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The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari are actively blocking direct access to The Pirate Bay. Kickass Torrents suffered such a similar incident last month, because of the intermediary confirmation screen that appeared every time users navigated away from the site.
The reason why these three browsers block access to The Pirate Bay is unknown, but it could be related to a malvertising campaign that has plagued the site for more than two weeks. Two weeks ago, the malvertising campaign intensified right when season six of Game of Thrones premiered.
Meanwhile, HBO is contacting sites asking them to remove Game of Thrones torrents, and sending thousands of copyright infringement warnings to ISPs, urging them to remind pirates that they can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO.
The reason why these three browsers block access to The Pirate Bay is unknown, but it could be related to a malvertising campaign that has plagued the site for more than two weeks. Two weeks ago, the malvertising campaign intensified right when season six of Game of Thrones premiered.
Meanwhile, HBO is contacting sites asking them to remove Game of Thrones torrents, and sending thousands of copyright infringement warnings to ISPs, urging them to remind pirates that they can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO.
They can be pretty nasty. Since it's illegal, they don't mind using illegal means to try to make money, such as compromising your computer and installing malware.
Be careful, folks. :)
I just tried it and I didn't receive any message.
I subscribe to HBO. I own a TiVo. But HBO forces TiVo to prevent copying of HBO content off the TiVo and onto, say, a mobile device (note that this is not a problem with most TiVo content). Thus, if I want to watch an HBO show on the subway, I have no choice but to download it illegally.
Still opened for me. On firefox.
Reminder that Netflix recently banned proxy services, meaning non-US subscribers can no longer watch the latest US TV shows legally. This has lead to a massive uptick in torrent seeds and what we are seeing is the new corporate Internet act in unison accordingly.
These companies, yes companies are in control of the internet, both and network and client level. They do not have your interests at heart.
I see these warnings from time to time... maybe they just messed up their SSL config.
Ah, arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari
You make it sound like non-torrent sites aren't nasty.
(latest) Firefox and Chrome, OSX
Currently, users accessing The Pirate Bay through Chrome will see the error "Deceptive site ahead," the ones accessing the portal through Firefox will see "Reported Web Forgery!," and Safari users will see "Suspected Phishing Site" in their browsers.
-->> Users are allowed to skip these errors and continue at their own expense. Screenshots are embedded below for reference.
(emphasis mine)
So people aren't actually being blocked, they're just being given a warning which they can ignore.
Good work Slashdot. Another shitty article with a title that's flat out wrong.
https://thepiratebay.se/ opened flawlessly as of this post.
then about 95% of corporate websites would also be blocked.
Just browsed TPB using Firefox, 20 min. after the OP. Nothing to see here.
Worked perfectly fine for me 10 minutes ago.
Uh.. I mean.. In theory.
Safari/MacOSX, connects just fine
I don't want to subscribe to HBO. I want to subscribe the Game of Thrones. Not the rest of your crap.
"Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making it easy for users to acquire media codecs during the initial installation of the operating system. "OEM installation disks and NoCodec images will no longer be released. Instead, similar to other distributions, images will ship without codecs and will support both traditional and OEM installations. This will reduce our release cycle to 4 separate events and the production and testing of 12 ISO images. Multimedia codecs can be installed easily: From the welcome screen, by clicking on "Multimedia Codecs", or from the main menu, by clicking on "Menu"->"Sound and Video"->"Install Multimedia Codecs", or during the installation process, by clicking a checkbox option." Additional information on the upcoming release of Linux Mint 18 can be found in the project's monthly newsletter.[1]"
# distrowatch[dot com]/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=401
[1] blog.linuxmint[dot com]/?p=3026
It looks like the free ride is over for most people. Thankfully I won't be one of the unlucky ones who has to download non-free codecs via clearnet. I mean shit, the codecs included in the ISO releases were one of, if not THE distro's go-to reasons. It was all right there on the LiveCD.
This huge change comes after the alleged compromise of their server(s). I wonder if there's more to the story, were they talked into codec removal? Bought into it?
Shit, I even read The Tor Project was allegedly provided funding/donation to include the Disconnect.me search engine, and you can check their hosting location(s) and privacy policies!
Now that there won't be any codecs baked into their ISOs, there is no pressing reason for me to continue downloading their ISOs. Sure, I could always download the codecs later and probably via Tor, but I could do the same with other distros.
Thank you Linux Mint, but bye bye.
Bye bye.
This is due to the "SafeBrowsing" feature in Firefox.
i.e. Firefox contacts and checks the status of a website with Google, and if Google has it listed as malware/phishing, Firefox displays this warning.
It's easy to switch of the safebrowsing feature by simply going to:
about:config
and search for "browser.safebrowsing.enabled"
and switch to "false".
By the way, this is also the reason why there's always a Google tracking cookie present in FF/Chrome.
I don't go the TPB, but if a product is actively blocking me from going where I want, the it's time to switch products.
The Brave browser is looking better every day.
Also confirming that it either does or does not work. I didn't bother to try it.
Hope this helps.
You're basically describing everything and everybody. Everything's illegal, everyone still don't minds making money.
I use Chrome, Chromium, and occasionally Firefox (if I am forced to). I have no problems getting to TPB.
As is normal here, some person has a connectivity problem and jumps to a conclusion - OMG I'm being blocked!
Well, I'm not being blocked.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Felderal law says you're wrong.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506
And
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319
I gotta love the "what I do is not illegal!!!" downloaders who can't be bothered to actually check the laws before giving bad, bad, rationalizations for their behavior.
I think you mean the Tor Browser (Bundle).
The company HBO hired is incompetent:
"The purpose of this warning is to inform you that CenturyLink has received multiple ... ...
notices of copyright infringement sent pursuant to the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act ("DMCA") in connection with your account.
We have information leading us to believe that the IP address N.N.N.N was used to download or share Game of Thrones without authorization (additional details are listed below).
Respectfully,
Adrian Leatherland
CEO
IP-Echelon"
I guess if you in the "free" US you're fucked.
Have fun. I'll be enjoying my pirate bay.
Brave is developed by feminist extremists and plans to force feed you ads of its choosing. No thanks.
Game of Thrones has become such a boring cliche! Making money from the same old song, over and over again! I hope HBO crashes in default.
I'm using Safari 9.0 on a MacBook and I can reach the Pirate Bay just fine. I just checked.
I gotta love how you people think the whole world must abide by your USA laws.
Or, you know, you could just disable Safe Search and stop being a big ol' crybaby about it.
You just provided links proving yourself wrong, good job dumbass.
(1)In general.—Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed—
(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180–day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.
So as long as its for personal use, valued at less than $1000, and is currently available to the general public, its not criminal.
I don't want to subscribe to HBO. I want to subscribe the Game of Thrones.
You can do that by buying each season's DVD or BD set as it comes out.
Just imagine all the people trying to connect to TPB in order to find out whether its really censored.
They send tons of emails to us. We contact them to pay to be their process server and they hang up the phone. Piracy is when someone makes copies and sells them. So far no bottom dwelling copyright spammer has agreed to pay for us to deliver their letter. We have never received a single subpoena. They think we have to do it for free here in the land of the fee. Even if one finally did buck up and pay for us to deliver them they would still be handled as a civil suit. Feel free to shill away how wrong I am but I have real world knowledge about how cheap these bottom feeders are.
Your post reminds me of the "pirated games are always virii" BS. And FYI, torrent sites aren't illegal...unless you live in some totalitarian shit hole.
Om, nomnomnom...
This link would be more helpful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Electronic_Theft_Act
I'll concede I was unaware of this nuance because I am unaware of ANY instance of the Fed's every wasting resources on enforcing this law. The rule of thumb on "carders" forums is the Secret Service doesn't give a shit about crimes below $10,000 so I would imagine this specific law goes virtually unenforced.
The onus would still fall on the prosecution to show that the downloading exceeded $1,000 in a 180 day period which is a difficult standard to prove unless you're talking a massive discography/movie collection. Individual torrents are almost universally $1,000 in retail value so it starts falling under the same sort of unenforced laws like "illegal to tie a horse to a parking meter on a wednesday".
That said: since I was being pedantic and my correction was less correct than the parent poster in light of this information: I'll retreat with my tail between my legs. Thank you for the education.
To be honest, the last time I watched ANY of the series was when my cable company had a free preview weekend. That was probably a season or two ago, and I've not bothered to check up since then.
Why? Well, the last bit I watched, I can consider that I enjoyed it, I guess, but it was ultimately unsatisfying for one reason. GRRM has NOT finished the series. GRRM's A Dance with Dragons came out in 2011. Six years after the previous good. Which was five years after the one before it, and really unsatisfying.
So if anything, I am tempted to encourage people NOT to watch the series until GRRM finishes the series. I am not his bitch. I am not HBO's bitch. I don't have to feel any obligation to watch their product, and I'm almost tempted not to read the next book, if he should ever publish it.
I'm beginning to get doubtful.
Anyway, next time, complete the property before you start a series, thanks!
The warnings include a message trying to sell HBO subscriptions. It reads like a friendly advertisement, which is weird because the rest of the message sounds menacing and designed to intimidate. I'm sure someone is laughing about how ISPs are legally obligated to deliver targeted ad messages completely of HBO's choice to a very specific demographic, a list of consumers they harvested by posing as ordinary torrent peers in order to collect data on others. Shame.
1+ It has been flagged in the "Safe Browsing" platform, anyone can disable it in the browser. I always made a note to disable it back when I used Firefox and now that I use Chrome have it disabled in Chrome. Never liked a 3rd party service deciding what is or isn't safe for me to view. It has always had a large number of false positives. This isn't news.
Which, as USians, many /. readers do. And even if they don't, the LEOs from said totalitarian shit hole are forcing their corporate masters' will on other countries, so the rest of us get to "benefit" from said shit hole's demands. (See what was done to TPB and what they're attempting to do to much of the world with TPP, TTIP and TISA.)
It's only offered via Foxtel here, exclusively. I tried to sign up to watch it legally because my new years (really February 2016 on) resolution was to move legit. I'm in a place in life where I can very easily afford it.
Now, I don't own a television and haven't for years because of my eyesight. I have plenty of 'net connected devices so I stream. Netflix is good, iView is good. Navigating the foxtel site is an exercise in insanity. It's laid out worse than a cell provider site, where you don't actually buy what you want, but you subscribe to bundles that don't adequately explain just what's in them. I just want Game of Thrones, I couldn't give a toss about sports, news, or any other shows.
I phoned instead, hoping to let someone else do the work. I want streaming service, there's no use sending me a set top box, I'm not going to use it because my eyesight makes one useless. A tablet is *perfect* and that's all the access I need. I'm informed that can be done and done easily. I want a particular show (Game of Thrones), but the rep on the other end could only sell me via channels and would not verify that I was getting GoT but only I was getting a channel. He stuck to the script of referring to *channels* I had, not shows. I committed in the hope he knew what the fuck he was talking about.
Two weeks later I have a set top box that I'm informed needs to be installed, and won't just connect. I have no install booked and nobody at foxtel will give me information on what is required to make that happen. I still have no access to simple goddamn streaming content. I have a pending charge on my card for more than I was quoted. I still have not been able to legally watch GoT.
Last night I gave up, turned to TPB and was watching within minutes. Compare 13 and a half days to four minutes. In 0.02% of the time TPB delivered where Foxtel could not.
That customer service gets not just compromised but entirely *lost* in the background of deals, licensing and package bundling behind the scenes is no surprise. Australians have an appetite for content. We are by and large cashed up and ready to pay.
We are being forced to jump through infuriating hoops just for the privilege of paying, and even after time wasted and billing fuckups I still have not been allowed legal access to GoT. The time I have spent trying to rectify my issues with Foxtel would have earned me more than the cost of the service for an entire year, even with the wrong charges added on my account.
Why would anyone sane pay?
ONLY way you can get it in Aus is via Foxtel, who is offering a "super special deal, not to be extended" of $30/month.
Kinda like The Strain. I CAN'T legally buy it in Aus, but I CAN watch it on free to air TV, the episodes from 2 years ago..
Distributors are idiots.
Am I missing something? Also, this is the first time in years that I'm reading thepiratebay.se, and the last time I was reading the page with their funny responses to takedown requests. That was long before Sweden bowed to the "intellectual property" lawyers and the US government and started persecuting TPB for what was a quite legal activity.
I've always wanted to invoice them for carrying out the work they are requesting in their notices. Of course, they won't pay and when I have enough unpaid invoices, I'd sell the debt to one of those shady collection agencies. Then sit back and grab the popcorn.
It's my slashdot and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to,cry if I want to, you would cry too if extremists hacked you!
We're all living in America
The problem I have with Firefox's warning ("Reported Web Forgery!") is that the first thing I though was that TPB had been hacked, or their domain stolen/changed, and a forgery was on their place, like what happened with eztv.
I wasn't sure if they were claiming that the legit TPB was a forgery, or if I was trying to access a forgery of TPB.
The books spoil most of the plot points anyway.
(Why do beloved fantasy authors have middle initials "R. R."?)
Or just use your own compiled chrome. Or even better, some other browser like: opera, pale moon, vivaldi....
My chrome instance doesn't do anything with TPB, just goes to the main page. I wonder if this is a windows thing?
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
HBO requires users to subscribe on an Android, iPhone, Amazon Fire(!), or Roku. Until they let me sign up on a PC like everything else, screw 'em.
typed in thepiratebay.org in firefox 46.0.1 and didn't get any warning. same with Safari.
is this blocking only happening when you click on a link?
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Tell me how Netflix is nasty?
Well, your always free to include the codecs yourself and then release your own livecd distro...
No. It has no issues in Windows. I think the article is fake.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
It is an important part of a vast AI surveillance apparatus that seeks to predict your behavior. The ethical consequences of this are both unknowable, and of no concern to the people who will come to possess and control this data.
Not in my locale. HBO, AMC, FOX, whatever, I can never use their sites because they don't allow me to watch any of their content (at all) based on my locale (Aus).
Hell, even if they offered a more expensive package than the US, with less shows, and terrible buffer times, that would still be tolerable (and justifiable in sending said ISP messages).
I'll stick to Netflix and the odd torrent, thanks.
It really isn't blocked at least for me.
And they were actually blocked for a good reason; to prevent drive-by ransomware infection.
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
If they are being assholes about surfing the sites WE want to surf then I'll switch to Midori browser and use that instead... It's bad enough ISP's are blocking sites they deem illegal.
It's not the job or the responsibility of the browser to block a site from me. Warning me, is one thing. Preventing me from reaching a site is censorship and I cannot support that. Not from anyone, for any reason.
I can personally confirm that pirated games are sometimes malware. I got Bioshock Infinite off of usenet - some sneaky releaser had altered it to add a background bitcoin miner.
The whole world MUST abide by US laws or face consequences. It's working very well. Soon enough the whole world WILL abide by US laws and your "democratically elected" governments will submit to US authority willingly. Get over it.
That's not the point. *WOOSH!*
Naw, man, the ethical consequences are awesome. I don't have to decide what to watch anymore, the TV does that for me.
- In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
If I could subscribe to HBO I probably would, but they do not offer their service to me in the country I live in unless I also get a TV subscription.
Just let me subscribe and watch content like Netflix lets me.
Meanwhile, HBO is contacting sites asking them to remove Game of Thrones torrents, and sending thousands of copyright infringement warnings to ISPs, urging them to remind pirates that they can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO.
Erhm, I think ca 93% of the world cannot subscribe to HBO, due to HBO not making themselves available.
I just checked in Chrome.
Maybe some of you people just can't operate a browser.
not in my firefox. I'm using ubuntu and they are working fine...
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1) Disable Google Phishing protection. Because it sends urls to google and because it updates the blocklist using a tracking cookie (google wrkey)
2) Install Adblock and Noscript
Then enjoy TPB
It uses tracking technology.
and DRM. But that's what you bought when you registered, the tracking is not.
It is an issue with the "Safe Browsing" platform. It has always had a bunch of false positives. In Chrome settings there is a option "Protect you and your devices from dangerous sites" if you don't have that enabled then you wouldn't be affected.
Same with thepiratebay.se
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
A lot of countries do cooperate with US authorities because (1) treaties (2) because they are getting foreign aid from the US and if they don't cooperate they could be putting that aid at risk (3) they have other US stakes they don't want to put in jeopardy.
Check out http://beta.foreignassistance.gov/explore to see just how many countries take foreign aid from the US.
That was a common thing back when I last looked at pirated software. Interestingly enough one of those games was Bioshock Infinite. In my case I found the miner due it being poorly written so that it wouldn't run on the ATI 4670 I was using at the time. Once I knew to look for it there was no problem in finding and removing the bitcoin miner and verifying the game worked. Though I never ended up playing the game until after I later picked up a legit copy of the game.
I thought I'd add that I just learned that the fee version of anti virus installs Alphabet's uh Google's "Chrome" internet browser without your permission.
Chrome can apparently be uninstalled aftewards though, but i didn't like it even having been installed.
I don't trust Alphabet/Google.
"urging them to remind pirates that they can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO"
Not if you're in Australia - HBO is geoblocked thanks to the exclusive deal with the incumbent cable TV provider, Foxtel. I can't get Foxtel - it's not available in my apartment building of 77 units in central Sydney - Foxtel only serves 30% of Australia, yet has 100% distribution rights.
Foxtel Play or whatever the fuck they call it has it streaming at 480p for $30AUD a month which has issues making it unwatchable. Source: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/i-refuse-to-feel-guilty-for-downloading-game-of-thrones/
FUCK YOU, FOXTEL, AND FUCK YOU, HBO - I'm torrenting the crap out of this because you gave me no choice.
WHAT?! Ads of its choosing? Who would serve ads that they choose? THIS IS A NIGHTMARE! /s
My tv subscription do broadcast GoT, although a few hours later because of subtitles, since I don't have the need for those I still download them from those torrent sites, and HBO still gets the very same cut, and payed well in advance by my tv provider. So I am pretty much guilty free, and has a service that extends the usefulness of GoT without them having to pay one extra cent.
Chrome and Firefox work fine for me to https://thepiratebay.se/
Posting from Australia (with a VPN)! :-)
Torrent sites aren't illegal, and copyright infringement isn't illegal (at least in the U.S). They are civil violations which are handled by the civil court system, the police can't arrest you for copying digital content nor distributing it for free dispite what misinformation campaigns would have you believe.
Further, a lot of fringe sites suffer malvertisement issues due to the low quality ad services they are forced to use (ads pay for hosting) as more reputable services drop these sites out of fear of costly legal action.
Blame litigious media conglomerates for the malware...
Mine did give me a warning yesterday. It's probable that the rule was quickly retracted.
Note that it wasn't a malware warning - it was a "DECEPTIVE SITE" warning, the ruleset against fake download buttons. Possibly targeting the "Anonymous download!" deceptive ads under magnet links.
It may be in line with Google's recently proclaimed war on fake download buttons.
Initial claim:
> Downloading torrents isn't a crime
I point to the federal laws that define it as a crime under various conditions, you quote them, and *I'm* the one who got it wrong?
Go back to reading "Atlas Shrugged" for your fiscal planning.
It uses Microsoft Silverlight, DRM and tracking.
Because the sneaky releaser screwed up: He wrote it to use an OpenCL DLL file that was not present on my system, so I started getting an error popup.
If they'd done a better job it might have taken me a bit longer to wonder why my GPU fan was running all the time.
Error message about a missing DLL for OpenCL? Likewise.
The error comes on and off. Which is some weird behavior on part of Google. Either show it or don't. It's been like this fr the past 2 days.
Sometimes yes. But not anymore then that. The reality is you're more likely going to pick up malware, virii or a trojan from going to CNN or NBC News then you will going to a torrent site. Especially since the people who pump out that malware know that even if the ad is pulled quickly, they've likely infected tens of thousands of machines in minutes.
Om, nomnomnom...
I'm calling bullshit on this story.
How sad - Google and Firefox are in cahoots with the agents of society
On the blocked page warning - follow to details
On the page it will say something like - take me to the site (Pirate Bay) anyways
Voila
Secondly - you can add the page - Pirate Bay and remove it from the "restricted site list"
http://bit.ly/1OiS43H
For Firefox- Launch Firefox, click the "Tools" menu and select "Add-ons" to go to the Add-ons Manager page. Click the "Extensions" link on the left side to display BlockSite in the window, then click the "Preferences" button. Select a website in the Blacklist text box and click the "Remove" button to unblock it.
http://mzl.la/274QiyY
ISIS is cutting people's heads off and this is what these politically correct people are concerned about ???
Talk about yourself and your kangaroo courts, free countries don't consider information illegal.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The problem is more one of inconvenience, because it throws up the same warning page not just entering the site, but also for every link you click on the site as well.
If anything, it's encouraging unsafe behavior, because most users will be so put off by this annoying behavior that they'll just disable the feature entirely.
I just tried (btw, I always DO turn off js when hitting any strange sites).
my FF works just fine with the site in question.
then again, I avoided upgrading FF for over 2yrs or so. any updates don't affect me anymore.
btw, thanks for the heads up about GOT. just GOT what everyone wanted; streisand can be very helpful ;) ;)
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
It forces chrome on you only if you click next, next, next like a good windows user you are.
Thanks for the info !
It's called "Safe Browsing", and browsers have come with the feature for close to a decade. Turn it off.
I bet Brave has it too.
Like I said in the firehose... No problem opening or using TPB on Chrome. I have Scriptblock and Ublock installed though.
Has been flagged as possible bullshit. Please press fuck it to continue reading or back to return to reality.
I subscribe to HBO. I own a TiVo. But HBO forces TiVo to prevent copying of HBO content off the TiVo and onto, say, a mobile device (note that this is not a problem with most TiVo content). Thus, if I want to watch an HBO show on the subway, I have no choice but to download it illegally.
"...pirates...can stream HBO content legally after purchasing a subscription to HBO."
I've been dying to give HBO my money. I have no desire to watch shows on anything but my TV but, while the price is right, torrenting is a bit of a hassle. They, (or someone), promised to have an HBO Now app for PS4 by April of 2016. April has come and gone, with no word on it. I'm not going to buy another TV box, like Apple TV, just to use it for HBO Now, (and I'm sure as hell not going to get cable TV just to use HBO Go). The PS4 already does all of that, plus lets me play GTA. One box to rule them all, I say.
Look, it's not a big hassle to torrent G of T, but I'd rather not have to do that for topical shows, such as John Oliver's.
-- sudon't
Air-ride Equipped
I have Scriptblock and Ublock installed though.
Might be that the actual black-listed element is a malware-serving ad server.
Both you and I will never see it (thanks to Ublock),
the other poster happens not to have received this specific ad so no warning sign,
whereas TFA's Author happen to be served an ad from this black-listed server at the specific moment they took the screen shot for TFA, hence the warning box.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Felder is an asshole, and you know it.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
0sec FTP 4 lyfe
Seems to be pretty poor at predicting my behavior, given the terrible suggestions it makes.
Or just click "continue to site" at the warning page.
And if you don't like it, remember: Because NUKES, that's why!
Something over three hundred million people have to abide by USA laws, and they're overrepresented on the Internet. Saying that torrenting copyrighted material without permission is not a crime, without allowing for jurisdictions where it is, is either ignorance or falsehood.
Not that I approve of the US definition of criminal copyright infringement here, but it is the law for a large number of people on /.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Wrong. There's a lot of law on civil matters, and "illegal" doesn't mean just "criminal". In the case of copyright infringement, last I looked torrenting copyrighted material without permission was a criminal matter in the US.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Do you have an actual example of a free country by your definition? Pretty much every country has copyright laws, although not necessarily as restrictive as those of the US.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Let's have a citation please, it's a civil issue.
Cheap storage VM.
SeaMonkey FTW! I hate all those browsers anyhow.
The easiest to find is the Wikipedia article. This says:
On rereading, it isn't obvious that (C) applies to torrenting, but many torrenters will fall in the $1K category.
This isn't the law as I think it should be, but as it is.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I'll second that one.