Comments on: Sentenced to 5 months of prison for running tracker

By: Firefox

Firefox — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:22:33 +0000

5 Months Of Prison…

Young operators of this Finnish BitTorrent site get a few months in the slammer…….

By: ZV

ZV — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:33:44 +0000

The “Industry” is not hurting, they are turning out crap nobody wants to see!! Bitorrtent is a technology, and how do you stop that? The RIAA and others like it are only DRIVING the quest for a more Anonymous and secure way to download, so in a couple months something else BETTER will come along, then the fight will continue, but they can’t beat technology and progress, it’s better if they were to USE it.

By: dean

dean — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:10:55 +0000

well i think the authourities should go after “real criminals”

I know piracy damages the industy, but its not like beating up a granny for her pension?

seriously why should they target the owners or mods of a site?
its the peers like myself that are doing the damage!!!
your not forcing them to download it…the choice is theirs : )
personally i think bit-torrent will last a long time,and with m@sters help long live NTi

By: crimson

crimson — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:36:19 +0000

if they can change law now after they have failed miserable

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:49:51 +0000

I’m with RTT.

And also, as soon as Sweden is forced by the EU to change their laws on piracy TPB will be the first to go down since they already have TPB targeted.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:34:09 +0000

Kevin, what’s the short of the community? I’m a member of ScT

By: crimson

crimson — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:11:36 +0000

at least TPB will never die

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:50:13 +0000

Do keep in mind that most BitTorrent users will have to go back to KaZaA when BitTorrent is shut down. And when all other P2P networks are shut down only Usenet, IRC and FTP servers will remain but those are quite advanced methods to get what you need and the thing is that you need to actually join a forum or a Usenet community and then request a movie/game/app/music in order to get it posted and then be online for only a limited amount of time, unlike P2P networks which have search functions that can look up old but still seeded Torrents. P2P networks’ downside is that you depend completely on seeders and their upload speed, which often sucks… a lot, and you need either a lot of seeders or a few seeders with no peers. That’s why I joined my private tracker, everybody has a ratio which has to stay as close as possible to 1.0 which means that you downloaded as much as you’ve uploaded. So if you don’t upload, you can’t download. Which means that I download torrents at an average speed of 300 Kb/s and sometimes even close to 800 Kb/s. I can’t give the URL of the tracker because it has a user limit (which they just increased) and the less people know about it, the better.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:41:31 +0000

Another vote for usenet. The fastest and best way to get what you need just $10 for 20GB with easynews .

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:33:17 +0000

Yeah I used to do that but ever since I joined a private tracker I rather use BitTorrent.

By: Spaxspore

Spaxspore — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:19:34 +0000

USenet is the safest form of gettin stuff, am tryin to stay clear of bit torrent. Unless there is somethin on there i cant find any where else.

By: V

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:10:08 +0000

agreed with kevin. we are only the information center.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:01:58 +0000

It’s not the real RIAA and MPAA here, but equivalent organizations. Well Martin, once Germany starts to mess with BitTorrent I suggest you get the hell out of NewTorrents before you get such a huge amount worth of fines and a bit of jail time. You can always defend RLSLOG by saying that you were merely informing people about torrents, but you were not encouraging them to actually doownload them!!

By: h9290

h9290 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:54:26 +0000

damn the RIAA & MPAA