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   TPD down for 3 minutes

   

   Haywood, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 5:22am

   
   

   That just shows you how much like a utility it has become. Last night friends dropped over just as one of my shows was about to start. Ever the good host, I turned to my guests and let it be fully expecting to be able to download it later. I too was a little disturbed last night when TPB was unavailable, but I took the wait and see approach. I did look around the torrent community, and it has become a bit sad, with private trackers and spam files. TPB is one of the few that upholds what this is supposed to be about.

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   HP Laser Printer, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 5:23am

   
   

   But ... as we all know ... the IP address is a personal identifier and can be used to absolutely prove that an individual is guilty.

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 6:47am

   
   

   If your printer is listening to music while it works, you need a lisence for that.

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 7:00am

   
   

   I don't see how this will help their cause. Next they are going to get hit with falsifying their domain records.
   
   seems kind of stupid to me.

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   #4

   

   JustMe, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 7:17am

   
   

   What are they gunna do? Sue?

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   Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

   

   Kilgore Trout, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 8:31am

   
   

   Yeah, what it's supposed to be about... stealing crap for free, because we are too cheap/lazy to pay for it.

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   Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

   

   TDR, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 8:40am

   
   

   Digital goods are not physical goods, Kilgore. As has been said again and again and again and again and again and again and again on this site, it is infringment, not theft. When you have an infinite supply and a near virtual production cost, price naturally gravitates to zero. So it's more like obtaining the product for the price it's supposed to be rather than supporting the very artifical scarcity the middleman want to keep in place.

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   Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

   

   Cixelsid, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 8:43am

   
   

   "stealing crap for free"
   
   as opposed to stealing crap for payment?

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   Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

   

   The infamous Joe, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 9:17am

   
   

   I'm told btjunkie is better.

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    Re: Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

    

    Sean, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 9:18am

    
    

    shouldn't that be stealing payment for crap

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    Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

    

    The infamous Joe, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 9:22am

    
    

    because we are too cheap/lazy to pay for it.
    
    Too lazy to pay for it? You're exactly right! If you make it easier to pay, you'll get way more people who will.
    
    Too cheap to pay for it? If no one wants to buy your product at the price you offer it, you lower your price to what they will buy it for. Unfortuantely as has already been stated, that price, in a healthy market, should become zero.
    
    So, as soon as they sell music easily at the price of zero, people will stop pirating.
    
    ..oh wait...!

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    In other news...

    

    Tor, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 11:04am

    
    

    ... Tele 2, one of Sweden's biggest ISPs, says today that they will not keep records of the customers' IP addresses. Hence, if rights holders use the new IPRED1 law to demand records there will be none to present (the law doesn't require ISPs to keep records). Tele 2 has 600 000 broadband customers in Sweden and the ISP Bahnhof has already made a similar decision. Apparently there has been a large demand for privacy protection.
    
    Peter Danowsky, the lawyer who represented IFPI in the Pirate Bay trial, calls the decision "astonishing".

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    Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

    

    Anonofus, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 12:37pm

    
    

    Just because the Pirate Bay was down doesn't mean you can't get what you want. Haven't you ever heard of Demonoid or ISOhunt? They're equally as as reliable as TPB.

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    Re: Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

    

    Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 1:09pm

    
    

    Whatever makes you sleep at night.

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    'Tard

    

    RD, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 5:12pm

    
    

    "Yeah, what it's supposed to be about... stealing crap for free, because we are too cheap/lazy to pay for it."
    
    Yeah because no one would ever PAY for digital music, not even if you wrapped it in an easy to use interface and had thousands of songs available.
    
    Wait...whats that? iTunes? Oh....right...
    
    F*cktw*at.

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

    

    Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 11:49pm

    
    

    Whatever makes you sleep at night.
    
    I don't know about TDR, but busting lying shills definitely helps me sleep better at night. :)

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    Re: Re: TPD down for 3 minutes

    

    Anonymous Coward, Apr 27th, 2009 @ 11:52pm

    
    

    "Yeah, what it's supposed to be about... stealing crap for free, because we are too cheap/lazy to pay for it."
    
    So who's stealing anything?

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