This is IH from isohunt.com. I've went through this same process with our lawsuit brought by the MPAA so I thought I'll share some of my thoughts on the issue.
As unreasonable as I think these lawsuits by Viacom/MPAA may be, in order for the legal process to work, plaintiffs are entitled to evidence in order to prove their case. However, user privacy should be a large concern in disclosing of data (logs) as evidence, and in neither Youtube's or our case, there's no reason for turning over data that would expose your personal identify (such as your IP address). From glancing the order against Youtube, the reason they were ordered to turn over user histories is to prove user infringements, and inclusion of IP's in such logs is to uniquely identify users who may have signed up multiple usernames/accounts. I call bullshit on that. If someone uses multiple usernames, he can as easily login with multiple IP addresses, disclosing IP's would not help the plaintiffs in proving copyright infringements. I expect Google/Youtube to appeal the order (at least I sure hope so).
As for us, we successfully argued in our MPAA case that we don't need to turn over your IP addresses as it is a violation of user privacy with no evidentiary value, and only turned over.torrent access logs in anonymized form. You may not like to hear that.torrent logs are being turned over, but the truth is we were ordered to do so and that the MPAA does need anonymous logs to prove their frivolous lawsuit.
With studies showing correlation of downloaders also buying CDs, and example set by Radiohead/Magnatune that patronage model of the arts can still mean good business. And with lawsuits against students and moms failing. A testament that not even megacorps can always buy/use laws against the people.
This is when Big Media have to start looking at the internet differently. The same way the studios did when they looked at Betamax/the VCR.
Except the video card, which you need Mac firmware and OS X drivers to run. I use both Windows and Mac and this is one thing I hate about Mac hardware compatibility.
If only they find to build in a standard video card interface that's makes it compatible with regular PC video cards and drivers..
The brand-new multithreaded AutoFS filesystem layer keeps track of which paths are actually located on remote AFP, SMB, or NFS fileservers even across symlinks and automatically mounts the appropriate server. The Finder and other applications neednt wait for one mount to complete before requesting another. Now you can specify automount paths for your entire organization using the same standard automounter maps (for example, NIS) supported by Linux or Solaris."
I can attest to very similar situations as a service provider. We've dealt with member corporations of the RIAA sending us blanket takedown notices containing links to porn, and I don't think they do porn. Not yet anyways.
So apparently Viacom, DreamWorks and Paramount are sending legal spam, without verifying what they are actually sending out, and Google is taking them without verification on their part either. I guess DMCA procedures aren't good enough - censor now, ask questions later.
And that's why the top searches on the right hand side of their main page are for new release movies and tv shows? C'mon, they can't claim ignorance here. This is exactly what brought down Napster.
The list is top search queries from users. A Zeitgeist. Like ones here.
iso means CD images. A play on generally very large files, which is what P2P systems like BitTorrent is designed for. I wrote isoHunt.com so here's my definition.
They get turned off in the US so they move to Canada how is that proving a point instead of moving to Sweden or some other country where it isn't sketchy. Is it that they just got a good offer from Canada or are they trying to jump ship from the states.
Wouldn't a bigger statment be to stay in the states cause that seems ot me what they are trying to do.
It just seems somewhat contradictory to move from the States to Canada and then say we won't move to Sweeden because its too easy?
Because:
I'm Canadian, so is most of our staff.
By referring to Sweden and Sealand, I thought it was clear which site I was referring to that I don't want to be perceived as a gang of. We do not support piracy nor are we ignorant of copyright laws (within reasons and Canadian laws are currently quite reasonable). I have nothing against Sweden, very nice place I heard and it got IKEA. =b
I call bullshit. I download all my Linux ISOs from Isohunt. They have more trackers, more peers, more seeders than any other source I've found.
Thank you.
isoHunt indexes any and all torrents, adds any metadata, caches them, and aggregates trackers for each torrent so you get more speed and availability than any single source. To the GP, you can call whatever you like with my intent but at least get this fact straight.
6) BTJunkie's "mail new torrents" feature is hardly unique. isoHunt has RSS feeds for every search result and category. RSS is also available from most of the other sites, although maybe not for every search result.
7) Torrentz.com's "search for files within torrents" is not unique either. isoHunt always searches within torrents. You should notice it from highlighted filenames in the torrents' details.
Disclaimer: I'm developer of isoHunt.com and want to point out what's missing in your review.
1) Your reliance on claimed index size is flawed. BTJunkie's size claim looks to be non-unique torrents. To put it in perspective, isoHunt's non-unique master index is 1.7+ million torrents, while the searcheable index is the 300k+ count published (active and unique torrents).
2) A better methodology on review search engines is to sample search results, and rank by the relevance and scope of the results. You will see the search results counts to be more inline than the claimed index sizes you used for your review.
3) FYI, isoHunt indexes 7/9 other sites you reviewed, including BTJunkie.
4) It would be nice to be more specific in how you rated site features. Also, speed and relevance of search should be important factors for ranking all the sites.
5) Shameless plug: if you are talking about site features, an important one you've missed is cross-referenced trackers in all our indexed torrents. So each torrent we index is augmented by multiple trackers that would be tracking it, so you get the maximum number of peers in your torrent download. No site in your review has this ability, other than Torrentz.com (but they don't cache the torrents so you don't get any benefit for the actual download, as you get the original torrents from original sites).
Wrong on "MySQL has better performance for web apps than PostGreSQL". MySQL is faster only if you are doing simple selects. Do more complex queries and mixing with a good dose of updates and MySQL locks up like spaghetti. You can use innodb to get around some query lockup issues but I don't think innodb is really faster than PostgreSQL.
This is IH from isoHunt.com. We also run TorrentBox.com. Some clarifications for comments here:
* Yes, this is MPAA's FUD. The lawsuit included.
* No, BitTorrent and P2P are not illegal (yet). They are not solely tools of thieves as the MPAA like to portray them as. There are many legal torrents in isoHunt's search index.
* No, I haven't got anything from MPAA about this lawsuit of theirs, but the press release is real and we are working with other sites, sued or yet to be sued, and the EFF on this.
* This is significant as they are suing search engines. isoHunt.com is a search engine. It does not discriminate, it index by algorithm. If we can, we'll be pulling in Google and Yahoo to say a few words that search engines are not illegal (yet).
* No, I'm not a crook. I see P2P as the new VCR, and I intend on proving that P2P can be used to the benefit of content creators, as a cheap and global vehicle for distribution and promotion.
As an analog of prodigem's automatic torrent creation, http://isohunt.com/ provides search feeds over RSS of most BitTorrent resources over the internet. So you can search for a TV show for example and be updated on the newest eps in the RSS feed.
Apple is a hardware company first and foremost. But they also have a part of them that makes straight up software like the apps you mentioned. OSX does not fall in the later.
OSX is made to sell the hardware. They make the other apps to make money and maintain viability.
Umm, heard of that Windows thing that made Billy Gates rich, and MS the monopoly that it is? Pro-apps are high price because of low volume. Something like a OS can be low price if it's high volume. Apple is selling both hardware and software. Selling high volume of software can only boost their bottomline. The trick is to boost software (OSX) sales without hurting hardware that it becomes counter-productive for Apple.
The fact that Apple has a tiny PC market in comparison to WinTel, even if more people using OSX on non-Apple hardware can only mean a potential customer of Apple hardware down the line, from the user experience of OSX (which I heard is great). It's all about the network effect, which worked for Windows' dominance.
I made a BT search engine before/. post news about it (see sig), and mine is not the only one. And just as others have said, there is no BitTorrent network, only swarms. Tit for tat works because that's what it is: the faster you upload (give) and faster you download (get).
That's because you, my webmaster friend, do not write your own web app and just use what's out there. I do too, I started with phpbb and wrote a search engine around it (http://isohunt.com/), and have realized how repetitive and tedious writing web application interfaces in raw PHP is.
Rails is hyped for a reason. I don't care about MVC or OOP, as long as it's a modular and transparent framework with clean interfaces. The sophistication of Ruby's language constructs and Rails' clean design seems to be a powerful combination.
This is only from what I've skimmed from Rails' docs (which are well written and complete), so don't take my word for it. Others who have first hand experience with Rails please chime in. I'm especially interested in real world performance (compared with PHP) of RoR. Ruby's lack of opcode cache concerns me regarding performance. Perhaps it doesn't matter with persistence in Fastcgi.
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This is IH from isohunt.com. I've went through this same process with our lawsuit brought by the MPAA so I thought I'll share some of my thoughts on the issue.
As unreasonable as I think these lawsuits by Viacom/MPAA may be, in order for the legal process to work, plaintiffs are entitled to evidence in order to prove their case. However, user privacy should be a large concern in disclosing of data (logs) as evidence, and in neither Youtube's or our case, there's no reason for turning over data that would expose your personal identify (such as your IP address). From glancing the order against Youtube, the reason they were ordered to turn over user histories is to prove user infringements, and inclusion of IP's in such logs is to uniquely identify users who may have signed up multiple usernames/accounts. I call bullshit on that. If someone uses multiple usernames, he can as easily login with multiple IP addresses, disclosing IP's would not help the plaintiffs in proving copyright infringements. I expect Google/Youtube to appeal the order (at least I sure hope so).
As for us, we successfully argued in our MPAA case that we don't need to turn over your IP addresses as it is a violation of user privacy with no evidentiary value, and only turned over .torrent access logs in anonymized form. You may not like to hear that .torrent logs are being turned over, but the truth is we were ordered to do so and that the MPAA does need anonymous logs to prove their frivolous lawsuit.
More at http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=134054
With studies showing correlation of downloaders also buying CDs, and example set by Radiohead/Magnatune that patronage model of the arts can still mean good business. And with lawsuits against students and moms failing. A testament that not even megacorps can always buy/use laws against the people.
This is when Big Media have to start looking at the internet differently. The same way the studios did when they looked at Betamax/the VCR.
Except the video card, which you need Mac firmware and OS X drivers to run. I use both Windows and Mac and this is one thing I hate about Mac hardware compatibility.
If only they find to build in a standard video card interface that's makes it compatible with regular PC video cards and drivers..
From http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html
"AutoFS.
The brand-new multithreaded AutoFS filesystem layer keeps track of which paths are actually located on remote AFP, SMB, or NFS fileservers even across symlinks and automatically mounts the appropriate server. The Finder and other applications neednt wait for one mount to complete before requesting another. Now you can specify automount paths for your entire organization using the same standard automounter maps (for example, NIS) supported by Linux or Solaris."
that will eat your rice?
Or:
u +7.04
http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=ubuntu+OR+kubunt
I can attest to very similar situations as a service provider. We've dealt with member corporations of the RIAA sending us blanket takedown notices containing links to porn, and I don't think they do porn. Not yet anyways.
So apparently Viacom, DreamWorks and Paramount are sending legal spam, without verifying what they are actually sending out, and Google is taking them without verification on their part either. I guess DMCA procedures aren't good enough - censor now, ask questions later.
The list is top search queries from users. A Zeitgeist. Like ones here.
Our copyright policy
We've handled thousands of requests from copyright owners. The MPAA is just one among many, and they refused to work with us on the filtering. There's also an article on isoHunt if you want more facts.
You are referring to our search zeitgeist. Something like Google's.
iso means CD images. A play on generally very large files, which is what P2P systems like BitTorrent is designed for. I wrote isoHunt.com so here's my definition.
Thank you.
isoHunt indexes any and all torrents, adds any metadata, caches them, and aggregates trackers for each torrent so you get more speed and availability than any single source. To the GP, you can call whatever you like with my intent but at least get this fact straight.
I forgot 2 more points:
6) BTJunkie's "mail new torrents" feature is hardly unique. isoHunt has RSS feeds for every search result and category. RSS is also available from most of the other sites, although maybe not for every search result.
7) Torrentz.com's "search for files within torrents" is not unique either. isoHunt always searches within torrents. You should notice it from highlighted filenames in the torrents' details.
Disclaimer: I'm developer of isoHunt.com and want to point out what's missing in your review.
1) Your reliance on claimed index size is flawed. BTJunkie's size claim looks to be non-unique torrents. To put it in perspective, isoHunt's non-unique master index is 1.7+ million torrents, while the searcheable index is the 300k+ count published (active and unique torrents).
2) A better methodology on review search engines is to sample search results, and rank by the relevance and scope of the results. You will see the search results counts to be more inline than the claimed index sizes you used for your review.
3) FYI, isoHunt indexes 7/9 other sites you reviewed, including BTJunkie.
4) It would be nice to be more specific in how you rated site features. Also, speed and relevance of search should be important factors for ranking all the sites.
5) Shameless plug: if you are talking about site features, an important one you've missed is cross-referenced trackers in all our indexed torrents. So each torrent we index is augmented by multiple trackers that would be tracking it, so you get the maximum number of peers in your torrent download. No site in your review has this ability, other than Torrentz.com (but they don't cache the torrents so you don't get any benefit for the actual download, as you get the original torrents from original sites).
Cheers,
IH
Wrong on "MySQL has better performance for web apps than PostGreSQL". MySQL is faster only if you are doing simple selects. Do more complex queries and mixing with a good dose of updates and MySQL locks up like spaghetti. You can use innodb to get around some query lockup issues but I don't think innodb is really faster than PostgreSQL.
They already have.
This is IH from isoHunt.com. We also run TorrentBox.com. Some clarifications for comments here:
* Yes, this is MPAA's FUD. The lawsuit included.
* No, BitTorrent and P2P are not illegal (yet). They are not solely tools of thieves as the MPAA like to portray them as. There are many legal torrents in isoHunt's search index.
* No, I haven't got anything from MPAA about this lawsuit of theirs, but the press release is real and we are working with other sites, sued or yet to be sued, and the EFF on this.
* This is significant as they are suing search engines. isoHunt.com is a search engine. It does not discriminate, it index by algorithm. If we can, we'll be pulling in Google and Yahoo to say a few words that search engines are not illegal (yet).
* No, I'm not a crook. I see P2P as the new VCR, and I intend on proving that P2P can be used to the benefit of content creators, as a cheap and global vehicle for distribution and promotion.
Read more and comment on my forum announcement if you like:
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38933
As an analog of prodigem's automatic torrent creation, http://isohunt.com/ provides search feeds over RSS of most BitTorrent resources over the internet. So you can search for a TV show for example and be updated on the newest eps in the RSS feed.
Cheers
OSX is made to sell the hardware. They make the other apps to make money and maintain viability.
Umm, heard of that Windows thing that made Billy Gates rich, and MS the monopoly that it is? Pro-apps are high price because of low volume. Something like a OS can be low price if it's high volume. Apple is selling both hardware and software. Selling high volume of software can only boost their bottomline. The trick is to boost software (OSX) sales without hurting hardware that it becomes counter-productive for Apple.
The fact that Apple has a tiny PC market in comparison to WinTel, even if more people using OSX on non-Apple hardware can only mean a potential customer of Apple hardware down the line, from the user experience of OSX (which I heard is great). It's all about the network effect, which worked for Windows' dominance.
Here: http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=windows+vista
I made a BT search engine before /. post news about it (see sig), and mine is not the only one. And just as others have said, there is no BitTorrent network, only swarms. Tit for tat works because that's what it is: the faster you upload (give) and faster you download (get).
Again, an uninformed news fluff.
That's because you, my webmaster friend, do not write your own web app and just use what's out there. I do too, I started with phpbb and wrote a search engine around it (http://isohunt.com/), and have realized how repetitive and tedious writing web application interfaces in raw PHP is.
Rails is hyped for a reason. I don't care about MVC or OOP, as long as it's a modular and transparent framework with clean interfaces. The sophistication of Ruby's language constructs and Rails' clean design seems to be a powerful combination.
This is only from what I've skimmed from Rails' docs (which are well written and complete), so don't take my word for it. Others who have first hand experience with Rails please chime in. I'm especially interested in real world performance (compared with PHP) of RoR. Ruby's lack of opcode cache concerns me regarding performance. Perhaps it doesn't matter with persistence in Fastcgi.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Revenge+of+the+S ith%22+filetype:torrent&sourceid=opera&num=25&ie=u tf-8&oe=utf-8
e nge+of+the+Sith&Submit2=Search
+ the+Sith%22
74 results likely with duplicates
http://search.bittorrent.com/search.jsp?query=Rev
18 results assumably with no duplicates
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=%22Revenge+of
229 results with no duplicates, and combined tracker listings of torrents from multiple sites
Read my sig. It has 4x amount of torrents SN ever had.