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Torrent Website ExtraTorrent Under DDoS Attacks; Pirate Bay Also Down (torrentfreak.com)
It's getting harder for people who don't like paying for movies, music, and applications. Popular torrent website ExtraTorrent is suffering an outage Tuesday, the site confirmed. The site says it is on the receiving end of DDoS attacks, observing 40 to 50 million requests coming from the United States every hour. The site told TorrentFreak that it has been facing "tons of cyberattacks" over the past three days. The Pirate Bay is also down for many users. Users who try to access the site get a CloudFlare downtime warning, or a new Captcha error.
I sure hope our government catches and punishes the criminals who took the law in their own hands and started these DDOS attacks.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I sure hope our criminals catch and punish the government who took the law in their own hands and started these DDOS attacks.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
You don't need reasons to feel entitled to something. On top of that doing something against the rules if you can get away with it is basically standard business practice for most big organisations, why are common citizens expected to behave differently?
because they can actually be held responsible.
Lesser known.
My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Uh oh, someone told the truth. Around here we're supposed to pretend that it's something else, other than being cheap.
I can't speak for eveyone, but I have adopted the see-first-pay-after-if-worth-it attitude.
I've paid enough for disappointing music and movies that I now want to see and hear it first before paying a dime. Them trying to hustle me with a spectacular preview and delivering nothing more is not going to work anymore.
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What's that? These people are doing the opposite, unlawfully downloading the few songs that the major labels released this week, while ignoring the 53 million songs they can legally get for free, the ones that aren't produced by the major labels? I wonder why they insist on getting the major label music and ignore the vast majority of music, which isn't produced by major labels. I guess they actually DO really want something that the major labels offer, they're just crooks who decide to take it illegally rather than spend the $1 to buy it on itunes or Amazon or whatever.
Or, maybe they want DRM-free recordings in the quality/format that *they* choose and which can't be "disappeared" from their "library" at the whim of some corporation, or maybe want copies of music no longer offered by the labels/studios.
Cheap is nice, but there are other reasons equally valuable to many listeners. The old business model died when general purpose computers and the internet became ubiquitous. The MPAA/RIAA/labels/studios are the present-day equivalent of buggy-whip makers desperately trying to fight progress and preserve the old paradigm instead of taking advantage of the opportunities new technology and new methods of distribution offer.
It would not surprise me in the least to learn that the major labels/studios and/or the US government are the ones responsible for the DDoS attacks...actions which, if performed by an individual, would be prosecuted as criminal acts. But then, it's become almost a daily routine that the government is discovered to have broken the laws we must obey. 'Law for thee but not for me' seems to be the normal attitude and policy with the US government. Another good reason to keep government size, scope, and powers to the minimum needed to prevent chaos and lawlessness. When it comes to governments, with great size and power comes great corruption.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
> It's getting harder for people who don't like paying for movies, music, and applications
Uh oh, someone told the truth. Around here we're supposed to pretend that it's something else, other than being cheap.
It's funny that it's a product when it's convenient and a licence when it's not. Not to mention that if the package is opened then you can't return it if it's defective. And a final note, why are not all titles available. Isn't that the point of copyright so they will be published.
Yeah I know who is cheap and it's not the pirates.
So your excuse is nearly a decade out of date.
No, the excuse is still valid. iTunes still deletes stuff off your HD on corporations whims. https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/05/05/159219/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously
I don't. If they started the shareware model before all the downloading started, it might have worked. Now, I just don't even care to watch their movies even if it's offered for free. Even if they hand delivered it to me for free to watch, I still wouldn't watch it. They've pretty much destroyed my taste in all the movies they've been pumping out, most of it has been absolute crap. When you want me to pay $20 per a movie ticket to determine if a movie is crap, when the chances are very high that the movie is going to be crap, well, no thanks.