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HBO Attacking BitTorrent
DIY News writes "HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. HBO runs peers that tell the tracker they have all the chunks of the show, but then send garbage data when a downloader requests a chunk. While the bogus peers can be detected, it will take much longer to download shows."
Rome is actively poisoning my HBO. What a craptacular waste of programming.
Its raining men!
Abusus non tollit usum. /There I said it!
rome wasn't built in a few shows
"Lead my skeptic sight."
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Rome wasn't downloaded in a day either, I guess.
Good things take time, so I guess Bit Torrent users will just have to wait a little longer for legitimate video files to become available if they desperately want to see this show.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
So the whole idea that this will significantly increase download times is complete BullShit!
No dude, that's on showtime
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I think HBO uses level3. Since I have cogent I should be ok, right?
As long as they don't do it to Deadwood, I don't care.
our written thoughts are gifts to our future selves
so..what you are saying is...
in Russia...you own the Torrents?
ah hmm....oki dokie
"If you don't have money to purchase something, do without."
'Why?', asks the situational ethicist.
According to me, 2.4k of 359,196k is 6 ppm (or about 0.000006%), and as a result, is far less than is allowed by fair use (10%, depending on context). As this is the case, I feel fully justified in offering the following statement as payment for the half a frame which was downloaded:
Fuck off, you tit.
Thanks and regards,
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, however, there is.
"Oh wait, do HBO do The West Wing?"
Thanks, but we got "What a bunch of assholes" the first time around; no need for redundancy.
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
"Veni, Vidi, Vici"...roughly translated into modern English reads:
"I came, I saw, I 0wned your BitTorrent tracker"
Of course, after watching a few episodes Rome, I've learned that in Ancient Rome they actually spoke English anyway. Who started this Latin rumor?
The fact that someone compared DLing a TV-show with free cheese-samples, in a somewhat (but definitely not entirely) valid way, doesn't mean you should continue to use it.
First off. Media: digitizable, zero-cost reproducable, non tangeable goods. Cheese: actual, physical, unreproducable goods. Now copying something that inherently reproducable costs noone nothing. Stealing physical goods will result in expenses for the producer or store.
Please stop equating these to fundamental different things. Foe.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
The IP address near the bottom has been redacted with Xs.
How can you be so sure, Mr. Smartguy? Maybe he just listed his address with roman numerals (he was downloading Rome, after all). His address was really 010.010.010.010. Think about it...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
Sigged!
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
Distributation? Is that like sendifying a show so other people can watchitate it?