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Offline Rosti LFC

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The EU Loves Pirates
« on: April 11, 2008, 06:59:10 PM »
Recently there has been a reasonable number of calls from several European governments, including the British one, to have people monitored (most likely by their ISP's) for illegal downloads. Those found to be consistently pirating music and movies will basically have their internet access removed. Which would suck.

However, there was a vote from the European Parliament today which ruled that this shouldn't happen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7342135.stm

It's not legally binding, and governments are still technically allowed to do what they want on this issue, but it's a good move for us file-sharers, seeing as it shows that the European Parliament, which can rule over all member state parliaments if it wants to, doesn't think that removing people's internet access is the way to go.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2008, 07:06:01 PM »
Lucky you. :P
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2008, 01:08:54 AM »
I also like pirates. Yarr...
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2008, 01:24:54 AM »
Isn't free downloading in Canada legal <_>?  Or is no one in this topic Canadian yet?

And go you, America still sucks.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2008, 01:26:13 AM »
Quote from: Nines~Tempest on April 12, 2008, 01:24:54 AM
Isn't free downloading in Canada legal <_>?  Or is no one in this topic Canadian yet?

And go you, America still sucks.

Alex and Dave are Canadian.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2008, 04:05:07 AM »
From what I understand, downloading is legal. Only uploading is illegal.
I dunno, either way, it's not going to stop me. :X
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2008, 02:08:59 PM »
Fuck, the rules change so much, I really don't know anymore. What I think as of writing this entry is that music downloads are still legal, though making profit off any one elses material is and always has been illegal (so it'll stay being free!) Mind you, I think that is only for music. I believe pirating games, dvds, etc, is still a no no. But I really don't know anymore.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2008, 07:56:00 PM »
There was a big thing in the 70s and 80s about people having the right to record TV shows on videotape. Now the media companies are still trying to control the whole process from recording to playback, not realizing that they've lost control over the distribution and such, and suing people isn't helping. It's not like artists get a huge percentage of the profits anyway. Meanwhile, encryption is being broken and colleges are defending file-sharing students. I saw this article recently.

Also, apparently Demonoid is back up.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2008, 07:58:11 PM »
Quote from: Cesium on April 13, 2008, 07:56:00 PM
Also, apparently Demonoid is back up.

...It is.

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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2008, 06:49:55 AM »
Holy crap that's awesome news. Are all the accounts still there?
It's blocked at my school for sort of obvious reasons, so I can't check.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2008, 07:32:23 AM »
I don't like the idea of being monitored, it's just creepy and I like my privacy.  You're lucky on that one, Rosti.

Pirating though, I still don't like it.  It makes me feel horrible, for some reason.  Curse my morals. :( 
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2008, 01:00:57 PM »
Quote from: Rosti LFC on April 14, 2008, 06:49:55 AM
Holy crap that's awesome news. Are all the accounts still there?
It's blocked at my school for sort of obvious reasons, so I can't check.
Yeah, I can log in and it has all my old stats and everything.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2008, 01:26:50 PM »
Yeah, apparently they found a new host and restored everything.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2008, 04:46:30 PM »
Quote from: Tommayto on April 14, 2008, 01:00:57 PM
Yeah, I can log in and it has all my old stats and everything.

Was your ratio the same?

Someone I talk to on AIM showed me their profile, and their ratio was 12 million. :X
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2008, 05:40:24 PM »
That was me! Alex gave me an invite and at that point we were sharing a computer, so I got credit for all his uploads and I hadn't downloaded anything. The highest was in the hundred billions. As I just signed back on and my ratio is 4.37.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2008, 05:43:07 PM »
The moment I get my laptop and it's 250GB hard-drive, I'm going to be torrenting almost constantly  >:Y
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2008, 05:54:25 PM »
That's what I did. I have three different ISPs and NO bandwidth.
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Re: The EU Loves Pirates
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