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Nation bashing is prohibited.
While certain nations may do things you do not like, you are not allowed to bash the whole nation. If you would like to discuss a topic, feel free, but make sure you do not tread into bashing the whole nation.
Civil, polite discussions are allowed.
EDIT: This applies to religion, race, creed, etc, etc, etc as well.
Before I get into the main part of my post, let me say that nation bashing {against any nation} is not allowed here. Polite criticism in a discussion is not bashing, but it's easy to turn bad.
That said, let's get on with the show.
No idea what site the OP got that from, but it's a bunch of disjointed rubbish.
Deportation is only used when someone breaks the law. What law was broken for you to be deported?!
What does Dutch Elm disease have to do with deportation?! The UK has suffered harshly from Dutch Elm disease, do you hate them too?!
Anger over bad tv shows?! Well, duh, I don't like 90% of what's on TV, but I don't say the nation is crap over it. Instead I find the channels with stuff I like; ie The Discovery Channel et al.
Why are you complaining that Yellowstone is popular? It shows that nature conservancy is beginning to grow and that's a good thing.
Hitting another car will always lead to insurance companies wanting money. HOWEVER, if your mom had insurance, then your mom's insurance company would have dealt with the other peoples' insurance company directly. If your mom had insurance and the other companies were harassing her directly, then she should have told her insurance company about it and let them deal with it.
I discriminate against assholes. Religion, race, etc, etc have nothing to do with it. I have friends in every group and there are people in every group that I can't stand.
@pdu4:
Greetings. Can anyone explain to me what a "POWER USER" is and how one attains such a status? Thanks!
Click on "Rules" on the top blue bar, then click on "Moderating rules - Whom to promote and why". I don't mean to be a 'smart ass' but you will find that if you read the "Rules" "FAQ" and the "Guides & How To's" in the Forum section there is hardly a question that is not covered.
Also read the condensed rules sticky thread in the general discussion section. 
At the moment, we have 28 uploads that have never been seeded and 9 uploads were the uploader is running multiple torrents.
That's 37 new torrents we could have IF the uploaders followed the rules.
from TorrentFreak.com;
RCMP {Royal Canadian Mounted Police}TOLERATES PIRACY FOR PERSONAL USE.
The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.
Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the Canadian police made clear that Demonoid?s users don?t have to worry about getting caught, at least not in Canada.
According to the Canadian police it is impossible to track down everyone who downloads music or movies off the Internet. The police simply does not have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers.
?Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,? Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. ?It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,? he added.
St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances.
A wise decision, especially since we now know that filesharing has absolutely no impact on music sales. On the contrary, a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy.
Now back to the claim that 40% of the BitTorrent traffic is encrypted in the UK. My first question would be, how do they know that it?s BitTorrent traffic if it?s encrypted?
I work for an oil service company and we encrypt all our internet traffic.
From Zeropaid.com;
The Pirate Bay: 'BitTorrent as a Protocol Won't Last Much Longer'
One of BitTorrent's most senior pirates speaks out in an in interview for a German blog and what he has to say may cause some concern over at BitTorrent Inc.
In Berlin to check out the Oil of the 21st Century conference this past weekend, Brokep over at The Pirate Bay was interviewed by the German blog Netzpolitik.org about his thoughts on the past, present, and future of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site.
It is admittedly a slow at first, but about 11:40 in it gets quite interesting. When asked to discuss his vision for the future of the Pirate Bay, Brokep said he it will continue to "…still grow for a couple of months or maybe a year," but that he doesn't "...think that Bittorrent as a protocol will survive much longer."
Not around much longer? Yep, you heard it right. Brokep explained that The Pirate Bay is currently working to replace BitTorrent with a new protocol of its own.
There are apparently several reasons for the decision and none of them have anything to do with Swedish world domination. The first is is that BitTorrent Inc. recently decided to close the source of some newer additions of the BitTorrent protocol
"The biggest problem is that it's owned by the Bittorrent company, which develops new versions of it," Brokep said in the interview. "So we don't have any input as users to say what we want in the protocol. And Bittorrent is funded by companies which we don't necessarily like as well."
The second reason is that wants to develop a protocol that finally deals with the increasing influx of anti-piracy organizations, spammers, and other riff raff to the BitTorrent scene.
He writes:
Running TPB, I've been thinking a lot of how to make the content cleaner for the end user. Spam-blocking, fake-blocking, and being able to clean file-names in bundles is a big thing that I would like to see more of in the new protocol.
Brokep would also like to see redundancy in uploaded content taken care of as well, something I'm sure the former MODs at OiNK would liked to have had at their disposal instead of having to post endless "dupe" warnings.
Brokep continues:
Also having the same content from several uploaders is something we see a lot of, as well as on most of the other major trackers, so being able to share peers between trackers and between users with the same files in different bundles on the same trackers (through hash search services) would really increase download speed and availability.
Brokep realizes that's a big gamble, but he thinks that's it's a necessary one. "So if our new protocol works," he says "we will be one of the big websites still. If it doesn't, maybe someone else takes over."
Moreover, Brokep says "..to compare with torrents instead of having a complicated encoded file, we simply have a '.p2p' file that is a bzip2ed file in XML format which contains a list of files in the bundle."
"This would also make all files have file-hashes which will make it even harder for fakers and spammers," he said.
The Pirate Bay crew supposedly already developed a working client, but an initial release isn't expected until sometime early next year.
From Zeropaid.com;
Canadian Gov't Study: P2P Increases CD Sales
Most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing habits concludes that there is a positive correlation between file-sharing and CD sales.
The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada is a a newly commissioned study by Industry Canada, a ministry of the federal government, and includes some of the most extensive surveying to date on the music purchasing habits of the Canadian population .
Conducted by Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz of the Department of Management at the University of London in England, the study concludes that illegal file-sharing does not cause a decrease in music sales as the music industry has insisted all along. In fact, it does just the opposite, in that it apparently tends to actually INCREASE music purchasing.
"Our review of existing econometric studies suggests that P2P file-sharing tends to decrease music purchasing," says the study. "However, we find the opposite, namely that P2P file-sharing tends to increase rather than decrease music purchasing."
What makes the study so fascinating is that it's been commissioned and released with the blessings of the Canadian Federal Government and not some self-serving poll commissioned by the music industry.
Among the key findings:
For every 12 P2P downloaded songs, music purchases increase by 0.44 CDs. That is, downloading the equivalent of approximately one CD increases purchasing by about half of a CD.
No relationship between P2P file-sharing and purchases of electronically-delivered music tracks (e.g., songs from iTunes).
Roughly half of all P2P tracks were downloaded because individuals wanted to hear songs before buying them or because they wanted to avoid purchasing the whole bundle of songs on the associated CDs and roughly one quarter were downloaded because they were not available for purchase.
Only the effect of illegally downloading music that is not available for purchase influenced music purchasing, with a 1% increase in such downloads being associated with nearly a 4% increase in CD purchases.
People who also own an MP3 player appear to be less likely to purchase CD albums.
The study also found that other forms of entertainment such as movies, concert tickets, and video games tend to increase with music purchases. It has been argued in the literature that the increase in the number of entertainment choices has led to a decline in music purchasing, but the study concludes otherwise. It found that a reported interest in music is very strongly associated with music purchases.
Moreover, this analysis of the Canadian P2P file-sharing subpopulation suggests that there is a strong positive relationship between file-sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file-sharing increases CD purchasing. Furthermore, it finds indirect evidence of the 'market creation' effect of P2P file-sharing when music is otherwise unavailable.
The study is somewhat difficult to sort through, but the conclusions are unmistakable: file-sharing actually benefits music sales. It basically confirms what I've said all along and that's that BitTorrent tracker sites like OiNK actually made better music fans of us all and allowed us to discover new music that we wouldn't have found otherwise. You can read the study for yourself here.
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What is glass implant?
Exactly what it sounds like. He has a piece of glass implanted under his skin.
This is why I tell everyone to turn on their encryption. :whistle:
Not to mention it helps to at least partially defeat some of those bastard ISPs that don't allow file sharing.
From Zeropaid.com;
Encrypted UK BitTorrent Traffic Increases by 1000%!
Will make proposed ISP content filtering meaningless.
In an interview with the BBC a few weeks ago, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated in the UK. He then called on ISPs to take a "more activist role" in the problem of illegal file-sharing and said that ""If we can't get voluntary arrangements we will legislate."
Now it seems that new data obtained by The Register form a large UK ISP may actually mean that the proposed initiative will largely be ineffective for the number of BitTorrent users encrypting their traffic has increased dramatically.
In the last 12 months alone encrypted BitTorrent traffic has increased from 4 to 40%. Instead of encrypted torrents accounting for a mere 20Mbit/s of total network bandwidth they now comprise an astounding 200Mbit/s. Inversely, unencrypted torrents that once used 500Mbit/s of bandwidth now use only 350Mbit/s.
The development rightly has the British Phonographic Institute(BPI) already pulling their hair out and will certainly lead to claims that it can mask terrorist or child pornography related activities - their standard "in case of emergency" arguments.
Either way the news means that efforts to get ISPs to take a "more activist role" with illegal file-sharing will pretty much be pointless. Although deep packet inspection will allows you to identify encrypted file-sharing packets, you will be unable to actually look inside those packets for evidence of copyrighted material.
Neil Armstrong, products director at BT-owned ISP PlusNet, said: "It isn't possible for us to tell if a customer is downloading a copyright file or not unless we specifically 'snoop' every packet on the customer's line.
"We would obviously only do this where we have a proper request from the relevant legal authority to do so, and even then it is unlikely we would be able to see inside encrypted payloads," he said.
This development regarding increasing levels of encrypted BitTorrent traffic really drives home the point of how the music industry's fight against illegal P2P and file-sharing services is a losing battle and a total failure. They've spent hundreds of millions, if not several billions, of dollars defeating Napster, KaZaA, Grokster, Limewire, and Morpheus in successive order, but what did it really accomplish? All people did, the smart ones anyways, is migrate to more secure file-sharing programs like Usenet and BitTorrent. Even if they somehow succeed in cracking down on these two it will only mean that somebody will just invent an even more secure P2P protocol to succeed it.
In the meantime, 10 years later the music industry is still trying to figure out how to eliminate illegal file-sharing, even going so far as to propose banning prolific pirates from the internet itself. You think it would've figured it out by now that no matter how hard they try file-sharing is here to stay. It's a technology arms race that they'll never win.
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@freakster83:
Hey. I am new here and i understand the that we are only allowed 3 active torrents if our ratio is below a certain level. My ratio is current 0.115, but i cant seem to download anymore stuff from this website. the tractor status says "bad ratio blah blah blah…. your current limit is 3 torrents at the same time"
I have only 3 torrents but only one seems to be working
That's because 1 file is 2 months old and the other is over 5 months old, both have only a few seeders. They tend to take longer to fully seed when they have a bit of age to them.
You are seeding 1 file and leeching another. Did you fix the problem?
If not, post the link to the torrent you are having problems with.
There are companies in the UK that are pretty good, just have to shop around.
Most of the "mainstream" ISPs are thieving bastards. However, with a bit of digging, you can find some decent ones.
My IPS lets me download 330gb a month, 45gb of that is during 8am to 8pm {edit Monday - Friday}, for £30. If I go over that amount, they charge me for the package that my usage fits into + £5 for that month. Then I go back to my normal package.
I made a guide on using this software;
http://tracker.gaytor.rent/forums.php?action=viewtopic&forumid=7&topicid=1091