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Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by 2bitencryption »

ekianjo wrote: post #68
mason55 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do all of those things on iTunes or Amazon Video. Why would the movie studios run their own content distribution when it gives them little competitive advantage.

No you can't, all the content there is DRM'ed. I believe many people care about running their videos where they like. For example, Amazon video does not work at all on Linux because there is no DRM support there.

You're confusing streaming (renting) with purchasing.

On iTunes, EVERYTHING is DRM free. If you purchase it, you get a mp4 (or mov), and that's it. No DRM.

So nothing is stopping you from paying for much of this content legally.

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by cm3 »

Is there a legal lesson to take from this when it comes to using cloud services hosted in the US where you can be affected by US laws just because you hosted a site with links to PDFs from Elsevier in an S3 bucket which itself happens to be pointing to a US datacenter? I haven't read it all, but there must be more to it than having used a US hoster that made the guy an easy litigation target.

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by simbalion »

kayman wrote: post #5

The 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

Because the people who run those companies are literally extremely old, very ignorant about technology, and they do not care what people want, only what they perceive as the best money-making investment.

They don't want change, they want business as usual, but their business model is dead, it's dead and rotting and they are going to accept that one of these days. Meanwhile pirates will keep stealing their worthless products.

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by ue_ »

johnmarius wrote: post #42
cocotino wrote: post #15

Wow, this sucks, I love KAT, what now? TPB is rubbish.

torrentz.eu

Unfortunately torrentz.eu takes a big hit to certain searches due to DMCA requests, it even says at the bottom of a page how many results have been removed. It's a real shame, and it would be nice to have an indexer on Tor or Freenet that isn't as susceptible to this sort of takedown.

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by stordoff »

2bitencryption wrote: post #101
ekianjo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you can't, all the content there is DRM'ed. I believe many people care about running their videos where they like. For example, Amazon video does not work at all on Linux because there is no DRM support there.

You're confusing streaming (renting) with purchasing. On iTunes, EVERYTHING is DRM free. If you purchase it, you get a mp4 (or mov), and that's it. No DRM. So nothing is stopping you from paying for much of this content legally.

Unless there has been a recent change (and I can't find anything on Google to suggest that), iTunes videos still have Fairplay DRM.

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by Const-me »

jerrac wrote: post #52

Does anyone know if there is data somewhere on how much money has been spent by governments (specifically the USA) on attacking copyright related stuff? My main complaint about this is that I'd rather my tax dollars be spent stopping crime that causes physical harm.

Governments also collect many tax dollars from companies who profit from that IP.

That’s exactly why US government is most active in that area. They collect taxes from US-based film studios (all mayor are US-based, five of them are in California, NBC in NY, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_film_studio#Current) and software companies.

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by pessimizer »

joering2 wrote: post #79
tn13 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, Americans have been saying that about drug war, civil forfeiture, surveillance and many others things for a long long time.

... and its important to say, as experience shows, at this point its sadly irrelevant what average americans say. while OP is right -- this doesn't seem to serve majority, the truth is that the system is rigged and this supposed to serve a few multinational corporations that feel their profits are severely cut due to copyright infringement, meanwhile posting record earnings. it is still mind-boggling to me that this…

It's important to emphasize that it's science that says this, not just experience: http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materi...

Re: Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by ZoeZoeBee »

novaleaf wrote: post #97

Very interesting. It seems he got busted by making the mistake of once-upon-a-time hosting in the US and Canada, thus providing them grounds for persecution. So reading in that context, they would have been free and clear if it were not for that mistake!

^This, if you're working with copyrighted material its best to not leave a paper trail to a server in the US
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