When are you guys going to wake up and use newsgroups? BitTorrent is a huge liability if you ask me. If you're caught and sued, it's for distribution — not downloading.
Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
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Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#42Assuming this is really an attempt to block user's access to .torrent-files then it is a futile one. There are many other Torrent trackers serving the same files (or at least files that point to the same files), technical means to circumvent such blocks and, last but not least, many other ways to get the same material without using BitTorrent. I feel like Captain Obvious writing this, but apparently it's not clear to…
To tell you the truth, I don't know of any other good sites that have stuck it out. Is there some resource for this? At one time Mininova et. al. were viable, if not superior, alternatives, but if I recall, several of these sites went offline or legit late 2008.
BtJunkie.org indexes a lot of them
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#43When are you guys going to wake up and use newsgroups? BitTorrent is a huge liability if you ask me. If you're caught and sued, it's for distribution — not downloading.
It's easy to only download using a bit torrent client.
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#44I'm on Comcast and also can't access TPB. Doing a tracert, the packets are lost in inside of TPB network. Thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se is as far as I can reach.
How do you know that Comcast isn't just allowing ICMP and blocking TCP? If they're intentionally blocking TPB traceroute data cannot be trusted.
You could do a TCP SYN traceroute to verify this (for example, with http://linux.die.net/man/1/tcptraceroute)
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#45Just because you're on Comcast doesn't mean you can 'confirm' that they are blocking TPB. People from other ISPs around the world are having issues too.
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#46When are you guys going to wake up and use newsgroups? BitTorrent is a huge liability if you ask me. If you're caught and sued, it's for distribution — not downloading.
The first rule of newsgroups is you don't talk about newsgroups. I feel like they stay under the radar partly out of their mainstream obscurity.
On a serious note, though, what do you know about the legal issues around downloading through Usenet? Have there been prosecutions or lawsuits?
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#47It's bad enough Comcast throttles your internet, limiting legit ways of watching video...
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#48Miami Florida - Comcast - No Access. :(
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#49I'm on Comcast and also can't access TPB. Doing a tracert, the packets are lost in inside of TPB network. Thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se is as far as I can reach.
The thepiratebay.org doesn't respond to PINGs, so that's exactly what you should see.
Re: Some Users Unable to Reach The Pirate Bay
#50The article has been updated to say this is a general problem, not a Comcast problem.