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Italy Plays Whack A Mole With BitTorrent Users
Users flock to other sites on news of Pirate Bay block....
A recent Italian Supreme Court decision has given the Italian government the authority they needed to force ISPs to block users from accessing popular BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. However, whereas the Italian government thinks this is actually doing something to counter piracy, users who trade in pirated content are simply finding other ways to get the content they want -- including using the new Pirate Bay VPN service, or flocking to other BitTorrent websites like BTJunkie, which tells Torrent Freak that they've seen their traffic jump 50%. As Techdirt notes, Italy's efforts simply acts as free advertising for these services, as the entertainment industry's game of whack a mole continues.
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glinc
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meh

never understood why people take the risk to go to public sites and having a much higher chance of getting caught. Private sites is the way to go.

S_engineer
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said by glinc:

never understood why people take the risk to go to public sites and having a much higher chance of getting caught. Private sites is the way to go.
I agree. Probably because it's so easy, and the people that do aren't thinking all that much. It's kind of comical to see this Keystone Cop type of approach of prevention. A decade of this sh*t and the entertainment industry still hasn't found a way to grasp the web rather than fighting it.

SLD
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SLD

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No kidding! If the entertainment industry would stop trying to keep me from buying content online, they'd make some money! There are so many great, current series I'd pay to watch, like Dexter or Weeds, but those networks refuse to allow them to be purcahsed and viewed online. And they won't let me subscribe *only* to their channels - I have to pay like $90/mo for a bunch of other junk.

I'll just wait until I get them for "free" on Netflix next year.
openbox9
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Dexter in the iTS
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Weeds in the iTS
said by SLD:

If the entertainment industry would stop trying to keep me from buying content online, they'd make some money! There are so many great, current series I'd pay to watch, like Dexter or Weeds, but those networks refuse to allow them to be purcahsed and viewed online.
Really? My five second searches in the iTS show both Weeds and Dexter easily available. What other shows is the entertainment industry stopping you from purchasing?
patcat88
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said by openbox9:

said by SLD:

If the entertainment industry would stop trying to keep me from buying content online, they'd make some money! There are so many great, current series I'd pay to watch, like Dexter or Weeds, but those networks refuse to allow them to be purcahsed and viewed online.
Really? My five second searches in the iTS show both Weeds and Dexter easily available. What other shows is the entertainment industry stopping you from purchasing?
checkmate

But it doesn't apply to all shows.
openbox9
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said by patcat88:

But it doesn't apply to all shows.
Granted, but I grow extremely tired of people attempting to excuse their actions with no validity to their arguments. I would have more respect for people if they just admitted that they don't want to pay money for something and have no issue infringing copyrights to facilitate their next viewing of _____________ (fill in the blank).

SLD
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SLD

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Being that I don't even know where you claimed to get that content, and it isn't available through HBO, or Comcast's Fancast junk, I'd like to verify if they even have current episodes. Dexter is only up to Season 3 - yay, I got that on Netflix months ago. What about the current episodes???

Maybe you are some god that can summons the content you want at the twitch of a finger, but I've been looking all over for this stuff and never found it. Link please. Oh, and fuck you.
openbox9
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I didn't "get" the content. I have no desire to watch either of those shows. I merely executed a quick search in iTunes and both of the shows popped up as available, either individual episodes, or whole seasons. Since both Dexter and Weeds appear to be Showtime's content, I don't imagine that they would show up through HBO.

Oh, and thanks for arguing your point in a mature manner

SLD
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SLD

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Well, the assumptions you made in your post were wrong and offensive. I've been looking to purchase the content, and it is being denied to me.

BTW, all the content you found on iTunes is outdated - current shows are not provided, thus my point still stands.
openbox9
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said by SLD:

Well, the assumptions you made in your post were wrong and offensive.
I made no assumptions in my response to your post, so your tone is unwarranted and is inflammatory at best.
said by SLD:

BTW, all the content you found on iTunes is outdated - current shows are not provided, thus my point still stands.
Yet you have no problem waiting for Netflix to catch up? Has season 6 of Weeds begun yet? Yes, it appears Dexter is behind.

Augustus III
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yeah but netflix doesnt charge you by the episode!

if i had to pay 3$ for every episode of every show i watched on netflix (and yes, you can cap them so dont even try to bring that up) i would be running 400$ monthly bills, which means, i wouldnt be using the service, just like im not touching ifail and the rest.
openbox9
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No, but Netflix charges you a per month subscription, just like cable and sat tv providers. the iTS pay-per-episode/movie obviously isn't a subscription model and doesn't enable the cost efficiency of a traditional subscription model.

SLD
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You wrote in response to my post:

"I grow extremely tired of people attempting to excuse their actions with no validity to their arguments. I would have more respect for people if they just admitted that they don't want to pay money for something and have no issue infringing copyrights to facilitate their next viewing of ..."

You assumed that I was looking to steal. I find that offensive and your assumption was wrong.
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said by SLD:

You wrote in response to my post:
No, that was in response to patcat88 See Profile's post and it was a generalization, not directed at you.

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What is the iTS?
openbox9
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iTunes Store

dvd536
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said by openbox9:

iTunes Store
that would involve infecting your system with itunes and QUICKTIME!
openbox9
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No infection here. Would you prefer the disease that is Flash?

sivran
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I'd prefer to download x264 in an mkv container.

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said by glinc:

never understood why people take the risk to go to public sites and having a much higher chance of getting caught. Private sites is the way to go.
Even with the public sites, the chances of actually getting caught are slim to none for the average downloader....and not someone downloading 10,000 songs and uploading

Karl Bode
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Re: meh

I think the RIAA has essentially given up on music. The only ISP warnings I've been seeing people get are for TV and film transfers...and while those can be reduced by private trackers I think people can still get them...

dvd536
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said by glinc:

never understood why people take the risk to go to public sites and having a much higher chance of getting caught. Private sites is the way to go.
because pub sites you can hit n run.
they're just now blocking TPB? TPB has been dead a while now.

ReformCRTC
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Just waiting for...

Big Fool to waltz in here and say if they don't want to get caught, don't steal...

TuxRaiderPen
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Re: Just waiting for...

...or for someone to say if the companies made their content available... that might be part of the solution...

ReformCRTC
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Re: Just waiting for...

You want unavailability of content, look at the iron grip the IOC tries to have with the Olympics...and the NBC nonsense. Even with Justin.tv it's been takedown city if they even sniff Olympics on there.

However, the circumventions merrily continue

TuxRaiderPen
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said by ReformCRTC:

However, the circumventions merrily continue
Absolutely. Which is unfortunate, with so much technology, and so much ability to access stuff, you'd think there's plenty of options to get your content. Not so (legally).

Now where's my eyepatch...

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Re: Just waiting for...

Arrrgh matey! Shiver me timbers!

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NBC is shooting themselves in the foot by restricting or delaying Olympic content. While they may stop the streaming of it on websites, they haven't been able to stop it from being traded over BitTorrent. And some are resorting to that in order to see some of it that NBC is blocking or delaying on the official sources.

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Let's put it this way: The more the corporates try to lock down content, the larger the peoples' republic of the middle finger is thrust back into their collective faces.

Call em
@cox.net

Call em

Anon

Re: Just waiting for...

When they outsource your living to (insert blank country), I wonder if you will be as cavalier as you are with other folks living. For every spoiled rich artist that may not engender much pity, there are thousands of little folks like you who get hurt. Stealing is stealing, and there are consequences.
ame101
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odd are

You have a better chance getting killed in a car crash in US, then getting busted for file sharing, anyone stop driving yet?

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Augustus III
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hmm

thevirusbay has been mostly unusable lately with the exception of a handfull of torrents only available there for some stupid reason

major loss im sure. go go italy. you guys have a great track record with fascism though so this comes as no surprise.

your "courts" still can't do anything to your mob. funney. joke of a judiciary and country really