p*ss, and i never even got to install bit torrent
thats going to w*nk heartily all over a major part of a couple other boards i "frequent" (ok, "occasion" perhaps) - will have to nip in and see the reaction. probably along the lines of various expletives.
wasnt torrenting supposed to be the big distributed file sharing network that was impossible to trace anyway? whats to stop another aggregation site... and another popping up... and then some clever sod finding a way to spread them all about (e.g. pulling page sources from a fragments of a thousand different geocities accounts or something)
first napster and now this. as if it'll bloody acheive anything
anyone got any news on direct connect? i was going to hit that up over the next couple days to sort someone out a CDR they wanted for xmas (before you ask, i've already suggested going to actually buy the stuff instead and been sent back to the net - even by my own mum!!)
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four more years... four more years.... thats all we've got to sit back and hope that our two glorious leaders are too thick to think of seizing power permanently for themselves.
edit: still dont understand how people are getting arrested for simply posting bit-torrent hashes on a website though. there was no other content hosted and its the kind of thing that, damn, you could very happily send thru an SMS or a thousand other ways.
there's a nice part of the suprnova closure faq that tells of about 20 other sites from where you can download stuff, and from as much as i gathered by clicking a random selection, they're all perfectly fine.
oh and this made me laugh a little
http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal
stupidest thing is, the most interesting stuff that i ever would have got off there was completely free and - spiritually at least - license free stuff, i.e. things that are never making it back to air or to VHS/DVD (or CD etc) in any country, anywhere, and are being shared out of the goodness of someone's heart. all the old tv shows that got linked on b3ta for example - i wonder if you can get threads (and several other 80s programs) on DVD at all? bet not.
the biggest pisser is that i bought my 250gb hard disc specifically so that i could share rare and cool stuff with other people (primarily over DC, but you know i would be torrenting it so hard as well)... had to give up because of router dodginess... and now hardly dare to go back online because any decent share i could log (in order to get onto a server) would put me at risk of having a motherfunking SWAT team descent and treat me as if i'd just owned up to raping an entire classroom of six-year-olds when the stuff i had done, in law, amounted to little more than what thousands if not millions of others do pretty much sanctioned every day/week ---- insert video tape, record program or movie, lend to mate after finished watching it again. rental fees paid: none. purchase fees paid: 50p for a blank tape. license fee share going towards that program: a pittance without you choosing where it should go.
(on that subject, when do we get our promised bloody referendum on ID cards?)
so I lost a hell of a lot of movies because there is never anyone with a big enough HDD.