Elitetorrents shut down

Ha.

I was thinking, it would be funny if the HalfLife2.net site did something like that as a joke. :LOL:
 
Gorgon said:
yeah, I know, sad.

Now there is a new bitch its called http://www.bittorrent.com/

:D
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Ripped my site off :hmph: I made TorrentTyphoon April 21st... I came up with the Google-esque interface...

*whine*

Oh well, TT's days are numbered anyways. I need to build a new site... with a more legal bearing, even if TT is completely legal.


[Edit:] At least my site doesn't time out. :rolling:
 
The site got hacked.
Its supposed to be fixed soon


EDIT Hmmm thats what the site admins had posted in severial forums
 
thenerdguy said:
The site got hacked.
Its supposed to be fixed soon


EDIT Hmmm thats what the site admins had posted in severial forums
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yeah, but read the link I provided first, its for real m8, yes it is
 
Maybe the FBI hacked the site ... you'd think they could atleast pick some nicer colours.
 
US immigration?

WTF has that got to do with illegal file sharing?

Edit: Oh.
 
Shodan said:
US immigration?

WTF has that got to do with illegal file sharing?
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The owner lived in the netherlands The site it self was hosted in california.
 
That's the shit that happens when you distribute a leaked record-breaking blockbuster movie. They were asking for it, IMHO.
 
SubKamran said:
Yes... they'll get whammed too, mark my words.
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Whammed? The client itself is completely legal, it's what people do with it that's illegal.

Stuff like this is why I don't download anything off of torrents anymore, though. (besides the odd freeware software or linux distro) IRC always was better anyhow. :p
 
They willl never stop us its like fighting terrorists you cant win!
 
Shodan said:
US immigration?

WTF has that got to do with illegal file sharing?

Edit: Oh.
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA

The FBI wont be able to stop us !! oops I mean them !!
and a normal human being that doesn't do P2P normally doesn't know what Bit Torrent is , so those idiots are probably downloading shit themselfs but couldn't find a decent starwars release so they got pissed and closed the site down.
 
I can't see how they intend to stop everyone. I mean...90% of people who are on the interent have illegally downloaded something. THATS ALOT OF PEOPLE. GL fbi, you'll get me long after I'm dead.
 
h00dlum said:
Torrent is teh l0ze...
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I don't agree with your english, but I am quoting that for emphasis. Find the underworld, people. Find Zion.
 
cyberpitz said:
I can't see how they intend to stop everyone. I mean...90% of people who are on the interent have illegally downloaded something. THATS ALOT OF PEOPLE. GL fbi, you'll get me long after I'm dead.
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Fight da powa! Fight da powa!
 
So they close one down, two more pop up. And so on and so on.

Honestly, **** the MPAA and the RIAA.
 
People are to poor to afford, £15 for an album or £20 for a DVD, its to expensive, If people can get stuff FREE fairly safely, then of course they will download things.
 
the best thing is economic theory supports people's behaviour in this instance :)

Overpriced, price discriminated media + Readily available free unofficial media + Fast Broadband + Little deterrent = Lots of downloads.

Consumers are actually acting perfectly rationally according to rational choice theory.


PS - anyone using P2P should be using PeerGuardian - just a heads up. It IP blocks all known RIAA MPAA and government IP ranges.
 
I don't get why it helps, I am running it, but do they monitor you?

is that how they catch you?
 
shodan, you don't sound like you have much experience, you should quit now : )
 
You need to be qualified to pirate stuff now?


How do they catch people, I think monitoring peoples activity is illegal, so how do they catch people?
 
Shodan said:
You need to be qualified to pirate stuff now?


How do they catch people, I think monitoring peoples activity is illegal, so how do they catch people?
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It's not illegal for them to do it, aparently. You don't have to spy on anyones activity, BT clients spam their addresses everywhere whilst scanning for sources of things.
 
Shodan said:
You need to be qualified to pirate stuff now?


How do they catch people, I think monitoring peoples activity is illegal, so how do they catch people?
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It's not at all beyond authorities to do illegal stuff to protect their precious laws. Police in Britain, for instance, appear to have broken the law all over the place in trying to tackle child porn on p2p, by having to download it themselves.

One of the big threats to p2p now is throttling. Either by monitoring the ports you use, or through Deep Packet Inspection, ISPs can identify p2p traffic and slow it, crippling your speeds and effectively handing 56k speeds to broadband users. My ISP (Tiscali) does it, and I only came across a workaround this evening. The legality is dubious as always, since screwing up your internet traffic often means ISPs are in violation of their T&C's, or guilty of false advertising.

The new MSN blocks transfer of files with *.mp3 extensions with a message saying it was blocked because it may be "harmful to your computer" - a blatant lie. Precisely how you're meant to be capable of large scale piracy on MSN is beyond me, since you generally send one file at a time, and slowly.

The war is spreading, brothers...arm yourselves with knowledge! :sniper:
 
if u wanna send an mp3 on MSN just zip it

and Peer Guardian is an IP blocker - stops their IPs connecting to your machine to search it on networks like Limewire, Kazaa etc.
 
Cons Himself said:
if u wanna send an mp3 on MSN just zip it
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or turn it into a .jpg, .bmp, whatever, express yourself :thumbs: it's just the file extension they block

*goes and gets peer guardian*

edit - I'd just like to assure and point out to any concerned mods that this is not turning into a "piracy 101" thread (not so far, anyhow). There has been a big misconception high up that p2p = piracy. That's like saying http = porn, and all websites should be blocked in the interests of stopping the spread of porn. Well....I say misconception, but they're probably well, aware of what they're doing... :|

anyway, some of the steps being taken against p2p and file-sharing are as questionable as piracy itself.
 
The big question...

Does peer-guardian2 actually work?
 
I think peerguardian is a bit of a placebo; its about as effective as an anti-spam blacklist to begin with.
And secondly, people need to realise that the **AA won't come after downloaders simply for the fact that they would be commiting entrapment by offering the file to them in the first place.
Thats why they only go for uploaders.

Now, to block downloaders so you wont get caught for uploading is kinda silly because the **AA can use any IP they like, and I'm sure they change them pretty often.
On top of this, peerguardian is next to useless on networks like edonkey and bittorrent because you don't need to be downloading to find the IP's of uploaders; its all "in the open" from the beginning.

Just because they aren't downloading from you doesn't mean they can't see you.
And once they see you, its just a matter of connecting with an unblocked IP address so they can tag you.
PG has blocked about 50,000 IP's, out of about 4 billion possible IP's.
 
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