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"The judge in this case was looking for a way to say the defendant was obligated to keep durable records of his misdeeds, practically to the point of tapping the memory bus. "

The judges actions go even further.. He ordering TorrentSpy to eavesdrop on Foreign communications. A Criminal act, especially in the EU.. As a consequence TorrentSpy collected just enough information to prove that both the request and the torrent host were OUTSIDE the USA in which NO US court has any business collecting private data.

Remember TorrentSpy stopped servicing US IP addresses when ordered to start collecting the data.

"Torrentspy Acts to Protect Privacy"

Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy's decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws.

We hope you understand and will take the opportunity to visit one of these other fine websites:"

Technically, if the federal judge proceeds to trial, he would be guilty of several serious crimes.
Extortion, spying, acts of war, and privacy violations among the many countries that use the Internet.
A suggestion to judge Cooper, I wouldn't go traveling outside the USA, unless you want to be locked up for a very long time.

Meanwhile the MPAA just received a meaningless victory.
No foreign court will honor any judgment against TorrentSpy that was based on it's refusal to follow court orders requiring the commission of a criminal act.
Hopefully a significantly wiser circuit court will rule the Coopers actions where inappropriate,
remove him from the case, and vacate all judgments. (Less they too want to wish to dispose of their passports as well.)

Not only does it exist, but it even has lots of competition!

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/334880/Brazil_Te rry_Gilliam_2_CD_Xvid We are only reading the page ;) DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS... AS this is not Legal... Don't tell me that I did not warn you....

• mininova search
• pirate bay search
• torrentspy search.

Actually Michael Moore's latest is here http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/1494761/Michael_ Moore_Sicko_LIMITED_DVDSCR_XviD_iMBT but has now been blocked (as you so rightly pointed out). Although I am sure that it is available elsewhere , this was just first scroogle result.

Release name: Shadowrun-Razor1911
Size: 1 DVD, 1.83 GB
Protection: Activation
Genre: Shooter
Filename: rzr-swrn

  Game Notes

  FASA Studio, the creative minds behind MechWarrior and Crimson Skies, are
  back with Shadowrun, the new multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) based
  on the much-beloved role-playing game (RPG) franchise. Shadowrun propels
  team-based combat into a new dimension with a revolutionary blend of modern
  weaponry and ancient magic. Up to 16 players can battle for control of this
  new world through Xbox 360-to-Windows Vista online compatibility. In
  Shadowrun players vie for supremacy in a constantly evolving battlefield
  where advanced technology and ancient magic provide an unprecedented and
  high-velocity tactical action experience.

  Release Notes

  Tired of waiting for Falling Leaf to produce drivers so that you can play
  Shadowrun in XP? The wait is over, because Razor1911 already has the remedy!
  Yes, you read right. This game will also function in Windows XP (following the
  installation procedure below).
  This release will work with bot matches and lan mp. If you want to play
  online, buy the game!

  Install Notes

  1. Extract RARs
  2. Install
  3. Go into your installationfolder and delete the srsw_shadowrun.dll.
  4. Copy srs_shadowrun.dll and srsx_shadowrun.dll to your installationfolder.
  5. If you want the XP compatability, copy the files from the xp/ subdir to your installationfolder.
  6. If you want a shortcut on your desktop, this is the time to make one!
  7. Play!
  8. Have fun!

Razor 1911 Greetings

You can check the NFO here: http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?switchto=nfos&menu= quicknav&item=viewnfo&id=115244

And you can get the game (and the XP patch) here: http://cache.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=159857 6

Ooops... did I just said too much? :)

ICBM launch codes found on torrent site. http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/ICBM_Launch_CODE S_TXT_Istorrent_74542

nonetheless here's a few links on it: http://techdirt.com/articles/20070610/172049.shtml http://news.com.com/TorrentSpy+ordered+to+start+tr acking+visitors/2100-1030_3-6189866.html?part=rss& tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news http://www.techfirm.com/logorder.pdf http://torrentspy.com/privacy.asp

Pangea... hmm, never heard of them. Anyone got a torrent?

The reality is that with the advent of Bit Torrent and swarming technology in general we're all rapidly becoming "bandwidth hogs" whether we're downloading licensed material or not. I know that, for my part, I have personally created a few (usually involving the installation of a good BT client and mentioning a few good sites.) ISPs are getting away with banning heavy users because they presume it's for illegitimate purposes (and I suppose that, for the most part, they're correct at this point.)

The major content producers may shift their business models from distribution via traditional broadcast, satellite or cable technologies to an Internet-based approach. If that truly happens, there will be heavy pressure applied from the big boys to make the Comcasts and Verizons and AT&Ts of the country get with the program and beef up their networks. What we as consumers can't do (because we aren't the cable company's customer, content producers and their attendant advertisers are) big media can. And that'll benefit all of us indirectly, because when Internet capacity reaches the point where it can provide video delivery as easily as local cable networks currently do, the concept of "bandwidth hog" will go the way of the Dodo.

you pay, you get added crap. you *cough* and you get the movie without crap. interesting dilemma.

No dilemma. No dilemma at all. The only reason there isn't more downloading going on is because there aren't more people that know how to do it. I mean, my goodness, if everyone that had a broadband connection knew how to install a BitTorrent client, head over to TorrentSpy or Mininova or The Pirate Bay and download stuff and knew about codecguide.com's Codec Packs so they could play all that media without any problems on their Windows boxes, why, I think we'd see a lot more people watching crap-free entertainment.

You see, these are people that have long been accustomed to selling whatever they please, because they knew we had no choice but to accept it no matter how they chose to present it. If we wanted a movie, we took whatever they threw at us. That's changed, for now, and lawsuits, the DMCA and the rest aside, I don't think they've fully come to grips with that.

don't you love it, when you but a DVD, you get all the bonus commercials you HAVE to see before you can start the movie?

I've bought a lot of DVDs over the past eight or nine years. Lots of them. I like movies, I do. But I have to say, watching purchased DVDs has become similar to the experience I get at the local movie house: i.e., disappointing and not what it used to be. And both groups complain that sales are down. Cripes, what does it take to give these people a clue? The media companies dis their customers when those customers have alternate means of receiving their products (in this case, means that provide no revenue) and they expect sales to increase? Give me a break.

It would surprise me if Sony executives ever got down from their ivory towers (or whatever the obviously isolated spot where they store their upper management) and spoke directly with typical consumers of their products to see what, if anything, said people like about Sony products. Oh, I'm sure Sony's marketing drones have plenty of "focus groups" and "surveys" and all the rest of the trappings of modern marketeering ... but they don't seem to be paying much attention upstairs.

Media Marketing Rule #1 should be "if the customer BUYS THE DISC it should PLAY."

This is not rocket science. This is about good business. It's about continuing to have a business.

I wonder if the new DRM's been successful at keeping those movies off the torrent sites. Because if the article's to be believed, it's certainly been successful at pissing off paying customers, and what would be the point of doing that if the movies were still being pirated anyway?

—Tickletaint (forced to post logged-out due to modbombing)

I'd ask what in the world you were downloading that was 46 GB, but I'm willing to bet that I have the same torrent running. ;)

It wouldn't be this one would it?

...since I imagine most people posting here are UK/Europe residents and already familiar with the UK's ID card debacle; the government has basically told us all we're getting biometric ID cards hooked into a national DB, at our own expense, whilst also costing the taxpayer billions in the contruction of the backend system. Despite general uproar from anyone who knows anything about privacy and/or implementing such things on a nationwide scale (not to mention the people pointing out the flaws in the proposed implementations), the government has basically steamrolled the whole thing through. This petition is yet another thing in a long line of criticism that has been judiciously ignored by the bods in power. There have been plenty of god-awful public investigations down by the government that usually go something along the lines of "would you support technology that would prevent terrorist attacks and stop paedophiles killing your children?", during which everyne answers "yes" so the gov can claim overwhelming public support for national ID cards. UK sites like The Register have been running stories on the ID card disaster-in-waiting for several years now (as I'm sure many of you are aware, UK government has a history of successive failures as far as implementing nationwide IT projects).

Democracy in action, I'm sure. Unfortunately a great mass of the uninformed public have been sufficiently brainwashed to believe that such an ID system will be as near to infallible as you can get, so it's going to take fairly herculean efforts to get other political parties to step away from implementing the same ID scheme. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.

In slightly related news, More4 (UK digital channel) showed a surprisingly watchable documentary on modern privacy and surveillance issues in a prog called Suspect Nation. I can't find any official sources so I'll reluctantly post a link to a torrent here. Well worth downloading to show to like-minded friends who aren't aware how pervasive some of this technology is.

Disclaimer: I am very much anti ID and even go to the bother of registering my Oyster card (RFID card used for travel on London transport which tracks every journey you make) under a false address, and always pay for them in cash. I've had some people brand me a bit of a conspiraloon, but you don't need to study much history before you find out it's a bad idea to give governments too much information and power, no matter how benevolent the intentions.

Some orrents

Also when will I be welcomed to explain in sunday school why atheists are better people and why robbing banks is a good thing. I can even read to them the parts where is is written in *my* holy book: The Stainless Steel Rat.

I once explained it to a couple of Mormons who spoke to me on the street and they looked extremely confused when I explaine why atheists where better people. The reason obviously is that a atheist knows that this is the only life somebody will have, so it will be much more precious. A believer thinks there is another chance, so if you get killed, it isn't THAT bad.

I've already passed this subject.

There's also a VMWare image. Grab the torrent and a copy of VMWare's free player and you can take a look at it that way.

The torrent doesn't have a lot of seeds (I may be the only one at the moment), so if you grab it, please seed for a while.

I've been fairly pleased with the movies I downloaded from TorrentSpy. Good quality, fast download times, decent DRM. Even high definition movies!

There's been a (pirated) torrent out for a while of his complete works. I'm not sure what the legality of it would be now.

"God help us if medical imaging ever advances to the point they could follow Mr. Happy inside for his little trip through the flesh tunnel."

You'll see that each 720p episode encoded with x264 (open source h.264 codec) is only 1.07GB...

For an excellent documented example of this, please see:
"The Revolution Will Not be Televised"
http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=791596

Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/
(2.0 is not there yet, but use that link when it gets updated)

Unofficial torrents (Website ads are NSFW):
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891929/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_US
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_GB
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)

(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)

Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/
(2.0 is not there yet, but use that link when it gets updated)

Unofficial torrents (Website ads are NSFW):
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891929/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_US
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_GB
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)

(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)

ok, these numbers have changed recently:
http://torrentspy.com/search?query=opie+and+anthon y&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 (o/p 43)
http://torrentspy.com/search?query=howard+stern&su bmit.x=0&submit.y=0 (howard 932)

500,000 was the number posted on the o/p newgroup afew months back.

the reality is still they are nobody.

ok, these numbers have changed recently:
http://torrentspy.com/search?query=opie+and+anthon y&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 (o/p 43)
http://torrentspy.com/search?query=howard+stern&su bmit.x=0&submit.y=0 (howard 932)

500,000 was the number posted on the o/p newgroup afew months back.

the reality is still they are nobody.

They're not in the list because they don't deserve to be there. C# is a rebranded version of Java, which itself is a waste of computing resources motivated by an utterly false promise of multi platform compatibility (nearly all non trivial Java programs depend on non portable C++ libraries to do the critical stuff).
VBdotNet doesn't even deserve to be mentioned among programming languages. If you're stuck to the Windows monoculture but still need a good development system around an easy -and- powerful language go get an old version of Delphi. This version will run also on Linux. No, it's not Kylix, it's an illegal torrent of an ultra illegally optimized version of native Delphi 7 that runs nicely and illegally under Wine and produces illegal windows executables.
Damn.. those illegal-terrorists-communists-hippies. Hurry! Call the police!

Perhaps http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/734995/Transport _Tycoon_Deluxe_OpenTTD ?

http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=876651

x86 version

You're missing of the best show on TV. The third series premiers tonight, and there's a free 40 minute 'catch up' show on iTunes. However, it will totally ruin the two brilliant series' before it.

Perhaps grab this, then this, then download the series three stuff once you've caught up.

Enjoy!

You're missing of the best show on TV. The third series premiers tonight, and there's a free 40 minute 'catch up' show on iTunes. However, it will totally ruin the two brilliant series' before it.

Perhaps grab this, then this, then download the series three stuff once you've caught up.

Enjoy!

They can find it here

The story goes that scientist conected an EKG machine and watched for signs of brian patterns. When the plant apeared excited they interpreted it as emotion. I didn't think it was actualy true but i found a few posts about it.

Mythbusters actually took a shot at this one (episode 61). They tried hooking up both a polygraph (as the original guy did) as well as an EKG machine. What they found is that there initially appeared to be a response, but once they isolated themselves from the plant they were testing, the apparent response went away. Kinda dumb, but somewhat interesting.

If you're interested, you can get it here or wait for it to be on Discovery again.

Vista RC1 b5728

Has anyone tried downloading by the bittorrent yet?

For all you future statisticians, marketers, and creeps: http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/823687/AOL_data_ tgz

Thanks for your interest in Movielink, the leading movie download service. Sorry, but Movielink is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States. If you are a current customer of Movielink and believe you have reached this page in error, please access Live Chat with Customer Service under Help in your Movielink Manager. Your IP address is (snip)

Meanwhile, http://www.torrentspy.com/ and other such sites lets me in without a problem. I do think the site is slow and clunky, the quality is crap and many other negative aspects, but it beats spending ungodly amounts of time trying to find something from the very limited supply in shops.

Did you watch the latest episode of 30 Days? The episode is ''Outsourcing'', about a programmer who lost his job to Indian, and goes there to work and live with an Indian family for 30 days, experiencing the other side for himself. Very good episode.

in the spirit of this article, i'll propose to you a very unique method of skirting itunes video DRM..

Numerous "itunes video crack sites" can be found here, here, here, here, and more here

enjoy your higher quality DRM free itunes video files XD

That's okay, someone already did.

then run the WGA crack that you got from here..
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/782179/Windows_G enuine_Advantage_WGA_v3_3_1_5_540_0_Taag

Most pirates, don't need to know anything about cracking/pirating other than "what bitorrent" is..

I have never knowingly pirated a commercial software program. Ever. And I have been using computers since 1982.

However, if this WGA thing turn out to be true (which honestly it may not), then I will have no qualms about starting. I built my own computer and paid retail for XP Pro. If they are going to screw it up, it will be the last dollar from me.

I never illegally downloaded music until I started having spyware and rootkits installed on my machine, now I never buy CD's under any circumstances.

Morally, I consider it fair compensation now. Treat me right, I treat you right. You fuck me, I fuck you. Not a pretty motto, but I've always lived by it and it has worked for me more often than it hasn't.

In 2004 I bought an Averatec laptop computer with XP Home pre-installed. I have been using it for 2 years. Just last weekend I had a WGA pop-up telling me that WGA had determined that my copy of Windows was "not genuine" and to click a box to "correct" it.

I did not click the box, and I used Tiny Personal Firewall to block the phoning home of WGA. I paid for the Windows on the machine, and I am not jumping through hoops to prove it. Now, only very select connections can use the Internet through the firewall (which can suck while trying to use Wi-Fi in the airport), and I have to make sure that it cannot possibly phone home.

My main concern is that they will find a way to make it "phone home" during boot, before the firewall loads.

In any event, if the copy is disabled, I am actually one of the few who will actually take the time out of my busy life to file a civil suit at my local courthouse. Everyone says they will do these things in internet dick-swinging contests, but I actually will. I may not win, but I will do it anyway.

Also, I will pirate the living shit out of Microsoft software.

Again, assuming this rumor us true, which it very well may not be.

If i'm going to do the time, i'm going to do the time. Period.

then run the WGA crack that you got from here..
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/782179/Windows_G enuine_Advantage_WGA_v3_3_1_5_540_0_Taag

Most pirates, don't need to know anything about cracking/pirating other than "what bitorrent" is..

I have never knowingly pirated a commercial software program. Ever. And I have been using computers since 1982.

However, if this WGA thing turn out to be true (which honestly it may not), then I will have no qualms about starting. I built my own computer and paid retail for XP Pro. If they are going to screw it up, it will be the last dollar from me.

I never illegally downloaded music until I started having spyware and rootkits installed on my machine, now I never buy CD's under any circumstances.

Morally, I consider it fair compensation now. Treat me right, I treat you right. You fuck me, I fuck you. Not a pretty motto, but I've always lived by it and it has worked for me more often than it hasn't.

In 2004 I bought an Averatec laptop computer with XP Home pre-installed. I have been using it for 2 years. Just last weekend I had a WGA pop-up telling me that WGA had determined that my copy of Windows was "not genuine" and to click a box to "correct" it.

I did not click the box, and I used Tiny Personal Firewall to block the phoning home of WGA. I paid for the Windows on the machine, and I am not jumping through hoops to prove it. Now, only very select connections can use the Internet through the firewall (which can suck while trying to use Wi-Fi in the airport), and I have to make sure that it cannot possibly phone home.

My main concern is that they will find a way to make it "phone home" during boot, before the firewall loads.

In any event, if the copy is disabled, I am actually one of the few who will actually take the time out of my busy life to file a civil suit at my local courthouse. Everyone says they will do these things in internet dick-swinging contests, but I actually will. I may not win, but I will do it anyway.

Also, I will pirate the living shit out of Microsoft software.

Again, assuming this rumor us true, which it very well may not be.

If i'm going to do the time, i'm going to do the time. Period.

How hard is it for someone to pirate windows?

Grab a copy of XP from here..
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/781830/Windows_X P_SP2_Gold_Reloaded_Edition_Unattended_Install

then run the WGA crack that you got from here..
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/782179/Windows_G enuine_Advantage_WGA_v3_3_1_5_540_0_Taag

Most pirates, don't need to know anything about cracking/pirating other than "what bitorrent" is..

How hard is it for someone to pirate windows?

Grab a copy of XP from here..
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/781830/Windows_X P_SP2_Gold_Reloaded_Edition_Unattended_Install

then run the WGA crack that you got from here..
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/782179/Windows_G enuine_Advantage_WGA_v3_3_1_5_540_0_Taag

Most pirates, don't need to know anything about cracking/pirating other than "what bitorrent" is..

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/745696/Family_Gu y_Season_4

This link was brought to you by the Useless Piracy Battle Coalition. :-p

The MPAA says that Torrentspy is facilitating thievery, but then turn around and say that downloading movies is actually copyright infringement. Well, which is it? At this point, the penalties for actually stealing movies or music are almost nonexistent compared to copyright infringement. Consider that if you steal a CD or DVD from, oh say Tower Records, you get a veritable slap on the wrist (read: a fine and probably never being allowed in that store again), but if you 'infinge on copyrights' you face a multi-thousand dollar fine and possible jail time.

So again, I have to ask, which is the actual crime here? I'm sure that I'm incredibly naive (and a poor speller to boot), but shouldn't copyright infringement cover something more along the lines of wholesale idea theft like copying a movie's plot and characters for your own film? Please explain this to me...

To answer the parent's question, the MPAA suit will obviously attract more damage, as they have the money and clout with congress to get their way. The problem is that we're trying to apply old standards to a new media/frontier/world, and they just don't work well.

If you are wondering what is happening to America these days, you can get a lot of pointers from "Why We Fight"

"Why We Fight" is a documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
The film describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex while concentrating on wars led by the
United States of the last fifty years and in particular on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Please have a look at it, it is really wel done, none of the Michael Moore style sensationalism, but more disturbing for its simple presentation.


Trailer from sonyclassics
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/


Bittorrent links to the complete movie:
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3367179
http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=347228

Hey you with the mod points! Dont be to harsh, this one comes from the heart.

They're scum, and while the "OMG THE RIAA SUX0RZ" mob that inhabit Slashdot these days will doubtless bitch and moan about their downfall, the rest of us will hope that the bad rap Bearshare and its ilk give P2P will not damage more legitimate technologies, like BitTorrent.

That's right because we all know that bittorrent would NEVER be used for piracy!

There are a lot of cool next gen web 2.0 websites. As technies we shouldnt bash them.. well not too much Here are my favorites: Entertainment Better than ebaumsworld and Fark http://www.phoonso.com/ Tech News http://www.digg.com/ Torrents With news http://www.torrentspy.com/ Parenting http://www.fircle.com/ Gadgetry Be a Ninja. http://www.ninjaremote.com/

A quick glance at TorrentSpy shows that they haven't given up, they're still dishing out torrents. They have a news story about it, but they don't seem to be too concerned.

I remember when the MPAA did this last time and the torrent sites shut down completely because it was in their subpoena (sp?) thing, so does this mean that TorrentSpy is defying the MPAA and (potentially) putting themselves up for harsher penalties?