it fix early this week for the upload error, but I just try to upload again, same error happen, seems need to use the old site link to upload, hope the problem will be fix soon

@spankybob, give your email and profile link by PM.

@harry76 For your ISP, it becomes more of a legal protection. No ISP wants to be known as the ISP that allows copyright infringement on their network. In the case of a user who gets a multitude of requests, this obviously increases the risk that the copyright troll can start litigation against the provider for allowing such activity on their network. I personally do not use a VPN when logging into the site just to browse or use the forums, however on the machine that I use for the actual torrent traffic, I absolutely use a VPN. I know that in the DPI state of Canada, my ISP can most definitely see what I'm doing behind the VPN, however it is not my ISP I am worried about. It's more of a protection so that nothing attaches my actual IP address to any torrent traffic so that my actual IP address does not appear in the peers pool. This way, my ISP can most definitely still see what I'm doing, but potential copyright trolls cannot tie my identity to any specific torrent. The other added benefit of using a VPN is that if I do hit on a torrent that is being monitored by copyright trolls, they'll have to approach my VPN provider for further information, however my VPN provider has a strict no logging policy, so they are not able to disclose information that they do not actually have. This saves me from having my ISP account tied to any of the torrents I may have active at any given time, which both protects me from being tied to the torrent, and also stops my ISP from receiving any potential notice. It is generally assumed that although in a DPI state such as Canada that the big players to the market can see what kind of traffic you have going even through the VPN, they typically do not give a damn what you're actually doing, as long as they don't have copyright holders knocking on their door with infringement claims. That said, depending on where you are in the world, it may be a wise idea to use the VPN even when logging into the site, just to make sure that even the sites themselves cannot tie your actual IP address to your account. This is particularly helpful if the security of the site or its staff are compromised somehow. A person may be able to tie the VPN IP to different torrents, and may even be able to tie your VPN IP to your account, but if they are not able to sniff out your actual IP address, then the link they need to get your subscriber information is missing, thereby making the VPN IP address a dead end (assuming that your VPN provider has a no logging policy).

@MrMazda So, in short, this whole thing perfectly illustrates why its utterly pointless to start threads moaning about having your uploads removed and perhaps getting a 90-day ban. It serves to keep the wolves at bay.

@Kevin4fm No, they were in fact being displayed. The privacy options used to work exactly like their description suggests. I only brought it up in this conversation because I didn't notice it had changed. But I'm 200% sure it was showing uploader names, I'm glad it was revised.

@sidneejmas said: anyhoo I wont be uploading fresh content anymore Ill just keep it to myself....no thanks for it anyway only strife.... Nooo what will be of this place without your money AND your content? It's gonna shutdown for sure

@raphjd I don't know about on stealth VPN, as I don't generally need to use it, but I know that most server locations that they have I'm able to easily crank at LEAST 100 mbit symmetrical through them.

@Dracula975 I just forked the topic to separate the discussion of .net and .org into two different threads

@cp2000 Not only do copyright holders have accounts here, so they're able to see the forums just the same as other users, but there's another problem still... ANY content published on the internet can be subjected to a subpoena, meaning even if the forum were not visible to the public in any way without a membership, its contents can still be accessed through the legal system. So regardless of whether or not it is private, your point is invalid. Private or not, copyright holders still have any number of ways of accessing the content for their purposes.

@ianfontinell you can enable the preview to be displayed in the list, this way whenever you click the title it will open the torrent directly.

@ianfontinell I agree; it looks like it's fixed now. I didn't need to restart my client. FWIW, I noticed that the torrents were visible as "dead torrents" during the outage, and some of them connected and downloaded for me even though they showed as dead on the web,

@kalayaan yes, I got a notification for it, just the bare bones for now but at least it is working: [image: 1777813831612-1000136287.jpg] Thanks for the quick fix

@ianfontinell Thank you so much, it is so hot video and the top.. uhmmm .. so good

I'm not sure how the restriction works on the new system, but I know on the old system, you were only able to send messages to staff for the first 6 months of membership, but once you reached the 6 month mark, you could message anyone on the site whose privacy settings allowed for PMs. The reason for this was because we had issues with spam bots somehow getting through the system and mass PM'ing spam to just about everyone on the site. The restriction became a necessary evil in order to stop this kind of spam bot abuse. I'll have to look into the details of the restrictions on the new system, but I would be very surprised if the reason for the restriction isn't still the same.

@frostycab Yes, my bad. I read the thread title carelessly before I posted in it. If a mod could move all posts starting with my previous one to a new thread, that would preserve the information that's been shared here in its proper place. Edited: Never mind. Someone has already created a separate thread.

@MrMazda ok. You sounds above my techincal knowledge. I’ll try next weekend.

@kahrun ye, also found that hopefully are the same creators! thanks bro

Some people are confusing gay-torrents.org (down hard, possibly for good), and gay-torrents.net (different TLD) which had a hiccup but is otherwise still operating normally. Not the same site.