Torrent reinvented

[Hurr-Durr]

I just had the weirdest shit where an account got suspended because they said my IP seeded their product and I seriously didn't...it's fucked up.

elaborate...?

 

[shindig]

elaborate...?

I was an admin on a private file sharing site that charges a couple hundred a year for membership and share thousands of $$ worth of CG stuff (I try, if I use I buy), they claimed I posted exclusive content in a torrent and seeded it, I wasn't even running any torrents at the time. They verified my ip address, I can't explain it. So they kicked me. Comcast cable, it was a small site so not likely anyone near me is also a member.

 

[taktikz]

One word, wow!

MPAA is going to have a really hard time shutting down this one.

Spoke too soon bro

 

[nickster]

Its BAAAAAACK https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app/releases/tag/v0.2.7-beta

 

[mattseh]

it's not like "git clone" is hard for a few people to do, to keep it available.

 

[dmnEPC]

it's not like "git clone" is hard for a few people to do, to keep it available.

come on matt. That would require the use of the command line.

 

[lukep]

it's not like "git clone" is hard for a few people to do, to keep it available.

How decentralized is Github, Matt? Could the MPAA take it down if it tried really hard?

(I know it's too late to help them, but this particular organization cares far more about setting examples than being effective.)


PS: Techcrunch is coming out of the statist closet over this:

Popcorn Time Is Hollywood’s Worst Nightmare, And It Can’t Be Stopped | TechCrunch

 

[mattseh]

git isn't the same thing as github. git is decentralized by design.

 

[dmnEPC]

git isn't the same thing as github. git is decentralized by design.

There you go again with your silly facts and logic.

 

[lukep]

Let me repeat:

I know it's too late to help them, but this particular organization cares far more about setting examples than being effective.

So, how hard would it be to take github down?

 

[cougarclaws]

 

[mattseh]

git isn't the same thing as github. git is decentralized by design.

^ this

 

[lukep]

I have used git in linux hundreds of times. I even wrote an install manual once at a former workplace years ago which used git to install their dependencies. I 'get' git.

What you're not getting is that I doubt the Monopolistic Perfect Assholes Association will give a shit.

If it's on github, which nickster was cool enough to link to above, I fear that MPAA will try to destroy their whole enterprise and imprison people behind github for the same reason they've been chasing the Pirate Bay all these years.

So I was asking you if Github is vulnerable. Sorry if it was a confusing point in the conversation to ask that.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Its BAAAAAACK https://github.com/popcorn-team/popcorn-app/releases/tag/v0.2.7-beta

2.7 worked great, but now it's non-stop buffering too. Working for anyone else?

 

[o hai guyz]

If the movie industry did this, they could make so much fucking money but OH WAIT, they wont because they are stuck in their old ways. :C

Too inefficient. It's a lot cheaper just to bribe judges for bogus rulings than to develop and market new technologies.

 

[blank_czech]

Someone should make one specifically for anime