Poll of the Day > Torrent websites have been getting shut down left and right the past few years..

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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

Don't know much about torrent sites, but I fail to see the appeal of it for anything other than stealing large programs, and they require 3rd party programs to use anyway.

Outside of programs, these days its just easier to stream things. Between higher internet speeds and better video compression systems, if a site were to have some anime or cartoons or movies or something it would be easy to simply stream it. A fair number of pretty good legal sites exist for this even.

If you are using those torrents for non-video purposes and are still noticing it dying down, then you are probably just no longer looking in the right places and should probably start using that Tor dark net stuff and not relying on Google to find it for you.
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Not everywhere has the same benefits like good internet or full streaming service.
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

LtCommanderData posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

No, not really. It's infringement, which is functionally closer to 'unauthorized borrowing' were it a physical object.

Yeah, you can not really argue that it is ethical, however they are not losing any inventory. They try to argue that they are losing hypothetical purchases, but you can not even estimate that very well because it is impossible to tell who would have actually purchased it and who is downloading it just because it is not costing them money. Copyright infringement is a better description of it because in reality you are copying it not taking it.

Copyright infringement is punished harsher than physically taking things from a store

I wonder what the penalty for getting convicted of breaking into a studio and stealing the physical copy of the movie compared to convicted of pirating over internet

its probably harsher because its more hassle to go after someone pirating music/movies. way too many people and you can't really prove who was using the computer who did it. so they throw a stiffer penalty on it to hope to scare off people. at least thats what I assume

I mean with the part about being too many people its sorta like this joke I read once, something about you its actually a thing you can't become a CIA operative if you've pirated music (and they know about it of course) so "the year is 2030, and the CIA is reduced to 12 octogenarians sitting around a dusty table)
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LtCommanderData posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

I wonder what the penalty for getting convicted of breaking into a studio and stealing the physical copy of the movie compared to convicted of pirating over internet

Breaking and entering is probably a more serious offensive in your jurisdiction than simple larceny.

its a slap on the wrist where i live. you could have a lengthy criminal record and unless you like killed the judges daughter or something, youll still be let off most often, or serve a comically short time in jail

its pretty much a catch and release system lol. so much theft here, and the cops barely do fuck all, and when they do, the dudes will be right back on the streets and breaking into shit again soon after. youll read about shit in the paper or social media how some dangerous offender has a warrant out after getting arrested for the umpteenth time and then skipping out on his court date, and you wonder why the judge even let him bail out in the first place.

our justice system is a joke. but hey it is what it is i guess. sooner or later theyre gonna have to start throwing the book at people and making an example of them, just to try to deter them from breaking into peoples cars and houses and sheds just to steal shit for drug money or whatever. the way it is now, if they get caught its no big deal.

but hell the city will go 20 million in debt over a couple 'beautification' projects for 2 blocks of the downtown area which if anything, made the place and road look even worse, and they unexplainably cut off the 3rd driving lane for no benefit to anything or anybody on those two blocks, but the city cant even be bothered to hire an extra police officer or two, or maybe create a shelter for the homeless or something. i dont understand this world sometimes.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

LtCommanderData posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

No, not really. It's infringement, which is functionally closer to 'unauthorized borrowing' were it a physical object.

Yeah, you can not really argue that it is ethical, however they are not losing any inventory. They try to argue that they are losing hypothetical purchases, but you can not even estimate that very well because it is impossible to tell who would have actually purchased it and who is downloading it just because it is not costing them money. Copyright infringement is a better description of it because in reality you are copying it not taking it.

Copyright infringement is punished harsher than physically taking things from a store

I wonder what the penalty for getting convicted of breaking into a studio and stealing the physical copy of the movie compared to convicted of pirating over internet

its probably harsher because its more hassle to go after someone pirating music/movies. way too many people and you can't really prove who was using the computer who did it. so they throw a stiffer penalty on it to hope to scare off people. at least thats what I assume

I mean with the part about being too many people its sorta like this joke I read once, something about you its actually a thing you can't become a CIA operative if you've pirated music (and they know about it of course) so "the year is 2030, and the CIA is reduced to 12 octogenarians sitting around a dusty table)

Lol never heard of that cia thing ever.
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saspa posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

LtCommanderData posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

No, not really. It's infringement, which is functionally closer to 'unauthorized borrowing' were it a physical object.

Yeah, you can not really argue that it is ethical, however they are not losing any inventory. They try to argue that they are losing hypothetical purchases, but you can not even estimate that very well because it is impossible to tell who would have actually purchased it and who is downloading it just because it is not costing them money. Copyright infringement is a better description of it because in reality you are copying it not taking it.

Copyright infringement is punished harsher than physically taking things from a store

I wonder what the penalty for getting convicted of breaking into a studio and stealing the physical copy of the movie compared to convicted of pirating over internet

its probably harsher because its more hassle to go after someone pirating music/movies. way too many people and you can't really prove who was using the computer who did it. so they throw a stiffer penalty on it to hope to scare off people. at least thats what I assume

I mean with the part about being too many people its sorta like this joke I read once, something about you its actually a thing you can't become a CIA operative if you've pirated music (and they know about it of course) so "the year is 2030, and the CIA is reduced to 12 octogenarians sitting around a dusty table)

Lol never heard of that cia thing ever.

idk how true it is but its a funny joke to me either way
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The only real loss, IMO, was kickasstorrents, and mainly because it had such a great community. The new kat is nothing like the original, it's like superuser central now, and the site layout is horrible. Apparently the owner of the original site made millions of dollars from it and last I heard was in jail awaiting trial.
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kat was nice, but I mainly use the bay. When it goes down, I just wait for it to come back again.
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the bay now runs a bit coin miner in your browser while you're there
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Does that give them bitcoins or something?
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no it gives them cupcakes
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Righteous cupcakes yo!
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Gotta lrn2uze Russian torrent sites

One I found has damn near everything you could ever want
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