EZTree Shuts Down

John3 writes "Easytree.org, a popular Bittorrent tracking site also known as EZT, shut down today after their ISP received threatening letters from attorneys. Unlike sites like Lokitorrent that have been shut down in the past, torrents on EasyTree were usually unreleased live musical performances rather than commercial product. Is a site that shares old Stevie Nicks, Frank Sinatra, and Ian Hunter live shows really that much of a threat to the music industry?"

Comments

First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

DipSet bitch, Dipset Bitch!

I for one...

[Anonymous Coward]

welcome our new litigious music industry overlords!

Re:Yes

[ChuckSchwab]

That's a load of garbage. Nobody owns information. Information is just a combination of ones and zeroes. Are you saying I don't have the right to order the ones and zeroes on my computer however I want? I own this computer. Information just floats around. When informed of it, I order the ones and zeroes on my computer differently. What moral crime have I committed? Who really owns my computer? I own my computer. No one owns information.

Reality says "hi, long time no see"

[theantix]

It doesn't matter one iota if you think you've committed a moral crime or not, the government has laws and you're breaking them. Case closed, dude.

Re:Reality says "hi, long time no see"

[SenatorOrrinHatch]

That's what I told my second favorite house negro just the other day when he contemplated moving to one of the Yankee states. Fortunately he saw the light and agreed that it would be foolish and wrong to break the laws so thoughfully and selflessly enacted by the infallible geniuses who wholeheartedly represent the greater good of the people.

Then I gave him a good whuppin' and screwed his wife. Praise be to the righteous law of man and our noble lawgivers!

Re:Of course they're no threat

[SlothB77]

I'm sure you said that Napster is not a threat, or the multitudes of other music stealing sites. But look what that started. Grokster. Bittorrent. Folks, this is stealing. I know in your moral relativistic circles at berkeley or san francisco or the 9th district court this doesn't register. I mean my own homemade video, someone else's copyrighted work - if its on my computer its hard to tell the difference! whether you want to download it is irrelevant - it isn't yours!

Re:A site like this is fine...

[ChuckSchwab]

Oh, wow, go you. That must have really taken some balls to get your Slashdot mod buddies to mod down a post you disagreed with. *jerkoff motion*

It Was Never About "Being a Threat"

[Master of Transhuman]

It's about CONTROL.

It's about the standard primate human attitude:
Not only must I succeed - YOU must fail!

To people like that (which is just about all you monkeys), everything and everybody is a "threat".

You deal with people like that by either putting bullets into both kneecaps, or, if they have more resources which would continue to make THEM a threat, straight into their heads.

There really are no other effective options.

Of course, now you have to deal with the same morons who are running your friendly local, state, federal and international governments.

For that, you need appropriate technology. Which WE should have in another two or three decades.

At which time your monkey-ass attitudes will be "adjusted" - one way or the other - permanently.