I will when I find a good private tracker that doesnt ban you for not seeding. At the min I get consistent download speeds of over 1MBps with direct downloads, with torrents I am lucky to go over 500kb/s so they are out of the question at the minute.
I will when I find a good private tracker that doesnt ban you for not seeding. At the min I get consistent download speeds of over 1MBps with direct downloads, with torrents I am lucky to go over 500kb/s so they are out of the question at the minute.
The longer you seed, the more chance someone will see your IP. Let other people seed, if they want to risk it. You're best off removing seeding files.Nah mate, seeding will get you caught just as much as downloading (as in it won't)!
Even IF you ever got a letter or a knock on the door just say it was someone else.
Mega had developed a system whereby files set to be uploaded by users were hashed in order to discover if a copy of the file already exists on the Mega servers. If a file existed, the user did not have to upload his copy and was simply given a unique URL in order to access the content in future. What this meant in practice is that there could be countless URLs ‘owned’ by various users but which all pointed to the same file.
Megaupload’s “Abuse Tool” to which major copyright holders were given access, enabled the removal of links to infringing works hosted on MegaUpload’s servers. However, the indictment claims that it “did not actually function as a DMCA compliance tool as the copyright owners were led to believe.” And here’s why.
The indictment claims that when a copyright holder issued a takedown notice for content referenced by its URL, only the URL was taken down, not the content to which it pointed. So although the URL in question would report that it had been removed and would no longer resolve to infringing material, URLs issued to others would remain operational.
Furthermore, the indictment states that although MegaUpload staff (referred to as Members of the Conspiracy) discussed how they could automatically remove child pornography from their systems given a specific hash value, the same standards weren’t applied to complained-about copyright works.
The longer you seed, the more chance someone will see your IP. Let other people seed, if they want to risk it. You're best off removing seeding files.
Marmalade: Agreed on Demonoid - top site.
Very true, but I know I'd rather not be caught.
It just goes against the grain for me - The thought of paying for a site that I'm using to get free stuff?! Counter-intuitive.
Until the day comes when the only choice is to pay for free stuff (and I think this day isn't too far away) then I'll continue to do things on the free!
This wonderful place we call the internet won't stay this way forever though, or for much longer IMO. We have summat wonderful, free and a joy to be a part of and the powers that be can't be having that can they?! They're trying (and will succeed someday) to make it as regulated and sterile as the real world. Lap it up while you still can peeps, that's what I say (and do)!