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This is not a discussion on how certain previously suspended users think the site is moderated, get over it and back to the topic please.

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Is TPB down?

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yeah ,probably just maintenance ,it was fine an hour ago

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:tu:

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apparently their server crashed due to a Debian Linux bug (addition of leap seconds)

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An update.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19457334

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They will put him in jail but the website he started is still going strong and is still growing in size, it is still fully accessible on all the major isps with the use of a small amount of intelligence. The money that has so far been spent on failing to shut down that website is a joke, money which could be spent on better things i am sure.

BTW i don't use the pirate bay as its an open tracker and there for insecure.

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Having come back to this thread after a long break I find it interesting that so many people would seem to feel I would be in the right if I broke into their homes and stole their property. Taking something that isn't yours is THEFT in my book and there is no justification to prove otherwise.

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The pirate bay does not host any of the files that can be found via there links, links that can be found on other sites which includes for instance stuff found on google

They wanted to attack a target they felt they could shut down and who did not have the money to defend themselves. What they did in fact was fail spectacularly and drive even more traffic to the pirate bay. I can search now on google and find lots and lots of links that do exactly what the pirate bay does. Here's a question WHY have they not taken Google to court for hosting torrent links ????

MONEY would be the answer and that's something Google has in abundance to pay for very very good lawyers, lawyers that would ensure that google would win but not before there is a lot of money spent on the court case. The movie industry will not take on anyone they feel they might lose against because they don't have the balls

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I have never used Pirate Bay as whatever I needed has always been available on the one and only site that I have used for years and I never get any malware.

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exactly ,and what would happen if they did try to take google to court and google won ? all the other torrent sites including TPB would be able to carry on as before .How does that old saying go ?......"if you're going to pick a fight ,pick one you know you will win "

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:clap:

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it is but noone is taking anything.

the movie and music companies still own all the physical copyrights.

your comparison is silly.

there is a legal argument but lets stick to facts and correct defenitions.

The amount of time and money spent on combatting piracy is probably very excessive and also causing harm to things like liberties and other sectors. The affect on actual piracy is in all likelyhood going to be minimal and the entertainment industry is not struggling.

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if you copy a cd you borrow from a friend should you be sent to prison and have your internet restricted, personally i think that's massively out of proportion to a civil offense

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BIB. Which are worthless if everyone simply copies whatever it is.

You buy the copyright to something because you hope people will like it enough to buy it. If they simply copy it you get nothing.

So yes, people are "taking something" when they make copy of any copyright-protected work.

Actually it's perfectly valid.

We are doing. Taking something that is not yours is theft.
In this case, you deprive the rightful owner for the copyright in that work the money they are due.

Oh please :rolleyes: Don't go quoting liberties at us for what is basically against the law; whether that be civil or otherwise. I'm all for liberties; for law-abiding citizens.

I agree with you on this though.

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Looks like someone broke the block page?

http://my.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html

Internal server error? :P

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LOL

Error: OK
Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com

If you@example.com is running VM's servers, that explains a lot of things.

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I think ive only ever seen that page work properly once or twice, the rest of the time its been a server error page

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I think making a copy of something electronic and stealing something physical from a shop is different. If you copy something you're not stealing, you've just made a duplicate of it. This doesn't mean that copying without permission is right, I just think we need to understand they are not the same thing.

If you download something without permission nobody can say for sure that if you were unable to get it free that you would have bought it. If you wouldn't have bought it in any case couldn't it be said that the copyright holder has lost nothing?

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When you buy a DVD, you're not just buying the material of the disk, you're buying the right to watch the film.

So if you download a film like that 'illegally' then although you're not physically stealing anything, you are taking something (the right to watch it) without paying for it.

Of course whether or not that bothers anyone is a different subject.

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What i don't like is when they claim how many millions/billions they are losing because of piracy, someone that downloaded a film just to see what it was like, might not have paid to watch it in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, Piracy is wrong but sometimes i think with music it is a good way to get your stuff heard and a lot of artists publically agree with that.

I for one will download an album that i wouldn't have ever brought just to see if i like it and if i do then i go out and buy it, if there wouldn't have been the ability to download it then i probably would have never even thought about buying it, so in some cases people are making extra money from it.

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I think the worse case of the music industry exaggerating losses is when the RIAA claimed that Limewire owed them 75 trillion dollars. That's more money than the music recording industry has made since the invention of the phonograph.

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$72 trillion.....;)

But what's three trillion here or there.....

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The more they try to shut that site down, the harder it gets to do it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10...ay_cloud_move/

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Thats brilliant!

"Ner, ner, theres our game plan, even if you shut us down, you cant prosecute us"

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no difference how the site works though is there ,still looks and works the same to me

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Anybody else able to currently access the site directly? Its working fine for me.

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worked fine for me 15mins after they blocked it :D

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yep it works, must be a glitch!

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Aye but im talking without any sort of pc/network modifications.

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Access available via a VPN. :)

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The site works just fine for me directly, I guess they removed the block.

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so am i ,just used a different address to the one they blocked

has the recent direct access got anything to do with them going on the cloud and effectively getting rid of the servers

---------- Post added at 17:38 ---------- Previous post was at 17:31 ----------

Bt is still blocking the .se address

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The website works for me again on Virgin Media, have they unblocked it or is it an error?

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It works for me too and i'm using my bookmark for it that I set up ages before the site got blocked.

Possibly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

Or just being too suspicious.

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i am using a bookmark as well. I wonder if they appealed it or something and the ruling got over turned. We need somebody on another isp to check it.

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It was never blocked for me as i just use a VPN, i actually don't use the TPB but was determined not to be beaten by a court order issued on behalf of the BPI who i feel are the real crooks. :LOL:

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Cant get on it here on sky

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Just tried direct to the original address and it worked fine

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Original address works fine here, but I do use OpenDNS servers instead of VM's (pages load so much faster!) so not sure if that combined with tpb's new ip's makes any difference.

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Does anyone else find it strange how it's become unblocked on Virgin Media? Maybe it's a setup to trap and monitor pirate users or something

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Yeah come to think of it, its probably the FBI or MI5

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Just as long as they don't block isohunt I will be happy.

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i could confirm working on direct link but now its seems blocked again.

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blocked for me again too now, was unblocked yesterday, i guess someone in the department dealing with the block wanted something off piratebay but couldn't be bothered to byass the block, so switched it off for a day :)

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Unlikely. If you are that worried about being caught why don't you invest in something like BTGuard?

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Nah ,it's VM mate ,just another network cock up ;)

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And now for the the documentary

http://torrentfreak.com/bbc-backed-p...emiere-130102/

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I noticed the other week that I had to switch back to pirateproxy as they blocked the original domain again. :rolleyes:

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Virgin supplies 30 day binary newsgroup access for free. I don't really know why people are still bothering with torrents for recent stuff.
If you're going to pay for a service, you may as well pay for newsgroups.