50,000 BitTorrent users sued for alleged illegal downloads

[osm70]

They should sue creator of BitTorrent.

 

[NightsOwl]

Well. Anyone got a suggestion for a low profile Torrent program?

 

[BORTZ]

They should sue creator of BitTorrent.

lolwat

Thats like suing Sony for people figuring out how to disassemble a PS2 and being able to guide nuclear warheads with the disk laser.

 

[TVNewsIsBiased]

Well. Anyone got a suggestion for a low profile Torrent program?

In my honest opinion, Torrents aren't the ideal way to watch online. Stream over the HTTP protocol.. The mixture of free and nonfree streaming content flowing over the http protocol and the sheer volume of the data makes DPI totally ineffective. Esp. when the majority of it is being sent in Adobe's heavily compressed flv container, adding yet another layer of complexity to the problem.

As far as sticking with Torrents, just make sure you use a client that supports protocol encryption and stop allowing unencrypted and legacy connections. This circumvents the DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) algorithms that identify the Torrent protocol to begin with.

 

[Janthran]

Theft = Larceny, criminal law.
Piracy = copyright infringement, civil law.

Theft = Bad because of loss of property.
Piracy = Bad because of lack of respect for limiting rights.

US law even says you're wrong, so stop trolling.

If it's just a lack of respect thing, shouldn't Americans be covered by the freedom to say what we want about the government?

 

[wrettcaughn]

what would my grandfather say... something about...sleeping in my bed after I make it...
or was it...something about...gleaning what you disseminate...
I'm terrible at these old sayings...

 

[shakirmoledina]

I've given up on torrent since I found out you can download safer with filehosts.

 

[TVNewsIsBiased]

I've given up on torrent since I found out you can download safer with filehosts.

Touche!

There's so many good stream capturing extensions out there for various browsers ( Firefox, Opera, Chrome they all support the Netscape Plugin API.. Who gives a shit about IE and it's retarded ActiveX Controls ) that you can use to save streams easily.

Adding to the value is the widely-adopted policy by these filehosts to not have any logging enabled. That's why when you hear about MegaUpload, etc. being brought down it doesn't escalate into all their users being slapped with lawsuits, too (In fact that's why they get so angry, haha, they find nothing but servers spread all over the world stuffed with copyrighted material but with all logging disabled.)

I personally use the *cough* aptly named *cough* "Flash Video Downloader" but like I said, there's all kinds of them and they all work generally the same way.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Have any of you realized that this thread is well over a year old?

No necrobumping please.