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By: Lo psicodramma del P2P tra The Pirate Bay e “three strike law” | Sir Arthur's Den

Sun, 24 May 2009 17:26:00 +0000

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By: The P2P psychodrama between The Pirate Bay and three strike law | Sir Arthur's Den

Sun, 24 May 2009 17:13:11 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:48:26 +0000

“For those people in receipt of an infringement notice it might be good to know that their case becomes closed as soon as they indicate that they have removed the infringing file from their computer. Easy as that.”

Where’d you get this info?

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Wed, 20 May 2009 04:35:17 +0000

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[...] Vulnerability Renders MPAA/RIAA Copyright Warnings Useless In a bid to educate pirates, copyright holders hire companies such as BayTSP to track down people who share their titles on P2P networks. The alleged infringers then receive a warning and are given the opportunity to resolve the issue. However, this system is vulnerable to abuse and therefore completely useless. [...]

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Mon, 18 May 2009 02:06:28 +0000

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By: Rainydays

Rainydays — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:38:59 +0000

Tell them to F off, send them a TPB T-shirt, and say thanks for caring about me like nazi christians spreading there unwanted beliefes on every street corner for a few bucks

By: Mr. Slave

Mr. Slave — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:04:53 +0000

ahhhh I shouldn’t have put the gerbil up my ass.

By: RIAASS

RIAASS — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:43:19 +0000

BayTSP were doomed to failure from their conception.

By: BIO

BIO — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:48:41 +0000

STOP NOW, OR I’LL SEND AN EMAIL ON YOU!!!

By: reptile

reptile — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:07:33 +0000

Why aren’t they in prison by now? They are the scum of the earth. Dirty MAFIAA bastards.

By: piratedude

piratedude — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:05:09 +0000

BayTSP: How do you want your SPAM today?

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:38:46 +0000

I don’t know how this stuff works but if they send these notices by email, what’s stopping me from not responding at all? Also, you could always say that you haven’t received the notice and/or say you haven’t seen it right? :)

By: pink panther

pink panther — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:42 +0000

Saying you got rid of the file is admitting your culpability (guilt) in doing it in the first place. That’s a “have you stopped beating your wife” situation. If you say you removed it, you’re admitting guilt. If you ignore it, you’re admitting you are avoiding them. Loser deal.

By: Black Pirate

Black Pirate — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:30:22 +0000

blah bay..blah blah that what it all is blah blah blah fuc*k bay

By: Whooooo

Whooooo — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:12:18 +0000

I say that Sites like Torrent Freak or people who know their legal stuff should put up a guide on what to do if you get a warning letter.
Is it ok to just ignore it? or send a fuck you back to them?

By: crazy idea

crazy idea — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:56:25 +0000

so since the form is so flawed and they refuse to admit it how about everyone reply to one of these the the paragraph about how anyone can reply and they have no way to tell if it was someone authorized to do so.

By: GrX for President lol

GrX for President lol — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:22:06 +0000

Remove the File from the PC now!

Reply: Sure not a problem after i just finish watching it and burning it to a DVD to play in my DivX Player..

Thanks for letting me know which file i downloaded i downloaded over 400 this week so i’m a little overwhelmed and i was actually looking for that file! but i couldn’t remember the name of it, well done you just helped me.

By: TUSK

TUSK — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:12:03 +0000

hmm #39
I know nothing about these guys, but are they operating in order to give something back to the community and ultimately trying to help eliminate copyright theft, therefore in essence defending the future of legitimate information flow on the internet or are they operating to make money.

They are a company and are shafting people for cash – that’s what companies do.

By: riaatard

riaatard — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:59:22 +0000

I’m absolutely FURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone seen Slumdog Millionaire? It had over $200 million in box office sales, and yet the child that played the younger male actor STILL lives in a slum and is now being forced out of his slum home only to become homeless?

How can this be? One of the biggest grossing films of it’s time, and the kid doesn’t even have a home? Why isn’t the film company paying this kid the money that he deserves? So what if they promised to pay for his deducation and half a million to slum charities.

Where is the heart from the MPAA? Where are the royalties for this poor kid and his family? Where is the compassion? Most importantly, WHERE has all the money gone?

To the lawyers and executives and this makes me FURIOUS!!!!!!!!

I rented the movie, and was thinking about buying it. I REFUSE to give my money to greedy and selfish executives. If only there was some way I could directly give to the kid and his family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8049735.stm

Bastards!!!!!

By: UltraleetJ

UltraleetJ — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:32:15 +0000

hmm, indeed… and I download everything to an external hard drive. So the file is also not directly IN my computer because the ahrd drive is EXTERNAL. You can download whats on torrents even to a network path. I mean there is more than just the flawing on the notices… the technology these people use is not even accurate but its good to know that tehy’re trying. At least that’s how the beast is loosing their money. They just don’t wanna work. That’s it. Lazy ****s want more money for nothing. Now that they’re finding out its all failing they cry and use the bits they have left to protect their really crappy content instead of improving it. That’s exactly like a college student putting countless lawsuits against exams for which they failed instead of studying harder and devoting their resources to studying to get improved scores.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:31:16 +0000

BayTSP:
Assissting in making fraud available :p

By: La seguridad de una empresa antipiratería es una verguenza

La seguridad de una empresa antipiratería es una verguenza — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:26:14 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:54:37 +0000

Failcompany is fail. XSS is super easy to prevent.

By: 3 Count: Frozen Loot | PlagiarismToday

3 Count: Frozen Loot | PlagiarismToday — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:53:16 +0000

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By: LEM

LEM — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:36:59 +0000

What if you delete the file to recycle bin, like so many people do with files they think they are deleting.

Send e-mail.
Restore file.
OH HAY, I GOT ILLEGAL CONTENT AGAIN?

Anyone tried this? I honestly haven’t gotten a warning from the e-mallcops.
Seems like a huge, exploitable joke to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:30:59 +0000

baylsd, wanna-be-websherrif and friends stop playing stupid games your not 3 years old anymore and you dont own the internet!

By: JTK

JTK — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:22:27 +0000

Can’t you just say you deleted the file without actually doing so?

This is seriously flawed in so many ways.

By: Entertainment Industry Copyright Notice Acknowledgement Forms Easily Hacked | CHARGED's Digital Lifestyle at Work or Play

Thu, 14 May 2009 09:39:06 +0000

[...] files from your computer. Except, some are noticing, that BayTSP’s method of doing this isn’t even remotely secure, so the response forms are available for anyone to see — and to respond to. You can find your [...]

By: ...

... — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:06:11 +0000

BayTSP, your right in there with Web Sheriff in how completely useless and stupid you are.. please kill yourself because your wasting my air with your pathetic existence..

By: uskomaton

uskomaton — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:57:09 +0000

I have an idea, someone send MPAA/RIAA and BayTSP a bunch of these notices. Oh and do it to the french version of these fuckers too, of course it won’t get the disconnected but maybe it will teach them something. Tho I rather doubt they have the brainpower to learn.

By: muddy

muddy — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:54:25 +0000

@anonymous

‘What pains me is the thought that someone somewhere will fall to a phishing scheme run through their shoddy coding.’

well yes, but as dirty criminals they deserve it eh?

By: Torrentnut

Torrentnut — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:20:21 +0000

It sounds like the people at BayTSP or just a bunch of jokers.

By: dfa

dfa — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:18:07 +0000

schools shouldn’t be burdened with that BS anyway and to think they cut your lifeline off for three weeks… that’s enough to kill some of them.

What a scourge

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Thu, 14 May 2009 08:01:29 +0000

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By: Rammu

Rammu — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:06:45 +0000

41. scip,

Yeah, and also noteworty is that their sanction had no effect. I just used my neighbour’s wireless internet during the blackout.

When it happened, I first recieved a letter that my connection had been closed due to said copyright infringement, and that I would be contacted after two weeks. After two weeks a representative from the university called me about the matter. Then I informed him of what I actually had been sharing. He didn’t know how to respond in any meaningful way to that. Priceless! It still took them a week more to open up my connection again :(

By: scip

scip — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:56:53 +0000

40. Rammu,

LOL, priceless.

In France you do that three times and get your connection axed for a year yet you’ll be paying for it.

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t real.

By: Rammu

Rammu — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:23:33 +0000

My university axed my internet connection for three weeks after they received a complaint from BayTSP.
My infringement: I was sharing a Watchmen trailer

By: DrCalgori

DrCalgori — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:18:27 +0000

I’m afriad i’m going to have to side with BayTSP on this one. I mean, their actually trying to be understanding and make a difference here by saying they’ve picked you up and are giving you a chance to delete it and move on. Nothing more.

With other organisations you’d have been fined, threatened with a court order, black listed and all kinds of shit. And their technique is mostly for the undereducated downloaders, of which probably 80% of pirates are. Its simply to scare them into not downloading again. Not everyone knows as much as you assume since not everyone takes an interest in the technical side of downloading.

By: Darian Knight

Darian Knight — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:06:02 +0000

Of course there are other possibilities which would effectively negate the efforts of places like BayTSP. Examples?

Proxy
SSH
PeerGuardian
uTorrent IP Updates
etc, etc

Not to mention that they have absolutely no way of knowing whether the responder is telling the truth when they fill out the form. “Yeah, sure… I deleted it.”

How, exactly, is BayTSP going to prove you didn’t? Aside from asking you to install some hard drive scanner to double check… which we all know nobody on earth (except the very stupid) would allow.

Essentially it’s all bark and no bite.

By: ProphitAngell

ProphitAngell — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:02:33 +0000

CPright infringement is srs bsns

By: Mh

Mh — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:47:02 +0000

@23

Legislation in Germany already is that if you have not taken all necessary steps to secure you’re PC, then it’s negligence and YOU are to blame for any misdoings done over your system, whether it really was you or the neighbor or some wardriving kid walking by.

It’s 100% idiotic, since 99% of the population can’t secure a PC worth crap and any script kid can therefore abuse their connection(I actually know unemployed people who find it normal to leech gigabytes of warez over their neighbors WLAN connection), but, again, as long as we have technomorons in the judge seats and government, this is all a pretty futile endeavor.

Vote green party(outspoken proponents of a culture flatrate and not making criminals out of downloaders, currently the only party here who wrote it down in their program this year afaik) or pirate party NOW I say.

By: Ralonto

Ralonto — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:43:32 +0000

Anyone has a tut on how to do this? I want to send Kennedy from the IFPI such a notice.