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Blog Torrent: Downhill Battle Interview
scubacuda writes "In this GrepLaw interview, Downhill
Battle's Nicholas Reville describes the success (and takedown) of SP2Torrent.com,
alternative ways to buy music, what indie musicians think about filesharing,
and real ways to counter threats to creativity and an open culture. Those excited
about the possibilities of Bittorrent
will especially appreciate Downhill Battle's Blog
Torrent, an easy-to-install program that will dramatically simplify the
creation, posting, and seeding of new torrents."
It looks like someone's conducting experiments to see how gullible the mods are. Previous first posts and first post replies from today have had ACs posting things like "redundant" or "offtopic". Surprisingly, it seems that only about 50% of the mods are that gullible. It somewhat amusing to watch a post go through a moderation tug-of-war.
That being said, this AC is a jerk and deserves to have his posts modded into oblivion before other mods see them.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Watch out, the PartyCat link is bogus.
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
Bastard still got me, thank god there were few people in the office. Thanks for the heads up, wish I would've caught it sooner ;)
I have discovered a truly remarkable sig which this margin is too small to contain.
Tuvai, you're a complete asshat
Cogeco A smaller Canadian Highspeed cable company is passing on letters for Kazaa use and get this Bittorrent, Direct connect, Donkey(emule). Once thought to be impossible now being threatened. I Have recieved one and numourus otheres I know have also got emails.(email posted DSLreports) I thought canada was protected from being taken advantage of from big companies like MGM They should have no authority to do anything here in Canada. yet Cogeco is passing these letters on and threatening possible actions.
Can they do this in canada? I thought like kazaa they had to download the entire file from you before they could sumit a request are they randomly targeting users cause last time I checked I would have to leave my bittorrent on and running for a long while before I gave someone 100%.
Cogeco maybe falling into a legal trap by reponding to such letters by possibly helping grow the fear of a lawsuit. They fear actions(weather or not the companies have a right or not in canda) and put the stress on the user. Has any thing happened beyond the letter? Rogers users and sympatico users don't seem to be effected. is this a way to go after the little guy first or is the big wigs like rogers and sympatico just ignoring the requests does anyone out there know? Anyone else recieve a threat letter?
I had moderated the post "informative" without checking the link. I replied both to warn people and also to cancel the moderation.
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)