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BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade
MrSeb writes "In a twist that will surprise no one except the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, and other anti-piracy lobbies, the amount of BitTorrent traffic has stayed the same or increased in Europe following the blockade of The Pirate Bay in the UK, Netherlands, and other countries. This news comes from XS4All, one of the largest European ISPs, which has published a graph of the network traffic associated with the BitTorrent protocol — and sure enough, since the Dutch Pirate Bay blockade began in February 2012, traffic has stayed the same or increased slightly. There are probably a few reasons for this: a) The European blockades created a lot of publicity (and no publicity is bad publicity); b) TPB isn't the only torrent site out there, and many of its torrents are available elsewhere; and c) Internet denizens are a lot more savvy (proxies, VPNs, etc.) than the MPAA and co give them credit for."
Do you have a link for that torrent, it sounds amazing
Yup, grinning at cute girls will really make that BitTorrent traffic spike, let me tell you. This one time I managed to max out my download cap, just from a few gigs of porn, and I'm pretty sure they don't count it if it turns out the chick's a fuggnaut. And since we're just spouting random offtopic anecdotes, yesterday I went past this bakery and they had these donuts - let me tell you they smelled amazing - I smiled at them. Should have bought one. Amazing.
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Girls on a computer screen are so much better: they'll never start bitching over something ridiculous, they don't smell sweaty, they don't spend your money, they're accessible whenever you want them but they also won't ever bother you when you don't want to. This "summer" and "outside" thing really sounds very much an inferior experience.
Said by a girl with an username 'gaygirlie'.
I don't see the problem.
Pfft, this is summer.
Real Englishmen like me are stood outside right now having a BBQ in my shorts and t-shirt.
Sure it may be raining, sure we may even be currently having a months worth of rain in a day here quite literally.
But it's 18C out for crying out loud, that makes it summer in England, it's fucking BBQ weather. It's not that we don't get summer, it's just that they're rather wet.
Get your wellies on and get the barbie out because there's only one other type of weather we get in the UK than this not-quite-cold and rainy weather, and that's cold and rainy weather, so enjoy the not-quite-cold and rainy weather whilst it lasts!
But I bittorrent via satellite uplink from my commandeered oil tanker, you insensitive clod!
Don't be silly, we do have summer in England. Remember that hot and sunny day in May?
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
You're obviously new to this "girl" thing. Two significant points stand out:
- Girls who are currently in their wellies and wet will soon be wrapped up in a towel. This goes for your girlfriend, her sister, and their friends who also went to the wash-out music festival, but are staying at your house. Yes, this is awesome, but commenting on it is not nearly as funny as I^Hyou think it is.
- Inside is where all of the most fun stuff you can do with girls happens.
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bittorrent != 'piracy' [sic] ...but that's difficult to explain to some people.
How about this equation:
bittorrent ~= piracy
I don't understand why content providers are so hostile towards the idea of free crowd-sourced backups of their data? Beware, Do-Gooders, no good deed goes unpunished!
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