@john32123666 No... But you're one of a small few of our users who seems to have a database of every porn in existence somehow lol

@lololulu19 Thinking you can get off without a rape charge for anal sex or sex with another man is just absurd. You most definitely CAN catch a rape charge for it, even if there is no risk of pregnancy.

@ianfontinell Exactly. He's even gone to great lengths to ensure that for the people who don't like change, there are ways of making the site look, feel, and behave in an eerily similar manner to the old site design, while at the same time having all up to date coding in a much newer version of PHP so that it will remain functional for the long term.

Part of the problem was that the version of PHP that the old site ran on is getting to the end-of-life stage of support, meaning as the server OS updates, it will no longer support the old version, which would render the site useless more or less. If we did not at least do some updates to the site to make it run in a newer version of PHP, eventually the site would have stopped working completely.

So while he was at it, he added a lot of bad ass features and customization options to do what I think is a damn fine job at making sure there's a setting for everything for just about everyone. You can't please everyone, but you can come pretty damn close with the customization options that are now available.

@jokuihmemies Except that this is the same user... I have revoked their upload rights again, as they keep repeating the same infractions, despite multiple warnings.

@blablarg18 Oh please.... This is just a convenient out to try to get it censored. I don't buy it.

I did some digging and found out that the torrent was deleted by the uploader, only to be uploaded again a few hours later. I have taken corrective measures in this matter.

I have been keeping an eye on the situation and have noticed that at times, many torrents will time out, but after some time, come back to life. I have notified the sysop of this.

@lessrepresed as John mentioned, there is no direct way to change your username. You can however (with staff assistance) create a second account, then have staff merge the stats information from your old account to your new account.

There is a down side to this... Any SBP you have collected will NOT be transferred to your new profile. Your upload stats, download stats, and overall ratio however will transfer over to the new account.

@raphjd said in Identifying the uploader:

@jez855

There is no such thing as 100% security when doing things online.

Make sure you use a trusted VPN.

Not only do you want to use a trusted VPN so that your real IP address is not visible but you will also want to make sure that you never leave a comment on any of the torrents, as your username will appear in the comments as the uploader.

As for the torrent itself, only staff are able to see the username of the person who uploaded the torrent. Anyone who is not staff would only see uploaded by Anonymous.

@raphjd It seems someone tried to give this user another chance, only for them to repeat the same mistakes over and over. I've yanked their ability to continue this once again, but if it gets restored again and they continue on this path, I think the next step may be a permanent "vacation" if ya know what I mean...

I'm not opposed to giving users who have screwed up a chance to learn from their mistakes and get it right, but when the same issues keep coming up time and time again, then I have to wonder what's the point of giving them chance after chance just to do the same crap over and over again.

@Guadeloupe-0 Normally, mods do not get involved with such things, as any reward (such as SBP) has to come out of our own personal reserve.

As a one time exception to this, I have given you a 200 SBP top up, which can be exchanged for 2.5 GB of upload credit. While this is not normally something I do, as most users who ask have dug themselves a seriously huge ratio hole, your case is a little different for a few reasons. The most notable of these is that the ratio hole you need to dig yourself out of is less than 1 GB.

Just know that this is not something that we normally do, but in your case, I'll make an exception. Please use this gift wisely.

On another note, I should mention one thing so that you don't start thinking WTAF?!.... Rights management is done by the system once every 15 minutes, so when you reach your minimum ratio, do not panic if the system does not restore your download rights right away. It is perfectly normal for there to be a delay of up to 15 minutes for your download rights to be restored for this reason, so don't panic if it doesn't happen right away the moment you get your ratio back to the minimum.

@jokuihmemies Generally this is done when mods remove a torrent. If it is a dupe, they'll get a message saying that it's been confirmed to be a dupe. If it's a DMCA take down, they'll also get a message as such.

There are a handful of other reasons why a torrent may get deleted. Generally, mods do message the uploader to let them know WHY the torrent is being removed.

This was explained to you by staff in several PM's. The issue is that you keep uploading random collections with no common theme, as per the requirements of our rules for a collection.

@sakimichan This appears to be a torrent that the uplaoder has never seeded. It is not likely that it will come to life unfortunately.

@john32123666 Haha.... So he did.... Thank you for pointing that out to me. It's now been freeleeched for 156 hours and promoted.

@flozen Don't threaten me with a good time! Haha!

@blablarg18 I mean... He can demand anything that he wants, but that doesn't mean we have to comply.

Usually, my response to such demands is to tell them to file a complaint by calling 1-800-EAT-SHIT lol

@lololulu19 Would you like some cheese and crackers to go with that whine?

@kalayaan In my native language.... Joyeux Noël

@IncubusAZ Any time you are using torrents, I would strongly recommend the use of a VPN. When downloading and seeding torrents, it is always possible that a copyright troll may look at the peer pool and see what IP addresses are registered as doing what with the torrent. When you're using your own ISP, this leaves you directly exposed to the pool, and upon request, a copyright troll may refer to your ISP to get the information on the subscriber of the service that was used to download or seed the torrent.

Now, under Canadian Law, thanks to the case of Voltage Pictures Inc vs TekSavvy Solutions Inc, we finally set the precedent that an IP address alone is insufficient to gather information about the subscriber account as the IP address alone is only sufficient to identify the subscriber of the service, and does not necessarily identify the end user of the service. Nevertheless, in other parts of the world (especially in the United States), this information is often used to identify the subscriber of the service and serve them with all kinds of notices, such as a notice of litigation.

When you use a VPN on the other hand, if you're using a good VPN that does not log any traffic or connectivity, the copyright troll will only be able to identify the VPN service that was used, and once they contact said VPN provider, the VPN provider will be able to respond to the request with "I'm sorry. We cannot give you information we do not have."

Now, with NordVPN, I should caution you that there are two potential problems with them and our service. The first is that NordVPN logs everything, which means that potentially, if a copyright troll has the VPN IP address and a date/time stamp to identify when the IP address was used, potentially, NordVPN can trace this back not only to your account, but also may be able to provide your real IP address, which potentially opens you up to the same issue.

As well, it should be noted that NordVPN does not directly support P2P traffic in that they do not have a direct port forwarding option for their servers. With our system, this can create many a problems, as we require that the port that your torrent client uses to be forwarded through your home router or VPN to your computer, both in TCP and UDP. This is a necessary step for getting proper upload traffic. While you may be able to download just fine with NordVPN, we cannot guarantee that upload traffic is going to work properly due to the nature of how NordVPN works.

If you're looking for a better VPN, I might be inclined to recommend the one I use, which is PrivateVPN. They support port forwarding for ONE port on ALL servers, then also have a list of servers which will forward ALL ports through the VPN to your computer. As well, PrivateVPN does not log anything, so in the event that a copyright troll should look into the peer pool and start cherry picking IP addresses to try to trace, PrivateVPN will not be able to give them any information on you as the subscriber or your real IP address, as none of this information is ever logged in the first place.