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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

foobar_ wrote: post #471
NortySpock wrote: post #157

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Because I make my money selling my labor and IP to my company (software engineer, it's in my contract.) If someone stole my IP from me or my company, it would be harder to pay the bills for either me, or my company.

The idea "exclusive monopolies" and transferable intellectual property rights for perpetuity is bullshit. The blunt fact of the matter is - A majority of the movies would gain more by giving it away to the public domain because most movies fail. Radio did not kill Art. Internet is the new radio. The same is true even for software. 80% of business fail. It would not matter if they gave their code away. GPL based busin…

> A majority of the movies would gain more by giving it away to the public domain because most movies fail.

What exactly about being in the public domain would help a movie "gain more" if it hadn't had a successful box office run previously? "GPL-based businesses making billions" does not strike me as a meaningful comparison here. ("Well, 'Cats' is a fiasco, but if we give it away for free we can make a killing selling enterprise service contracts for it!")

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by exadeci »

technick wrote: post #621
tekstar wrote: post #132

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I used to work at a ~100 person company that provided satellite equipment, mostly to media companies - radio stations, movie distributors, that type of thing. A senior customer service rep realized he had VPN access to a customer's, like.. T1 line. He started torrenting movies on it. On the CUSTOMERS network. Our entire company was nearly taken offline and the customer threatened cancelling the entire contract and su…

I worked for a large cable company and usually once a week, a thumb drive went around with all the latest pay per view movies on it. Folks from every aspect of the business were apart of this, people who worked in security (had to get rid of logs), people with access to the files (stored in s3 buckets), and people with the decryption keys (set top video app guys). Once the videos were decrypted once, they were conver…

Friend of mine had his brother working for a big ISP, they had an internal NewsGroup with everything you could dream of, only the tech people of the company were on it as you might guess though.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by speedgoose »

mr_toad wrote: post #523
minhazm wrote: post #291

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You'd think they would just pay for their own droplet in that scenario. Digital Ocean runs promo's all the time with free credits too.

None of the large cloud providers will let you do this. You’d need to rent a box on a service that turns a blind eye to this sort of activity.

A friend told me that OVH, the largest European cloud provider, doesn't seem to mind on its cheap Kimsufi servers.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Batman8675309 »

chmod775 wrote: post #561
thaumasiotes wrote: post #553

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Note that the conduct of Prenda which the judge objected to was that they were both the legal representation and the copyright owners, but didn't admit that before the court. There was no suggestion that their tactics posed any problems.

There's also the problem that if the copyright owner themselves made the torrent available, it's not actually illegal to download it...

[X] Doubt

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by Batman8675309 »

AnonC wrote: post #171
carstenhag wrote: post #108

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What, you only get emails ? In Germany you straight up get snail mails from lawyers demanding you to pay for the damages. But in Germany the only real bad thing is uploading, downloading by itself is more of a grey thing.

A BitTorrent client uploads data to other peers who want the data blocks you have already downloaded (even while you're still in the process of downloading the content, depending on the peers in the swarm around that time). I think it'd be difficult to argue technically that you were just downloading and not uploading when using BitTorrent. If you leave the torrent running after the download completes, you're seeding…

What if you use BitThief?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by bickeringyokel »

adrusi wrote: post #490
joe463369 wrote: post #419

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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.

You can think it's bad to pirate media and still be hard-pressed to care when someone does it.

I'm almost at odds with myself on this. I think it's probably somewhat unethical to pirate stuff, but it's much more unethical to aggressively punish people that do... For the most part

The effect is so intangible for the large media funded projects as well, pirating your local struggling musicians might be another story, but is that really much worse than the current streaming model what you get paid a few thousand dollars for millions on streams?

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by efreak »

StavrosK wrote: post #502
Arnavion wrote: post #436

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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.

Unfortunately, I've never managed to get this to work, even though the two computers have open ports and can connect to each other via nc/telnet. The other peer m just never starts downloading when I seed the file. BitTorrent is a fantastic way to transfer files, except for this one hitch I keep hitting.

If your client/libtorrent hates you enough, it won't work with local peers regardless of settings, and two instances of the same version number of the same software will fail to communicate with each other despite the embedded tracker being accessible from the browser.

I wanted to about 2tb of data, mostly torrents, over a wlan from my NAS, and kept getting dropped packets. Eventually I gave up on smb and ftp, and set up opentracker (a simple download and build, with iirc two config options) on my windows desktop under WSL, and swapped the tracker to a local address; after this, it worked perfectly.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by lopmotr »

userbinator wrote: post #505
RyJones wrote: post #227

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I worked for a place where our internet was bad, but not that bad. We were coming up to a release and things were fubar. I asked the network guy to find what was up - a guy that reported to me was torrenting child porn.

Reading stories like this makes people think that all pedophiles are stupid, but then again, as with any other crime, it's only the stupid ones who get caught...

An estimated 1% of men are pedophiles. It's kind of like finding gays in Saudi Arabia. They don't advertise their presence. I heard from an old lady that there were no gays in the Soviet Union until they got infected by the west when it collapsed.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by dijksterhuis »

nottorp wrote: post #333
koheripbal wrote: post #317

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Maybe it's because I only accept encrypted connections? Has my paranoia finally paid off?

I think they only track popular movies and some open source downloads (apparently my phone has downloaded the gimp port for windows). For my fixed IP it has nothing. I've given up on torrenting long ago, but not the way the movie industry would like. If it's not on Netflix they can just keep it.

Someone else commented about a White House staffer downloading cracked copies of image editing software - so it's definitely not FOSS only!
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