BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy agency that has started a crusade against public torrent trackers, has another site in its sights, the world's most popular torrent site, Mininova. The organization has announced that it will be taking Mininova to court hoping that the court will force the site to filter its search results and effectively remove all unauthorized content. Mininova, which ...
Read full articleQuote:It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Cases like this that are being won are the building blocks for BREIN and others to target google or YouTube.
The court case could have huge repercussions around the Web if BREIN has its way. They want Mininova to censor their search results, the site does not want to. If BREIN were to win, what is stopping them from starting cases against YouTube or even Google and MSN?
Quote:They're like hydras; cut off one head and two more grow back.
The more of these sites these groups try to mow down, the more that will replace it; better or worse. 'Tis the way of the new age.
Quote:tell that to suprnova hehehehe
The more of these sites these groups try to mow down, the more that will replace it; better or worse. 'Tis the way of the new age.
Originally posted by wiki:uTorrent & private trackers ftw, public trackers ftl.
A darknet is a private virtual network where users connect only to people they trust. In its most general meaning, a darknet can be any type of closed, private group of people communicating, but the name is most often used specifically for file sharing networks. "The darknet" can be used to refer collectively to all covert communication networks.
Quote:True. Not near as many as can be found on P2P networks like Kazaa and Limewire though.
public trackers are still full of trojans and viruses ppl.
Quote:torrents are the reason i switched. of course if you don't read the feedback in the comments and look at overwhelming seed to peer ratios, then you're in for some trouble.
True. Not near as many as can be found on P2P networks like Kazaa and Limewire though.
Like anything else, some places are better for quality aquisitions than others.
Quote:i dont fully understand.. but if you mean that tv shows arent posted same day your wrong.. EZTV has been known to release tv shows 2 hours after first aired! =]
id wouldnt use torrent if i could watch tv shows the day they are aired (not 12months later)
Quote:what i mean is i wouldnt use torrent sites if i could get whats available on EZTV through my tv.. but tv doesnt have any selection,they just pump out the same repeats over and over again..Quote:i dont fully understand.. but if you mean that tv shows arent posted same day your wrong.. EZTV has been known to release tv shows 2 hours after first aired! =]
id wouldnt use torrent if i could watch tv shows the day they are aired (not 12months later)
Originally posted by iluvendo:Brein is the same companies pushing for the same anti-consumer restrictions citing piracy as the cause for more DRM, DMCA type legislation and the move towards licensing over ownership.
If Brien and the MPAA had it's way, they'd shut down aD here.
Originally posted by bobchew:Yes I agree 100%. If they could possibly get any money from this then it would be ok and left alone. Just like if the government could "legally" prosper from drug sales then they would let them be legalized. I'd hate to see mini go, but if it does it will only be a matter of weeks before something else pops up. Also, if the selection of music and tv were anything but complete trash then we wouldn't be d/l as much anyways. Also, if the programs weren't as high price AND delivered as promised, we wouldn't be d/l it anyways. Most albums only have 2 good songs, most tv shows are horrible, and movies are just as bad...there has not been a stampede of good movies since 15 years. You may get one good movie per summer and winter, or 2. Here's a suggestion to the artist, MAKE THE MEDIA YOUR SELLING FREAKING BETTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...then maybe we would not have a problem with buying it.
Here's an odd thing....I've bought stuff -mostly audio -hires surround stuff -yep I ACTUALLY PAID MONEY for something..now i have I've found that others would like to listen to it..trouble is they live miles away in other countries..so what do I do? spend a fortune that I dont have on several hundreds of discs..then shipping them out to everyone on the planet?...well the damn thing is this..it is known fact that after someone has had a listen to something (after all there are trial and demo bits not all of then just bits either they can be close to the real thing and....they do actually go out and buy the real thing afterwards) would you spend money on something that turned out to be junk?..they get the packaging too..I can well understand the authors wanting to get paid for their own work.that makes sense..that's if indeed they do get paid..in the text it does state that commercial stuff goes on sites like mini and others...what bothers me is that behind this crackdown might be the intention or replacing the 'freebie stuff with ONLY commercial stuff.thus once again business rules..its a know fact that there are interested parties who would prefer that the internet was used for business ONLY.if you heard the comment by the CEO of PHORM lately who seemed to be irritated by the fact that 80% of internet were 'hobbyists' he'd much prefer 99% of it business only! -business of late it seems to me has become far to intrusive in our daily lives..we cant get away from it..we're phoned up by companies..we're advertised to all the time...as far as those bloody advert popups they are all over the place..its like we cant get away from them.it slows the net down for gods sake..and so to remove some happy amateur wanting to share or swap his latest purchase has been going on for years...its what we've always done..its called 'by recommendation' we dont trust adverts but we will trust a mate...
so to clobber these sites with the intention to make them commercial only with charges etc..smacks of that concept of 'the internet' should only be there at the behest of commerce..i do have one BIG gripe.and its SCAM sites like DOWNLOAD NOVA please avoid this site!!! its just a scam...they are trying to sell you back your own stuff..and claim that you will be downloading it from germany/usa/canada etc nope you will be downloading it from your own pc to er...your own pc!.i typed in nonsense and it came back with the same nonsense in different 'flavours' (1)complete (2)tested (3)cracked with keygen (4)2008 ie the 'latest' version...check out the phoney claims on the screen..they are laughable..these are the people who should be closed down!!...charging people for their own stuff...leave mini alone and target the real villains.....
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