I wonder if they brought these kinds of resources and cooperation to bear on something like sex slavery or child prostitution what they could accomplish. But no, have to protect the revenue sources of our investors, um, I mean citizens.
Now that Demonoid is down, record company profits should spike at least a little huh? If they were all down the artists and their producers would be rolling in dough right? My guess is it won't make a difference one way or the other.
People who really like something will want the physical media and buy it regardless. I suspect people use torrents as they would hearing an album at their friend house, except now their friend's house encompasses the entire world, thanks to the Internet. Torrenting is really a marvelous marketing tool. It's not logical to go after folks who choose that method to discover their music. But I suppose it's not about logic. It's greed. It's jobs. Fighting "piracy? I've never really thought much about Anonymous, and if I had it might not have been very favorable, but If I had the expertise I'd help.
Instead, I'll do what I can, boycott. The systematic destruction of internet freedoms. They couldn't take down the IPS's in court, so they now have to do it the hard way and take down every file sharing company one by one. You might argue that it is all about the money, making money for what you have done. But, what happens when these things songs, movies, games, artwork s slip into the past?
We forget about the timeless classics and as we forget, they become unavailable. What is more permanent: your masterpiece or the money you made? Demonoid had legal files the same as it did illegal ones.
Just like Megaupload. But it didn't evn host it. Do you know how Demonoid works? I didn't think so. Please close your mouth. Thank you. When it comes to the music industry, artists can be broken down into 2 categories. Those that are successful those who 'made it' , and those that are not successful those who haven't yet 'made it'. For the first category, they are already making huge amounts of money through tours and in store sales.
To ban piracy in order for them to make even more money, this does not seem like a good argument to me. For the second category, I think that they actually benefit more from piracy, in that it creates exposure for many unknown artists. People will probably not buy your music if you are an unknown artist. However, they might download it for free if given the chance. More generally, no where is it written that we must pay for everything we get as far as I know the constitution says nothing on this.
I pay when I must or when I feel I should, but if I feel I should not pay for music and I have the ability not to through torrents then I will exercise that ability.
I do not think I am acting amorally, as I am merely acting in self-interest, just like the companies who are trying to make it so that I must pay THEM for music. You should let me rob you. I'll tell everyone you're a nice guy if you do. Above guest It doesnt matter that the constution doesnt say you have to pay for anything.
Despite that, It doesnt matter if you feel you should have to pay for something. What you are doing if you pirate Plain and simple. I would hope you were raised better then that. Just because you dont agree, doesnt give you the right to steal.
If you live in a country that has to follow the copyright laws, then because you are a citizen you have to follow those Laws. No amout of justification is going to comvince anyone that stealing is right. Are you really that ignorant? Demonoid did not host any files, it did not share any files other than torrents. You seem to love the laws created by crooked politicians.
Tell me.. When they write laws that make it legal for them to kick in your front door, rape your wife, and murder your children.. Will you have them all dressed for the occasion and waiting at the door? Use your mind. Irrational faith in Government is just as disturbing as irrational faith in religion.
In certain countries, including the US, ISPs are allowed to share this information with third parties including intellectual property owners. It is proprietary—not open source—software maintained by a legal US company. Like BitTorrent, the uTorrent software itself is legal, although it can be used for digital piracy. The official uTorrent is free of malware and can be used safely and privately in combination with a VPN. It does not, however, prevent users from downloading malicious files that can infect their device.
The BitTorrent protocol rose to become the most popular medium for peer-to-peer file sharing in the world after the demise of centralized services like Napster and Limewire. Unlike those services, torrenting is almost completely decentralized save for the trackers that allow users to search and download torrent files and magnet links. Torrent files and magnet links are used to find other users on the network who host the desired file or files but do not actually host those files for downloading.
The BitTorrent protocol is not in itself illegal or unsafe. It is just the means to share any type of file, and plenty of legal torrenting services do exist. The most popular torrent trackers, such as ThePirateBay and KickassTorrents, however, operate in a legal grey area, offering users free access to copyrighted content. Sharing and downloading copyrighted content by BitTorrent, or other means, is illegal in many countries and can be unsafe since sites including KickassTorrents have been shown to host malware.
These trackers would argue that they simply find and organize information that is already out there, and they do not illegally host any copyrighted content on their own servers.
Just like the BitTorrent protocol itself, they are the means to an end. Not everyone is convinced. Major trackers have come under heavy legal scrutiny from content creators and distributors who argue the trackers enable and encourage theft.
The blame ultimately shifts to the users, the millions of individuals who host files on their personal computers, downloading and uploading movies, games, software, music, ebooks, and more. Users connected to the same tracker are called peers, and they fall into two categories.
A leech uses a torrent file or magnet link to download the file from other users on the network who already have the file. These users who already have the file are called seeds. When a leech is finished downloading a file or even just part of a file , he or she becomes a seed, allowing other leeches to download the file from his or her computer. Comparitech does not condone or encourage any violation of copyright law or restrictions.
Please consider the law, victims, and risks of copyright piracy before downloading copyrighted material without permission. Legally speaking, seeding and leeching copyrighted material fall into different criminal categories. Think of it like buying illegal drugs: purchasing the drugs for personal use is definitely a crime, but a relatively minor one.
Turning around and selling those drugs to others is a much more serious offense. The prosecution of torrent users has been sporadic. The chances of actually going to court or having to pay a settlement are pretty slim, but the penalties can be extremely high. The frequency of copyright holders suing torrenters for copyright infringement peaked in the late s. Copyright pirates were sued for wildly disproportionate amounts of money, and most settled out of court.
These public scare tactics shone poorly on the recording and movie industries because they were portrayed as petty millionaires bullying poor college students.
Direct lawsuits are much less common these days, but the campaign against torrenters is far from over. Now the job of going after individual copyright pirates has been outsourced to a growing number of small businesses known as copyright trolls. These companies locate torrenters who illegally download copyrighted content through their real IP addresses. They then approach the copyright owners and sign a deal that lets them take legal action on their behalf.
Others are hired directly by Hollywood production companies to sniff out pirates. With legal leverage and a list of names, the copyright trolls then go after torrenters via mail, email, or even by going door to door and handing out settlement letters. These letters are not legally binding documents or injunctions. Copyright trolls use intimidation, fear, and shame to make torrenters pay without ever going to court.
The most common way to receive a settlement letter is through your internet provider. A copyright troll will go through the court system to subpoena your ISP and force it to email customers with a legal threat and hand over personal details. According to US law, an IP address is not a person. Your case could be dismissed before the date that your ISP is set to reveal your personal details to the troll. If you respond and identify yourself, that gives the troll a more direct means of targeting you.
This is a game of probability for copyright trolls. If they send out 1, threatening emails and 50 people reply, they only need a handful to actually cough up money to make it worth their time.
If things escalate and you decide to take action, lawyer up. Depending on your ISP, it may take actions against you on its own behalf. That could mean throttling your internet connection or threatening to hand over personal details to a copyright troll. Why does your ISP even care? Because torrenting takes up a lot of bandwidth, and that bandwidth costs ISPs money. On top of that, an ISP could be receiving kickbacks from content owners and their associates. However, if you insist on torrenting, take the time to protect your online privacy and keep copyright trolls at bay.
The best way to torrent safely is by using a VPN. A VPN accomplishes two things: first, it re-routes all your internet traffic through a server in a location of your choosing, which changes your real IP address to one used by hundreds or thousands of other people assuming your VPN uses shared IP addresses, which most do.
This adds a significant layer of anonymity and makes it much more difficult for anyone to track you. Second, a VPN encrypts all your torrent traffic before it leaves your computer.
That means your ISP cannot monitor your internet activity, nor can anyone else. Not all VPNs tolerate torrenting. You can check out our list of the best VPNs for torrenting here , which are services with fast download speeds and a focus on online privacy, security and anonymity like NordVPN , Surfshark , and ExpressVPN among others.
We recommend a VPN over Tor for a couple reasons. First, Tor is slow, and usually best for simple browsing and other low-bandwidth activity. Another popular app among torrenters is Peerblock. Peerblock is a desktop firewall with a regularly updated blacklist of IP addresses. These IP addresses belong to entities that try to track your activity online, especially on peer-to-peer networks.
Unfortunately, the blacklist is only updated once upon installation. After that, users must pay to keep them updated. Instead of torrenting, another alternative is Usenet. Usenet downloads are much, much faster; often as fast as your ISP can handle. The private tracker requires an invitation, usually from an existing member. It means that anyone can get to the websites and then search without logging in or even asking for any authentication. In the same note, anyone can upload files to be downloaded by others.
The uploads are not moderated, meaning a user must decide whether a download is safe or accurate based on the comments as well as the reputation of the one who uploaded it. On the other hand, private trackers are different as there is control as to who uploads or downloads within the group. Unfortunately, whether a private or public tracker, the law is uniform — piracy is simply piracy , whether public or in a private group. Using torrents can indeed be both legal and illegal as it all depends on the case.
Therefore, due to such difficulty, most countries have made using torrent websites illegal in any form. For example, the USA is well known for its tough stance on torrents to the point that they charge huge fines and jail time , while places like Spain and Poland allow people to download copyrighted content if it is for personal use only.
Besides, some countries have regulations regarding the copyrighted contents of torrents that are often overlooked by the establishment, such as Romania, Greece, and Brazil. After the demise of centralized services such as LimeWire and Napster, it was time for torrenting to take the wheel and lead. But again, even in the need , is it legal and safe?
BitTorrent and other torrent clients itself are not unsafe or illegal as the service exists legally for sharing any type of file. However, using BitTorrent for copyrighted material is illegal and unsafe. Most trackers offer free access to copyrighted material as they operate in the legal grey area. However, distributors and the content creators are not convinced and have been criticizing major trackers for enabling as well as encouraging theft. Unfortunately, the blame has been shifted to the users — peers connected to a similar tracker.
There are two categories of peers ; a leech — uses a magnet link or torrent file to download a file from another user on the network already having the file. The users that already have the file are known as seeds.
When a leech downloads a file or even part of the file, then they become seeds, which allow other leeches to download the file from their computers as well. Interestingly, leeching and seeding the copyrighted material are two different criminal categories.
It is like purchasing illegal drugs for personal use, which is a minor crime, but selling drugs to others becomes a serious crime. Therefore, the trackers are merely a marketplace whereby all transactions go down. One thing is for sure, there are consequences for using torrents in countries where they are illegal.
The consequences vary in various countries , but they include and are not limited to fines as well as imprisonment. To help you get a vivid understanding of countries permitting BitTorrent use, here are some of them that allow downloading copyright material:. Notably, even if torrents are legal in some countries, still, you may be charged with poor privacy if you use torrents to access copyrighted material without proper online safety measures.
A quality VPN will help keep your torrent activities private as well as safe alongside encrypting your information online. To torrent safely with a VPN, you need to do the following;.
And that is a good thing for you, not only if you love downloading torrent files that are full of legality doubts, but also because it guards your internet privacy in general. Read our in-depth guide on how to download torrents safely.
However, if still you ahead without a VPN, then the risks are as many as you can imagine. Some consequences may not be connected to the authorities, but they uncertainly are a threat to your security online.
One thing that happens when you are not using a VPN is that your ISP internet service provider can easily track all your online activities , including your torrenting activity.
Your ISP will then slow down your internet speeds immensely , regardless of your internet tier plan you chose. Every month we have at least two or three movies in the cinema. Great and epic videogames come out every month. Dozens of books are launched every month that will fan our imagination.
With such novelty, it is normal for us to feel like hacking and downloading torrents with all this entertainment instead of paying for it.
Now, hacking carries more risks than you think. Torrenting without a VPN puts you at risk of being hijacked. Although a VPN does not always guarantee safety against client hijacking , it adds some complexity to your network layer, which makes it difficult for malicious actors to take over your computer. While finding out if torrenting is safe, here we come to the infamous logical reason for never download torrents without proper protection: malware.
Malvertising , and specifically downloading torrents, is the easiest way one can get his PC infected with viruses. Notably, not only gamers, all the torrent downloaders are prone to malware as even the most popular torrent sites such as TPB alongside the Pirate Bay alternatives like KickAssTorrents have been known to host malware in the past. There is something worse than being infected with a virus and that is if a hacker steals your data or turns your computer into a zombie. However, the number came down When uploading or sharing torrent files, you may be asked to reduce the protection of your computers, such as disabling the firewalls and antivirus software.
It is an obvious sign that the source is not reliable. By reducing your defenses, you run the risk of being a victim of hacking. Once inside your computer, hackers are free to do whatever they want.
Even though I have listed it at the end of all the reasons, but this is one of the worst potential consequences of opting for torrenting without a VPN. Since the major portion of digital media is protected by copyright, there are some serious risks in downloading torrents without protection online.
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