ISPs providing addresses of p2p users to the IRMA? (1 Viewer)

[pete]

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-will-ireland-block-the-internet-to-save-cds/

“Minister of State for Enterprise Seán Sherlock is to publish an order early in the new year that is expected to allow music publishers, film producers and other parties to go to court to prevent internet service providers from allowing their customers access to pirate websites.”

 

[pete]

http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-will-ireland-block-the-internet-to-save-cds/

time for this http://thumped.com/bbs/showthread.p...Thumped-be-on-this-list&p=1439856#post1439856

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

(AP) — One of world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, shut down; company workers indicted

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...05l2sA?docId=c93737704b504930a11fc307d67b674d

 

[Cryptid]

Seems Universal is behind it: http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/19/swizz-beats-is-the-ceo-of-megaupload/

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Seems Universal is behind it: http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/19/swizz-beats-is-the-ceo-of-megaupload/

Had a good few files still up there - although they had deleted plenty too.

 

[Cryptid]

Had a good few files still up there - although they had deleted plenty too.

Sorry to hear that. I had some stuff on it too. Hope they don't do the same with mediafire etc and that it's just a tiff between Universal and Megaupload. Still a bit of a disaster though.

 

[GO]

I heard they have yer man in the clink.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Sorry to hear that. I had some stuff on it too. Hope they don't do the same with mediafire etc and that it's just a tiff between Universal and Megaupload. Still a bit of a disaster though.

Ta, have a good few on Mediafire too. Hmmmm. Hope it'll blow over.

 

[Anthony]

Dropbox the lot.

 

[pete]

http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/adrian-weckler-confims-that-irelands.html?m=1

Is Ireland about to introduce a law that will allow music companies to order Internet service providers to block access to websites? I rang up the Minister of State at the department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, to find out. "The statutory instrument to be introduced is completely different to Sopa [Stop Online Piracy Act] in America" he told me. "We are simply addressing the High Court judgment handed down by Mr Justice Peter Charleton in relation to copyright law... I will introduce this imminently, by the end of January." That's a yes, then ...

 

[pete]

unrelated

The CBS takedown wasn't your regular DDoS attack because if you went to CBS.com at the time Anon attacked it, there was nothing except an index page with a single file. That's it. Basically, Anonymous gained access to CBS.com and deleted EVERYTHING.

http://gizmodo.com/5878238/anonymous-deleted-cbscom

 

[Unknown Convict]

www.filesonic.com

dominoes? or k.f.c.?

 

[Cryptid]

Might be a load of bollox, but anyway:

Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

[h=2]Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty[/h]
Whats all this? Is this important?

 

[GO]

Whilst I am wholly in favour of filesharing in all its forms...I am also wholly in favour of any measures that might increase the value of my creative output but not at the cost of making the internet into a kind 3d ceefax.

 

[pete]

I've just been listening to the first minute or two of this and have done a mere 10 minutes of googling to try verify the claim of 25,000 downloads. The EMI press statement mentioned that they've tracked that amount of downloads "through Torrents Nova and Pirate Bay alone." The first problem with that is that there's no such site as Torrents Nova (I presumed they meant mininova but Aslan gets zero hits over there) but never mind, we'll carry on.

Next I search for ever possible permutation for downloads of the new Aslan album and I kept getting the same result which is "Aslan - Uncase'd (2009) KompletlyWyred Dhz.inc" which was uploaded to thepiratebay. However this file only has a grand total of 9 seeders and 6 leechers and has been alive since the 26th of June. There's no way of telling how many times it's been leeched exactly but even if it was 6 new leechers every day it'd be a total of 108 downloads. It is fair to assume that only 9 of these bothered to seed back so I'd say the total is right.

Wondering still where the hell they got their mystical 25,000 total from I just searched for "Aslan Uncased" and was surprised to see 5 links to torrents of the album in the first two pages of results. However 4 of the 5 just link back to the one on TPB with 9 seeders. The 5th is where I think they got their mystical 25,000 total from:

http://www.nowtorrents.com/torrents/aslan-uncased.html

This is the 7th result you get on google for the album title and when you click it you actually get "No Matches were found" but up at the top are FAKE results that are actually just ad links. You could search for anything and you'll get those exact same four ad results.

http://www.nowtorrents.com/torrents/gambra-thumped.html

If you refresh the totals change each time so it's safe to say they found this link by googling the name, added up the total of listed downloads they got (which is totally random) and are using that to moan about their loss of sales. Incredible.

here we go again

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0128/1224310864388.html

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I also propose an anti music pollution movement. Silence in the courtyard - silence in the street and particularly in Tesco where they use the most aggravating ersatz contemporary pop music. Bizarre.

This was a great idea, how is it going?

 

[Cryptid]

here we go again

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0128/1224310864388.html

The internet has also, however, become the venue and means for much illegal, dangerous and socially destructive activity. Increasing, if unquantifiable, chunks of internet activity is devoted to pornography, online gambling, illegal trade in prescription medication and large-scale music and movie piracy.

He sounds like the frigging Pope. When the internet started out it was mostly about porn afaik. Now that's just like a few percent of web-pages visited (hey, it's "unquantifiable" as in I can't be bothered doing a five minute google search to find out).

 

[pete]

http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2010-10-20.6.0#g29.0

 

[GO]

That megabox idea is deadly.There is a definite want for an easy to use,low cost alternative to what exists already.Bandcamp charge an extraordinary 15% for their services,which if you price an LP at €5 is 75cent for them.A figure I can scarcely believe given the nature of their service.Hosting of a mp3s just cant be that expensive.10% sounds way more reasonable too me.Bandwitdh isnt that prohibitively expensive these days.