Torrentreactor!?!??!?! NEEEoeooooooo!!!!

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:50 pm

They got wacked....by the MPAA....

USA been down for 15 hours....German for 9...fahgettaboudit....

Teh fuck to do now??? where am I going to illegally acquire all my friggen software now???

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:32 pm

I'm a big fan of torrentspy.

give it a whirl.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:43 pm

WORD! torrentspy, Sister site of ircspy!

You might also try www.isohunt.com , www.lokitorrent.com and www.thepiratebay.org

Post by **enderzero** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 4:19 pm

heh heh - torrent spy uses the same sattelite ding from the first web page I ever made enderzero.net/web2k.

Post by **enderzero** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 4:21 pm

Oh, that reminds me. Anyone know if P.R.G. (Phoenix Release Group) stopped releasing movie rips when phoenix-torrents went down? They had teh nyce ripz.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:03 pm

enderzero.net/web2k

Wow you do save everything dont you!

you might inquire on their irc channel:

irc://irc.wikkedwire.com/phoenix-torrents

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:15 pm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14 ... rent_site/

They are actually one of the ones raided, so I doublt they are still releasing stuff...

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:27 pm

So I just checked out torrent reactor, looks like they are online...

Are they now hosted by the feds?

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:53 am

I don't see explicit mention of P.R.G. - do you just know they are the "Finnish site?"

Here is a pretty interesting study of BT statistics and innerworkings. There is some pretty detailed info about user habits:

Only 9,219 out of 53,883 peers (17 %) have an uptime longer than one hour after they finished downloading. For 10 hours this number has decreased to only 1,649 peers (3.1 per cent), and for 100 hours to a mere 183 peers (0.34 per cent).

Apparently web torrent files aren't as safe as you'd probably like:

In order to test the integrity of meta-data, we donated to Suprnova an account for hosting a mirror. By installing spyware in the HTML code, we have registered each .torrent download and could have easily corrupt the meta-data. We conclude that using donated resources for hosting meta-data entails substantial integrity and privacy risks.

I have personally found virii in a number of 4-8MB DVD/A-V apps that you see everywhere..

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:46 am

My bad, looks like that was fin-reactor...

Post by **enderzero** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:37 am

Danz - it may all be stuff you have but there was a bunch of music up on torrentspy that was exactly your kinda stuff. Mostly rips of live Phish, Derek Trucks, etc. You might have to click view yesterday's torrents.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:54 am

torrentspy seems to work quite well...

Post by **enderzero** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:27 am

this week... It couldn't be more like suprnova, so we'll see how long it lasts.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:22 pm

I'm screwed...

MPAA Warning Greets Torrent Seekers

"You can click, but you can't hide," reads the message on the front page of LokiTorrent, ordered Thursday by Dallas Federal Court to immediately shut down. The warning rings especially true now that the Motion Picture Association of America has won a key court victory that allowed it access to LokiTorrent's visitor logs.

LokiTorrent, like many now-defunct BitTorrent Web sites, offered links to torrent files that are used to download and share illicit content. One of the most popular BitTorrent houses, SuprNova, recently went underground and launched a decentralized client called eXeem for accessing torrent downloads.

BitTorrent itself is a communications protocol that is commonly used to facilitate the distribution of very large files. However, it was not uncommon for these particular files to be copyrighted music, movies and television programming.

After successfully shutting down numerous BitTorrent sites, the MPAA touted its newfound access to the LokiTorrent.com server logs.

"This should give us information about LokiTorrent visitors who were involved in flagrant piracy of filmed entertainment," said John Malcom, director of worldwide piracy operations for the MPAA. "We are going to look at all the information...and decide what the appropriate action is to take."

The MPAA said the information may possibly lead to suits against individuals, but the organization has not decided whether that is the route they'd like to take.

For its part, LokiTorrent said it had raised as much as $30,000 for court costs and legal representation to fight Hollywood. As one of the biggest sites, it received special attention by Hollywood lawyers.

It is unclear whether the MPAA will ever be able to completely stop online piracy as P2P developers continue to find new ways to decentralize the system giving users more confidentiality in what they are doing online.

However, the MPAA is determined to stop illicit file sharing. "Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonymous," the warning threatens. "Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop."

Post by **enderzero** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:16 pm

I can't imagine it is econimically feasible for an independent entity such as the MPAA to go after file sharers. They have to only be looking at hitting these easy access clearing house sites like suprnova and loki, going after release groups, and scaring n00bs out of getting on board. ODKed

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:46 pm

The message on www.lokitorrent.com is so fucking stupid....It's an insult really if they honestly expect you to fall for that lie. They are insulting our intelligence.

"The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity."

How the FUCK does it rob anyone of any money if the people downloading movies aren't going to pay for the fucking thing in the first fucking place! It's not fucking theft!!!! If I had the fucking money to pay for all of the fucking movies I've dowloaded over the internet I can guarantee I wouldn't be spending it on them. A bunch of the movies I have I have already seen or would never fucking buy or pay to go see. Ok now I am pissed off even more to think that the MPAA thinks they can scare people into thinking this is the "truth."

It's like if I went out and BOUGHT a fucking DVD and then had a bunch of friends over to watch it AND then told everyone they are "robbing thousands of honest, hard-working people of their liveliehood" by not going out and buying the DVD themselves and watching it - by themself...fuck! getting rather pissed off here...

God damnit....only had two beers too....fuck

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:20 pm

Stop it! Stop it!
You're stifling my creativity.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:34 pm

Phew

First of all, for those scared of big brother reading Lokitorrent's server logs:
<a href="http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=665" target="_blank" class="postlink">Lokiâ€™s Map Leads MPAA on Road to Nowhere</a>
(source: Slyck)
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Post by **enderzero** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:25 pm

The plot thickens... LINK

Was it all a hoax to scrape up some quick cash?

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:15 am

Say it AIN'T so!! My precious btefnet... down? I can't live without theeee.

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:19 pm

PHEW!! False Alarm. Safe and Sound.

Post by **enderzero** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:09 pm

Anyone freaking out about btefnet being down this week might want to check mininova.org or unrealtorrents.com. I gotta have my daily show.

MPAA targets TV (and another)

(url fixed - thx k3v)

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:49 am

Saw this on #BT on iRC

The site was not shut down, we took it offline. The MPAA has NOT contacted us yet, so as of right now we are not in a lawsuit. BTEFNET.COM is NOT AT ALL affiliated with us. We do not ask for, nor do we accept donations.

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:13 pm

Was just reading about elite torrents on mefi. What the hell does Homeland Security have to do with torrents?

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:15 pm

I think they were talking about "Homeland Security" the movie, starring Tom Skerritt, which is being rampantly downloaded via the torrents.

Post by **enderzero** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:48 pm

tehPirateBay hit!

SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site PiratbyrÃ¥n, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.

Post by **enderzero** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:40 am

And they're back.

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:57 pm

hmm...didn't work for me - looks like they are still down.

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