Is Torrent still a thing? I'm not sarcastic here, just not downloading music since Napster. Is it common for you to install a torrent client on your machine?
Not sure why I got a downvote without an answer.
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
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As Gabe Newell once said, "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem”
That is 100% correct. Soon as Netflix and Steam became a thing, I pretty much stopped pirating. They are so convenient that pirating is actually a subpar experience. If you download a game, maybe there's a miner or malware in it. Download a movie and maybe it doesn't have subtitles or has visual artifacts aplenty. The only cases where I do that is if it's a media property that I particularly love. I download a copy a…
It's easier to grab all the shows I watch from one spot a couple times a week and watch from my nas via kodi on a shieldtv box. Bonus, not commercials and I don't have to care about which network(s) are on what services.
I do pay for Hulu + TV for the fiance, and though I do use it sometimes, I'll tend to prefer torrents.
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Oh god... you're not under the impression that bittorrent is a secure or anonymous protocol, are you?
No but all they see is parts identified by hashes. How are they supposed to know whether is a Linux distro or a movie?
Because, quite frankly, parts identified by hashes is not all they see.
If you're monitoring and logging the traffic then it's trivial to not only determine the filename of a bittorrent download, but also everything you need to connect to the torrent yourself and download it to verify that it's what the filename says, if that's what you wish to do.
And, personally, I'd expect someone to at least check the filename before accusing me of committing a crime. :(
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I have an HBO premium subscription (along with access to HBO Go), but I have downloaded a few of the episodes over torrent to ensure I can watch it where there was no internet or where it was unstable. While I have technically participated in copyright infringement (I haven't raided any ships, I promise, arrgh), I do not feel I have done anything morally wrong.
If you're in USA or somewhere else with liberal Fair Use then you might not have infringed? I'm not sure there's any caselaw on downloading content you've paid for? Seems very close to format/time shifting to me. Possibly depends if you leeched or not.
I don't think that this argument would hold up in court as you're not just downloading for yourself (which you could argue you have a license to the content), but you're also providing (at least parts) of the content to others. I think this is where you'd definitely get into trouble.
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Can you explain why? I can understand why people want things for free, but thinking that you shouldn't contribute towards the production cost of the programme you enjoy seems strange to me.
GoT season 8 is something that happened to me, not something I enjoyed. Like a bully ruining your sand castle after a long day at the beach.
How does that work? Do you watch programmes, then send off a cheque to HBO if it meets your standards?
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Use your client to create a .torrent. Send the .torrent over. Other party adds your IP as a seed. No trackers or DHT required.
Can’t you just scp it at that point?
Hypothesizing - that would be more prone to network failure, torrents are very robust against either peer temporarily losing an internet connection.
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what does that have to do with anything. If the opportunity was good enough for you to take the internship, then they were good enough for you not to risk it by torrenting on their material. He likely got sacked mid summer. He now can't even have that internship on his resume. So much wasted time, so mindless.
not getting paid often leads to not having much money
the solution is not to use your work equipment was my point
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#458- Was 26 - Moved into company apartment - Torrented stuff - Company received a $30k lawsuit for downloading porn on company network - Hear CEO talking to lawyers (open office) - 99% sure it was me - Come clean to CEO - Was actually another c-suite who forgot they were logged into the VPN
Explain the lawsuit?
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When I read stories like this I always wonder if they are setups. Like, it feels too stupid.
I knew him well and he was well-liked and professionally well-regarded throughout at least my division of the company. He was a high-energy, tireless guy with great ideas and worked nearly daily with senior-level management, often traveling with them all over the world. I, along with a whole lot of others, were absolutely dumbstruck by his profound fall from grace.
Ye I guess seeming like a nice person doesn't prove or disprove anything, but lets not dive to far into your colocated worker's case, but generally.
I had a malware once that distributed (legal) porn. Since then I have had that in the back of my head when reading about child porn. I mean, what more effective way to ruin someones life by framing without having to involve yourself physically by planting drugs etc. It doesn't even have to be a specific target that is framed, but a target.
I really hope that the police have the technical knowledge to judge the evidence in these cases. Even if a framed person is cleared his reputation might be ruined anyway.
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GoT season 8 is something that happened to me, not something I enjoyed. Like a bully ruining your sand castle after a long day at the beach.
How does that work? Do you watch programmes, then send off a cheque to HBO if it meets your standards?
Pay for media? How quaint.