now all else that is needed is to get rid of the ridiculous DEB and maybe the internet can carry on doing what it does best and was meant to do, make it easy to find and transfer information!

By: Black Swan Social Media, Inc.

Black Swan Social Media, Inc. — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:55:09 +0000

@11

Doink, watch your mouth. Some corporate entity that likes the BitTorrent platform might get hold of your IP, determine which branch of the MAFIAA it belongs to, and then consider initiating a lawsuit for libel just to get some free press off of your overly-generalized statements. So do yourself a favour: if you can’t say anything nice, STFU.

; )

By: Thalantas

Thalantas — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:52:13 +0000

Last paragraph was awesome :P

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:51:42 +0000

I might download it now, just because i can.

By: Sendaii

Sendaii — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:46:48 +0000

@11 Doink: Pierates? If only I could pirate a pie, I’m feeling hungry right now ;)

By: Reggit

Reggit — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:37:51 +0000

@11 Doink – pierates?? Lol @ troll spell check fail!

Legal or illegal – its all just data to me! The point is that that bittorrent is an excellent distribution platform! Id love to use it for legally obtained copyrighted files, but Hollywood isnt making it easy! Id be happuy to give them money….once they stop being arseholes about the whole thing – gimme shows released in a timely fashion, no DRM and at a good price…perhaps even a subscription plan? Watch online filesharing drop! Its not hard!

By: Mbb

Mbb — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:34:41 +0000

@Doink

Your pirates? If you aren’t one why your here?

By: Doink

Doink — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:14:55 +0000

They are using it legally. You pierates are using it for illegal purposes. That is a the difference since some of you can’t see that.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:12:53 +0000

LOL, that last paragraph is priceless indeed. MAFIAA using new technologies and changing their business model? Good April Fools joke lmao.

@8 ppl should be worried about their country finances. You know your taxes are being used in useless lawsuits and legislation lobbied by MAFIAA. How much of it? Care to be enlighted?

In any case, it’s a great point for open trackers and maybe even torrent indexers to use in their defense. MAFIAA loves to paint them all (and their users) as evil criminals when this is very far from the truth. In fact I believe the real criminals here are MAFIAA and merry friends themselves.

By: uber fail?

uber fail? — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:07:44 +0000

How ironic that they intend on pushing the digital economy bill, and they release data using the same technology. Plus, it is compressed and in a format and size that is unnecessarily inaccessible for the majority of people.

Where is a summary of this data??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:50:24 +0000

lol can’t wait .. 2008 Financial report .. plz seed.

Can’t say I see the difference between BT than an FTP since likely only one person will dl at a time

By: unknow

unknow — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:23:56 +0000

rofl fun time, Fun time =D
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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:12:37 +0000

“Perhaps it’s time for Hollywood to look into BitTorrent as well, it sure sounds like a great technology to share films on the Internet. ”

hahahahh … priceless :D

By: lolz

lolz — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:07:37 +0000

Hollywood, if you can’t beat em’ join em’!

By: SYSTEMA

SYSTEMA — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:05:54 +0000

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By: me

me — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:03:44 +0000

(aint) lol

By: me

me — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:03:09 +0000

I anit seeding that shite!

By: Aman

Aman — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:00:58 +0000

Tell Hollywood about it