http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/...tw=wn_tophead_9

I imagine that a lot of you have, at some point, been interested to know exactly how the whole "piracy" thing works. This article is very good in terms of how the author goes about explaining the way it all works.

I'd add more to this... but that would get me in trouble (with more than just TA admins, most likely.) Just enjoy the article, and please don't send me PM's asking if I know how to hook you up with releases or any bullshit like that. (It has happened in the past when I've posted things like this, and it's annoying.)

The next time you're downloading a song from one of your favorite P2P programs, though, remember this link.

EDIT: I'm a bit more reluctant to post this one... because I sort of know Bram and he's in a lot of shit right now, but this is just too good of a read for me to let you guys miss it.

It's about BitTorrent. How it started, how it works, etc.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/...tw=wn_tophead_3

Knowledge is power.

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nice

cool, but thats not going to stop me........ from uh....telling people don't do it!!!

The thing I find more interesting than the piracy is that articles such as these are just now being published. I guess the whole issue with the RIAA and MPAA really yanked things out into the open.

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2. Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk's Re-Edit)
3. Alibi - Eternity (Inner City Mix)
4. Cirque de Soleil - Pokinoi (Sasha Mix)
5. Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone to Heaven

wired is one of the best magazines to come out in a long while

I never expected to see BitTorrent anywhere outside the piracy community. It's simple, effective and FAST. however, its popularity is booming ten-fold over the now mellow Napster and may soon become the standard in passing information, if it is able to survive a detached relationship with copied and pirated materials.

Nice article

Hmm...websites that use bittorrent illegally I see are now charging to download files which is a good way for them to get the shit knocked out of them

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Originally posted by Ken_Allen Hmm...websites that use bittorrent illegally I see are now charging to download files which is a good way for them to get the shit knocked out of them

There are also a LOT of semi-private "communities" of torrent traders who are going entirely private. I'm a member of several, and one of the biggest groups I belong to is starting to deny new registrations sometime this week.

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2. Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk's Re-Edit)
3. Alibi - Eternity (Inner City Mix)
4. Cirque de Soleil - Pokinoi (Sasha Mix)
5. Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone to Heaven

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Originally posted by wwu.punisher There are also a LOT of semi-private "communities" of torrent traders who are going entirely private. I'm a member of several, and one of the biggest groups I belong to is starting to deny new registrations sometime this week.

Wanna be my friend? *cough cough* *wink wink*

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Well it's pretty much accurate.
What they're (feds) doing now is they made a tv show mocking the sceners, it's called 'the scene', it floats around you could find it, 2 episodes so far, really pathetic and ridiculed effort.
However there'll be more operations they'll pull, there always will be, but as it was last time, this time it'll go on too.

That article's very accurate. A good read, even though you could learn this all on your own in less than a day. I'm pretty sure we all have access to at least one of those tiers they list, though with TA's policy and stuff... *cough*

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Originally posted by Nou my friend used to be pretty big into the scene, he had tons of topsite access, knew dumps all over the place, help distro tons of rap cd's (shit head had like 600,000 mp3's at one point... ). he got scared tho last year, he literally burnt all his back ups and smashed up some hard drives and shit... his ISP nearly shut him down a couple of times after going over a terabit in like a month... ups and downs. Guy could get anything tho... it was insane, you would ask him for anything, movie, app, music, game, he would have in hand the next day. Usenet is still good for somethings, big shit, if you dont mind paying a bit per month for access to a decent server.

I know a couple of guys who used to run along the same lines. Curries, two of them. It's dangerous shit. You get caught, you fry. I guess that's what they thought was fun about it. Both of them got out sometime right before the RIAA really started cracking down.

I do seed for the torrent communities, but that's not something that can be tracked back to you unless someone REALLY wants to peg you for something. That, and the RIAA/MPAA could give a shit about the things I download/upload. (I'm paranoid, too, so my firewalls are a bit denser than most and I tend to bounce multiple proxies.)

And yeah... Usenet is good for what it provides. I'm just not willing to fork out money for anything. That leaves a paper trail, and paper trails aren't good.

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1. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb's Main Mix)
2. Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk's Re-Edit)
3. Alibi - Eternity (Inner City Mix)
4. Cirque de Soleil - Pokinoi (Sasha Mix)
5. Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone to Heaven