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Everyone chillax a bit.

It looks like the backend is having some issues tonight. I'm sure it will all be back up and running within a few hours, if not sooner.

You can check your connection to the backend with this link: https://tracker.gaytor.rent/stmdd/ Once you get a good response from that you should find things start working again.

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God, I couldn't agree more!

There's a series of uploads on here titled <country> Twinks and Amateurs <month>" and it drives me up the wall. There are occasionally some OK files in them, but whoever is putting them together is padding them with several GBs of "Extras" which are normally just poor quality rips of full films already on the site.

It's not an isolated case either. I downloaded an OF rip that contained multiple duplicates and endless 3-second long clips of someone brushing their teeth.

I loved this site a few years ago, but the overall standard of uploads is becoming shocking. People reupload huge collections of files, perhaps adding a couple of pictures just to change the overall size of the download and it gets accepted. Proper titles, descriptions and pictures are a thing of the past, and the system actively encourage people to upload fake pics to other people's torrents with the promise of extra seedpoints.

There's good stuff here, and I don't have any intention of turning my back on the site, but I wish somebody could find a way of actively improving things, because I can guarantee I'll never donate while things remain the way they are.

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@rashoo I think we might need just a little bit more information....

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@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

Uploading porn does not violate copyright law since porn cannot be copyrighted because it is considered obscene.

Repeating this ad nauseum does little to change anyone's mind. As I've pointed out on several occasions in the past you seem to be under the impression that something you've read online somewhere applies globally. Even if porn couldn't be copyrighted wherever you are, that does not mean that anything in other parts of the world.

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Jesus Christ!

How many times are you going to post about this crap. This is the third or fourth thread you've started to voice your resentment of being "lumped in" with trans people. Nobody is lumping you in with trans people. The trans people had a meeting and they don't want you. Get over your own bigotry and/or insecurities, live your own damn life and shut up about it because we don't care!!!

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@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

To the people who actually believe that gay porn has legitimate copyrights, I suggest you leave this site..

Thank you. Your suggestion has been considered and thrown in the bin. The reciprocal of your idea also applies if you feel like taking that option.

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

At the entrances to shops that sell porn, they have signs up saying that there is no admittance for anybody who is a member of law enforcement.

Gotta say, I've never seen that in the UK. Or Amsterdam. Or Prague. Or Spain. Or Germany. Guess they'd better all close up shop in case Buford T Justice happens to drive past while he's chasing The Bandit.

As has been said many times before, this site is not a democracy. The site owner gets to decide what happens on here. If they choose to comply with DMCA, most likely having sought legal guidance on the issue from a professional and not someone with a tinfoil hat on, then that is up to them.

We, the members, do not own the site. We are not responsible for it. The site goes to great lengths to protect its members' anonymity. The owners do not have that protection, so they can do what they like as far as I'm concerned.

As I said, even if there is some bizarre law or statute wherever you are, that has limitations. Porn can be and is copyrighted in many countries, and that copyright is applied to all signatories of the Berne Convention, including the US.

A (fairly long!) article on porn copyright on Lexology reads:

"Similarly, a French court[28] recently held[29] that copyright will not be denied to pornographic work only because of its genre and that the choices governing the design can be considered as original for copyright purposes. In the Australian case Venus Adult Shops,[30] dealing with copyright infringement of pornographic films, the Federal Court held that there is no statutory basis in the Copyright Act 1968 to refuse copyright on the grounds of content or offensive subject-matter of the work in question."

Regarding the UK it goes on to state:

"It is therefore reasserted that copyright law should acknowledge automatic and content-neutral creation of copyright for all works satisfying the legal requirements of copyrightability, including those at the verge of illegality (such as pornography), since the societal value judgments, including morality and public interest, are constantly developing in time and space; and that correspondingly, copyright should serve its "expressive value for society"[39] by promoting free expression or challenging these value judgments."

Now please do tell us all how your US-centric ideas trump the laws of other countries.

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@john32123666 When someone has read the rules and simply forgotten something I can forgive that. When someone hasn't read the rules thoroughly enough to know them properly, I can sort of forgive that. (There are quite a lot of them and it's not an easy read..)

But when someone clearly knows the rules and chooses to ignore them then they're just asking for it. Any torrent site is only as good as its uploads, and it seems to be worse now than it was a few years ago. People are getting lazy, and have no interest in quality uploads. They just want the ratio.

Let's hope that the mods have "explained" the rules to him.

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@lololulu19 said in Straight or Gay?:

who is exclusively a bottom for females pegging him

I genuinely can't believe I have to explain this, but what people do or don't do on camera for money does not necessarily reflect their personal preferences or sexual orientation.

From the sheer number of posts you've made along these lines I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect that you have may have fantasies that lean deep into "straight buy does gay stuff" territory. If so there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't think you really need us to validate that fantasy for you. Believe whatever you want to believe about porn actors, because at the end of the day all of it is really just fantasy. That's the whole point of it. I think you're overthinking it. Imagine someone is straight or gay if you like and just enjoy it for what it is, a performance.

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It seems to have become very common these days to add lots of pics to upload listings that aren't actually from the upload itself. These are usually album/promo pics that show one or some of the performers posing for headshots or whatever. I'm not totally opposed to having clear shots of performers somewhere, but they're starting to get spammed in such a way as to make the site messy.

By way of example I present this set of upload from a 2-hour window earlier today:

10 uploads in 2 hours all using the same pictures over and over again. They have kindly added a thumbnail sheet for each one which I suppose might make them compliant with the rules, but I would argue that the overall presentation is misleading.

This is becoming more and more common it seems. Is there any point in reporting them all, and if so, how? Do we just report it as pic-spamming or what?

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Not here for a fight, but just want to point out that "this will happen eventually if we don't change by 2023" means something very different to "this will happen in 2023" Reading the post properly shows that she said we had 5 years to change course, not that we will all die in fire and brimstone in 5 years. The article even says "an article predicting humans would go extinct by 2023" which any rational person would realise is different to what she was saying. Lazy journalism trying to sensationalise something by misinterpreting it.

FWIW, I don't think anybody has any real clue as to when the planet will (or did) reach the tipping point.

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@Ace1 Requests are banned across the entire site. (See the rules page.) Mods regularly hand out temporary bans which are sometimes followed by permanent ones. Be careful.

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It could be hard to find such material as (depending on how you interpret it) its on the banned content list. While it doesn't ban consensual fantasies perhaps people are just wary of posting it.

"Rape / Sleep Rape (regardless of whether it is real or appears to be real)"

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Just remembered he's done a few vids for collegeboyphysicals too

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@skygrind Don't worry. I'm a native English speaker and I have no idea what Joker said either. All I saw was something something something technical.

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Hullo and welcome

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@bi4smooth He's a regular on BaitBuddies too

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@skygrind You do need some spare drive space for the database though. When you scan your library it can generate all sorts of stuff. At the moment all mine is doing is scene covers and phashes. It can generate previews, scrubber sprites and all sorts if you want, but it will eat space. A lot of space, depending on the size of your collection.

Mine is only about 10GB right now, but I seems to remember it growing to about 400GB when I had a few more options turned on.

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@skygrind said:

I have about 2TB of files that are extremely messy and uncategorized, so I’m looking for ways to organize them. It feels like a huge project. Are there any good methods, software, or information about relevant studios/companies that can help with manual sorting and categorization?

Have a look at StashApp, which link to StashDB. I've been using it for a while now, and it will catalogue your entire library. It generates perceptual hashes for every video and can compare them to entries in the StachDB database to fill in details such as actors, studios, dates, descriptions, tags etc. If info is still missing then you can scrape websites for the data, though that's not always successful. There are plugins for it that will rename the usual "987632490yio1h418y3b-fc9812.mp4" files to match your entries in the app, and even organise them into folders based of studio or actor or user-defined tags. I haven't been able to get some plugins to work, but when I have enough time I'll have a proper go at it.

Once you've got everything scanned and added some of the info then running a search on the whole database is lightning fast. I've save myself so much in terms of duplicate downloads now as I can quickly check if I have a file that looks familiar before downloading. I run it on my little N100 mini-PC and its incredibly simple to stream to my iPad, TV, gaming PC or whatever.

https://github.com/stashapp/stash

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@Joker said:

I’ve been working on a redesign of the site for days now. The whole thing is still database-compatible, but the language system has already been integrated into the database, which may lead to some issues. For example, the rules might not appear if no language has been selected yet.

I hope you’re going to like it. I haven’t left a single page untouched.

Yes, it's there for me now, thanks. The change must have occurred while I was actually logged in an hence I didn't get the language selection prompt.

While you're he Mr Joker Sir, I've noticed that the Bonus Points exchange page still has incorrect info. It says:

"1 Point for each Forum post and 5 Points for each new Forum Topic"

That bonus got removed ages ago, and I've had to explain to several people who have asked why they weren't getting their points. Should be a simple fix to delete the line of text if you're still fiddling with the site.

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Just a heads-up for the powers that be, the main RULES page is empty after the update. Might want to get Mr J to have a look at that.

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