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Macknu
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| Posted: Sun, 15th Oct 2006 23:39 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 15th Oct 2006 23:42 Post subject: |
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Macknu
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| Posted: Mon, 16th Oct 2006 08:06 Post subject: |
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Zino
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| Posted: Mon, 16th Oct 2006 08:41 Post subject: |
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| Macknu wrote: | Doesnt matter. Say your car is stolen and used in bankrobbery, do you think you will get charged with bankrobbery and get put to jail becouse of that? It is your car after all, and its platenumber is bound with your address and name.
Server logs aint enough, it doesnt prove anything. Anyone can be downloading through your computer just like anyone can have used your car in the bankrobbery. Thats what court here have decided, if APB want to charge you with downloading/uploading they have to prove you are the one downloading/uploading and not just that its your computer being used for it. |
I really hope what you say is true, but isnt that strange? Like if i stole something and then when the police came to me and saw the stuff then i just say that it wasnt me who stole it and they cant do anything.
Now we should not get in to if downloading is equal as stealing because that is not what i mean, its just a comparison.
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Macknu
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| Posted: Mon, 16th Oct 2006 09:46 Post subject: |
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| Zino wrote: | | Macknu wrote: | Doesnt matter. Say your car is stolen and used in bankrobbery, do you think you will get charged with bankrobbery and get put to jail becouse of that? It is your car after all, and its platenumber is bound with your address and name.
Server logs aint enough, it doesnt prove anything. Anyone can be downloading through your computer just like anyone can have used your car in the bankrobbery. Thats what court here have decided, if APB want to charge you with downloading/uploading they have to prove you are the one downloading/uploading and not just that its your computer being used for it. |
I really hope what you say is true, but isnt that strange? Like if i stole something and then when the police came to me and saw the stuff then i just say that it wasnt me who stole it and they cant do anything.
Now we should not get in to if downloading is equal as stealing because that is not what i mean, its just a comparison. |
Well if you have the things on you then you need to get up with a very good explination on how it got there from the theif without you noticing it. Probably you cant get up with a realistic enough reason so it wont help.
But that you car was stolen and youve reported it then ofcourse they cant arrest you for bankrobbery, you might be main suspect though. Same with downloading, they can se it went through your computer but cant prove it was you so you can only stay as main suspect until they can prove something.
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Zino
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| Posted: Mon, 16th Oct 2006 21:45 Post subject: |
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well so mobile hard disk it great solution
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fazlez1
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| Posted: Mon, 16th Oct 2006 23:45 Post subject: |
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Here's link to an article i find really interesting. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2019308,00.asp
Basically it's one guy telling the MPAA about guba.com which is a NG provider of sorts. This is one quote
| Quote: | "Hi, this is Mark Hachman from PC Magazine. I'm calling about Guba.com, a site that is archiving copyrighted content – not clips, mind you, but whole files – and making them available for download. I believe Guba is a partner of yours, since you co-authored a press release with them in July. Would someone be available for comment?"
I thought that such a message would instantly put me in touch with someone on the MPAA's legal team, eager to crack down on the offending site. Nope. It instead prompted this statement, given to me Thursday night by a spokeswoman in the MPAA's Los Angeles office. ("Johnny" is the name of the automated filtering software Guba developed.)
"It's our understanding that Guba.com is committed to using 'Johnny' to filter MPAA movies on their network," the spokeswoman said. "They've been working with us in good faith, and they'll continue to do so. We have a relationship with Guba, and they have a commitment into making sure that they don't offer copyrighted content. We'll continue to monitor the situation, and if for some reason it doesn't happen we will talk to them." |
The MPAA knows about NG but in some sense they don't seem to care. I wonder if money is changing hands somewhere because it's hard to believe this next attitude.
| Quote: | | When I asked the MPAA representative to view the Guba site to confirm that copyrighted files were available there for free download, apparently illegally, the spokeswoman refused. When I offered to point her to an apparently illegally ripped DVD copy of The Ring available on the site, she also declined. |
It makes you wonder. Why haven't they gone after Giganews, Easynews and other providers when they know people are exchanging files that way. Could NGs be just too powerful to stop because they have money to fight unlike the average person or maybe that money is changing hands somewhere so that the MPAA and RIAA look the other way. Either way it goes i think NGs are much safer when it come to downloading.
"I as a boy, I believed the saying the cure for pain was love
How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes?", 'Hide in your Shell' - Supertramp
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Buddymander
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Oct 2006 07:39 Post subject: |
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Nothings absolutely safe, in piracy you always have to weigh the risk involved.
| Quote: | | Take everything I say seriously or else |
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Zino
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 02:34 Post subject: What about mirc |
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how safe is mirc comppared to bit . and how do you hide your ip on it?
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SycoShaman
VIP Master Jedi
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 17:02 Post subject: |
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| pistolshrimp wrote: | | sabalasa wrote: | oh...and keeping a low profile (normal upload/download ratio) also helps keeping yourself safe. There are always idiots around who try to download the whole internet  These people are the main target for RIAA/MPAA.
Just take the downloads you are interested in and not everything that gets released.
Do some research before you download.
I never exeed 10GB per month. |
I was 130GB one month. I got the phone call. LOL not so high anymore. |
130Gb? omg, did you find my home movies?....  |
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 17:33 Post subject: |
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| fazlez1 wrote: | Here's link to an article i find really interesting. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2019308,00.asp
Basically it's one guy telling the MPAA about guba.com which is a NG provider of sorts. This is one quote
| Quote: | "Hi, this is Mark Hachman from PC Magazine. I'm calling about Guba.com, a site that is archiving copyrighted content – not clips, mind you, but whole files – and making them available for download. I believe Guba is a partner of yours, since you co-authored a press release with them in July. Would someone be available for comment?"
I thought that such a message would instantly put me in touch with someone on the MPAA's legal team, eager to crack down on the offending site. Nope. It instead prompted this statement, given to me Thursday night by a spokeswoman in the MPAA's Los Angeles office. ("Johnny" is the name of the automated filtering software Guba developed.)
"It's our understanding that Guba.com is committed to using 'Johnny' to filter MPAA movies on their network," the spokeswoman said. "They've been working with us in good faith, and they'll continue to do so. We have a relationship with Guba, and they have a commitment into making sure that they don't offer copyrighted content. We'll continue to monitor the situation, and if for some reason it doesn't happen we will talk to them." |
The MPAA knows about NG but in some sense they don't seem to care. I wonder if money is changing hands somewhere because it's hard to believe this next attitude.
| Quote: | | When I asked the MPAA representative to view the Guba site to confirm that copyrighted files were available there for free download, apparently illegally, the spokeswoman refused. When I offered to point her to an apparently illegally ripped DVD copy of The Ring available on the site, she also declined. |
It makes you wonder. Why haven't they gone after Giganews, Easynews and other providers when they know people are exchanging files that way. Could NGs be just too powerful to stop because they have money to fight unlike the average person or maybe that money is changing hands somewhere so that the MPAA and RIAA look the other way. Either way it goes i think NGs are much safer when it come to downloading. |
Nothing has happened because they can't do anything. Newsgroups are in the public domain, they always have been! They have been around since before websites and they wont be stoped by an american company who want to stop the piracy of the world, it just isnt going to happen.
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Cohen
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 17:33 Post subject: |
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imo if you are still using newsgroups and torrents to get files you are a pesant/noob anyway..
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headshot
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 18:14 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 18:16 Post subject: |
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| watergem wrote: | | imo if you are still using newsgroups and torrents to get files you are a pesant/noob anyway.. |
torrent yes but not usenet! usenet people are slightly more leet!
I suppose you have access to 0-day uberftps then?
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Oct 2006 18:20 Post subject: |
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I don't see why newsgroups should be safe. I mean everyone who is leeching off newsgroups needs an account (if i'm not mistaken?), and you login with that, so it's quite easy to check logfiles for your down/uploads. Since most people pay for their account with a cc they also have the real name and address within minutes. And i'm sure someday a judge will order one of those providers to give the authorities access to the logs.
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Cohen
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Horrordee
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Oct 2006 15:19 Post subject: |
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news groups are only unsafe if you use your isp's.
get another provider.
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deelix
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Oct 2006 15:28 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Oct 2006 16:34 Post subject: |
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| Horrordee wrote: | news groups are only unsafe if you use your isp's.
get another provider. |
Why would they provide them if only to keep logs of what you download, they provide them to ease their bandwidth costs. I feel a lot of paranoia in this thread.
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Oct 2006 21:30 Post subject: |
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| watergem wrote: | | imo if you are still using newsgroups and torrents to get files you are a pesant/noob anyway.. |
?? I actually reverted to Usenet becasue maintaining my ftp access took to much time. I dont contribute anymore, so Usenet it is.
But yea, torrents are for the weak.
| Jenni wrote: | | I drunk. I don't fucking care! |
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Oct 2006 17:55 Post subject: |
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I personally use FTP's but anyways, the whole point of NG's I thought they cant track what you download but how much you download. After all, alt.BINARIES....
Your only grabbing 1's and 0's to them.
I fookin hope Im right lol
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Oct 2006 22:37 Post subject: |
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On a related note, giganews just added SSL to their service. So no probs of intercepts. Of course giganews could give info, but they dont keep logs and aren't required to do so. Until the law changes of course.
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deelix
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They have some sentimental value for me I guess 
Remember me of my "glorious pirate days" etc. Now I take it slow....read the nforce user opinions about the games and try to find out other objective opinions in the web. Sometimes a thread here becomes quickly a fanboys thread who do not see the forest behind the trees or a total hate thread.
