News Death of Mininova as we know it

[Moriath]

BBC News - Court ruling forces Mininova to end illegal torrents

sad day

isohunt and pirate bay still resist tho

 

[Jupitus]

However, the founders dispute the ruling saying that they sold The Pirate Bay and no longer had any control over its content.

The current owner of The Pirate Bay is a Seychelles-based company called Riversella Ltd.

Hehe

 

[Moriath]

Hehe

aye saw that pirate bay always one step ahead hehe

 

[Chilly]

good, crappy site anyway. Was once in a swarm of 100k+ peers and had 5kb/sec DL rate.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

People still use torrents?

 

[Helme]

People still use torrents?

If you live in a country that doesn't throttle them(The UK) they are still brilliant with private trackers.

 

[old.user4556]

People still use torrents?

Noob question (I rarely download TV shows and movies), but what else is available?

 

[nath]

Newsgroups, but it's a very select environment. I'm not sure if we'd allow you in to our little club.

I'm sure hot sister pictures would help with your application though.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

You don't need to join a Freddyshouse newsgroup

But yeh, you can go the newsgroup route. Its a little bit more fiddly and you need to pay for some services but you can get faster speeds and gain some immunity to packet inspection.

 

[Chilly]

and gain some immunity to packet inspection.

Assuming the newsgroup provider hasnt been coerced by the fbi/whoever into logging all access.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Read what I wrote properly.

 

[nath]

Most providers offer SSL connections too so yeah, the only way to snoop on what you're grabbing is get logs from the provider. Still a possibility but far less likely - after all I think they're mainly interested in uploaders.

 

[Chilly]

FAR more importantly scenetorrents is closing down too.

 

[Lethul]

FAR more importantly scenetorrents is closing down too.

RIP sct

 

[kirennia]

Indeed...

 

[Marc]

I have always used newsgroups. Far more reliable in my experience. I have to pay £8 a month for it and im sure you can do it cheaper but I prefer to stick with what I know.

 

[Zenith]

Whats a newsgroups? Never heard about it ( atleast not in english terms )

 

[Wazzerphuk]

In my experience if you don't know, you're not welcome.

They're overly fussy and nerdy and filled with elitist bastards.

 

[nath]

They're overly fussy and nerdy and filled with elitist bastards.

And seem to bring out peoples inferiority complexes .

 

[Bahumat]

Whats a newsgroups? Never heard about it ( atleast not in english terms )

Works like torrents, except it does not take your IP so you are a bit safer from what I heard. Also you download the file in text format and it all comes together at the end. That means you can download much faster. I can get about 450-500kbps on steam. On Newsgroups I can get about 800kbps.

this is a very weak explanation and I am probably wrong on a few parts, but if you want to DL, Newsgroups are the way to go.

 

[nath]

Works like torrents

Actually fundamentally totally different to torrents.

The way I look at it is that newsgroups are like publicly available email stores. Anyone can contribute individual posts to certain groups and have attachments too. When you download something from NG's it's merging tens or hundreds of posts that merge to one file. It's all stored in a server so the reason that it might be less risky to use is that it's not peer to peer but server-client so the majority of users are just downloading, not sharing which appears to be what really pisses off the MPAA/RIAA etc at the mo.

The reason you'll often max out your connection is that Steam seems to use one thread - so downloading one stream of information at a time which is usually quite an inefficient way to use a connection. With newsgroups you'll often want to be using 10+ threads at a time.

 

[Bahumat]

Thanks for clearing it up nath

 

[BloodOmen]

If you live in a country that doesn't throttle them(The UK) they are still brilliant with private trackers.

Mines never been throttled peak or offpeak, lowest speed i've ever had from a private tracker is 200kb/s highest being 800kb/s (my cap)

 

[Ctuchik]

good, crappy site anyway. Was once in a swarm of 100k+ peers and had 5kb/sec DL rate.

think its safe to say that was faked