Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
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#2If you think about it, torrent sites are like a modern day robinhood. They take profits from the rich and bring enjoyment to the poor.
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#3As an American, I wish we would stop doing this. It isn't effective, and it's a waste of time/resources that could be better spent elsewhere.
I'd even argue that its counter-effective to progress. Instead of punishing people for making more efficient systems, we should reward them, and try to integrate.
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#4This is really unfortunate and sad news.
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#5The cat and mouse game continues.
Remember The Pirate Bay?
Why don't studios have their own similar sites where they allow free torrents of some shows and offer paid torrents.
As a busy person, I'd much rather pay for something which guarantees:
- high quality - no subtitles - no buffering issues - no viruses - click and play
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#6As an American, I wish we would stop doing this. It isn't effective, and it's a waste of time/resources that could be better spent elsewhere. I'd even argue that its counter-effective to progress. Instead of punishing people for making more efficient systems, we should reward them, and try to integrate.
Well, Americans have been saying that about drug war, civil forfeiture, surveillance and many others things for a long long time.
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#7" unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials.”
bullshit of course. He simply hosted hashes of torrents that other people uploaded.
As far as I know he even acknowledged dcma takedowns.
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#8If you think about it, torrent sites are like a modern day robinhood. They take profits from the rich and bring enjoyment to the poor.
i don't remember robin hood lining his pockets with truckloads of money he made off of the dodgy ads that all these torrent sites serve.
and if its not ads, then it's the donations.
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#9> It also shows that Apple handed over personal details of Vaulin after the investigator cross-referenced an IP-address used for an iTunes transaction with an IP-address that was used to login to KAT’s Facebook account.
I find it darkly ironic that a legal purchase of music helped them catch the guy.
Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
#10The cat and mouse game continues. Remember The Pirate Bay? Why don't studios have their own similar sites where they allow free torrents of some shows and offer paid torrents. As a busy person, I'd much rather pay for something which guarantees: - high quality - no subtitles - no buffering issues - no viruses - click and play
Add "no backdoors" to the mix. Something that some of those studios (i.e. Sony) intentionally gave to their faithful clients.