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BitTorrent Community Running For Cover?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-and-games-over dept.

govatos writes "Bandwidth issues and DOS Attacks brought Bytemonsoon, a popular BitTorrent page down, but now pages are closing for scarier reasons. Torrentse.cx 'recieved a cease and desist letter during the day of Wednesday, July 16, 2003 for copyright infringement. The entire website has been removed and will not return.' Will corporate pressure kill the BitTorrent movement, or will it keep flying from site to site before it settles somewhere 'safe' like Sealand's HavenCo?"

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  1. Ok, You asked for it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here are an assload of bittorrent sites I hope they all get slashdotted because you are all a bunch of homos, especially the parent poster who sucks a phat nut.

    That is all. GNAA forever.

  2. As an attorney... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    for one of the aggrieved parties, let me just say that BitTorrent is nothing short of the Denial of Service attack. I hope they are taken down. When is /. going to learn that you can't flood sites, steal music, or copy DVDs without repercussion?

    1. Re:As an attorney... by AstroDrabb · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Oh, go home with your crap. It is big business and lowly attorneys like you that are running America into the ground. You attorneys sue for anything as long as there is a possibility to make some money. When are all you dirty attorneys, corrupted politicians and corrupted big business going to learn that when you take away our freedom of speech, fair use, price fix and a list of other offences far too long for ./ that you will have to deal with our repercussion? If that means constantly breaking DRM/anti-copy mechanisms or P2P, then so be it. We the People have be drugged through the mud for too many years so that attorneys, big business and dirty politicians can all get fat checks. Well, now you are getting a wake up call. If you really care about the best interest for your client, then tell them to practice fair business, put the consumer first, stop price fixing and lobbying congress to strip away our fair use and first amendment right.

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      If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
      it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
    2. Re:As an attorney... by antirename · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Ok, I'm actually going to respond to a braindead anonymous troll post. You could have at least claimed to be a member of "GNAA" or some such pathetic bunch of annoyances with feet. Just in case you are really a moron: 1) First, you actually seem to support the idea that politicians should be able to write laws regulating technologies and industries that are always evolving and that said politicians know nothing about. Dumbass. 2) If you put your site on the net, it might get slashdotted. Oh, you didn't plan for that? Dumbass. 3) Go fuck off and play somewhere else. If you are a spokesman for "one of the aggrieved parties", you are even dumber than that post would suggest. You didn't create this technology. You also don't know how this magical new shit called the internet will eventually be used for good or evil; in fact, you know a hell of a lot let less than your clients. Final verdict: you are either a troll or a lawyer. In either case, you know nothing about technology or how it might shape the way future societies communicate. You, sir, are a dumbass. That is not your fault, some people are born that way. Find a good paralegal to keep up with the real and changing world for you or shut the fuck up. Of course, politicians can be even dumber than you. Even worse, some of those wind up in office. Keep it up, get in bed with Longhorn, and count the hours until the internet gets forked after Palladium goes live. Fucking dumbass. People like you are the people that evolution eats. Sorry to be blunt, I'm having a bad night, but that is the deal as I see it. Even if it is undiplomatic to say so. Final word... if you are not actually a GNAA troll (they seem be the most annoying the past couple of days) get yourself an account and post an intelligent rebuttal explaining why old men who think the internet is AOL or whatever their grandkids put on their machine should be allowed to write laws that regulate said network. Then give us all your take on fair use. Just curious, really.

  3. Torrentse.cx by multipartmixed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wasn't that just a site hosting some guy's gaping asshole?

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  4. WTF MODS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is this flamebait and not informative? I'm providing the slashdot community with a number of relevant and useful links for them to execute an effective DDOS attack against.

    I call upon the Gods of the Penis Bird to bless this thread!

  5. Re:All your fancy freedom rhetoric aside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    So, um, in the interests of science, where's bittorrent-porn?

    Ask yer mom.

  6. Re:Facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    doesn't mean I don't daily and consistently see

    The verb must come before the adjectives in this context.

    and maybe spot

    Again.

    I don't see what the problem is with ceasing

    Seizing, Thomas. The correct word is seizing.

    pirates computers.

    "Pirates'" or even "pirates's" would have been correct, rather than utterly wrong.

    If you drive drunk your license is taking away.

    You're actually from Taiwan, aren't you?

    Even better is when the computer belongs to the parents and its the kid doing the piracy.

    "It's" or "it is."

    It will teach parents a lesson that ignoring their responsibilities is their fault.

    I actually agree with this, despite the fact that it's a poorly-constructed, ambiguous sentence with respect to the use of "their." Singapore punishes parents for the delinquency of their children, and they practice corporal punishment. They also boast an extremely low crime rate, which I expect is related.

    We don't live in complete anarchy or dictatorships as far as I can tell.

    No matter how bad it gets, it's all about perception.

    Sorry your bleeding heart liberal arguments don't quite cut it.

    Sorry you're afflicted with a complete lack of diction. Perhaps you could enroll in some English courses at your college.

  7. Re:if you didn't download the hulk by now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shut the fuck up Kenspy you uncle fucker.

  8. Re:if you didn't download the hulk by now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Interesting that you mention this AFTER THE FACT. Idiot.

    And WTF is up with modding this up? Are people on /. REALLY this stupid these days? No wonder I stopped coming here on a regular basis months ago.