Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:02 pm Post subject: (No subject)
SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyways, like one guy said: "File swapping may be dead, but wife swapping is more popular than ever."
Oh well, time to go learn how to use IRC. Bittorrent was so simple too.
MihaiG
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: (No subject)
OFF TOPIC!!!!!
Tony
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject: (No subject)
It doesn't matter.
We went from IRC, to Napster to KaZaa to BitTorren to... well there're some other networks that slipped under the radar of lawsuits. Such as LimeWire. And IRC, the whole fundamental idea, is still there. You just have to wait for some kid from a country with a law that's not up to date with filesharing lawsuits to start a new network. Which is as hard to taking the existing software and renaming the titlebar.
Dan
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: (No subject)
They can kill off one or two netwroks but they can't stop us all!!!!! Fight the power!
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Mazer
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject: (No subject)
*drops to knees*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
*plunges knife through heart*
Tony
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: (No subject)
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject: (No subject)
Who cares, ftp > Bittorrent anyway.
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Paul
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject: (No subject)
Shit. This sucks. OMG OMG! does this mean we actually have to BUY software? waste of money for the MPAA ...
Maverick
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject: (No subject)
Paul wrote:
Shit. This sucks. OMG OMG! does this mean we actually have to BUY software? waste of money for the MPAA ...
Lol yeap, theres just hundreds of ways to get files, bittorrent was one of MANY. Fcuk the Police
MihaiG
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: (No subject)
error: buy software does not comply; try downloaded pirated software full of trojans and spyware...
what has hte world come 2??
dam those activist
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zomg
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:38 pm Post subject: (No subject)
lolwats wrong with shareaza in the last two days, ive gotten games like NHL 2005 and the Sims 2 and progs like office 2003 pro ect,ect...
anyway wats so good about bit torent
Hikaru79
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:03 am Post subject: (No subject)
Woah, am I the only one who realizes that nothing happened to BitTorrent at all? Bittorrent's not a network -- I have no idea why the article you posted says
Quote:
The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate. Although the change doesn't shut down BitTorrent, it does signify that fileswapping sites operating in plain sight are concerned.
This is wrong on so many levels. First, BitTorrent is not a network, it's a protocol. Second, SuprNova was not a hub. BitTorrent doesn't HAVE hubs, and even if it did, SuprNova wouldn't be one of them because they never hosted torrents, they only LINKED to trackers that DID. The 'quick change in status' had to do not with 'threats' of legal action but actual arrests taken place in Finland that were prompted by the MPAA. And lastly, BitTorrent can't be shut down any more than HTTP can be shut down -- as long as there are torrents, there is BitTorrent.
As for SuprNova itself, there are tons of other trackers out there. I'd give you the link to the SuprNova Closure FAQ, but it got hacked. Oops.
Either way, enough with the doomsday prophecies. It's not the first time a large source of warez was shut down and it certainly won't be the last. Remember Napster? Who misses that anymore?
rizzix
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject: (No subject)
well apparently their definition of a hub is a site that links to torrent links. actually its more like a site where u can host ur own torrent links. which is stupid cuz its really the tracker that holds the files... but its true, you need a torrent for pinpointing a file in a tracker. and they can't shut down a tracker.. cuz that part of the bittorrent technology as a whole. basically.. no trackers.. no torrents... so yea.. let em shut down the hubs.
Drakain Zeil
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:27 pm Post subject: (No subject)
There really are *many* alternatives, like EMule, and thousands of torrents such as ABC.
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