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Here come the false equivalencies getting +5 in a matter of hours, too.
If you're in America, see if any of these sites are blocked
http://thepiratebay.se/
http://www.mininova.org/
http://isohunt.com/
http://www.demonoid.me/
http://www.torrentreactor.net/
No? Then your claim that "in america posts of copyrighted music are swept from the internet within hours" is false.

And the audacity of equating people who want to assemble and find redress with their local governments with those who want to get free mp3s. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this sad joke of a comparison. You'll only find naivete like this in the West. If you want to make some accurate comparisons, talk about police brutality in both countries, or maybe talk about Assange if he's ever extradited. In the meantime, get some perspective.

You can't download the new Kanye West album on Minonova, because they ceased their torrent service well over a year ago and have since then only operated as a "content distribution service" of legally licensed content.

http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2009/11/26/mininova-limits-its-activities-to-content-distribution-service/

I am sure Bjørn Lomborg is paid by oil companies...

I am kidding of course. I watched the following video presentation the other day. It seemed credible and in line with what you are saying, the guy doesn't deny climate is warming:

http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=Catastrophe+Denied&cat=0

Anybody cares to give background on the author ?

How they knew which torrents were illegal?

Some of these trackers have "LegitTorrent" services designed for publishers of quality works that aren't blatant copyright infringements. Mininova just deleted every torrent that wasn't in its LegitTorrent section.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/841386

and also posted : http://www.mininova.org/tor/3140994 . will seed it on my colo box for a few hours... for science!

http://www.mininova.org/tor/3140994

http://www.mininova.org/get/3122901

>>>you get notices because you are a stupid idiot who didn't do his research on how to keep those from happening.

If you're going to say something foolish like "Use peerguardian" than you are an even bigger idiot than me. Read this thread - "safepeer doesn't work" http://forum.mininova.org/lofiversion/index.php?t7467.html "peerguardian doesn't work" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=YTY&q=peerguardian+doesn't+work&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Anyway I'm still downloading but confining myself to a small, barely-known site with restricted access. Or if they don't have it, using my dialup provider which is Netscape and doesn't give a crap what I download.

Mininova is a really good choice and is pretty popular. Torrentz.com is a good index of torrents from other sites, though it's not clear why torrents are sometimes missing.

Everything your TV station broadcasts will automatically be backed up here.

I would have never found the best documentary series ever produced by man, Horizon.

I have learned more from watching those documentaries than going to formal schools and reading books and articles ever did. The learning, the layout and deconstruction that they provide, should be accessed freely by all of mankind. It would be a crime to lock up these wonderful programmes under DRM or similar so that people can not freely view them. They are the best most unbiased and impartial, yet still captivating, programmes that have ever been broadcast. I cannot recomend them enough.

If you are interested, and want to max out your connection for a week, I would highly recomend the following 78gb torrent of 139 of their full length documentaries
Anything that stops people from viewing horizon is a bad deal in my books. Everyone on earth should have access to this resource. As I said, its almost a crime against humanity to lock things like this away.

Monetizing quality science content makes the world population stupider.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2882031

The submitter says they are crap web quality though (ripped from website). Couldn't find a DVD rip, but I didnt look very hard.

Never heard of this show. Hopefully it will be along the lines of pure pwnage, which incidentally has all their eps in decent quality up for free download (and has apparently been picked up by showcase ?!?).
Now thats a real success story!

BitTorrent download

"They then worked back to find out who provided the samples and found a mother and daughter who were naturally short sleepers. The women routinely function on about 6 hours of sleep a night; the average person needs 8 to 8.5 hours of sleep."

A great documentary about this subject was from the Horizon program, entitled The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock. One of the things that they stated was some peoples body clocks run on different cycles. I believe they had examples of a 32 hour "day" clock and a 22 hour one and the differences that this placed on the subjects.

The comment that i wanted to make was that there are probably lots of people who do not fit into the 24 hour lifestyle that we are forced into. The secret life of your bodyclock was very eye opening. They had all sorts of great stats on why you shouldn't exercise in the morning, that you should always consume alcohol between 6-8pm (local time) and a great section on why teenagers hate getting up. Its well worth the watch if you can find it somehow....

Since it seems it's slashdotted alread, here's a mirror

No not really, not at all actually. Corporate copyright holders have held a gun at the heads of a few threatening that anybody that does the same will be made an example of. This is not even remotely close to my bank example. They can't stop the methods because it would take an insane amount of restriction and surveillance, so they try the scare tactics. If the method was adapted to reality we wouldn't have had this discussion to begin with.

Also you know very damn well that people object to the fact that they are forced to be monitored just so that nobody shares files. This is a pretty big sacrifice we make for the entertainment industry and you seem to think that people brought it on themselves. Perhaps they did, but perhaps the entertainment industry did as well. Whatever methods are used today are completely useless, and to defend them isn't doing the entertainment industry nor their consumers any good. Nobody thinks music artists should be poor, at least nobody that enjoys music, since nobody would produce music if reality was as such. But the current structure is not the only possible one, and I'm damn sure that even the entertainment industry will abandon this fools errand sooner or later. Right now you're one of the responsible for keeping this natural transition at halt.

I can proudly say that if i google my full name it yields 0 results. How many of you can say that??

I'm not going to spend the time deep-diving on this one, but you're being a little overconfident, I think. Here's just a guess about you:

• You use Ubuntu
• You like Joan Baez
• You have an LG e500 laptop,
• You're uploaded some torrents to Minonova
• You might live in Virginia or Ohio, or maybe Georgia

If you just wanted this torrent, and weren't just interested in Demonoid.

http://www.btmon.com/Other/Unsorted/Clifford_Simak_The_80_Works_Collection.torrent.html

or

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1702369

City

On Amazon

Audio Book

A documentary was made about Tetris a number of years back... http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/tetris.shtml Very interesting watch. Here's the torrent... http://www.mininova.org/tor/1010798 Enjoy.

I'd highly recommend getting hold of the BBC documentary "Tetris : From Russia with love".

Better links:

Torrent 1
Torrent 2 (Big honking file of documentaries, including the Tetris one.)

Apparently it's not very effective... http://www.mininova.org/search/wolverine/seeds

Screen cap from MSDN

en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x86_dvd_349010.iso MD5 Hash: 8867c13330f56a93944bcd46dcd73590
en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x64_dvd_347803.iso MD5 Hash: 98341af35655137966e382c4feaa282d

The x64 leak on mininova has the same MD5

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2521354

But there are more, obviously.

Dreamcasts go for $50 or less around here. I don't think I paid more than $30 for mine. Bought the cheaper games I wanted (none were over $10) and pirated the rare and expensive ones. I'm on a torrent right now getting some of the more obscure ones to see if they're any good (I expect at least 3/4 of them to blow, and that's after narrowing it down based on "best of" lists online and reading the descriptions to see which ones suit my taste).

For that matter, there's at least one Dreamcast emulator for Windows. I've never used it, but it's there in the torrent I'm on.

I think it's this one if anyone's interested. It's slow as hell because there aren't many seeders, but set one game at a time to high priority and you'll get it in a day or so and be able to start playing. Seed when you get done!

Neil Burnside would like to disagree with you. Season 1 if you are into that kind of thing.

Where did they move? They even have a small office in Netherlands.

http://www.mininova.org/images/office.jpg

I would happily pay for music from the early 20th century. It's hard to find, especially in high quality restoration. So if somebody goes to the trouble of collecting it, restoring it, digitizing it, and making it convenient to find and download then they deserve to make a profit.

You're welcome! There's a DONATE button just above the HUGE table. Here's the torrent.

Been done. http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2005/11/17/mininova-the-javascript-cluster/

Websites aren't their strong suit. Their wiki is much better in terms of basic info on the distro, and for as slow as their website is, you can get the distro much quicker via bit torrent.

Right, because we all know that this technology couldn't possibly be used to analyze anything other than bittorrent traffic. It would be totally impossible to use it to inspect emails, right? That's just crazy science fiction - no way could it happen in the real world. Besides, we all know that only criminals use bittorrent. Who would possibly think of using it to distribute political documentaries or leaked government documents?

It's available via torrent -- in case anyone cares! ;-)

Apparently no one does. Seeds = 0. :(

A popular way of distributing software - especially for people to try it out - is as a complete Linux distribution disk image that you can run with the VMWare Player.

Speaking of which, and yes this is a shameless plug, just recently I've prepared a desktop ready FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE based on the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment. Okay, it's not Linux, but comes with Firefox 3, Thunderbird 2, OpenOffice.org 3, VLC, Pidgin, Xchat, Gimp, etc. installed an ready for use. It's available via torrent -- in case anyone cares! ;-)

DLC Fallout 3 Operation Anchorage

http://www.mininova.org/get/2226613

File name: Windows.7.Beta.1.Build_7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso [MSDN iSO]
Size: 2,618,793,984 bytes (2.44 GB)
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2123650

Yes.

Yep, because it's impossible to pirate iPhone apps.

Oh wait....

Seriously, you're posting on Slashdot and you think DRM actually works?

"while you still can" has passed, for your link at least.
It is still out there, though.

Hmmm .... http://www.mininova.org/ I'll let you type it in. The letters s & p are all you need.

And a torrent for the 250 MB lowres version. http://www.mininova.org/tor/1934773

It's a great movie about how insane the drug-war is (And how to make a grow-up and marijuana in general). The police, the criminals and the prison-industry working together to steal common people's money, so that there can be drug-dealers in every corner and enormous amounts of people in prison.

Take a look at the market now. What's going to have more of an effect on a company's bottom line: me buying Spore and passing it out to five friends, or the multitude of torrent sites (i.e. one torrent on mininova reporting just under two hundred thousand completed downloads) that allow anybody to quickly and easily pirate a game? Regardless of whether casual piracy was a major issue in the past, it certainly is much less of a concern than the fact that a game can be ripped, uploaded, and spread across the Internet in a matter of hours.

Aside: Of course, the entire issue with DRM and Spore is not piracy, but EA attempting to prevent used copies from being sold.

http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=asus

...and (wish I could find a copy again) the Syndicate series.

Bittorrent is your friend. I remember playing Syndicate briefly a long time ago, so I'm not sure whether that is the same game at all, but worth checking out if the game is a favorite if yours. :)

ucsb evoting attack

Ya know there's a tv series now? Season 2 is about to start.

enjoy ;)

and released by RELOADED. Get the torrent here http://www.mininova.org/tor/1763526

Early release date for everybody.

And without the proprietary zip container here.

Proprietary? I'm pretty sure the compress/decompress utility is opensource.

And without the proprietary zip container here.