Heartland

Watch out file sharers!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4627825.stm

argh!

*logs out of Soulseek*

Is this actually a ban they can enforce, though?

Sorry, but this makes webservers illegal.

Better go underground Quiffy

Yeah if file-sharing is illegal, then the whole web's fooked

Totally unenforcable.

We had James Ray putting his own mp3s up on his site; how would a ban distinguish between this and illegal downloads?

It wouldn't and couldn't.

i wouldnt dare from work, as thats a breach of IT policy and as such grounds for instant dismissal, even if i could get around the firewall.

at home? i'm just discovering the joys of bit torrents, so m$ office 2003, lego star wars and halo have all been sucked down the hoover over the last day or so. i've also got a dvd rip of "the name of the rose" in the pipe.

sue me

and surely its a case for the copyright holders to pursue any perceived infringement?

thus Mr. Ray is in the clear as its his work. apart from the stuff thats on MR which von may still hold copyright for.

its all a crock of nonsense and paranoia anyway.

@QB: lightweight!

Lightweight it may be, but every time they have a round of prosecutions my filesharing dips for a week or two.

My luck is that I'd be one of the "chosen few"

(And I haven't got the hang of bit-torrent yet...)

hallucienate wrote:@QB: lightweight!

i cant even download mov, avi, mp3 or wma files through out firewall

ruffers wrote:Lightweight it may be, but every time they have a round of prosecutions my filesharing dips for a week or two.

My luck is that I'd be one of the "chosen few"

(And I haven't got the hang of bit-torrent yet...)

hal alerted me to it the other day

go to www.mininova.org

search for the app, game or dvx of choice, click on it and let your to torrent software takeover.

dead easy

i've been using http://www.bitlord.com/

have a read of this

Bah, silly software pirates.

Everyone knows BitTorrent was made purely for the distribution of fansubbed anime

10% of Naruto: Episodes 51-75

I use Bittornado for Linux, run it from the command prompt so I can control my downloads at work from home using SSH.

firefox and mininova users: clicky

Motz wrote:Bah, silly software pirates.

Everyone knows BitTorrent was made purely for the distribution of fansubbed anime

10% of Naruto: Episodes 51-75

Yeah yeah, I'm still working on getting all those sweet gigabytes of Gundam Wing.. *shivers*

Next, Naruto, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, and Tenchi

Well, this court thingy only applies to the US of A, doesn't it, so why bother, I'd say...

I'll be soulseeking quite a bit this weekend myself to make my bus trips more pleasant

I'm not into anime but I download a hell of a lot of Japanese music through bittorrent or uploader sites (on average 1gb a day!)

Don't forget kids, if you're going to use BitTorrent use Azureus as your client :

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

and get the Safepeer plug in as well :

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_d ... n=safepeer

CellThree wrote:Don't forget kids, if you're going to use BitTorrent use Azureus as your client :

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Especially if you want your system to run like a cripple

Motz wrote:Especially if you want your system to run like a cripple

Try changing the 'update gui every x seconds' from the default .125 seconds to 2 seconds. That usually helps, but yeah, it does slow things down a tad. I only use azureus then I only wanna download a selected part of a torrent.

It's not really the application itself that's the issue, it's more the fact that I have to have a bloody huge JVM sitting in the memory of my puny little 667mhz box. Give me a C-based client over a Java one any day

That said, I use a Python one, so I'm half way in between.