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Title: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently that there's quite a bit of unusual seeding activity coming out of "Russia"..

Many Extremely high bandwidth seeders of HUGE files....  primarily American movies...


We're talking 50mbit out of russia and MANY of these guys per file... it just doesn't make sense... All PUBLIC trackers...


Is it possible that this is an indirect Assault on the American Movie industry?  :eek:
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: inteli722 on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:24:11
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently that there's quite a bit of unusual seeding activity coming out of "Russia"..

Many Extremely high bandwidth seeders of HUGE files....  primarily American movies...


We're talking 50mbit out of russia and MANY of these guys per file... it just doesn't make sense... All PUBLIC trackers...


Is it possible that this is an indirect Assault on the American Movie industry?  :eek:

they totally deserve it.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 02 February 2013, 00:29:41
Remote RIAA outpost?
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: iri on Sat, 02 February 2013, 03:13:29
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently that there's quite a bit of unusual seeding activity coming out of "Russia"..
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
recently
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Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 04:58:15
Quote from: iri on Sat, 02 February 2013, 03:13:29
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently that there's quite a bit of unusual seeding activity coming out of "Russia"..
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently
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recently
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yea.. but I wanted to credit myself with the discovery... rawrrrr  :D
Title: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: whiskerBox on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:28:17
Possibly a botnet ring :(
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:35:00
Quote from: whiskerBox on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:28:17
Possibly a botnet ring :(

so... you're saying I'm lending bandwidth to russian hackers?  :D
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: Lanx on Sat, 02 February 2013, 06:40:34
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:35:00
Quote from: whiskerBox on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:28:17
Possibly a botnet ring :(

so... you're saying I'm lending bandwidth to russian hackers?  :D
lazy russian teens that just leave their torrents on in college? eh russia and china are both places known for supreme piracy, argggg!
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:31:56
Quote from: Lanx on Sat, 02 February 2013, 06:40:34
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:35:00
Quote from: whiskerBox on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:28:17
Possibly a botnet ring :(

so... you're saying I'm lending bandwidth to russian hackers?  :D
lazy russian teens that just leave their torrents on in college? eh russia and china are both places known for supreme piracy, argggg!

Hmmm... It could be... but there are so many... more than 10, each with 50mbit... just seems weird..... this never happens on  US torrents.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: keyboardlover on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:43:54
Me either. I say if they don't like it, that can leave.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: inteli722 on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:44:06
Quote from: dante on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:41:03
$12 for movie tickets, $10 for snacks, about 20 minutes of Soda drink and Tv show advertisements, and a whole lot of teens complaining about having to come into work...

I'm sorry if I don't shed a tear.
Hence
Quote from: inteli722 on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:24:11
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 01 February 2013, 20:10:24
I've noticed recently that there's quite a bit of unusual seeding activity coming out of "Russia"..

Many Extremely high bandwidth seeders of HUGE files....  primarily American movies...


We're talking 50mbit out of russia and MANY of these guys per file... it just doesn't make sense... All PUBLIC trackers...


Is it possible that this is an indirect Assault on the American Movie industry?  :eek:

they totally deserve it.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:47:04
Quote from: dante on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:41:03
$12 for movie tickets, $10 for snacks, about 20 minutes of Soda drink and Tv show advertisements, and a whole lot of teens complaining about having to come into work...

I'm sorry if I don't shed a tear.

you mean, teens complaining about going to work to earn money "for the movies"...

or "in the movies" there are teens complaining about coming to work..

or "in the theater" there are teens who work there complaining about having to work...


Kinda confusing/ HAHAHAH;D
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 02 February 2013, 14:01:05
Hasn't paid to see a movie since 2003. Lately I have been having trouble finding anything new to even bother to download for free. Way too much of it just sucks and is a waste of time to even watch it. I would rather watch older movies, but a lot of them I haven't seen since they were on vhs and the movie companies apparently can't be bothered. I say let them die.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 15:01:43
Quote from: lysol on Sat, 02 February 2013, 14:01:05
Hasn't paid to see a movie since 2003. Lately I have been having trouble finding anything new to even bother to download for free. Way too much of it just sucks and is a waste of time to even watch it. I would rather watch older movies, but a lot of them I haven't seen since they were on vhs and the movie companies apparently can't be bothered. I say let them die.

Short circuit, and Short circuit 2 came out on B-ray

Short circuit is even in 30fps.. very smooth...
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: iri on Sun, 03 February 2013, 04:10:18
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:31:56
Quote from: Lanx on Sat, 02 February 2013, 06:40:34
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:35:00
Quote from: whiskerBox on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:28:17
Possibly a botnet ring :(

so... you're saying I'm lending bandwidth to russian hackers?  :D
lazy russian teens that just leave their torrents on in college? eh russia and china are both places known for supreme piracy, argggg!

Hmmm... It could be... but there are so many... more than 10, each with 50mbit... just seems weird..... this never happens on  US torrents.
you americans are way too greedy!
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 03 February 2013, 08:29:03
Quote from: iri on Sun, 03 February 2013, 04:10:18
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 13:31:56
Quote from: Lanx on Sat, 02 February 2013, 06:40:34
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:35:00
Quote from: whiskerBox on Sat, 02 February 2013, 05:28:17
Possibly a botnet ring :(

so... you're saying I'm lending bandwidth to russian hackers?  :D
lazy russian teens that just leave their torrents on in college? eh russia and china are both places known for supreme piracy, argggg!

Hmmm... It could be... but there are so many... more than 10, each with 50mbit... just seems weird..... this never happens on  US torrents.
you americans are way too greedy!

It's not that Americans are greedy iri... it's just that with the system of law in our country, we can more easily get sued..

In other countries there's such a thing as lift and "disappear", you go to your mother's house, and they'll never catch you, or bother catching you..

This doesn't happen in the USA.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: iri on Sun, 03 February 2013, 08:53:01
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 03 February 2013, 08:29:03
In other countries there's such a thing as lift and "disappear", you go to your mother's house, and they'll never catch you, or bother catching you..

This doesn't happen in the USA.
what.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tauburn on Tue, 05 February 2013, 19:14:14
Uh.. torrenting seems to be a slav thing. Nearly all the trackers are hosted by them. I knew this ukranian girl whose father wouldn't allow anyone to buy movies or music and would torrent everything for them.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: Lanx on Tue, 05 February 2013, 19:39:38
wow, father knows how to torrent, that's cool. I hang around engineers, these are smart ppl with lots of calculations i'll never understand, but they're computer dumb, like so dumb they should be using mac's and not windows. Anyway lots of these guys over the months have said to me, "comcast called me, said i was in breech of my contract for using too much bandwidth". The simple answer is, their kid is torrenting, if they don't have a kid, then they didn't secure their wireless. I never help them of course, i've learned in my 20 years of computering, that beyond giving advice, never say "well i can help you with that" nope, then that person magically turns into a leech. Thats why bestbuy has a geeksquad.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Tue, 05 February 2013, 19:55:32
It's just simply that trackers are in countries that don't have draconian sh!t about copyright. Copyright and patents systems bastardized now beyond all belief. They were never intended to allow some holding company to have it last 1000 years. Things need to be set back to how they should be. 5 years protection, then fall into public domain.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: TheQsanity on Tue, 05 February 2013, 21:28:20
**** you WALT!!!!!
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tauburn on Tue, 05 February 2013, 22:34:05
Quote from: Lanx on Tue, 05 February 2013, 19:39:38
wow, father knows how to torrent, that's cool. I hang around engineers, these are smart ppl with lots of calculations i'll never understand, but they're computer dumb, like so dumb they should be using mac's and not windows. Anyway lots of these guys over the months have said to me, "comcast called me, said i was in breech of my contract for using too much bandwidth". The simple answer is, their kid is torrenting, if they don't have a kid, then they didn't secure their wireless. I never help them of course, i've learned in my 20 years of computering, that beyond giving advice, never say "well i can help you with that" nope, then that person magically turns into a leech. Thats why bestbuy has a geeksquad.

it's not that the father knows how to torrent it's that he firmly wont allow anyone to buy media.


my dad knows how to torrent... hes not a slav
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tipo33 on Sun, 10 February 2013, 22:36:15
When I lived in Russia piracy was universal and rampant.  You can go out and buy pirated DVD's and music for aprox 2US$.  I never thought anything of it, or even noticed until I came to the U.S. 
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 11 February 2013, 00:07:24
Quote from: tipo33 on Sun, 10 February 2013, 22:36:15
When I lived in Russia piracy was universal and rampant.  You can go out and buy pirated DVD's and music for aprox 2US$.  I never thought anything of it, or even noticed until I came to the U.S. 

Pirated DVDs in the US costs $3
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tipo33 on Mon, 11 February 2013, 00:22:34
Quote from: tp4tissue on Mon, 11 February 2013, 00:07:24
Quote from: tipo33 on Sun, 10 February 2013, 22:36:15
When I lived in Russia piracy was universal and rampant.  You can go out and buy pirated DVD's and music for aprox 2US$.  I never thought anything of it, or even noticed until I came to the U.S. 

Pirated DVDs in the US costs $3
But they are not sold at every corner store in the U.S.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: iri on Mon, 11 February 2013, 01:05:01
they aren't sold in russia either. not anymore.
Title: Re: Bittorent Conspiracy
Post by: tipo33 on Mon, 11 February 2013, 01:08:11
Haven't been in a while :(  About 3 years now...