the pirate bay

thesage5

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the pirate bay has been blocked in the UK :nooo: does anyone know how to get around it? or perhaps another good general site
 

Ceewan

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You could always install Tor, no need for anyone knowing your surfing habits

https://www.torproject.org/vidalia

another good site that many Pirate Bay posters also frequent and post at is kickasstorrents

kat.ph/
 

Ceewan

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I downloaded two videos. Three days later I got a DCMA notice from my ISP.
I guess they're getting serious. Should have used a proxy.

peruse torrentfreak.com for some good ideas, they keep abreast of all the new and vital information for us torrent nuts.
 

Summer-Time-Fun

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I'm hearing more and more cases about people getting hit with these ISP notices. Why the hell are people using commercial web sites to host videos? Why not use privet torrents for this stuff? Are people really that stupid? Shouldn't members in the community be looking out for each other? Is the objective to shrink the community down to nothing? Some of these file hosts want you to sell you identity, like lumfile. They want to know everything about you and your mother and her grand kids WTF. The forums they want you to fill out are like the ones at the doctors office. You're points won't add up to much when the avalanche take you and everyone else down with it.

Please go back to torrents.

Your uploads are much appreciated though, but who wants to leave a trail at some file host when they're all getting attacked. ...HELLO
 

Ceewan

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I agree with you for the most part Summer-Time-Fun but public torrents beat private any day. Public torrents increase the life of the torrent and the number of people sharing the file.

As far as filesharing goes, it is all about the money and it was about reliablilty, ( a myth that continues to endure). There are other factors as well that has promoted the use of filehosts. An uploader need only to upload to the host, post the link, and move on to the next upload. With torrents he may need to use a seedbox if he wishes to upload multiple torrents and even then initial uploading and downloading can be more time consuming.

The fact remains is that uploaders who use filehosts just do not measure up to bittorrent uploaders. Information should be free and it belongs to everyone. Filehosts belong in that picture as well but they are being closed due to excess of greed. The Internet Archive is now seeding over a million torrents with more being added each day because they now recognize the longevity and reliability of the bittorrent system.

http://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-starts-seeding-1398635-torrents-120807/

As far as ISP notices go, we all believe that there is something wrong with the copyright laws and the greedy industries that hide behind them. If we did not believe that we would not frequent sites such as Akiba-Online or the Piratebay. This is a battle against corporations that literally run the world and have massive influence on governments and the laws they create. It is our responsiblity to protect ourselves using vpns', proxies or whatever methods necessary in order to continue the fight against them. We outnumber them but we must endure their harrassments and outsmart them or fall prey to them and become enslaved to their extortionist and suppressive ideals, (which we already have had enough of).

I will step down from my soapbox now. I am not that good at it anyway. Visit and support the local Pirate Party near you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
 

gundamgod

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TPB ha such exposure, especially in the UK at the moment, that its probably best just to avoid it all together. Not like there aren't any other sites out there! ;-)
 

Summer-Time-Fun

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All great points Ceewan! And thanks for that Wiki link

The fact remains is that uploaders who use filehosts just do not measure up to bittorrent uploaders.]

I guess I can start here, I agree with that above also.
I'm just saying, The people using File hosts to share this stuff are brave. As you mentioned, torrents are better and I would rather see things go that route. There is no way these business's are not keeping logs. And even if the VPN you're using is in another country, law enforcement is becoming more and more global everyday. A difficult subpena today might be really easy to obtain a week from now because of changing foreign relations/ or government trade agreements.. tough unrelated. There is no real anonymity on the internet. Becoming legally anonymous requires someone else to technically take the blame. Unless it's your family, no commercial company will do that. VPNs and Proxys are great, but who is running them and will they keep your info privet if they can make money? But I agree, I think you have a better chance of not being targeted with torrents.

Back to Pirate Bay:
A friend of mine received three Notices of Action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act the other day for downloading a CD that he already owned but was too lazy to go downstairs and rip it to his hard drive. I think the best thing he can do is to destroy his Nic card which has the mac address.
And to make a point, if you're re-Tagging your audio files, they are being recreated and thus the checksums are then unique. I think it's pretty difficult to prove you took something if they can't match the files on the source-server to those of your files. ..So it's probably a good idea to re tag your files.
 

Ceewan

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Pirate Party Proxy Shutdown Means Activists Will Fight Another Day

As reported earlier today, the UK Pirate Party has taken the difficult decision to shut down their Pirate Bay proxy service. The law firm representing the party has informed TorrentFreak that due to the state of the law, choosing to carry on providing the service would be “untenable”. While PPUK’s move will be unpopular with some, it does mean that the party can put this episode behind them and fight another day.

Luv TPBs' Facebook page:

Dear pirates in UK, China, Finland and other censorship loving countries.
The UK Pirate party is currently in a legal battle with the BPI. If their proxy to our site is down, try some of the other hundreds.

We recommend: http://tpb.ipredator.se/

You should also teach your friends how to find more proxies.
Here's how to do it: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pirate+bay+proxy