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CMpunked · 20-01-2012 01:44PM

Charisteas wrote: »

And what about YouTube, which is a US company and who are making millions through advertising, being allowed to host copyright material such as the 1993 Royal Rumble which i'm just about to watch.

Thats what SOPA would be able to stop outright.

Charisteas · 20-01-2012 02:34PM

CMpunked wrote: »

Thats what SOPA would be able to stop outright.

:eek:

gnfnrhead · 20-01-2012 03:54PM

jaykhunter wrote: »

It'd basically be starting anew if they have to change site/name and everyone has to re-reg. tbh i'm surprised it was a straight call rather than "you must ban these and future bans for infringing users within a certain time limit" .....but maybe the court/accusing parties already exhausted that avenue.

i don't understand the duplicate link deal though; how can there be many different links to one file?

You can/could copy a link straight into your account, basically a second link for the exact same file.

Personally, I don't get what they did wrong. A link was reported and it was usually deleted. You can't expect to report a link and then someone in mega upload goes through the entire system to delete every single file that is related to the one single link that was reported.

jaykhunter · 20-01-2012 04:11PM

Ah, didn't know megaupload had that service.

I would've thought the onus would've been on the copyright holders to report every infringing link they find, duplicate or not....not report one and expect megaupload to scan every hard drive and server for a matching file, EVERY time a file is flagged!

I dunno how this stuff gets through to be honest. I must read up more about it.

citytillidie · 20-01-2012 06:42PM

Have to find a new download site, loved Megaupload did not pay but was still able to get a film downloaded in 5 mins

Charlie Haughy · 21-01-2012 09:37AM

citytillidie wrote: »

Have to find a new download site, loved Megaupload did not pay but was still able to get a film downloaded in 5 mins

People still use download websites for music/games/films..... and some PAY for this service....

:eek:

Torrents all the way kids!

Diabhal Beag · 21-01-2012 12:55PM

You people disgust me with your torrents and stealing music

(Hope this throws eircom and the music industry off my track)

GTR63 · 21-01-2012 01:17PM

Does Sky+ cost extra a month my old sky box is fu*ked and my neighbour has a spare sky+ box that I can have.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

You people disgust me with your torrents and stealing music

(Hope this throws eircom and the porn industry off my track)

FYP
;-)

Diabhal Beag · 21-01-2012 01:39PM

SkyHD is dearer but just the Sky+ is normally free with any new subscription. Sure you could blag one if you had to.

gnfnrhead · 21-01-2012 04:28PM

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

People still use download websites for music/games/films..... and some PAY for this service....

:eek:

Torrents all the way kids!

Aren't torrents much more traceable? Besides, Rapidshare and Megaupload speeds are/were far superior to the average torrent speed in my experience. A lot more can be hidden in torrents too.

Not that I've ever used any of them for anything illegal of course. All purely for research purposes :cool:

jaykhunter · 21-01-2012 04:44PM

Yep, see torrents are generally always up; showing the direct link to the infringing file. But when eg megaupload deletes a file, that's the end of it. AFAIK that's why MPAA push for torrent users' IP address but not megaupload users.

I guess the best of both worlds would be some kind of usenet. Or private torrent site with an IP blocker. Apparently!

GTR63 · 21-01-2012 08:07PM

Fu*king hopeless performance by Liverpool this evening, watching Dalglish's signings out there I wouldn't blame the owners if they told him to go f*ck himself if he looks for money to buy new players. If he goes for the names being rumoured i'd tell him the exact same. Andy Carroll still has done nothing to convince me he deserves to be employed as a footballer. Better hope City are spectacularly bad next Wednesday. At least the Irish sides did well in the Heineken Cup this weekend.

jaykhunter · 22-01-2012 10:31PM

Ah crap; Fileserve, now Filesonic, and I gather Filejungle as well are all down/only letting u download your own files (i.e. useless). Death of the online lockers. Rapidshare is the only big one left. (for now)

Amazed in two days since SOPA, bastards have pretty much wiped out online storage lockers.

gnfnrhead · 22-01-2012 10:47PM

Fileserve is working for me. Im only downloading an document that is in the public domain of course >,>

jaykhunter · 22-01-2012 10:52PM

Fileserve has deleted the accounts of the biggest uploaders so some are still working.

Filesonic have disabled filesharing - so you can only download files you already have! So useless.

Diabhal Beag · 22-01-2012 11:06PM

Best not download for a while methinks. I've already enough on this to get in trouble though like 99.99% of the internet users.

Cherry_Cola · 22-01-2012 11:19PM

Sad times indeed. RS is forever the old reliable though. Thankfully I've downloaded enough footage to keep me going for years anyway.

Charisteas · 22-01-2012 11:38PM

The Mayan calculations were correct, the world is ending this year, starting with Internet filesharing

CMpunked · 22-01-2012 11:41PM

As my brother used to always say; if it took 10 men to make it, it will take 1 man to break it.
All them sites have gone, but soon enough alternatives will be available.

Cant you already get back on to megaupload?

gnfnrhead · 23-01-2012 01:12AM

There is no shortage of file sharing sites, the problem is the most popular ones are being taken down making it harder to find stuff. A simple google search would have found most stuff as it would be uploaded to Megaupload, Fileserve, Filesonic etc mulitpal times over. The doesnt look to be the case now.

I can see Rapidshare taking back its crown very soon. In the past few months it was already starting to regain popularity after they sot themselves in the foot by changing their reward system and driving a lot of uploaders away.

GTR63 · 23-01-2012 03:25AM

The UFC website was hacked recently for them supporting the anti piracy legistation sopa. This pic was put on the site.
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/891291/UFC_hack_medium.jpg
LOL

D2D · 23-01-2012 07:24AM

Happy Year of the Dragon!!!

Rjd2 · 23-01-2012 08:52AM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Best not download for a while methinks. I've already enough on this to get in trouble though like 99.99% of the internet users.

Aye, me as well.:(:(

24-01-2012 03:27PM

cant even find decent streams to watch stuff online Bloody SOPA :mad:

CMpunked · 24-01-2012 03:31PM

connemara man wrote: »

cant even find decent streams to watch stuff online Bloody SOPA :mad:

for tv shows?

24-01-2012 03:34PM

CMpunked wrote: »

for tv shows?

Yeah, I have a lot of render time at work handy to pass the time with. things are banned quicker now

thebostoncrab · 24-01-2012 07:00PM

First Ger C, now Flah

waltersobchak · 24-01-2012 07:07PM

thebostoncrab wrote: »

First Ger C, now Flah

The Munster Mafia is slowly dissolving..

thebostoncrab · 24-01-2012 07:11PM

waltersobchak wrote: »

thebostoncrab wrote: »

First Ger C, now Flah

The Munster Mafia is slowly dissolving..

Leinster shall reap the rewards, when try have finished mourning.

Damnit, now I'm the only one left from the Conventry pub gang

GTR63 · 24-01-2012 07:13PM

What happened Ger and Flah banned or what.

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