is there a super effective way to increase your ratio?
i got strawberry jam in the morning, which by the way is amazing, and i've left tomato, the torrent client i use, open all day long and i've uploaded only 8 fucking megabytes. it's ridiculous.
You have to get there early. I got mine the second it was put up (i was notified cause I had it in my requests) and I've only uploaded 210mb. Sometimes you gotta be careful though, cause you might get the notice your request is filled and you go to download the file and you're one of the first and you're stoked, then they end up nuking the file cause it's at 128 instead of 192, etc and you ended up just wasting a ton of ratio for nothing.
What I did before I had to reinstall Windows is I kept a special folder titled oink and I downloaed everything from oink to that folder and when it was done I copied it to my music folder, then itunes, but kept the original seeding 24/7. That works great.
If you're under 5gigs you don't have anything to worry about so just dl and seed, seed, seed.
Also, don't use tomator, use Azureus, they might ban you if you use a client that isn't approved.
yeah, i'm under 5gb but i'm very close . thanks for the tips
is 'for reverend green' the best animal collective song ? my vote is yes.
for reverend green and fireworks are the best back-to-back songs ever. they collectively form the centerpiece of what is easily the album of the year, perhaps more. and derek is a very nice closing to end the album too. panda really shines here.
anyways, my ratio is at an all time low - about .45 - cos i haven't seeded in months (for an extremely terrible reason). crono, if you see that there is an album up there that isn't in FLAC and you own that album, then upload it in FLAC, and thats a sure way to improve your ratio.
yeah the best thing you can possibly do to get a good ratio is up your own stuff in FLAC and 320kbps. and make sure you're "clever." there are a bunch of faqs in the forums about how to do this and every comp seems different.
oink has officially been shut down.
The servers of OiNK.cd - one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers - are raided and the admin, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, is arrested.
OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin ArrestedThe British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations. The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.
According to early reports OiNk's servers were confiscated in Amsterdam last week. This seems to be unlikely because the site was still fully functional 24 hours ago. The administrator of OiNK was arrested this morning by the Cleveland Police. The BBC reports that his employer and the home of his father were raided as well.
Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI's Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: "OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online."
OiNK hosted hundreds and thousands of torrents with over a million peers which makes it more popular than most public trackers. The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it.
In July the tracker already changed its name from OiNK.me.uk to OiNK.cd due to "legal" issues with their domain registrar. Unfortunately it now seems that the popular private BitTorrent tracker is in bigger trouble.
developing story...
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This sucks. First tv links and now oink. The worst is I think oink was doing more good than bad. It's not like it was the first place people would go to get the new Kanye West album. It was the site that people who wanted awkward Sonic Youth remixed were a part of. Very strange that they would shut this down when there are so many other places out there.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
Yeah, two of my friends are freaking out right now. My one friend tried to convince us that they can't catch you on oink. The other one listened to him. So glad I didn't.
This is like that scene at the end of Goodfellas where Lorraine Bracco is flushing the coke down the toilet before the DEA can raid the house.
Quote from: IN SPAR_ROWS on October 23, 2007, 09:50:51 AM
Yeah, two of my friends are freaking out right now. My one friend tried to convince us that they can't catch you on oink. The other one listened to him. So glad I didn't.
This is like that scene at the end of Goodfellas where Lorraine Bracco is flushing the coke down the toilet before the DEA can raid the house.
haha. Except it's a bunch of music nerds flushing their music down the recycle bin, when the stuff they had was so obscure the RIAA or any other organization probably doesn't even give a shit about it. Most of the stuff probably wasn't even copyrighted.
I really don't think we should be worried. It's just a bummer that it's taken down when there are so many other sites that should have been taken down.
:yabbse-cry: grateful for every day i knew it. but there was so much more to come..
..where do we go now?
if the RIAA decides to presses criminal charges against all of us, shit's gonna heavier than the holocaust.
Shit! They can't stop ME!
I'm downloading shit in broad daylight! I don't give a FUCK!
if anything, i think they'll go for people who uploaded a lot of shit and got really high ratios.. and leaked new albums. now i'm glad i didn't upload much and most of what i did upload was old dean martin and frank sinatra albums. :yabbse-undecided:
i worry because i DONATED. i would guess it's pretty easy to get those people. but they may not do anything:
(from torrentfreak)
OiNK Admin Released From Custody
Written by Ernesto on October 23, 2007
After a turbulent day the admin of the raided OiNK.cd was released from custody. At this point it is still unclear what the legal consequences will be, but it is good to see that OiNK is back home.
The OiNK admin contacted TorrentFreak by email which confirms his release. As for the OiNK users, it is highly doubtful that the IFPI or BPI will go after them all, or even one of them. They do know how to scare people with messages like: "A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users", but there is no evidence that they actually will.
More interesting perhaps, how did they gain access to the OiNK domain, and why are they allowed to spread this propaganda? They are not a law-enforcement agency.
NFOrce, the ISP of OiNK, said today in an interview that they were not aware of any illegal activities surrounding the site. They thought OiNK was hosting a streaming video site or a weblog. Yeah, right.
The BBC did a small report on the arrest with a lot of false information, releasing nonsense statements such as: "illegally downloading music onto his website" and "paying subscriptions to enter the website." The video of the arrest is shown below, see for yourself.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwwMZKYxag)
Nothing will happen to the users. It's just a bummer that it was taken down.
yeah a real bummer.
that bbc piece is hilarious, they just have a total misunderstanding of what the site is, and it seems the cleveland police do too.
The orgs that are listed aern't even law enforcement agencies. It's just a bunch of vigilantes probably paid off by the music industry. It's a collection of bumbling idiots who come together to stop music nerds from downloading stuff they can't find at best buy, circuit city, and any other chain record store that they are paid to help. Fucking ridiculous.
OiNK Founder Speaks: 'I Haven't Done Anything Wrong'
Alan Ellis compares OiNK to Google, claims 'I am not making any OiNK users break the law.'
By Chris Harris; MTV
The man behind OiNK, an invite-only file-sharing site that provided illegal downloads of pre-release music and media to its more than 180,000 members before authorities shut it down Tuesday, has broken his silence in an interview with British tabloid the Daily Telegraph.
Alan Ellis, 24, who created OiNK more than three years ago, posted bail on Wednesday. He was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and copyright infringement Tuesday, as part of an Interpol-led investigation.
"I haven't done anything wrong," he told the paper. "I don't believe my Web site breaks the law. They don't understand how it works. The Web site is very different from how the police are making it out to be. There is no music sold on the site — I am doing nothing wrong."
Ellis said OiNK is "no different [than] something like Google — if Google directed someone to a site they can illegally download music [from], they are doing the same as what I have been accused of. I am not making any OiNK users break the law. People don't pay to use the site."
While police claim OiNK generated thousands of pounds in revenue, Ellis, an IT consultant who operated the site from his apartment in Middlesbrough in the north of England, wouldn't discuss whether the site's users had made financial "donations" to the site. While they could contribute via debit and credit card payments, OiNK membership was not contingent on payment.
Ellis said that when he set up OiNK, "I didn't think I was doing anything illegal and I still don't." He contended that people who download music illegally "also buy CDs as well," saying that many of OiNK's users "download[ed] music ... to get a taste of it and then later buy the CD. But I don't sell music to people — I just direct them to it. If somebody wants to illegally download music, they are going to do it whether my site is there or not."
He said he was fired from his job the day he was arrested.
Meanwhile, former OiNK users are waiting for news on the legal ramifications of using the site. Authorities have warned that "an investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users"; OiNK's Amsterdam-based servers have been seized by police, and could help investigators determine the identities of the OiNK faithful. But a police spokesman told the Daily Telegraph that it was still "too early to tell if we will go after individuals — it all depends on what we find."
Ellis thinks that if his case does make it to court, it could set a very dangerous precedent. "It will change the Internet as we know it," he said. "As far as I am aware, no one in Britain has ever been taken to court for running a Web site like mine."
why are you americans/canadians even worrying? this shit is in BRITAIN. what the fuck jurisdiction do they have in the US and even then why would they target a bunch of randomly selected pimply faced losers when they can nab the dateless wonder who runs the thing? seriously you guys are falling for the scare tactics. this dude cannot lose this case. it's the effing internets for christ's sake.
pubrick's back!
It seems the recently shut-down OiNK has given way to a new torrent site, according to Torrent Freak. Called "BOiNK," the site will be hosted by the Pirate Bay and will launch sometime this week.
Okay, so the two sites that are supposed to replace OiNK are in an arms race right now. What.cd and waffles.fm. What.cd is live and has been for a week, it's still shaky, but it looks good, waffles.fm just went live this morning and it was invite only from the start while what.cd was firts 200 to sign up then invite only.
I am a member of what.cd, but I need to become a member of waffles.fm. If anyone wants to trade a waffles.fm invite for a what.cd invite, pm me.
Yea I'm trying to find my alternative, as well. If anyone manages to get any invites for either site I'll take them. All I can really trade is karagarga invites.
EDIT: Looks like Karagarga has moved/is down or something. Can't send invites until I figure that out.
Quote from: Chest Rockwell on November 02, 2007, 02:27:07 PM
Yea I'm trying to find my alternative, as well. If anyone manages to get any invites for either site I'll take them. All I can really trade is karagarga invites.
EDIT: Looks like Karagarga has moved/is down or something. Can't send invites until I figure that out.
I am a member of what.cd and will be a memeber of waffles.fm. I'll see what I can do about invites. But you guys better be good members and keep your ratios up to par.
i feel bad asking, but i will anyway. invites to either would be great, i'm lost without file sharing.
Registration and inviting is cut off at BOTH for the moment. But with what.cd (I haven't been invited to Waffles yet) we're still racking up invites, we just can't send them out. The invites will come flooding out as soon as they are allowed to be sent.
Waffles would be good. I don't understand why one of these services didn't open up registration, obviously it would attract all of the old Oink users.
Their servers can only hold so much.
I've been reading that Waffles is a bit suspicious. I don't know where it came from but somebody somewhere found this:
QuoteI may not be Sherlock Holmes, but I keep my ear to the ground and I like to think that I'm not entirely oblivious to what I hear...and right now, I dunno about anyone else, but my instincts are screaming bloody murder. This all seems a little expensive for some bratty 17 year old porn site admin in Ireland, not to mention requiring a little more depth of character to set up.
Even if it is all kosher, something in here isn't quite adding up:
#1. This kid's obviously intelligent enough to set up Waffles - it does exist, after all...nobody's denying that.
#2. And yet, he's dumb enough that all of his private information - full (real) name, address, phone number, high school, etc - are easily found through an online search.
#3. But even if he really is that dumb, he should at least be wealthy enough to pay someone who does know how to do these things to do it for him - switching servers like that costs money, and as pointed out above, it's certainly not money he's afraid to spend.
#4. How on earth does a bratty 17 year old porn site admin have that much cash, and where on earth is he getting it from?
#5. It states on the Wikichan that one of the major reasons for his porno site shutting down was his parents finding out about it. What happens when they find out about this? After all, if he's not intelligent enough to hide his info from me, he's certainly not intelligent enough to hide it from his parents. And while porno may be unarguably legal, however morally objectionable it is, the legal status of filesharing is anything but clear right now, and I doubt his conservative Roman Catholic parents would want their son taking part in such a thing, let alone orchestrating it.
#6. Why all the location changes? Why not just base the bloody thing in Sweden to begin with and avoid all the hassle?
I dunno. I'm almost certain that something's not right here...keep your eyes peeled, and if you're not a member already, I certainly wouldn't recommend becoming one.
Also, if I get an invite I'll of course not be an asshole. I had a 2.2 ratio at OiNK, 20+ gigs uploaded.
Wooo, Finally got a Waffles.fm invite.
It was from the site admin who saw the screenshot I sent of my original OiNK invite, so anyone else who sent proof back when we thought that's all we needed to get invited should be getting theirs too.
Date: 12 Nov 2007 11:42:18 +0100
To: bonanzataz@yahoo.com
Subject: Music Piracy
From: piracy@riaa.org
Dear registered user of the site What.cd,
We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the
site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for
the
sole purpose of music piracy.
Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be
obvious
to you that the results outweigh the benefits - hard working artists
won't be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music,
ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the
shops and for download.
The RIAA had hoped that the disabling by the police of the large
illegal
music site, Oink.cd, would stop a lot of people from engaging in
piracy,
as they don't want to be seen as criminals. However, this appears to
not be the case, as two large new sites have sprung up in its place.
This email is the final warning to all of you who were members of
Oink.cd and are current members of What.cd. If we find you to be
committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press
charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies
of
America.
Yours Faithfully,
The RIAA
EDIT: apparently this is a fake. some british kids that had beef with the oink admins were trying to shut them down or something. i'm gonna keep downloading.
Shit. I just checked the e-mail I used to register and I got one too.
Are you sure it's fake? I've barely been using what since I got into waffles, but still, this is creepy.
what.cd is saying it's a fake and linking to this for proof: http://pastebin.ca/770503
i don't see how this proves it, but i also don't quite believe the message. at the same time i'm going to wait a little before doing anything. i'm glad i changed my password last night because of all these attacks. y'all should do the same. it seems like a really vulnerable site.
well let's just say this, if it is truly the RIAA why would they spell the British version of "offence" rather than offense. Seems like bullshit to me. I've gotten it too but haven't dl off of what.cd. And I don't think it's illegal to register with a website. I shot back a reply and told them to go fuck themselves.
by the way:
http://torrentfreak.com/14-year-old-hacker-threatens-whatcd-071112/
I have one invite to what.cd, whoever wants it can pm me their e-mail.
Only thing is what.cd put a cap on any new members coming in, so you'll just have to wait.
I actually think Google is the best way of finding music. It's possible to find almost everything in good quality... all it takes is a little bit of creativity with the keywords and a rapidshare account...
Hedwig, you've got mail.
Let's all sign up on simplify media and share our music in Itunes. My username is thormj
http://www.simplifymedia.com/
Check out this website if you haven't already. I think you will be pleasantly surprised but do try and keep it as quiet as a message board conceivably can. They've been shutting these down left and right lately but this was too good of a find not to share.
http://kokoro-datamp3.blogspot.com/ (http://kokoro-datamp3.blogspot.com/)
Thanks man, the Dylan Mondegreen album on there is great.
P.S. The Yules album on there is also amazing.
http://puht.blogspot.com/ (http://puht.blogspot.com/)
:shock: No frills and one of the best lists out there. This was the first place I've seen with the new s/t Crystal Castles album. :bravo:
Quote from: cinemanarchist on February 20, 2008, 12:00:31 AM
http://puht.blogspot.com/ (http://puht.blogspot.com/)
:shock: No frills and one of the best lists out there. This was the first place I've seen with the new s/t Crystal Castles album. :bravo:
Jesus christ...they guy who owns that blog must have absolutely no life...but it's a damn fine collection of music. Thanks for the link musicanarchist :yabbse-thumbup:
Quote from: thooor on February 22, 2008, 07:50:18 AM
Quote from: cinemanarchist on February 20, 2008, 12:00:31 AM
http://puht.blogspot.com/ (http://puht.blogspot.com/)
:shock: No frills and one of the best lists out there. This was the first place I've seen with the new s/t Crystal Castles album. :bravo:
Jesus christ...they guy who owns that blog must have absolutely no life...but it's a damn fine collection of music. Thanks for the link musicanarchist :yabbse-thumbup:
I go through phases and right now I am definitely listening to more music than I am watching movies. Cinemanarchist will return and he'll be stronger than ever. You'd be suprised what having your office surrounded on both sides by movie theatres can do to your desire to watch movies....I can hear the trailer for Funny Games on one side of me and City of Men on the other.
Do any of you use pirate's bay or torrent pond and all those sites cause im trying to figure out where my comp is getting all this adware from and i think it might be from torrents. Are they known for infecting people's comps?
off topic but has anyone else had this problem where everytime you click on a google link you get sent off to some random ad page or something, whenever this happens i noticed this name: "maxifiles" comes up on the window heading, spyware doctors don't remove it for some reason(whatever it is, it dosen't seem to be a program)
Quote from: idk on March 05, 2008, 01:43:41 PMoff topic but has anyone else had this problem where everytime you click on a google link you get sent off to some random ad page or something, whenever this happens i noticed this name: "maxifiles" comes up on the window heading, spyware doctors don't remove it for some reason(whatever it is, it dosen't seem to be a program)
Try this. I had a problem with viruses and the guy at the Help Center installed this, and it cleaned it all out:
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Quote from: MacGuffin on March 05, 2008, 02:56:17 PM
Quote from: idk on March 05, 2008, 01:43:41 PMoff topic but has anyone else had this problem where everytime you click on a google link you get sent off to some random ad page or something, whenever this happens i noticed this name: "maxifiles" comes up on the window heading, spyware doctors don't remove it for some reason(whatever it is, it dosen't seem to be a program)
Try this. I had a problem with viruses and the guy at the Help Center installed this, and it cleaned it all out:
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Thanks so much, totally did the trick. It found so much stuff my other one didn't find. :-D
can anyone hook this brother up with a membership with one of those postoink services??? i'm ratio reliable... :yabbse-smiley:
much obliged.
Quote from: cron on March 26, 2008, 08:08:54 PM
can anyone hook this brother up with a membership with one of those postoink services??? i'm ratio reliable... :yabbse-smiley:
much obliged.
I'm in the same boat if anyone wants to help out a broke-ass comedian
Invites to waffles are closed right now, but I have two that I can send you guys when they're open again if you give me your email.
still no invites to waffles?
I had some but I sent them to everyone who gave me their email. I don't have any now and probably won't for awhile.
if anybody's got a what.cd account, I would be very grateful for an invite, and I can promise that there will be no trouble with my ratio. (it would also be a service to walrus since we're currently sharing an IP)
I lost my what.cd account info, and still never got into waffles. Any help this way would be appreciated.
How do you "lose" a what.cd account? Do you know how hard those are to get?
Did anyone take advantage of the what.cd free leech this weekend? I downloaded 310 albums.
310 albums? What the fuck?
I didn't leave the house all weekend. I had about 200 albums I've been bookmarking for the last year for this rare occasion, and the other 110 was just shit I downloaded because I could.
Stefan, I'm looking for the albums by Tribeca, can you download those for me?
Sorry, bud. Not now. I could have this weekend, but free leech is over. I just checked and they have Kate 97 and Dragon Down. Those are the only two albums they have.
Those would be ideal for now, let me know when you can, thanks in advance!
http://rapidshare.com/files/134397014/dragon_down.rar.html
Quote from: thooor on September 24, 2008, 01:45:52 PM
http://rapidshare.com/files/134397014/dragon_down.rar.html
You... you're good you...
Quote from: thooor on September 24, 2008, 01:45:52 PM
http://rapidshare.com/files/134397014/dragon_down.rar.html
Sigur, what's your what name? Let's be (boy)friends.
no problem
now find me something cool :finger: :violin: :evil: :crazyeyes: :embrace: :hammer: :boxing: :boxing: :nono: :drool: :splat: :splat: :splat: :splat: :multi: :finger: :finger: :onfire:
Well if you can find stuff from them thooor, try looking up "The Real Tuesday Weld" (as a recommendation).
Heads up - Free leech at Waffles.fm for at least the next 24 hours. I know I've given some of you guys invites.
Quote from: Stefen on October 30, 2008, 03:42:33 PM
Heads up - Free leech at Waffles.fm for at least the next 24 hours. I know I've given some of you guys invites.
aw crud. :(
Quote from: Stefen on October 30, 2008, 03:42:33 PM
Heads up - Free leech at Waffles.fm for at least the next 24 hours. I know I've given some of you guys invites.
Not I Stefen, Not I...
Today I was actually productive and managed to get a membership to Waffles and What.cd
I've begun to upload and hopefully soon enough, I will get some invites to pass on to Xixax.
(I did all this sans-Stefen's help)
I've been a member to both for over a year and I still haven't made power user. The only invites I had I got when the site first opened to bring in new members. Those are the only ones I gave out.
I got banned... haha that was short lived. I think the guy who invited me was a sketch fest. I had uploaded a lot of rare albums I've imported from Japan as well... bastards.
Quote from: omuy on November 06, 2008, 12:16:57 AM
I got banned... haha that was short lived. I think the guy who invited me was a sketch fest. I had uploaded a lot of rare albums I've imported from Japan as well... bastards.
Why would you need it anyway? Google is the only thing you need :)
RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead
At last, the music industry admits what we've known for years: That filing music-swapping lawsuits against teenagers, little old ladies, and corpses is a fool's errand (not to mention an expensive headache for the defendants). But don't worry—the RIAA has something new up its sleeves.
The new strategy (as reported by the Wall Street Journal): If the music industry finds out that you're swapping music files online, it'll send an e-mail to your ISP (agreements have already hashed out agreements with "some" unnamed service providers, apparently), which will in turn forward the message to you—probably with a little "P.S." asking you to stop. [Update: CNET has a copy of the RIAA's form letter to ISPs.]
If you don't stop, well ... your service provider probably won't sue you, but it might slow down your broadband connection, or cut off your service altogether.
So, why has the RIAA changed the play? Well, maybe it's been looking at reports like this one from the NPD Group, which shows that U.S. CD sales continue to slide, while the number of tunes shared via P2P sites continues to increase, despite all the litigation.
And then there's the disastrous headlines, as the RIAA relentlessly tracked down and sued tens of thousands of alleged music pirates. Among them: Kids, octogenarians, and a few dead people.
Reaction to the news? Mixed. Engadget's headline reads (in part): "RIAA finds its soul," with the story noting that while the RIAA reserves the right to go after "heavy uploaders or repeat offenders ... it appears that single mothers are in the clear."
All Things Digital has a darker outlook, speculating that ISPs—which "care about the cost of moving lots of data around ... [and] want to make money by selling, renting, or just offering up Hollywood's movies and TV shows to subscribers"—might be more than content to "cut off file-sharers ... [or] simply [charge] heavy file-sharers a lot of money."
And here's another possibility, courtesy of yours truly: Say your ISP catches you sharing tunes via P2P. No problem—download away! But when you get your next cable bill, you'll find the itemized songs added to your monthly charge, kind of like an iTunes bill.
Call it the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy.
P.S. Make no mistake—just because the RIAA has stopped filing new music-swapping lawsuits doesn't mean that it's dropped the existing ones, according to the Journal. Quite the contrary.
Yes, sir. Everyone is safe. If you don't start no shit, won't be no shit.
Freeleach at Indie Torrents.
I've got a what.cd invite up for grabs. I gotta know you, though.
I used to have an account with What but stopped using it because I had no internet connection for a year at my place. Wasn't a power user or anything but I had uploaded a few things (that I had surprising difficulty getting people to download).
Is there some way to get it back?
From the What.CD Wiki.
QuoteEvery now and then we run scripts to disable inactive accounts (that is, accounts where one does not use the web site for longer than six weeks in a row). They are disabled, and it is unlikely you will get them back without a good excuse. Donors and Power Users (or higher) are exempt from being automatically disabled for inactivity.
There is no functionality to "park" an account, as all that is needed to reset the inactivity timer is to browse one page while logged in to the site.
If being away for more than 6 weeks is unavoidable, you must either become a Power User (or higher) or donate, as both of these classes are immune to inactivity rules.
A new invitee that confirms his or her account will have one week to log in for the first time before that account is rendered inactive.
free leech at waffles.fm
Yo Stephen I now have a super mega fast 30 mbps connection, do you know any super good music/movie download thingy???
Top 4 worst things I found out this morning....
1. mininova is death
2. so far can't find another torrent site, therefore,
3. haven't dl dexter s04e10
4. neither last night's californication
Top 1 to make my day better
1. receive the assistance of the xixax gang to see those shows (mainly dexter, help!!!)
I would recommend www.thepiratebay.org (http://www.thepiratebay.org) or www.isohunt.com (http://www.isohunt.com).
Didn't the pirate bay go legit, too?
Quote from: Stefen on November 30, 2009, 12:32:17 PM
Didn't the pirate bay go legit, too?
'The End of an Era' - Pirate Bay Stops Sharing Filesby Dawn Taylor; Cinematical
Pirate Bay, the popular tracking service for torrents on the Internet, has announced that they're shutting down their file-sharing servers -- but that doesn't mean they're out of the file-sharing business entirely.
The move is most likely a way to get out from under the legal complications attached to connecting users with illegally uploaded movies, music and other data, but as usual, the Pirate Bay folks are taking an unexpected road when it comes to their public announcement. "With decentralized fetching of metadata (torrents) we don't need to rely on a single server that stores and distributes torrent files," reads the the statement on the Pirate Bay site. "This is what we consider to be the future. Faster and more stability for the users because there is no central point to rely upon." The statement also noted that "the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed ... there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's the end of an era."
As reported here in July, the owners of Pirate Bay were found guilty in a Swedish copyright trial earlier this year and sentenced to a year in prison. They were also ordered to pay over $4 million in damages. The site remained in operation, however, and new owners said that Pirate Bay would be going legit, "with a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary." It would appear that this is the first step in that process.
Word is that Pirate Bay -- whose original owners operated the site as part of a larger philosophy of open information-sharing and relaxation of copyright laws -- is encouraging other tracker sites and torrent-download services to join them in a widespread decentralization of torrent use, doing away with trackers altogether. Pirate Bay itself will still operate as a magnet-link repository, which allows users to locate other peer-to-peer file sharers under something called a "distributed hash table" system.
So, essentially, while Pirate Bay is shutting down its file-sharing services, it still exists to hook up download-happy Internet users with those who upload movies for widespread consumption. However you feel about ethics of file sharing, one thing is clear -- technology's moving faster than the law, and the practice is becoming more widespread every day.
don't use isohunt... it's a public tracker and that makes it super easy to get caught... a few of my friends have gotten cease and desist orders from downloading games and movies from isohunt. it could just as easily have been a notice of a coming $200,000 fine and/or legal battle
were they downloading like crazy or just normal 10-20gb a month??
I use rapidshare, for a couple bucks a month I download anything I want at a very good speed. Can't be bothered by bad public torrents or respecing a ratio in private sites.
one guy got his C&D after using it the first time (at my recommendation, unfortunately) downloading less than 1gb-- the game starcraft.
as for the other two people they were probably over 20gb for the period that they got caught but i don't know. they were getting lossless music
edit: now that i think about the music stuff was also done on college campuses. i don't know for sure that the C&D's came from the music industry or if it was just from the campus. either way, isohunt isn't safe.
(btw, can a mod split/move this to the downloading thread?)
I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who got his door kicked in by the anti-piracy gestapo and had a mail bag thrown over his head and was taken in for questioning all because he downloaded Dungeons & Dragons: Defender of Ravenholm 3rd Edition and the FLAC version of the Battlestar Gallactica soundtrack.
point taken, stefen. still, i'd avoid the public trackers if you can. the fines, as infequent as they are, are a big enough deterrent for me.
Quote from: Fernando on November 30, 2009, 11:22:53 AM
3. haven't dl dexter s04e10
http://www.eztv.it/ (uh, when its service isn't down, as it is now).
Sure, it mostly just indexes other site's TV show uploads, but it's the best around. Surprised to hear about isohunt (always liked that one). What's this about mininova, though?
My brother swears by newsgroups for getting TV shows, for whatever that's worth. Faster than torrents, and more anonymous.
thanks for the replies, I ended up finding today one through the search of limewire :multi:
Quote from: ono on November 30, 2009, 05:39:20 PM
What's this about mininova, though?
Mininova limits its activities to Content Distribution service
Hi all,
Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.
Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We've been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it's neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.
We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.
We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big "thank you!" for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).
Thanks! The Mininova stafflink: http://mnstat.com/images/blog/index.html
10 Alternatives to Mininova (http://torrentfreak.com/10-alternatives-to-mininova-091126/) (I like Kickass Torrents and btjunkie.)
And for streaming TV, the best is NinjaVideo (http://www.ninjavideo.net/tvshows).
It's not like I'm going to stop yet, but simultaneously, I could easily stop torrenting now. I have way more music and movies than what I've given a fair listening / viewing to.
What a marvelous age we live in.
I say I only listen to and watch about 30% of what I download. In a way, the net has kind of made entertainment disposable, but on the plus side, it's easier to hear/see things that you couldn't before.
Free leech at what, bitches. FREE LEECH AT WHAT!
WHAT!?
Does one need an invite to join, and if so, can you help me out?
Sure. PM me your email.
http://mog.com/RGM/blog/2101426
Movie Piracy Crackdown Begins, Internet Sites Seized
By: Julia Boorstin CNBC Correspondent
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just announced a major takedown of nine movie piracy sites that illegally offered first-run movies, some within just hours of their theatrical release. Federal officials began a crackdown of alleged movie piracy sites This action is part of an anti-piracy initiative targeting Internet counterfeiting and piracy "Operation In Our Sites" that ICE and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday. ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, seized nine domain names: Movies-links.TV, nowmovies.com, thepiratecity.org, filespump.com, planetmoviez.com, zml.org, tvshack.net, ninjavideo.net and thisninja.net. These sites generate revenue from ads and some also solicit donations.
Federal authorities shut the illegal businesses down by seizing assets from 15 bank, PayPal, investment and advertising accounts. They also executed residential search warrants in several states. The head of ICE, John Morton, says that the number of illegal movie sites is dramatically rising both in the U.S. and abroad, and organized crime is behind some of them. ICE is putting movie piracy front and center in this new initiative, by making its first actions to protect the movie studios' intellectual property.
The announcement was made at Disney [DIS 31.50 -0.80 (-2.48%) ], and the head of ICE, Assistant Secretary Morton, was joined on stage with representatives of the Motion Picture Association Member studios. The studios aided the Southern District of New York and ICE in gathering the info to prosecute the offending sites. Morton says that the sites ICE is taking down, illegally streamed millions of movies with "millions and millions of hits on a monthly basis." Yes, new piracy sites can always pop up, but Morton tells us that if a new piracy site does launch, it'll take about a year before it can draw the kind of traffic as the sites it's shutting down today.
Pharmaceuticals, music, software, games, and everything else that can be pirated are also part of "Operation In Our Sites." ICE won't break down the exact numbers, but says that intellectual property violations cost American companies billions of dollars and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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Particularly the last quote in question. Now, see, I'm not pro costing-billions-of-dollars nor am I pro-loss-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-jobs, but I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit. If you deal in these numbers, then surely any ACTUAL numbers at all could help elucidate the reasoning behind all this. And by all this, I mean spending tax payer money through government programs to stop "pirating" media.
This is just the state of the digital age, people will send files to each other. P2P only reflects that on a larger scale, and putting people in prison for it is just making you look incredibly out of touch. Oh wait, they're not planning on looking good, they're planning on making money so they extinguish all these P2P servers, I get it. But this is god damn ridiculous.
There could be a move to democratize media, because I'm sure consumers don't mind paying, it's the outlandish price of movie theaters, which go up because they want to. Of course they can blame movie piracy, but really, I can tell that working in a theater, people love that experience of getting out and seeing a big movie projection in the dark. It's a designated cinema house, people will show up. Movie piracy is something you'll have to plan around, but it's not going to go away. Fighting it only makes you look like an asshole.
But I guess the government has never and will never be concerned with looking like an asshole. I mean, if I made as much money as they do to spend the money that I give them to do whatever they want, then fuck, I'd be trying to sue the internet in general.
is anyone willing to share an invite for one of those kickass places where they have every song ever made?
my resources have become insufficient...
PM me your email or send me a message on facebook.
Stefen...
I'm sure you're still recovering from your big day, but do you have anymore what.cd* invites laying around? Magiska just went invite only and I need another spot to handle my habit.
*or Waffles...
PM me your email or send me a message on facebook.
I just started downloading again for the first time since I was 12 ( back in the napster days ) and I've just been using Pirate bay but their selection of shit seems extremely limited to my tastes. I mean, to me it's like a miracle to be able to download a movie onto your computer, but I guess I'm just into the more artsy fartsy stuff :yabbse-undecided: What else should I check out? Should I try Oink? Idk a lot of this thread is gibberish to me, I don't want something too high maintanence. Really I have no complaints about the pirate bay, except Broken Bells just put out an EP and I can't me a copy on there! WTF?
Oink got shut down in 2006. A few other sites popped up in its place like what.cd and waffles.fm. Both are fantastic.
But it's serious business. You have to keep a good upload ratio and it's a lot of hard work. It's more of a community than a hit and run type tracker like piratebay.
You're probably better off sticking with piratebay and other public trackers. I use those a lot too.
http://btjunkie.org/
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/
thx bruh.
Spotify, the website that allows music to be streamed for free, is to try and crack the American market.
On it's official website Spotify announced that, "The award-winning music service that's taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly, on your computer and your phone."
Details remain sketchy as to whether the site will keep the European system of giving customers limited 'free' music and a premium subscription service.
With the backing of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as the four major music companies, Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI, Spotify could well have a large impact on iTunes and Apple.
The website has also been given the thumbs up by Trent Reznor, who tweeted earlier, "Finally! Spotify is coming to the US. I've been using this for a while and it's great."
No official date has been announced for the US launch but some industry experts believe it could be as early as this month (July).
Earlier today (July 6) Spotify signed a deal with Virgin Media to allow users to stream music through their televisions.
I split this into a Google+ thread:
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11595.0
Did anyone in the US get spotify?
I might sign up for the "Unlimited" $4.99 plan. I still want to own music, so I would probably just use it to browse/preview.
I have 54 invitations so pm me if you want one.
I got my invite through this link: https://www.spotify.com/us/trent-reznor/ (https://www.spotify.com/us/trent-reznor/)
BitTorrent downloads linked to RIAA, DHS IP addresses
Source: cnet
The TorrentFreak blog has outed the RIAA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security as harboring downloaders of pirated songs by hip hop artists and crime-based TV shows, but the RIAA denies it.
TorrentFreak said it used the YouHaveDownloaded.com site to find instances of IP addresses within the RIAA and the DHS linked to downloads of copyrighted content from BitTorrent.
Six RIAA IP addresses were linked to downloads of music by Jay-Z ("American Gangster") and Kanye West ("My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"), as well as the first five seasons of "Dexter," a "Law and Order SVU" episode and tools for converting audio and tagging MP3 files, according to TorrentFreak.
But RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy disputed the report. "This is inaccurate," he said in a statement provided to CNET via e-mail. "We checked the block of IP addresses allocated to RIAA staff to access the Internet and no RIAA employee was responsible for this alleged use of bittorrent."
Asked for comment on that, the TorrentFreak blogger who posted the item, who goes by the alias "Ernesto," told CNET that he stands by the report and provided CNET with six IP addresses that were within the range of IP addresses listed for RIAA on the American Registry for Internet Numbers Whois site. They all came up with material that had been downloaded when a search is conducted on YouHaveDownloaded.com.
Lamy had an explanation for that that implies that a third-party vendor was responsible for the downloads. "Those partial IP addresses are similar to block addresses assigned to RIAA. However, those addresses are used by a third party vendor to serve up our public Web site," he said. "As I said earlier, they are not used by RIAA staff to access the Internet."
TorrentFreak also said it found more than 900 unique IP addresses at DHS that were used to download copyrighted files from BitTorrent. It did not give examples of the types of content allegedly downloaded by the DHS, which is involved in fighting piracy by seizing pirate domain names.
DHS representatives asked CNET to send a request for comment via e-mail and had not provided comment by late in the day.
The RIAA has been aggressive in its pursuit, and punishment, of people who download pirated content. One of the 26,000 defendants named in RIAA lawsuits is a Minnesota mother of four accused of downloading 24 songs illegally. She was tagged with a $1.5 million judgment by a jury, which was later lowered to $54,000. Under U.S. law, backed by the RIAA, copyright owners can seek $150,000 in damages for each instance of a copyrighted work being illegally downloaded.
If official records can be wrong as the RIAA claims, then this would mean they probably accused people wrongfully also," said Ernesto.
YouHaveDownloaded.com representatives, meanwhile, said that despite the joking nature of the "about" and "privacy" pages of the site, it is legitimate. "The data is real," Suren Ter of the Russia-based site wrote in an e-mail to CNET. "A lot of people admit that we have their data correct. It's statistically impossible without the real data."
Ter acknowledged that there could be false positives on the site, but said the possibility of a mistake is "quite low." Last week, TorrentFreak used the YouHaveDownloaded.com site to find downloads of BitTorrent content associated with IP addresses assigned to Sony Pictures, NBC Universal and Fox Entertainment. And the residential palace of French President Nicholas Sarkozy--a strong proponent of anti-piracy legislation - was also linked to BitTorrent downloads last week.