Have you been using torrents?

[zokah]

If you have been ripping much via torrents you could be in for a nasty shock from the MPAA (RIAAs cousin) following the settlement of the LokiTorrent case in the US.
The judge has ordered the owners to hand over the logfiles so somewhere in a dingy basement people will be searching the files looking for big users. If this is you I hope you've been using an anon proxy.

source (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050210-4606.html)

[Raven]

fucking assholes. government thinks they own the world. ah...they'll be dead one day. old age most likely...but dead nonetheless. i couldn't be happeier :D

[MamaBush]

bet they masturbate while they sift through all those files too....damned egocentric bastards....



umm, what's TORRENT???.....never heard of them

[zokah]

It was a better way to share files if you had a fast connexion. I could have got new release movies before they made it to the theatres

[MamaBush]

ahhhhhh, okay

[wutangstan]

*gulp* I did indeed use loki, but only a very small amount.

[wutangstan]

Having read the article, I notice it's about films, which I didn't download, plus it's the AMERICAN movie association anyway, not the British or anyone else.

[zokah]

like RIAA I'm sure they'll be more than willing to share any info with all the other associations with the similar aim of stopping filesharing

[wutangstan]

Yeh, my thoughts too, still I'm not what you would call a prolific d/loader, and I really only do music anyway.

[zokah]

they usually want the uploaders and in this case the highest priority will go to IDing whoever was seeding the pre-release movies

[i`m a wannabe]

zokie everytime i go to china i get plenty of new release movies on dvd before they hit the cinema`s here

[zokah]

yeah, but the airfares are expensive, torrents were free

[xen]

i've only used it once or twice...

i haven't bought any chinese dvds in ages either...woe is me

[druquz_dog]

I download torrents all the time, more media than I can feasably watch or listen to. I always run peer guardian (http://www.methlabs.org/) concurrently though, which I update daily. Hopefully that goes a long way towards blocking those unfriendly breadheads that are out to get me. I should really start running proxies too.