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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vyper on January 08, 2005, 10:24:58 am
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Well here we go again, the text only message on their website reads:
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TorrentReactor.to - 15 hours offline thx MPAA
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What d'you reckon? Think they'll actually be back in 15 hours?
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Doubt it. It's probably how long they were when the message was posted.
These nazi groups (RIAA, MPAA) have to be stopped.
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don't forget the BSA
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I'll kill the whole lot of 'em!
Bastards, filthy bastards.
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Dang it. So thats y my downloads were screwing up.
Oh well..
There is still Lokitorrent.....
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Originally posted by MatthewPapa
Dang it. So thats y my downloads were screwing up.
Oh well..
There is still Lokitorrent.....
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.... They're probably watching!:nervous:
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Oh, it won't be long until another mirror of some kind is up, or they move to a host outside the US. :) I mean, look how long it took the RIAA to go after Kazaa. IIRC, they're still going after Kazaa users because they can't legally touch Kazaa itself.
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suprnova...now this :blah:
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Originally posted by Aggressor_Squad
suprnova...now this :blah:
RIAA's site has been hacked how many times now? ;) Seriously, I've lost count.
If anything, the MPAA needs to get their **** in one sock. They need to fine the **** out of MGM for releasing so many b0rked copies of the seventh season of Stargate SG-1 on DVD. I've yet to run across a single copy with a working fifth disk. When I plop down $51 for something, it damn well better work. :mad: Taking something back three times is rediculous. On Monday, I'm making a side-trip to Best Buy and having them test every single copy of SG-1 S7 they have until I get a working one. Right now I'm stuck with a pirated copy of the second part of "Lost City" (which is on the fifth disk) because the morons can't burn a damn DVD correctly. :rolleyes: (For those wondering why I have a pirated copy, its because I missed the second part and didn't get back until after the repeat and only saw the start of season 8. I've never done it before, and don't really intend to do it again unless I absolutely have to. Its kinda hard to buy a legitimate copy when the damn DVD doesn't even work properly!)
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when is someone going to go on and take an offencive
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Originally posted by Bobboau
when is someone going to go on and take an offencive
*cough* Peer Guardian *cough*
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Originally posted by MatthewPapa
Dang it. So thats y my downloads were screwing up.
Oh well..
There is still Lokitorrent.....
nope lokitorrent is getting sued as well there currently rasing money for legal aid
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that is defencive, I'm talking wide spred internal network atacks, destroying there ability to conduct busnes stealing files destroying records. you know offincive.
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Yea, and hten you don't just have the RIAA after you, you have the US Government.
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a massive coordenated atack by people who know what they are doing, I think they could do it and get away with it.
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People have been DDoSing the RIAA and MPAA websites off and on for some time now. Thats the most I've heard.
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Shareconnector went down last month aswell. It was the best eDonkey network site since Sharereactor. Some 80% of the refugees of Sharereactor came to ShareConnector, the site tripled in size in just 2 weeks. And now it´s gone... *snip*
Where will i go to get my gaming fix now...?
*snip* *snip*
Shareprovider will be next, just wait and see. Those RIAA bastards...
RIAA: Rotten Idiotic Association of Assholes
:ick:
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See thing of it is, they're not not making money, they're raking it in hand over fist, they're just not making as much as they'd like and see filesharing as a convient scapegoat. What they need to have done is have their fat asses sat down and explained to that the more sh1t they crank out the fewer buyer they're going to have simply because they aren't providing enough value for the obscene amount of money a new CD costs these days.
How much does it cost in physical terms per disk(leave out the artist fee and the executive's percentage)? What is the actual cost to the publisher to crank out a disc? $0.35, maybe, out of an average album cost of $20.00 and the disc isn't even full usually. With my burner at home I can pack 19-20 average length tracks onto a music disc(all of the legally obtained, of course). But the average commercial discs have at most 12-13 tracks on them. You know, my argument isn't with the artists, I'd give $10.00 for a CD, maybe even $12.00 and give it gladly if the artist was getting the majority of it. But the artists, the people whose talent and will fuel the music industry and who the masses pay the big bucks to hear, recieve on average about 10%, perhaps 15% of the money made by they're voice or guitar or whatever, unless they self publish which limits they're audience and thus they're profits. The rest goes to the studio crew and the band which accounts for the next 35-40%, the other 50% typically goes to fatcats who don't actually do anything but sit on their asses all day. BTW, aren't album sales at record highs? Despite all the supposed theft?
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it's worse, the real reason there doing this is becase it thretens there monopoly on dictating what people like. they don't need someone new with good ideas comeing in and raiseing peoples standards, they need to keep it so crap is acceptable and the only way to do that is is to controle what everybody has access to.
/*plays legaly downloaded Bearsuit colection*/
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Originally posted by Vertigo1
*cough* Peer Guardian *cough*
Do you seriously think they would use their own known IP addresses and ranges to sniff the networks? :lol:
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do you seriously think that's the only thing the people running the ban lists look at?
but still its only a minamal effect. you'know the RIAA has to be shakeing in there boots over it. :doubt:
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I wonder if they have any authority over such sites that aren't based in the US.
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From what I heard, it doesn't matter where the servers are, all that matters is where the "owner" of the site resides. And most countries fold pretty quickly when the US government tells them to go out and arrest a bunch of pimply faced teens, including Holland.
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Originally posted by Rictor
From what I heard, it doesn't matter where the servers are, all that matters is where the "owner" of the site resides. And most countries fold pretty quickly when the US government tells them to go out and arrest a bunch of pimply faced teens, including Holland.
Eeerrmmm, US government? :blah: Who said anything about that?
Besides, unless I commited a crime according to Dutch law, my ISP obligated to keep private information private. :D Only with substantial evidence can they reveal my personal data. And an IP tracker is merely circumstantial at best. They even won in court over this when BREIN (Dutch RIAA counterpart) wanted access to the data to track 'presumed illegal sharers'.
In any case, when BREIN wanted access to private data, it was kind of big news and not well received by many people. Not to mention that the ISPs actually defended the right to privacy (which surprised me). If the RIAA pressures them into giving up, they are overturning a legal descision made by the Dutch court. Somehow I doubt that will be well-received either.
In short; I love my country.
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EDIT: what the heck is up with the poor spelling and grammar within this thread? are you doing it on purpose?
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Originally posted by Tiara
Eeerrmmm, US government? :blah: Who said anything about that?
Besides, unless I commited a crime according to Dutch law, my ISP obligated to keep private information private. :D Only with substantial evidence can they reveal my personal data. And an IP tracker is merely circumstantial at best. They even won in court over this when BREIN (Dutch RIAA counterpart) wanted access to the data to track 'presumed illegal sharers'.
In any case, when BREIN wanted access to private data, it was kind of big news and not well received by many people. Not to mention that the ISPs actually defended the right to privacy (which surprised me). If the RIAA pressures them into giving up, they are overturning a legal descision made by the Dutch court. Somehow I doubt that will be well-received either.
In short; I love my country.
What if an EU court overturns it? :p (Then we'll side which side of the EU debate you'll be on :p)
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The EU can't 'just' overturn laws. :p
Besides, I don't like the EU anyway.
My little list of who i don't like;
- UN
- US
- EU
My little list of who I do like;
- Me
:D
Seriously, the EU currently is just f'ed up. They need some serious restructuring and A DEDICATED F'ING MILITARY BRANCH if they want to mean anything serious. Like it or not, but without a military you mean exactly ****. The only thing that keeps the EU running as a major power is it's economic might. They have the ability to cut off someone and barely suffer from it while the other watches it's economy take a dive.
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...am I the only person who can still access TorrentReactor?? :wtf:
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.net seems to be working, but not .com or .to
I think .net is a hoax though.
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Aye, Tiara, that's correct. One problem I have with Bush is he is listening to whoever's telling him it's a good idea to raise the debt ceiling and continue to borrow money to make end's meet. It's a very scary liberal behavior(you can't borrow you're way out of debt) and I'm on the verge of writing him a letter. The dollar is on the verge of folding(it won't because so much of the world's money is tied up in dollars and foreign governments don't want to cause a depression by collapsing the US economy) and he's trying to fix it by spending money? He should be doing enormous cutbacks to balance the budget and cut significant chunks from the deficit. That's right cutbacks. As Roosevelt(the American president who created the Welfare system) said, "Relief is like a narcotic, a little for a short period of time can be good for someone, too much or too long and it becomes a problem." The largest weakness that we as citizens of our respective countries have, is that we are used to counting on the Government to take care of us. That's not their responsibility though, their responsibility is to protect us from foreign agressors and internal threats like murders and such. Look in the US Constitution and you'll see no lines promising free health care or medicines because you lived like a bloody grasshopper and didn't prepare for the inevitable time when you wouldn't be able to earn a living. And I'm sorry 80% tax rates don't work for me.
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Are you kidding me?
**** off with the politics already.
Nobody cares.
Jesus.
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It interesting how you blame social equality for a budget defecit when billions are being pissed away on foreign wars..... but I guess the poor make good scapegoats.
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Originally posted by BD
Are you kidding me?
**** off with the politics already.
Nobody cares.
Jesus.
The thread had no further point anyway. And it's not like we're cursing and bashing people.
...unless you want to continue on about the RIAA, which is just as much political as what we were talkig about :doubt:
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And Aldo, I have to agree with you on your argument. While Lib is partly right, so are you.
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I actually agree with Lib here. Its not the government job to look after everyone. But its also not their job to tax people for uneccesay stuff like an overbloated military and toys for the Pentagon brass.
Its interesting that, in effect, foreign countries are paying the bill for US wars, even though they are against them. Wars cost alot, so the US borrows. The creditors know they're not going to be payed back, but they have to lend the money or risk devaluing the dollar and with it the US Treasury bonds they hold. As long as the dollar remains dominant, America basically has a license to print money with no adverse affects to them.
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Originally posted by Liberator
...and I'm on the verge of writing him a letter.
Just don't sign it "Liberator" - the Feds'll be all over you before you even get to the mailbox. :p
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haha so troo
^^^^ in keeping with all the rest of the poor spelling in this thread
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Now why would I do an idiot thing like that?;)
I'm not so far gone that I can't tell reality from the Internet. Though the internet is a bit more interesting sometimes.
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Originally posted by Tiara
My little list of who I do like;
- Me
:D
Shouldn't TCO be on that list? :D
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Originally posted by Styxx
Shouldn't TCO be on that list? :D
Ow, he knows I do. :D;)
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Originally posted by vyper
What if an EU court overturns it? :p (Then we'll side which side of the EU debate you'll be on :p)
they are looking into it, you know. they'll probably have a ruling finished in a few years or so.
meanwhile, at least torrents are legal in sweden.
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Dunno about you all, but it's working for me.
NEW DOMAIN
Due to DomainHijacking our new Domain is TorrentReactor.to! - Only use this one please. Thanks
NEW DOMAIN
The torrentreactor.net domain was hijacked, please use only .com and .to! We will take legal actions, please stay with us and tell your friends about the changes!
but maybe this is fake too...:confused:
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.net was hijacked dude.
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Looks the same, hosts torrents apparently, etc. I wonder why they hijacked it then.
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this has adversely effected the download speeds of my stargate downloads
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I hope you all know torrentreactor.net is still up.