I'm looking forward to the increase in the Power User promotion.

You can discuss the topic here, but do not put support issues in this thread as they will be deleted.

Use the support thread, linked to in the above post, to discuss support issues.

At this time, there are no plans for a QTM {Quick Torrent Maker} for Mac.

Here are the reasons;

1. Tom would need to buy a Mac

2. Learn the entire system

3. Write the application/program and then test it out

Then of course you have all the bug fixes that he might have missed.

Tom is a very busy man and he doesn't have time to mess around with another program, let alone a completely new {new to him} operating system.

So unless the Mac community makes their own application, you will need to make and upload torrents the old fashioned  way.

Anyone having issues using a Mac on our site, please see the Mac thread in the support forums.

http://tracker.gaytor.rent/forums.php?action=viewtopic&forumid=2&topicid=381

The ban doesn't apply to the radio, tv, jukeboxes, etc.

For anyone who doesn't know, BBC radio pulled the song "Fairytales of New York" by the Pogues because of the phrase "yer a cheap, lousy faggot" saying it was anti gay and also the term "slut" for being anti women. Then beeped out the 2 offending words. The British public were nuts over beeping out faggot, saying it's a common insult, so it should be left in.

The irony is that the BBC will not allow songs with certain words, like nigger, paki, cunt, ect because they are deemed offensive, yet they have now signaled that the word faggot isn't offensive.

Many UK forums tried defending allowing the word by claiming it was a type of meatball common in the Midlands or a bundle of sticks. Another defense of the word was that in southern Ireland, it meant bitter old woman nearly 200 hundred years ago.

Sadly, this is all a crock of shit because even the lead singer of the Pogues admits that the word is used as an insult referring to gay men.

They've been gone for quite a while now.

To be clear, the name of the city is officially Brighton and Hove. :whistle:

It won't be back up because it was accidentally erased from his computer.

Nice post.

Accidents happen. We can't blame anyone for that.

I wish more people would take time out and let others know why their torrents are no longer available.

It sounds like the system deleted it for being inactive {unseeded} for 7 days in a row.

Not all mods are fans of chat, but all are on at various hours through out the day.

Tom and I decided that it would be best not to have students as moderators because of the school work issue.

HOWEVER, if you think you can handle being a mod, without affecting your education, then feel free to apply.

That sounds odd. Even though I'm house hunting and working crazy hours to finish up this years billings for work, I always check the pending torrent list.

I can't remember what I was doing at that time {probably in bed}, but if I was on and your torrent showed up as seeded properly, I would have approved it.

I guess we should just let anything be uploaded, no matter if it's seeded or not.

I guess quantity is more important that quality.

@Doondie:

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Sounds like a fantastic place.

BTW, are you sure you don't work for the local tourist board?

Several countries have already had this proposed by the music and movie industries.  This idea would make the music and movie industries hugely more powerful than they already are.  That's the same reason why more than a few countries already said no to the idea.

ISPs love the idea because they would get a huge profit increase due to lower amounts of internet traffic.  This would also mean that there would be less incentive for them to upgrade their systems.

The proposals have been drawn up by an independent review headed by Denis -Olivennes, the chairman of Fnac, a French entertainment retailer.

Yes, independent of the gov, but not independent of the companies that would see huge personal profit gains. They have everything to gain and nothing to lose under this proposal.

You know you can fully trust their opinions. <sarcasm>> In exchange for the clampdown on illegal downloading, the music industry has agreed to make individual downloads of archive French material available on all types of players by dropping digital rights management protection.

Oh, so under their new proposal, they are willing to obey the "fair use" laws of France that the have refused to follow for several years.  How fucking nice of them to finally be willing to follow the law.  Seems a bit ironic, doesn't it.

There is also another problem.  Ipod stuff will not play on MP3 players and vice versa, no matter what the music industry says.  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs want it that way so they can make more profits.  So this is a non starter, but it sounds good if you are brain dead.

The French film industry has agreed to release DVDs more quickly after a film's first cinema screening, reducing the delay from 7.5 months to 6 months.

How nice of them to give us the movies on dvd 1.5 months earlier. <rolleyes>Have they talked to the cable/satellite providers?  They make huge profits from their "box office" type service and I'm sure they won't want to give any of that up. 1.5 months of lost income isn't gonna make them too happy.

Why not put Europe on the same time scale as the US?!  That's why so many movies are pirated.  A movie comes out in the US and takes 6+ months before Europe gets it.  Having all countries getting the movie at the same time would help cut down on piracy.  Even the movie industry has admitted that most movie downloads are due to the time gap for release between countries.  Yet, like the stone age barbarians they are, they don't want to change their ways

Then of course there is the issue of things not being available in a certain country, but widely available in the rest of the world.

The BBC is renowned for this.  The UK is still waiting for much of the BBC stuff to come out here and some things have even been banned in the UK by the BBC.

The Ab Fab christmas special "White Box" is banned in the UK, but the BBC will not tell us why.  Oddly, they aired it twice when it originally came out years ago, but since banned it.  The rest of the world has this but we can't.

Are You Being Served and Are You Being Served Again {aka Grace and Favour in the UK} have been fully released on dvd in the rest of the world several years ago, but the UK only has up to series 6 of Are you Being Served and none of Are You Being Served Again.

Keeping Up Appearances just finally got fully release in the UK, several years after the rest of the world already had it.

This is the case with most of the older classic British Sit-Coms or Brit-Coms as they have become known.

Then of course there is the huge cost of things in the UK vs many other countries. BBC dvds are much, much cheaper in the US than in the UK even at the old exchange rate {before the $ dropped}.  We pay to produce it through our TV taxes and you guys get it for less than us.

Mr Sarkozy has taken a strong stand against internet piracy, raising the issue during his election campaign and appointing Mr Olivennes to lead the review soon after becoming president.

Of course he did.  Most of his election campaign was funded by the industry he is now willing to give his country to.

The president will use his speech today to "underline his attachment to culture but also his wish to see artists live from their work and have their rights respected on new platforms", his spokesman said.

I'm not sure if he's lieing or too stupid to realize that this will never happen.  The music industry {et al} take huge chunks of the profits and give extremely little to the artists.

This is why you see artist such as Prince give his albums away in newspapers with an ad against music industry greed.  That's also why he changed his name to that symbol, so he could produce stuff on his own record label and get a decent return for his work.

Mr Olivennes this year highlighted the problem of illegal downloading in a book entitled Free is Theft, in which he argued that piracy stole funds from French culture by reducing the money raised by levies on cinema takings and pay-television.

So the head of the retail association isn't concerned with profits, just lost tax revenue.

+++++

I wonder what would happen if all piracy stopped today and it was never a problem again.  Would they still act as if it was still a huge problem so these organization can keep getting massive fee to "fight" piracy?!

I have a feeling it would be like when the gov wants to strip us of more of our civil rights, the make up terrorist scares so we won't feel so bad about losing our rights.  Tony Blair made this an art form.  I wonder if he gets royalties from it.  :whistle:

See the quote below from the article makes my point;

To put in place the new enforcement body, the government would have to introduce legislation amending copyright, data protection, telecommunications and consumer protection laws, with a vote in parliament as soon as spring 2008.

Look at all the rights people would lose under this kind of new system.</rolleyes></sarcasm>

Non seeded torrents stay in the system for 7 days before they are automatically deleted.

If it shows up as seeded before the 7th day and there are no other issues {dupes, illegal files, etc}, then it will be approved.

Most Muslim/Arab and African countries have anti gay laws.

Many/most of the former USSR countries are anti gay.

China is also not gay friendly, even though they partially legalized homosexuality.

The surprising thing {not really} is that the EU says that in order to join, you have to have basic human rights laws in place, that protect everyone. Yet they still allow countries to join that violate one of their most basic rules. Actually, it's their first rule of membership.

Certain people have repeatedly shown that they know what they are doing and can be trusted. Sure, everyone can make the odd mistake now and again, but that's not going to crater the site.

I'm all for having a "white list" for trusted uploaders. The problem comes from the users who aren't white listed and they scream and moan that we hate and don't trust them. This could tear the site apart.

Also leaving a comment and rating a video/file is a good thing too. :whistle:

.dat files are also cd files and can be burned on to a cd with ease.

Just be sure you are using a part file {as mentioned by Foof} vs a cd file.