Kickass Torrents & Eircom. (MOD: No Posting torrent site links!)

Cabaal wrote: »

Since some people clearly can't understand the warning, bans for posting torrent site links have now changed to two months.

Guys, please don't post any mirror sites etc for these sites, I don't want to be handing out bans.

Illegal downloading is getting worse these days, and I think it is disgraceful.
If you download a P.Diddy song, you’re not only stealing from him, you’re also stealing from whoever he stole it from in the first place.

No block on our fixed wireless, can still access the blocked site.

The internet is going to be sh1t in about 5 or 6 years time.

zarquon wrote: »

Kickass is available on UPC. Wouldn't worry about blocks though as there are plenty of proxies floating about for both.

Blocked this evening.

Tony EH wrote: »

The internet is going to be sh1t in about 5 or 6 years time.

Just as every other year there's a tech article proclaiming the coming of Linux on the desktop, there's people proclaiming the death of the Internet as we know it even though information is more plentiful online now than it's ever been with more means of access and more people accessing it. I'm not saying that it can't be worse in the future but there seems to be a lot of defeatism and pessimism in the Internet community when a story like this comes around. ISPs have actually been censoring content for a long time before these blocks, too. Eircom could block certain newsgroups from their Usenet server back when they still had one, for example. Although Internet censorship stories are popular and given this spin like it's a relatively new evil, it's actually been going on since man made the marriage of modem and computer. Censorship is not the issue, it's public apathy towards it.

foxerv1 wrote: »

Has anyone on eircom noticed a sudden decline in speed? I am on the 50mb efibre but speeds are only between 4-8 mb/s at the moment. Are eircom throttling i wonder?

When you say mb, do you mean megabit or megabyte? If you mean the former then 4-8/50 isn't great, but the latter would be maxing out your connection (and then some).

briany wrote: »

Just as every other year there's a tech article proclaiming the coming of Linux on the desktop, there's people proclaiming the death of the Internet as we know it even though information is more plentiful online now than it's ever been with more means of access and more people accessing it. I'm not saying that it can't be worse in the future but there seems to be a lot of defeatism and pessimism in the Internet community when a story like this comes around. ISPs have actually been censoring content for a long time before these blocks, too. Eircom could block certain newsgroups from their Usenet server back when they still had one, for example. Although Internet censorship stories are popular and given this spin like it's a relatively new evil, it's actually been going on since man made the marriage of modem and computer. Censorship is not the issue, it's public apathy towards it.

I said sh1t, not "death".

tonyheaney wrote: »

very true, but i may rephrase my question, what i meant to say was what happens when we can no longer access free downloads, will we go back to DVDs or will life return to normal lol. also do you remember that time in the Simpsons where TV was banned or something and every one returned to the real world??? lol that'll be us soon

Well there's always Netflix and that kind of thing. More robust physical media like a dvd is maybe a good thing for archival purposes but day-to-day they're more of an impediment. You have to store them, find the one you want to watch, wait through the unskippable warnings and awkward menus, then put them away again and God help you if you ever lend one to someone because it's not coming back in as good a state as it left you. I'm never going back to dvds and I always back up my data.

Don't they understand how the net works? For every torrent site they close down more open or simply change i.p. address. If they carry on they will end up having to block the whole of the web. Not only that simply using a proxy gets round these stupid blocks anyway. The Music industry is failing to come to grips with new technology and they need to adapt. The real immorality here is the popular music industry itself where people who's only talent is to be able to sing think somehow or other they are worth more than a heart surgeon or a nurse. Music needs to go back to its roots where entertainers earned a wage more in keeping with their true value to society. The whole record industry is a travesty that should never have been allowed to develop in the first place. How can someone like Elton John, I name him because he has been active in anti piracy action, how can he believe for one minute that singing a few songs should be paid in millions. I'm not saying for one minute that artists should not be paid for their work, what I'm saying is that no performer is worth the obscene amount of money that some of these people earn and that is where the real immorality lays and where the real debate should take place.