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| | piedude | Apr 4, 2005 11:50am | | I was wondering if anyone knows the guidelines of using a torrent? obviosly copyright is copyright, but as a sead can you be tracked? Basically im wondering how safe it is to use bit torrent? thanks for any replies. |
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| | | kko1 | Apr 4, 2005 4:44pm | I just heard that a law is about to be passed in Canada, that makes it mandatory for your Isp to give out all the detail of traffic on your connection, what ip's and file types, but only if you've done something very illegal Ie. kiddie porn , drug dealing and such.
The structure of the swarm (torrent) makes it very hard to track, bits and pieces going everywhere, but if they are determined enough and nail the tracker they may get you.
Not likely since all the info the tracker has on you is encrypted, and will be destroyed if possible...
Just be careful, and go to a good site like torrentparadise (strict rules but good), rumour is that RIIA mainly goes after people who share movies , but still....
It's a lot better than shareza, exeem (awful, glorified trojans) but still illegal, feel free to ask, i'll look into it myself. |
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| | | chickenmcnoodle | Apr 4, 2005 5:47pm | bit torrent itself is entirely legal.
it's primary purpose is to spread the load of the distribution of large files. what those files are and the legality of their distribution just depends on what users create torrents of, be they linux distros or ripped movies. |
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| | | piedude | Apr 4, 2005 10:11pm | | thanks for the info. i guess if they want to catch you bad enough they will. Im not a communist because it does not work. but i will say that its a shame that the RIIA are prosicuting small time individuals; the same individuals that are shaping a new capitolist movement of the entertainment industry ie) Itunes, the new Napster and even wal*mart. I think instead of fucking us in the ass because we would rather download one good song for free instead of purchase 12 shitting songs for 17 bucks, they should be thanking file sharing pioneers. and im not just talking about the people who swap the files but also the software makers. it just seems like when a good idea comes about, someone always has to figure out a way to make more money on the idea then they should and in the same process screw others who get in their way. i my self think swaping software and other big money products isnt a good idea (mostly because i belive "what comes around, goes around") but i dont see the harm in musicians sharing digital copys of their music online for free because i can stick a cassett in my radio and record the song when its played on the radio, then burn it onto a cd.Hell they even have cassett decks you can stick in your computer! when was the last time someone was busted for doing that? sorry for the ramblings and thanks for the time. |
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|  cybormoron | Apr 4, 2005 10:31pm | | sorry off topic. just wanted to share with piedude. "station ripper" rips streaming media from online radio and tv stations into seperate mp3 files. thought maybe you'd like to check it out. stationripper.com [stationripper.com] |
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| | | piedude | Apr 5, 2005 9:36am | | yeah thanks, i found a great winamp plug in called stream ripper that will even rip nsv's. is it just me or has winamp realy begun to go down hill with massive amounts of bugs? i know that AOL is no longer carring the winamp project anymore, but i didnt think that the project quality would fall off this quick. |
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