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I'll make these analogies as well: when cassette tapes hit the markets as a cheap, convenient means to copy recordings, the RIAA complained it would put them out of business. Instead, sale of prerecorded cassettes opened up a whole new revenue stream for them. When consumer grade video recording hit the market, the MPAA cried it would put them out of business. Instead, the video sales and rental market opened up a whole new revenue stream for them; movies that wouldn't ever even have seen the light of day began returning at least some money, and movies that made hundreds of millions were making another hundred million in rentals when, if the MPAA had it's way, they'd be making nothing.


The problem with this argument is two very important factors -- distribution and cost. The RIAA complained about tapes and duplication putting them out of business and were wrong. MPAA complained about VHS putting them out of business, and they were wrong. But why were they wrong, and does it still apply today?

I think it is different today, for one single reason. The Internet. Let's say you duplicated a movie to VHS. Let's also say it's a real popular movie, about as popular as Snakes On a Plane is right now on isoHunt. (I'm seeing, as of this writing, about 37,000 Leechers alone for a single downloadable copy.) Extrapolate that into the cost of distributing your popular VHS movie to the same number of users, and I think it's pretty clear why the current distribution capabilities are scary for RIAA/MPAA, etc.

Will they discover other revenue streams through this new distribution model? Most likely. Will it kill them? I personally don't think so. But the game has changed, and because it is so much cheaper and easier to distribute what you copy, it doesn't compare to previous eras so readily.

Speaking of Vista, C|Net reports that a new release candidate is on the way. The average tester should expect it by the end of September.

Well - you can wait until September if you like, or you can just download the torrent.

If you're an Apple employee - this is OK, but make sure you dont download something from Apple - they will fire you.

http://isohunt.com/download/13319526/snakes+on+a+p lane

go nuts.

Torrents: http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=An+Experiment+ to+Save+the+World

You become a bit jaded after watching The Power of Nightmares (torrents), which dealt with this. This sounds (cursory look) even more flimsy than the four men arrested for being al-qaida operatives based on a video shot on vacation at disneyworld/land/whatever. And oh, the doodles of the mad-man who rented the house before them.

What does this teach kids? It teaches them that to get what they want they need to download utorrent, go to sites like isohunt and learn how to use DAEMON Tools.

If the kid really wants GTA Cop Killa edition he's going to be able to get the game. If it's a little kid it's the parents who buy the game for him anyway, and if it's a bigger kid then after failing to get it from the store one of his friends is going to tell him about the things I mentioned above.

This is yet another law that targets innocent kids. People will say that the point of the law is to protect kids from the games, but it's really to protect the adults from the kids. There wasn't that much anti video game sentiment until after Columbine. This law has the effect of hitting two birds with one stone, it supposedly stops kids from becoming violent, and it gives the cops and excuse to arrest kids on sight for piracy.

The biggest puzzle here is: why are "minors" the ones that grownups are afraid of? I don't know why either but for some reason they are. They keep us locked up in school all day, and the reason I get for that type of thing when I ask is something along the lines of "it makes it so you don't have a bunch of kids running through the streets unsupervised".

Then you have an assortment of other laws along those lines as well. Minors aren't allowed to drive cars, their not allowed to vote. I may sound kind of crazy here, but after reading this article I'm starting to see a pattern.

I dunno, it's what people said when they found out IE7 wouldn't support 98.

I guess it's a little mean to the 98 people, but I think it's reasonable. It's hard to support a lot of platforms, and with Vista coming out that would have been 4+ Windows platforms to support without dropping 9x. Also, since it's open-source, there's plenty of opportunity for people to make a fork designed just for Win9x if there's enough interest. 9x people should really upgrade though. Win2k, FYI, is one of the easiest Windows to pirate. There's a hack that someone found to make the CD not even ask you for a key to install. I'm sure most of the ISOs at http://www.isohunt.com/ have it, if anyone needs it. Or here's another place to get your upgrade.

They already have.

A link for it
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/05/31/f ung-piracy.html

There is more at http://www.isohunt.com/ too.

It is really worth the watch. Colbert starts about 40 minutes into the video. Get the torrent or watch it on youtube (part 1, part 2, and part 3). If you haven't seen the Colbert report - it is quite good. Comedy central has a bunch of videos up - my favorite is the "know a district" ones.

The Colbert Report is really high quality political humor, like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart - it is funny because so often it is true.

http://isohunt.com/btDetails.php?id=11023245

I just checked, the tracker is up for me. (demonoid.com's tracker)

And if you have more money to spend get a Hazer system so you don't have to climb the tower to get your antennas to the top.

This is IH from isoHunt.com. We also run TorrentBox.com. Some clarifications for comments here:

  * Yes, this is MPAA's FUD. The lawsuit included.
  * No, BitTorrent and P2P are not illegal (yet). They are not solely tools of thieves as the MPAA like to portray them as. There are many legal torrents in isoHunt's search index.
  * No, I haven't got anything from MPAA about this lawsuit of theirs, but the press release is real and we are working with other sites, sued or yet to be sued, and the EFF on this.
  * This is significant as they are suing search engines. isoHunt.com is a search engine. It does not discriminate, it index by algorithm. If we can, we'll be pulling in Google and Yahoo to say a few words that search engines are not illegal (yet).
  * No, I'm not a crook. I see P2P as the new VCR, and I intend on proving that P2P can be used to the benefit of content creators, as a cheap and global vehicle for distribution and promotion.

Read more and comment on my forum announcement if you like:
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38933

like bittorrent see http://isohunt.com/dmca-copyright.php

Active Torrents for:-
Animal Farm ( 699.53 MB )
and
1984 ( 898.78 )

It's almost unbelievable that this is happening in the US, that bastion of freedom.

By winning the cold war, the US has

you mean, by waiting for USSR's money to run out, forcing them to drop out of the cold war..
go watch BBC's The Power of Nightmares (torrents here, or here(search for "nightmares"))

The highest profile 'choke points' are Pirate Bay, Torrentspy, and Mininova. Everyone I know uses these.

Don't forget isoHunt.

FYI the urls are:

• http://thepiratebay.org/
• http://www.torrentspy.com/
• http://www.mininova.org/
• http://isohunt.com/

You can find almost everything on those sites, including very fast legal torrents of Linux distros.

That's about 70GB (each ep is 350MB), which comes to measly $25 on a cheap harddrive (@ 40 cents/GB). $25 vs $700.

What a great website http://www.isohunt.com/ is. I just went there and they notified me that my registry is corrupted, so I downloaded a registry cleaner to fix my system. Things like this show how beneficial some torrent sites are and they will eventually will be seen in a more positive light.

You'd think that Slashdot makes for great publicity... maybe it was just me, but I found this from http://isohunt.com/ on their main page news and downloaded it 5 days ago...

Ummm, no? There are lots(*) of criminal torrent websites around. Have fun.

(*) website blocked by websense.

As an analog of prodigem's automatic torrent creation, http://isohunt.com/ provides search feeds over RSS of most BitTorrent resources over the internet. So you can search for a TV show for example and be updated on the newest eps in the RSS feed.

Cheers

http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=5749674

Or you can download the ISO image of SUSE 9.3 from torrents

DVD
http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4142556
5 CD Set
http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=3965870

Or you can download the ISO image of SUSE 9.3 from torrents

DVD
http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4142556
5 CD Set
http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=3965870

http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4937408

Here: http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=windows+vista

Something that is good enough to be aired on both BBC and CBC, and then rejected by all the majors in USA is something everyone should view. Especially in USA.

Even those that strongly supports the current War on Terror should watch this documentary, if only to challenge their own view. Yeah, I know such a concept is naive, but just remember how communist refused to read "american capitalist-literature" in the 10's and 20's. Today some republicans more or less refuse to view "liberal euro-weeniee-propaganda".

This is where you need to use some proactive piracy buddy. Download the full package via torrent. http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=3879079 and buy it if you think it's cool.

Why make one, http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4612267 there already is one ;)

sadly, it only has one seed and 2 leachers and frankly, it might not be the exact same as the version that was available freely...

No, the truly sad thing is that even though this movie is now in the public domain that isohunt link is probably still illegal due to its source.

Somebody is going to have to mirror the Archive.org version since they don't claim any copyright on their copy and hope they got it from the original source.

Why make one, http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4612267 there already is one ;)

sadly, it only has one seed and 2 leachers and frankly, it might not be the exact same as the version that was available freely...

Have fun being wrong!

Similarly, http://www.torrentspy.com/ and http://www.isohunt.com/ are still operational. Not sure what countries those two sites are hosted from though.

torrent: http://isohunt.com/release.php?ihq=serenity&id=143 47

If you have trouble getting the bittorrent from their site use this link http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=imps&ext=&op=a nd

http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=mac+x86

Well there's your problem right there. Gnutella and FastTrack are yesteryears' p2p cesspool that specialized in small files (and weak hashes).

If you were looking for full albums and other large files, today, you would be using eMule (edonkey search for Pond archives) for the more obscure and BitTorrent search for the more popular.

That's because you, my webmaster friend, do not write your own web app and just use what's out there. I do too, I started with phpbb and wrote a search engine around it (http://isohunt.com/), and have realized how repetitive and tedious writing web application interfaces in raw PHP is.

Rails is hyped for a reason. I don't care about MVC or OOP, as long as it's a modular and transparent framework with clean interfaces. The sophistication of Ruby's language constructs and Rails' clean design seems to be a powerful combination.

This is only from what I've skimmed from Rails' docs (which are well written and complete), so don't take my word for it. Others who have first hand experience with Rails please chime in. I'm especially interested in real world performance (compared with PHP) of RoR. Ruby's lack of opcode cache concerns me regarding performance. Perhaps it doesn't matter with persistence in Fastcgi.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Revenge+of+the+S ith%22+filetype:torrent&sourceid=opera&num=25&ie=u tf-8&oe=utf-8
74 results likely with duplicates

http://search.bittorrent.com/search.jsp?query=Reve nge+of+the+Sith&Submit2=Search
18 results assumably with no duplicates

http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=%22Revenge+of+ the+Sith%22
229 results with no duplicates, and combined tracker listings of torrents from multiple sites

There have been torrent search engines around for a while. What makes this one any different?

yep and then theres http://packetnews.com/, http://torrentsearch.us/ http://isohunt.com/ httP;//yotoshi.com http://torrentsearcher.filesharingplace.com/ and many many more

search.bittorrent.com SUCKS compared to ISOhunt.

You have to register with them, though.

There is NO such registration on ISOhunt.com and Pirate Bay.

From what I can tell, Torrent Spy has the same (if not less) torrents as ISOhunt.

Right now I use ISOhunt and Bitoogle.

Any other good ones out there?

No pirate bay? Try another torrent tracker site!

Going to http://www.isohunt.com/ takes me to http://www.torrentbox.com/

Maybe they felt like a change? ;)

Too late.