Now it's Filesonic, the witch hunt was officialy begin.

[IamLEAM1983]

I could pretty much see this coming. This is the FBI and Big Business going "Yeah, so you griped and bitched about SOPA? Yeah?! Well up yours, your filthy pirate liberal commie dog-raping Satanist, we're taking your shit down!"

This is obviously going to be spun as a blow dealt to "illicit services" that were being used by "foreign thieves".

Now where's that Professor Farnsworth pic when you need it?

 

[surg3n]

Funny that they can't do too much about torrent search sites... for now at least, and they are probably a huge percentage of the problem (in their eyes). If they did target say, PirateBay, then it might just be incorporated into a torrent downloader, and there's very little they could do about it then... they probably know that as well. PirateBay and others could go completely underground if they wanted, and the 'fat cats' probably think theres still some way to make money from torrent downloads.

If they hit EZTV, then I'll be real pissed off - there's no way I can wait on official release dates for my stories, like Fringe and Walking Dead. I don't pirate software, I just rely on US shows to fill the void that is British TV. I mean, the best thing on British TV right now is Celebrity Big Brother, which consists of Michael Madsen going WTF to all these herp-derp fractional celebrities. Downloading US shows is karmatically acceptable, just like it's acceptable for UK citizens to pay £120 a year to watch the BBC, who then sell their shows to other countries without considering who paid for the damn shows in the first place.

I guess my standpoint is that media companies would sell us broken glass and call it candy if they could get away with it, and that won't change, so why should anything change.

 

[Something Amyss]

They're just linking to content that links to illegal content, not actually hosting it.

Didn't save TVShack. Though the UK has that shiny new extradition law, so....

I could pretty much see this coming. This is the FBI and Big Business going "Yeah, so you griped and bitched about SOPA? Yeah?! Well up yours, your filthy pirate liberal commie dog-raping Satanist, we're taking your shit down!"

The funny thing is, this was supposed to be the reality only if SOPA passed, and yet, here we are.

I hate to tell people "I told you so," but....

 

[wooty]

NONE OF THEM ARE WORKING!!

Great, now I'm offcially bored for the next few months.

 

[mellemhund]

Godsdamn it, so that's why I couldn't download that porn tasteful art film.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOU FBI!

Why, though, is the Pirate Bay still legal? Why is that a thing?

The diffenrence between the sites being taken down and sites like TPB is that the former are actually hosting the files on their servers, while the latter is (basically)just a search engine like google. Torrent trackers aren't 'copy right infringement' only the files they reffer to may be.

 

[Arina Love]

DDL scene is dead.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Sites that hold copyrighted material get taken down. Why is this a big deal? You want the content, pay for it.

 

[Phisi]

Ok, it's time for the UK to step in and take over the US. Please? Hell, I'll leave the door unlocked for ya. Now all my anime and porn is getting cut off

Don't leave us Australians out of this. We want some good pings too. Ahoy! Americans! We have beaches here and sunshine, much better then that silly Pome Isle.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Sites that hold copyrighted material get taken down. Why is this a big deal? You want the content, pay for it.

This springs to mind...

Meh, it doesn't bother me. I pay for all my stuff.

 

[rutger5000]

The title of this thread made me believe it was about incorrect English. Honestly learn some propper grammar. My English is far (very) far from perfect, but I at least give it a serious attempt:

Now it's Filesonic, the witch hunt has officially begun.

 

[natster43]

I enjoy it took SOPA failing for this shit to start happening en masse. Shitty day indeed for the pirating part of the internet.

 

[TheDooD]

Yeah now lets go out and buy every little thing in the world like we're suppose too and make the rich man richer.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Sites that hold copyrighted material get taken down. Why is this a big deal? You want the content, pay for it.

That's not the point. The point is that the portals they're shutting down are hosting a percentile of perfectly legit files. I'll admit that percentile is more than likely to be rather small, but this is like squashing a bug with a tank.

Not to mention that laws aren't much more than text, when all is said and done. We're witnessing a massive crackdown that won't have any relevance a year or two down the line; simply because the pirate community exceeds at adapting itself to survive. Just look at The Pirate Bay and any other Torrent tracker: they're existing thanks to a little loophole in the current copyright laws, in that they're not *hosting* any files per se.

That's largely why discerning pirates (and I know a few) tend not to use file-hosting services. If you're behind a VPN before starting a download, Torrent trackers are practically foul-proof.

Let's also assume, for a second, that Torrent trackers are raided. Nothing much would change. BitTorrent already comes with a built-in torrent search engine that's limited to the two or three download portals for legit content (in that you have to pay to access the .torrent file). The community's quickly going to find a way to work around that and give access to private Torrent trackers from within the app itself.

 

[Makhiel]

Sites that hold copyrighted material get taken down. Why is this a big deal? You want the content, pay for it.

I don't know about others but I mostly download TV shows. As far as I am aware there is no legal way for me to be able to watch the next episode of, say, Fringe other than a) moving to US b) waiting a year or more while hoping that one of the local channels decides to buy the show and dub it.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

The title of this thread made me believe it was about incorrect English. Honestly learn some propper grammar. My English is far (very) far from perfect, but I at least give it a serious attempt:

Now it's Filesonic, the witch hunt has officially begun.

Though really that comma shouldn't be there. Maybe a semi-colon, but I'm rarely 100% sure of their use. A better sentence would be "Now it's Filesonic, and so the witch hunt has officially begun." Commas are commonly misplaced to denote a pause, but they should't be used in this situation without an "and", "but", "therefore", etc.

OT: That sites like this are suddenly getting rid of their copyrighted material now sort of shows that it wasn't really their number 1 priority in the past. Though in all fairness it would be really hard to keep a close eye on a site like that with the volume of files they hold.

 

[The Funslinger]

Godsdamn it, so that's why I couldn't download that porn tasteful art film.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOU FBI!

Why, though, is the Pirate Bay still legal? Why is that a thing?

I think because it's a Swedish hosted website? The US has no jurisdiction over it.

 

[Xanthious]

First off, these other sites aren't being "shut down" they are just reacting like a bunch of scared sheep. As best I can tell the US has only shut down ONE site recently, MegaUpload. Even then that was after a TWO YEAR nvestigation and a good bit of what they busted MegaUpload for wasn't even about piracy. They were doing all sorts of shady things over there.

Was the timing of it well executed? Without a doubt but MegaUpload would have likely been shut down even if this SOPA business never happened. So I really doubt this is the start of some crazy war on piracy. This is just the US having really good timing in shutting down one lone website and a bunch of other sites being gutless in their reactions.

That being said I download a LOT of totally legal public access media and never once have I used these sites for anything but the occasional small, totally legal, file like an mp3 or some other such thing as they were generally pretty slow and not well designed for moving large files. Most of the major piracy going on is going on through Bit Torrent or Usenet, or depending on who ya know private FTPs.

Bottom line, this is far from the beginning of the end. From where I'm sitting there is no witch hunt, just one site shut down. This is just the internet over reacting (which is what it does best admittedly). I will start to worry when one of the major sites go down.

 

[EHKOS]

Ok, it's time for the UK to step in and take over the US. Please? Hell, I'll leave the door unlocked for ya. Now all my anime and porn is getting cut off

Don't leave us Australians out of this. We want some good pings too. Ahoy! Americans! We have beaches here and sunshine, much better then that silly Pome Isle.

But you also have huge spiders.....

 

[D0WNT0WN]

Damn it, looks like SOPA & PIPA didnt need to pass for the penis of "American Justice!" to start ruining it for everyone.

Atleast Mediafire still works.

 

[surg3n]

Sites that hold copyrighted material get taken down. Why is this a big deal? You want the content, pay for it.

I don't know about others but I mostly download TV shows. As far as I am aware there is no legal way for me to be able to watch the next episode of, say, Fringe other than a) moving to US b) waiting a year or more while hoping that one of the local channels decides to buy the show and dub it.

eztv.it, and uTorrent. Works for me, EZTV are great uploaders, and they have all sorts of shows. Even that new Alcatraz series, which only has 2 episodes so far but seems to be worth watching. I feel your pain, but I wouldn't know what to do with myself without torrents - other than moving to the US, and putting up with an ad break every 5 minutes.