Topic: Team America: Internet Police (UK ISPs Block PirateBay - DOS Attacks on TPB)

[wacko]

There's a fantastic analysis and explanation of the next bout of anti-file-sharing legislation, ACTA, here. A must read for anyone interesting in the topic, imo.

[Sifu]

Filesonic seems to have joined Megaupload.

Looks like it

[OCK]

There's a fantastic analysis and explanation of the next bout of anti-file-sharing legislation, ACTA, here. A must read for anyone interesting in the topic, imo.

Aye, just saw some of this.

https://plus.google.com/110717292631787068538/posts/gf3vm4m42HH

[Decky]

Filesonic seems to have joined Megaupload.

Looks like it

Uploaded.to is disabled in the US as well now.

[wacko]

Wonder what will happen to RapidShare.

The US strong-armed New Zealand into arresting Kim Schmitz for them (who's a convicted criminal, by the way). Wonder if they'll be able to do the same to the Swiss, as RS is based in Switzerland.

If Schmitz had a brain, instead of holing up with a gun in a luxurious NZ villa, he'd have stayed in Germany; Germany will not extradite German citizens.

[OCK]

Absolute longshot, but imagine international tensions and war breaking out because of these stupid internet laws.

[Mike]

The porn wars.

[wacko]

There's a fantastic analysis and explanation of the next bout of anti-file-sharing legislation, ACTA, here. A must read for anyone interesting in the topic, imo.

Aye, just saw some of this.

https://plus.google.com/110717292631787068538/posts/gf3vm4m42HH

Actually, much of that post is horseshit. The link I posted is far less sensationalist, and much more rational, factual and realistic.

The tl;dr is:

ACTA is just a treaty, and it's relatively toothless compared to the earlier leaked version. What matters is how individual countries choose to implement its provisions in law. For many countries, it may change very, very little for file sharers (they already have laws covering most of its provisions). It's mostly bad for large-scale purveyors of counterfeit goods (folks elling knock-off handbags, watches etc. on eBay ). On the other hand, it might lead to fairly draconian measures.

We need to be vigilant as to what laws our respective governments try to pass.

I, for one, will be voting for the Pirate Party in the next local elections. (They already bagged a seat in Berlin.)

[Adam^]

If there was a subscription service where you could download say x ammount of songs/movies/TV per month, or you sign up to a TV series and you get the episode soon as its shown on TV, people would pay as they're already paying for download services.

You can buy a series in advance on iTunes, I believe, and watch anything they have on Netflix for a fixed monthly price. These services are far from universal, though.

I've seen these but the cost of them was a bit silly considering I already have sky. The main reason I download the series is so I can watch them in bed on my TV, instead of having to sit in the living room to watch them. The other issue that most of the media companies dont look at is countries where they dont sell the rights to watch a show or they sell the rights to broadcast months after it has all shown in the US (I have a friend in Jordan who loves House but can't get it on any TV over there), so people download it, same goes for movies film comes out in somewhere not in your country for a month. So you download it, as you have no other way to access it.

Music is highly pirated, but I believe its stupidly overpriced anyway. Even buying off Itunes is crazy 80p a song, I read to fill a 120gb Ipod from Itunes would cost about $20,000 (40,000 songs). Media companies have build themselves up giving out massive record deals to artists but the world has moved on and something is only worth what people will pay, most real fans will buy the album, go to the gig etc anyways. If I like a artist I'd rather give them money by going to the gig than giving money to the record label.

Pirating is bad, but really when the alternative is stupidly overpriced and extremely restrictive interms of what you can do with the content once you've paid for it, its far easier and flexible to just illegally download the music!

[wacko]

Pirating is bad, but really when the alternative is stupidly overpriced and extremely restrictive interms of what you can do with the content once you've paid for it, its far easier and flexible to just illegally download the music!

That's exactly the way I see it. I'm more than happy to pay a reasonable price for content that I can access effortlessly, and consume any way I want.

As long as the only legitimate content I have access to is restricted with DRM, only available in German, and months late, it simply isn't of any interest to me. The rightsholders aren't losing money because people like me download illicit content, but because the content we want simply isn't available legitimately.

They could easily provide better and more convenient content than the pirates, and Netflix and the like have shown that people will willingly pay for this, but they refuse to. So f*** them.

[BlueStar]

Megaupload – Closed

Fileserve – Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Deleting multiple files. Banning Premium accounts. Closed Affiliate Program.

Filesonic – Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Closed Affiliate Program. Changed server location Jan 22, 2012. Taken down it's Facebook page Now using Digital fingerprinting. Files are being deleted as soon as uploaded (as Hotfile did).

VideoBB – Closed Affiliate Program.

Filepost – Started suspending accounts with infringing material (as Hotfile did)

Uploaded.t... – Blocked U.S. access.

Videozer – Closed Affiliate Program.

Filejungle – Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.

Uploadstation – Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.

4Shared – Deleting multiple files

EnterUpload - Down (Redirect)

[Sifu]

That's not great.

[HansDownerpantz]

What is the exact purpose of this anyway, so the rich record/film companies can get richer and the rest of the world's population are further hit in the pocket, as well as having their ease of access to such media removed? (I realise the 'thievery' behind this btw).

Piracy does have to be combatted in some way like, but this is just daft.

[Beren]

Sheeeeit.

[wacko]

What is the exact purpose of this anyway, so the rich record/film companies can get richer and the rest of the world's population are further hit in the pocket, as well as having their ease of access to such media removed? (I realise the 'thievery' behind this btw).

Piracy does have to be combatted in some way like, but this is just daft.

The simple solution for everyone concerned is for the media companies to actually give people what they want: painless, reasonably-priced downloads without retarded restrictions.

But their imagination only extends as far as "how can we extract more money from everyone for ever more derivative crap?"

[TaylorJ_01]

Hopefully mediafire stays up. All my s*** is on that (as in, I own copyright, use it for storage).

[Sewelly]

Hopefully mediafire stays up. All my s*** is on that (as in, I own copyright, use it for storage).

I'd get it backed up as quick as possible mate if you haven't already.

[TaylorJ_01]

Hopefully mediafire stays up. All my s*** is on that (as in, I own copyright, use it for storage).

I'd get it backed up as quick as possible mate if you haven't already.

Pain in the balls all this s***. I use it to store stuff I send to folk that I own copyright for which is exactly why the thing exists in the f***ing first place.

[Sewelly]

- MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI

[Neil]

Anonymous targeting Facebook this weekend I hear?

How exciting.

[ykmkmdd]

Seems they've denied the Facebook thing:

Update, 2:10 p.m. PT: A tweet from the AnonOps Twitter account denies that this video has anything to do with Anonymous: "Again we must say that we will not attack #Facebook! Again the mass media lie."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57363931-71/anonymous-facebook-is-next-on-january-28/

[bulivye]

[Mr Logic]

It continues.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?cl=1540856899&v=12293

[Magpie]

Now BT Junkie's gone 

[wormy]

Now BT Junkie's gone 

No My first port of call.