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[hellofaniceguy]

Gentlemen...place your bets.....How long before it is up and running again?

Hollywood steps up piracy fight
Major studios announce fresh crackdown on illegal downloads
December 14, 2004: 3:26 PM EST
By Krysten Crawford, CNN/Money staff writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Motion Picture Association of America announced a new campaign aimed at slowing the illegal downloading of movies off the Internet.
The MPAA, the main lobbying group for Hollywood's major studios, held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to trumpet the latest crackdown, which representatives said included both civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions around the world.
"We have taken action against over 100 servers in many countries on four continents," said John Malcolm, the director of worldwide anti-piracy at the MPAA. He said steps were taken this week in the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Finland and the Netherlands.
The announcement comes one month after the MPAA filed its first batch of lawsuits against more than 200 individuals it accused of stealing movies off the Web.
The measures taken this week, however, were not directed at individuals who download movies. Instead, the targets were people who act as conduits between downloaders and three specific "peer-to-peer" file-sharing technologies: BitTorrent, eDonkey, and DirectConnect.
These intermediaries provide users with lists of movies, songs and television shows that can be swapped with other users.

[katydid]

Um, is this only directed at movies, or TV shows as well. I'll be damned if I can't watch the new Lost episodes in a couple of months!

EDIT: I just read the last paragraph. Dammit!

[ThisCharmingMan]

This is something slightly different but I just got my IP banned from #tvtorrents @ EFnet.

Anybody else experience this? Was there some rule where I had to share? Come on! I only snatched torennts for the first five "Lost" episodes and what am I going to share? Korean dramas?!

[FUBAR]

[ThisCharmingMan]

[chiaa]

Bittorrent is a bit different from most PtoP clients. With Kazaa you are an active participant. It is plain as day as you have to have the Kazaa program running and be "signed" in on their network. On the other hand, Bittorrent can be in the background and there is no signing in to any kind of network. Thus, hackers can easily get into your computer, put a file on there without you knowing and send all over the earth. This is mostly done with what is known as XDCC sends on MIRC, but this can also be easily done with Bittorrent. Hackers usually will take over a university computer and allow people to access their really fast bandwidth.

A vast majority of "channels" on MIRC have these XDCCs and I would say 90% of all of them are hijacked computers. These press releases are just to get people scared in downloading something. MPAA and others who want to protect their material are really going after the "couriers" of the movies.

[itaewonguy]

when will the movie studios just give up!
seems alot of the music performers like illegal downloading says it helps there sales.. they still make money from other things anyway..

movie studios.. ok come on! they are acting like they are losing billions of dollars!! PLEEAASE give me a break!!!
the cinemas are still packed out! people are paying 10 bucks for a movie!
where the star recieved 20 million dollars for 3 months work!!!
they make money of box office, sydication, videos, cable, etc..
so now they want to stop a few million people around the world from watching a movie.. ? give me a break...

LONG LIVE TORRENTS andf ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING!
the only way they will ever stop it.. is by pulling the plug on the whole internet! and I dont see that happening!!
they losing money?? stop paying ridiculous salaries like 20 million dollars for a star..

[kprrok]

I think you kind of miss the point Itaewonguy. The MPAA is simply acting like any and all other corporations in America. No amount of profit is enough. If they can make an extra hundred grand by shutting down any file sharing site, they'll do it. That is an extra hundred grand for them and it's worth it. To repeat: no amount of profit is ever enough!

And you yourself said it, it's illegal downloading. You have admitted to breaking the law, so what's wrong with them trying to enforce the law?

I admit, I download stuff. But it's only stuff that I can't get here. British football programs, TV shows that aren't on DVD yet, and some music that I had to leave back home. I fully inted to buy the West Wing DVD sets when they come out, but until then, I don't feel bad about downloading b/c I know I will buy what I download in the future. Also, I don't mind downloading the music b/c I've already paid for it once.

I have no problem paying for my entertainment and I support the artists that I enjoy.

If you don't agree, hey, that's your perogative. But as long as it's illegal, you have to be willing to accept that it may be stopped at stometime. And until then, the "powers that be" will continue to try to shut you down.

KPRROK

[chiaa]

[itaewonguy]

[ThisCharmingMan]

Strange!Even though my browser says it's still banned, it opens now after a reboot.And looking over the sites policy/rules, I can't see how they can tell if your giving back as much as your taking. Can anyone explain this?

[bucheon bum]

uh suprnova.org is still working as of 12/15 this morning (USA time). Haven't had any problems in about a week.

What's the big deal? On the other hand, my downloading is a LOT slower this week. Maybe some people are fearful of getting caught or something.

[animalbirdfish]

[panthermodern]

Some problems were being caused by MS-Service Pack II.

I (We) had to reload all of my (our) sharing programs this past weekend and did not really get it working at "full speed" until Tuesday.

[reedtea]

This happened to me. I use Sharaza that uses all the torrents, plus kazaa and all the others. So I thought I was blocked by the Korean server. I just waited a couple of days and it reset. Just be patient, everything will work out. . .

Good luck!
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