Anti-piracy outfit BREIN has proudly announced this week that it shut down 393 torrent sites in 2009, with the largest being massive indexer Mininova, which was forced to go legal. Overall, the group shut down 615 "illegal websites," with the good majority being torrent trackers. Additionally, 35 eD2K servers were taken down, 38 streaming movie stires, and 14 NZB (Usenet portals) were ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by ThePastor:Where have you been? Any technology that can in any way be used to infringe on the entertainment industry's copyrights is automatically illegal, supports terrorists and depletes the ozone layer. It's expected that soon word-of-mouth technology will have to be banned, since it's been discovered that music and movies can be transferred from person to person (albeit slowly) through use of the words "zero" and "one". It's uncertain whether word-of-mouth technology as a whole will be banned, but we can expect that use of any of those words will soon mean multimillion dollar fines and jail time.
Just what exactly is illegal about a news portal?
Quote:Originally posted by ThePastor:Done. (ASCAP on girl scouts singing campfire songs. '96) Albeit, their method is a little different; lossy, with a much higher compression ratio and much less reproduction overhead than strictly using "one" and "zero".
... It's expected that soon word-of-mouth technology will have to be banned, since it's been discovered that music and movies can be transferred from person to person (albeit slowly) through use of the words "zero" and "one". It's uncertain whether word-of-mouth technology as a whole will be banned, but we can expect that use of any of those words will soon mean multimillion dollar fines and jail time.
Originally posted by Mez:Yeah my bad. Bad choice of words but you said what I meant. They wont stop torrent sites altogether, they will leave a small dent but hey if they can justify spending more trying to stop them than what they earn from the music in the market well good on em. Not smart business but hey what do we know, bugger all obviously.
bluedogs, since they have almost shut down 400 last year I do not think it is all that hard. Keeping them down is something else.
The media mafia is creative in what they go after. Maybe they will sue you for humming.
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| Wii bit torrent/iso download | 2 | 11 Apr 2012 | Consoles / Nintendo Wii - General discussion | |
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| android torrent client | 1 | 25 Mar 2012 | Mobile devices / Android | |
| The Pirate Bay stops distributing .torrent files | 30 | 10 Mar 2012 | Announcements / News comments | |
| RedLynx denies leaking its own game to torrent sites | 1 | 01 Feb 2012 | Announcements / News comments | |
| new torrent site scenetime.com | 3 | 21 Jan 2012 | Software, operating systems and more / Windows - P2P software | |
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