 thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
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1 edit | Oh no, a tracker is down, what will I do?! Use one of the other 1000000 torrent sites?
I don't use bittorrent - I like usenet, I like getting full speed all the time, and I like not putting up with this kind of silliness. But if I did use bittorrent.. this would be of _no_ harm to me.
Go after a protocol that, after killing one thing, you kill everything. You can sue the uploaders on bittorrent and more will continue using it, you can take down the tracker sites and new ones will come up, you can take down torrent sites and new and/or private ones will come up, or torrents will be shared on a different p2p network. If the MPAA's proven _anything_ thus far, it's that any attempt to thwart their stuff being put and distributed on bittorrent doesn't work.
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Bethlehem, PA | said by thender2:Use one of the other 1000000 torrent sites? Indeed - I'm a very happy member of Demonoid.com
said by thender2:I don't use bittorrent - I like usenet, I like getting full speed all the time, and I like not putting up with this kind of silliness. Yes! I use Giganews as well, but on their lite tier (for now)
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thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
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Staten Island, NY | reply to thender2
I honestly hadn't ever heard of isohunt before, ever, until now. Now that it's down, it gets publicity.
The MPAA is really fucking up their cause here. If the site comes back up, now I'll have a bittorrent site in mind that I never had in mind before. |
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said by thender2:Use one of the other 1000000 torrent sites? There's a difference though, and there may be some confusion here.
isoHunt is/was a search engine and not a tracker. Just as Google and LiveSearch are search engines, and not trackers. The only difference is that isoHunt was limited to strictly torrents.
Taking down isoHunt is merely taking away a convenience - no trackers are actually affected and the distribution of both legal and illegal content is not affected. It makes it more difficult to find content, however, which would tend to drive away users searching for legitimate content more than users searching for illegitimate.
As others have pointed out, if the MPAA can take down isoHunt what is to stop them from going after Google and Microsoft? |
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thender2Glamour ProfessionPremium
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Staten Island, NY
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As others have pointed out, if the MPAA can take down isoHunt what is to stop them from going after Google and Microsoft?
The fact that google and microsoft can kick their ass?
Microsoft > MPAA 10x. As much as I dislike microsoft, I'd root for them anyday over the MPAA. |
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