Public torrent trackers: Looks like it may all be coming to an end :o(

shoes

shoes

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I can't believe they think this will change anything anyway, oh look the pirate bay is gone. Oh well I'll just search on one of the other 1000+ torrent search engines out there. Cost of trial? Lots. Resulting benefit to the poor poor starving families of the media industry? Nil.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
If the internet itself could somehow be shut down they'd be able to put an end to it, because let's be honest, stopping filesharing any other way is impossible!
 
MyCult

MyCult

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best comment of the day so far:

"If TPB loses this i would like to see all road and sign makers on trial for aiding robbers getting to the store to rob"
 
shoes

shoes

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Haha excellent! I guess its true though, they haven't offered any media, only a way of finding it on a route by which it can be transported which is nothing to do with TPB.

Also

ramdom twitterer said:
"i know i feel safe at night now that they are putting the hammer down on filesharers"
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MyCult

MyCult

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Yeah man saw that one earlier and it amazes me…

She felt 'un-safe' knowing there were file sharers out there? At night especially? That all those night-time file sharers might in some way affect her or the fabric of law abiding society...

They’re (file sharers) all rapists anyway. I know nothing about Bit-torrent but speaking as a concerned citizen I know it’s full of terrorists.
 
db

db

#chaplife
even though i wouldn't touch tpb with a barge pole, i hope to god they win, and it's certainly been interesting watching the case unfold.. at last, an actual use for twitter! lol
 
shoes

shoes

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How come? I have used it for years with no problems, good, fast torrents :D

Still I hope they win too. I do feel for the poor artists and producers and record companies though, their £100m profits must be disappointing, how will they eat?

As I've already said if I can't download music and video for free then I'm not going to buy it anyway and i think a lot of d/l folk feel the same so they're losing nothing really.
 
db

db

#chaplife
shoes said:
How come?
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too high a risk of getting a virus/something nasty, as well as the fact that representatives employed by the copyright holders sit on torrents and then send infringement notices to your ISP..

it may not have happened to you, but i know plenty of people who it has happened to.. and even if RIAA/MPAA/etc. have no real legal recourse at the moment, that doesn't stop them mining information and who knows what luddite laws may be passed in future!

shoes said:
Still I hope they win too. I do feel for the poor artists and producers and record companies though, their £100m profits must be disappointing, how will they eat?

As I've already said if I can't download music and video for free then I'm not going to buy it anyway and i think a lot of d/l folk feel the same so they're losing nothing really.
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the thing is, if the record companies just let it lie and it became too easy to download stuff for free, then they would lose money.. i agree with you that, at the moment, the majority of people who pirate stuff would have no intention of buying it if they couldn't get it for free.. however, if it becomes too easy to pirate stuff, and if less tech-savvy people get onboard, then there is a real chance that people who would ordinarily buy media will end up pirating it instead..

whilst i hope tpb win, and i am a dirty pirate myself, you can't blame people for wanting to protect their copyright..
 
shoes

shoes

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No of course not, but if they charged reasonable prices for a new release then I'm dure many more people would buy. Currently the cost of media is horrendous and unjustified. As far as I can see actors / muscians / producers etc. are simply selling a product like any other business but seem to make a lot more money than most businesses and no one seems to care they are having money extorted from them?

I'd wager the team who built my PDA are equally, if not more talented than most of the artists the great big pop music machine churns out and yet I guarantee that collectively they earn less than say Robbie fat smug bastard Williams, for example.

If DVDs were say £1.99 and CD albums were £1, which when you think how many are sold would be perfectly fair, they'd still turn a profit. OK so Britney only makes £30ka year, well boo f***ing hoo, welcome to the world of having a job!
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

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even if dvd';s knocked out at 3.99, they would make far more profit than now, and who'd want to pay £1 for a shitty screen cam copy if they could buy the original DVD for about £4?

I know which i'd choose, so I agree with Shoes on this one.
 
MyCult

MyCult

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One thing I’d like to hope is that there is some forward thinking person in the media distribution industry that is watching hard and taking notes.

The next generation of media distribution is being tested from beta to alpha and beyond for them, for free, by passionate committed individuals who are probably the most innovative on the planet in this field.

The distribution methods have out grown the media industries stunted business model. A win-win situation in my opinion would be a new business model.

In the future I think we’ll see the big media distribution giants embracing this technology and the work these pioneers have done for them.

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So we should just ignor all those copyright related issues :P lol (never going to happen)

side note: The BBC's iPlayer uses software called Kontiki (similar to BitTorrent)
 
shoes

shoes

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I believe Channel 4's 4od service uses a similar p2p assisted service. It certainly uses upload bandwith when 'idle' anyway.
 
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