How long until greedy MPAA sues Google for trillions?

86JR · 22 Oct 2013 at 21:08

So I tried the Opera tip suggested in this thread, it doesn't work... it won't load Google for a while and any TBP site it just comes up with SSL connection error. Also tried to force me to change all my defaults even though I said no to default browser. Horrible software IMO.

Rozzy85 · 22 Oct 2013 at 21:19

twoblacklines said:
So I tried the Opera tip suggested in this thread, it doesn't work... it won't load Google for a while and any TBP site it just comes up with SSL connection error. Also tried to force me to change all my defaults even though I said no to default browser. Horrible software IMO.

Opera Turbo was designed to help slow connections by re-compressing images and (possibly) optimizing pages further. While it acts like a proxy it's not meant to be used like one.

Besides, you don't need it. Google's own web crawler captures all the magnet links you could ever want anyway.

Until it expires of course.

thepharcyde · 22 Oct 2013 at 21:38

What's the deal with the MPAA and NZB? NZBMatrix got shutdown for indexing, but they seem to go after easy targets with torrents.

I've downloaded movies either my wife or I have previously purchased on DVD only to either have lost the disc over the years or for the convenience of the fore mentioned ease of playing the movie file vs the faff of DVD's.

mattyfez · 22 Oct 2013 at 21:56

Nexus said:
These high profile cases may well put off people thinking of setting one up or are currently running them.

notsureifserious.bmp

I couldn't find a good barn door/ horse bolted pic, so I'll just use this:

mattyfez · 22 Oct 2013 at 22:04

al4x said:
I pay a love film subscription but cannot stream

Then why pay?

Tom_ed1987 · 22 Oct 2013 at 22:14

Three mobile broadband haven't even bothered to implement the piratebay block.

deanolfc · 30 Oct 2013 at 04:51

isoHunt re-launched with millions of torrents just weeks after being shuttered.

Less than one month after isoHunt was shut down and its founder served with a $110 million fine, the BitTorrent site has triumphantly returned to the internet, resurrected by a web preservation group known only as 'ArchiveTeam.'

I wouldn't use that site again not that i ever have of course but wouldn't trust it after this, 100m fine and now its back up and running he's took a deal

handed over all the info to track the users

sounds far fetched but you never no. :O

asim18 · 30 Oct 2013 at 06:12

A little treat from the BBC, had never heard about half of these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24726078

Nice how they have a "Full list of sites" :rolleyes:

Efour · 30 Oct 2013 at 06:21

oh no not "1337x" .. lol

robgmun · 30 Oct 2013 at 07:34

Monova is still up (I have a proxy lined up to use if it gets blocked) I'm on Virgin and they roll over at any court order, I wish they had more balls then that. But it's easy to get round it

zenf · 30 Oct 2013 at 09:27

Are there any legal ways to download 1080p DTS movies at a reasonable price? I have a 110mb connection, seems silly to waste it streaming in low quality when I can download an almost blu-ray quality copy in 20-30 minutes.

arknor · 30 Oct 2013 at 09:33

bet there are torrent sites on tor or they will all end up there out of MPAA reach anyway.

tor is idiot friendly as well so they won't ever stop anything they are just greedy for money

ntg · 30 Oct 2013 at 10:12

i thought the goal of all these lawsuits is to make downloading stuff less accessible.

yes, technologically-minded people will find workarounds, vpns, proxies etc., but how many of the average internet users can comprehend how to use that and will go through the whole trouble? fewer and fewer.

once a site gets ridiculously popular and easy to access they have to shut it down. The more they push illegal downloading to the shadows the fewer people download stuff. They don't care about wiping piracy off, just containing it.

KIA · 30 Oct 2013 at 12:38

zenf said:
Are there any legal ways to download 1080p DTS movies at a reasonable price?

Don't be silly.

Haggisman · 30 Oct 2013 at 12:49

Nexus said:
Its not completely futile though; yes you are right that there will always be another site in the place of a large one that gets shut down.... however, it sends out the message that if you run a website that hosts file sharing links of unlawful material, you never know when that knock on the door is going to come.

These high profile cases may well put off people thinking of setting one up or are currently running them.

Yes, because that worked really well with all those pesky drug dealers that used to be around...

Confused · 30 Oct 2013 at 12:54

KIA said:
Don't be silly.

And that's part of the problem

CaptainComedy · 30 Oct 2013 at 14:10

I have a deezer subscription, I just rip any audio I listen to onto my computer

I have netflix, I do the same with that too

I pay for it, I keep it.

murah · 30 Oct 2013 at 15:25

FoxEye said:
The future is a state-controlled Internet. Like China's.

You might not believe it now, but the copyright industry will keep lobbying until this becomes reality. And MPs have a ready-made rallying cry to do it - "Protect the children!"

Unless society as we know it collapses before then...

This, In fact why do you think Brittan and china are in bed with each other.. its a Chinese designed net filter that they are proposing to use

Dj_Jestar · 30 Oct 2013 at 15:25

twoblacklines said:
Seen as

Seeing*

Antony101 · 30 Oct 2013 at 15:55

twoblacklines said:
I know a lot of people get put off buying DVD's because of the anti piracy ads. It is so ironic.

Buy DVD, drive home. Put into DVD player. Watch 25 minutes of adverts about upcoming movies. Then 10 min of normal adverts. Then 10 min of anti piracy adverts. Enjoy film.

vs.

Find torrent, download torrent, watch full movie with no adverts at all.

Now, if they reversed this somehow I am sure piracy would drop quite a bit!

It takes me less time to download a 1080p movie than it does to watch the adverts on disk. You can't even skip them if I remember correctly?