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Blackened · 01-06-2012, 20:51

Great post, and way to bring this thread back to life. I've a feeling it was about to be read it's last rites.

Have to say though, I know there really are genuine users/distributors of purely legitimate material. I've downloaded and seeded Linux distro's for years, but to suggest TPB is in any way trying to be anything but what it really is, is funny. It's very name suggests what it was intended to be and no amount of 'just a minute' pointy-fingeredness is going to fool anyone. IF that's all they were, there'd be no problem. The point is, that's the furthest thing from what they are - the legitimate torrents are part of minority listings. Carl's at one extreme of the opinion, others at the other end - but the fact remains, really. To be fair to Carl, he did say ’some' people so wasn't suggesting everyone that uses the site is using it illegally. What would be more accurate however is 'most' people, and there's the rub.

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:edit: to address the TV stuff, that's what I use torrents and nntp for. But private trackers, never used TPB myself. I pay the license to watch TV shows but I missed it. I download it, watch and delete it. No victim there.

01-06-2012, 20:51	#766
Blackened Inactive Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 665	Re: The Pirate Bay is blocked Great post, and way to bring this thread back to life. I've a feeling it was about to be read it's last rites. Have to say though, I know there really are genuine users/distributors of purely legitimate material. I've downloaded and seeded Linux distro's for years, but to suggest TPB is in any way trying to be anything but what it really is, is funny. It's very name suggests what it was intended to be and no amount of 'just a minute' pointy-fingeredness is going to fool anyone. IF that's all they were, there'd be no problem. The point is, that's the furthest thing from what they are - the legitimate torrents are part of minority listings. Carl's at one extreme of the opinion, others at the other end - but the fact remains, really. To be fair to Carl, he did say ’some' people so wasn't suggesting everyone that uses the site is using it illegally. What would be more accurate however is 'most' people, and there's the rub. ---------- Post added at 20:51 ---------- Previous post was at 20:47 ---------- :edit: to address the TV stuff, that's what I use torrents and nntp for. But private trackers, never used TPB myself. I pay the license to watch TV shows but I missed it. I download it, watch and delete it. No victim there.