  baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Yay! We can comment again.
I dont really have anything too insightful to say except; dont steal on the internet, as it will eventually be tracked by certain corporations. | |
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I "Do" have something to add... Yay!
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| |  Duramax08Win8 sucksPremium
join:2008-08-03
San Antonio, TX | Re: Yay! I also have something to say.
About damn time!!!!!! | |
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| | | | i'm too am glad commenting is back. | |
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| | | | | Re: Yay! Yeah, I just noticed that. Its great! | |
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|  thegeekPremium
join:2008-02-21
right here
kudos:2 | I don't steal on the internet. But I pirate. They are different.
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| | | | Re: Yay! said by thegeek:I don't steal on the internet. But I pirate. They are different.
/troll
Hypothetical Question
BluRay title "The Grey" at BB for on sale for $12.99
The same film on Xbox Live is 1480 pts (Roughly $17)
But on torrent, its free.
I felt LIVE is now a rip off.
Should I buy the disc (only to watch it once) or get the torrent (4GB file, might take 3 hours to d/l with several seeds)?
Now,I saw The Grey in theater... I enjoyed it but not enough to warrant purchase to own. But I did miss the extended ending (longer with better explanation not in theatrical).
What do I do? Will Verizon turn me in if I d/l the torrent, watch the ending and then delete?
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| | | thegeekPremium
join:2008-02-21
right here
kudos:2 | Re: Yay! Well if you're smart about the way you pirate (i.e. don't use bittorrent and if you must don't use pirate bay) then you likely won't get caught.
Thanks for the reminder about The Grey BTW. I missed it in the theater and want to see it. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Yay! wrong. Bittorrent is safe in a few dark corners of the net ...using trackers you haven't heard of. Oh yes ..they do exist ... just not on your radar | |
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| | |  RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | said by cableties:said by thegeek:I don't steal on the internet. But I pirate. They are different.
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Hypothetical Question BluRay title "The Grey" at BB for on sale for $12.99 The same film on Xbox Live is 1480 pts (Roughly $17) But on torrent, its free. I felt LIVE is now a rip off. Should I buy the disc (only to watch it once) or get the torrent (4GB file, might take 3 hours to d/l with several seeds)? Now,I saw The Grey in theater... I enjoyed it but not enough to warrant purchase to own. But I did miss the extended ending (longer with better explanation not in theatrical). What do I do? Will Verizon turn me in if I d/l the torrent, watch the ending and then delete? Check if your local library system has a copy for loan. Also if you have a Blockbuster or NetFlix rent-by-mail account, rent it there. | |
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| | |  N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | How about go rent it for like 2 bucks??? | |
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| N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | Glad to see commenting back as well.
Karl should do a brief blurb outlining what happened to the site, the history of the data loss & recovery & open it to comments.
Kind of a meet & greet the first day back from a long hiatus.
I'm sure this Friday's open thread (first one in like, what a MONTH?) will be interesting.
Kinda like seeing who's drunk & posting on Facebook on a Saturday night!
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 |  Verizon doesn't care about book thieves
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| | | Re: Verizon doesn't care about book thieves Even if they were copying the Pay Per View line up, it does not make business sense to dump someone paying you $100+ because you lost a few dollars.
Like in this case, Verizon would be getting paid $45 per customer, and then might end up lossing the money they get monthly from that account. | |
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| |  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: Verizon doesn't care about book thieves said by dudeman456:Even if they were copying the Pay Per View line up, it does not make business sense to dump someone paying you $100+ because you lost a few dollars.
Like in this case, Verizon would be getting paid $45 per customer, and then might end up lossing the money they get monthly from that account.
but if you don't do something them you encourage everyone to do it. | |
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join:2012-03-25 | Re: Verizon doesn't care about book thieves said by BF69:said by dudeman456:Even if they were copying the Pay Per View line up, it does not make business sense to dump someone paying you $100+ because you lost a few dollars.
Like in this case, Verizon would be getting paid $45 per customer, and then might end up lossing the money they get monthly from that account.
but if you don't do something them you encourage everyone to do it. they should NOT try to identify an infringer by IP address!!. first, many times they get the wrong IP address, and second, the IP address don't identify a person!. it could be someone that hacked in to your wireless, and then you could spend thousands of dollars on a lawyer trying to fight this, it HAS happened before!. they need to take a picture of the person using that account at the time the infringing takes place!. THEN something like this is valid. | |
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| | | | VZ would not hurt over a few dollars a month. For ever customer that leaves they gain more in its place. | |
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| KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | or it could be that Verizon simply sees it as better PR to fight the court order than blindly comply and let some other company pick through their subscriber records.
IMO every ISP should resist. if the big ones actually resisted and demanded hard evidence than there would be less media owner lawyers picking through people's records.
The Entire "war on piracy" has been bullshit from the start, it has not done a thing and has cost consumers and taxpayers money for nothing.
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| slimtim
join:2002-12-12
Coldwater, MI | Re: it's coming to an end TPTB next step is a special chip implanted in your fingers integrated with computer keyboard..so they know who's at the computer at the time of the crime. Hmmm.. Minority Report here we come... | |
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join:2004-04-24
Pompano Beach, FL Reviews:
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| ID'ing e=book bit torrent users on Cell networks, is really difficult to get right.
All the cell phone network data is flowing through a distributed network of NAT's, thus thousands of users all appear to be using the same IP address.
A bit torrent for an e-book(A couple of mega bytes) wouldn't take very long. A couple of seconds on a LTE network.
Thus there would be a good chance of identifying the wrong party, who in turn could counter sue and name Verizon for negligence. | |
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|  TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·CenturyLink
| Re: ID'ing e=book bit torrent users on Cell networks, There are so many free ebooks to be had from Amazon, Google Books, Baen, etc, etc, etc. why pirate. of course this is all a part of the big stink going with iBooks, and the usual we want more money crowd.
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join:2000-09-07
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kudos:5 | Give them a cut I am sure Verizon would reverse their position if they got say a 20% cut of the settlements.
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If it IS the cache servers in question, verizon would have to be provided with accurate timestamps, PLUS the source and target IP address and source and target port numbers. Only with all of that would they be able to--if they still have it logged (the log may auto-delete after 30 days or so--only reason they keep it even that long would be to assist law enforcement---because that would be a LOT of data to keep track of.) They basically have to keep a log of the every tcp stream (they might or might not log udp sessions) on their cache server (original source IP, cache server iP, original port number, target port number, cache server port number, timestamp).... and then they would have to cross reference the internal IP address to the PPP dial-up logs to identify the phone. | |
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