Comments on: Help Key: The Essential Guide to Piracy http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:13:44 -0500 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-3/#comment-1029361 Josh Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:12:59 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-1029361 To the very first comment - John, But is GigaTribe a safe way to trade files? I believe your IP address can be leaked through this method, unless GigaTribe can be Torrified, (able to use TOR) to hide your real IP address. You can connect your web browser (Fire Fox) to the Tor Network, but I doubt that the GigaTribe program you download can connect through the Tor network. If you're sharing a folder on your hard drive, IP addresses have to be connected somehow. To the very first comment – John,

But is GigaTribe a safe way to trade files? I believe your IP address can be leaked through this method, unless GigaTribe can be Torrified, (able to use TOR) to hide your real IP address. You can connect your web browser (Fire Fox) to the Tor Network, but I doubt that the GigaTribe program you download can connect through the Tor network. If you’re sharing a folder on your hard drive, IP addresses have to be connected somehow.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-3/#comment-603438 Anonymous Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:18:04 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-603438 gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

]]> By: ColorThreads http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-370258 ColorThreads Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:02:52 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-370258 Aren't you afraid of beein caught? Aren’t you afraid of beein caught?

]]> By: MasterMan http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-353443 MasterMan Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:22:14 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-353443 i second your_ip_here leave it to people that accully have spent the time and energy to learn somthing. we dont need more bittorrent and kazaa programs. i hate seein fucking everyone getting shit, go buy it u fuck, get off the network.. i second your_ip_here

leave it to people that accully have spent the time and energy to learn somthing. we dont need more bittorrent and kazaa programs. i hate seein fucking everyone getting shit, go buy it u fuck, get off the network..

]]> By: Jason http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-326196 Jason Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:14:11 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-326196 In the UK the copyright laws are gash too. But they're much more sensible - they seem more interested in catching people wandering around the street selling the shit, rather than online though. Half the time pirated cinema films are shit quality cams anyway, and i'm talking about the private tracker's copies. And youtube videos are insanely shit quality, as with most streaming sites so don't even bother. In the UK the copyright laws are gash too. But they’re much more sensible – they seem more interested in catching people wandering around the street selling the shit, rather than online though.

Half the time pirated cinema films are shit quality cams anyway, and i’m talking about the private tracker’s copies. And youtube videos are insanely shit quality, as with most streaming sites so don’t even bother.

]]> By: noddy http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-324429 noddy Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:14:33 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-324429 As an independent musician, I have found the pirate's way to be very helpful in promotion and in getting people in other states out to my shows. If they don't get to hear it they don't go to see it, plain and simple, and since commercial radio rarely plays anything that's NOT a major label, this has been a godsend for people like me. Big artists are the only ones harmed; that's a corporate fact. The gov't should not be involved in protecting someone's wallet. Whatever happened to capitalism? Isn't it up to me to decide what to do with what I own? Do the major labels really need to tax college kids because they only want a few of the songs their crap-factories produce, instead of paying for whole albums of garbage? Independent musicians thrive in open warfare with overfed, spoiled major label "stars". That's why they need uncle sam to hold their hands for them. As an independent musician, I have found the pirate’s way to be very helpful in promotion and in getting people in other states out to my shows. If they don’t get to hear it they don’t go to see it, plain and simple, and since commercial radio rarely plays anything that’s NOT a major label, this has been a godsend for people like me.

Big artists are the only ones harmed; that’s a corporate fact. The gov’t should not be involved in protecting someone’s wallet. Whatever happened to capitalism? Isn’t it up to me to decide what to do with what I own? Do the major labels really need to tax college kids because they only want a few of the songs their crap-factories produce, instead of paying for whole albums of garbage?

Independent musicians thrive in open warfare with overfed, spoiled major label “stars”. That’s why they need uncle sam to hold their hands for them.

]]> By: magus http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-320376 magus Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:15:25 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-320376 Copying data doesn't equate to depriving someone of it, therefore no theft takes place. The same can't be said about transferring money between bank accounts as suggested. Copying data doesn’t equate to depriving someone of it, therefore no theft takes place. The same can’t be said about transferring money between bank accounts as suggested.

]]> By: ahmed http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-305011 ahmed Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:01:21 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-305011 O%2C+super+project.e O%2C+super+project.e

]]> By: cosmicdongle http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-304145 cosmicdongle Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:13:30 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-304145 Hey guys ! i just found a way to break in your bank accounts and transfer all of it into mine. I hope you won't mind. Welcome to the 21st century. :-) By the way , could you all publish your credit cards number here so we could all benefit from it ? Share the wealth guys ! thanks. Piracy is cool. Hey guys ! i just found a way to break in your bank accounts and transfer all of it into mine. I hope you won’t mind. Welcome to the 21st century. :-)

By the way , could you all publish your credit cards number here so we could all benefit from it ? Share the wealth guys ! thanks.
Piracy is cool.

]]> By: superfrog http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-304128 superfrog Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:07:49 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-304128 Well i hope you are all working for free.. If you think it's cool to deprive other people from their source of income, you should also share all your money and posession with everybody else.. Otherwise you're just a bunch of sissies "wannabe rebels". Well i hope you are all working for free.. If you think it’s cool to deprive other people from their source of income, you should also share all your money and posession with everybody else.. Otherwise you’re just a bunch of sissies “wannabe rebels”.

]]> By: independentmusician http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-302025 independentmusician Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:35:26 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-302025 1. "Piracy" is an RIAA loaded catch-all term that needs to be dropped. Please folks, Call it copyright infringement or something else more accurate and descriptive. 2. You shouldn't participate in the downloading (and ESPECIALLY the uploading) of RIAA/MPAA material. By doing so, you only help promote the works of the very enemy we are trying to kill. BOYCOTT that garbage and seek out independently produced tunes and vids that WANT to be shared! 3. Unfortunately, p2p, bit-torrent trackers and etc. tend to only feature/cater to the RIAA/MPAA & big media crap. Go to sites like DMusic and Revver for your music and video needs! (Of course, this plea/advice renders this entire article moot.) --Shmoo of <a href="http://electricgypsy.dmusic.com" rel="nofollow">Electric Gypsy</a> 1. “Piracy” is an RIAA loaded catch-all term that needs to be dropped. Please folks, Call it copyright infringement or something else more accurate and descriptive.

2. You shouldn’t participate in the downloading (and ESPECIALLY the uploading) of RIAA/MPAA material. By doing so, you only help promote the works of the very enemy we are trying to kill. BOYCOTT that garbage and seek out independently produced tunes and vids that WANT to be shared!

3. Unfortunately, p2p, bit-torrent trackers and etc. tend to only feature/cater to the RIAA/MPAA & big media crap. Go to sites like DMusic and Revver for your music and video needs! (Of course, this plea/advice renders this entire article moot.)

–Shmoo of Electric Gypsy

]]> By: pon http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-255292 pon Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:54:34 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-255292 imko, it's already being done. you download a movie only to find audio going out of sync in the middle of the movie or at the end, and they even cleverly move out of sync around so that it's late at one point then going forward at another so you can't just use software to shift audio to correct timing. This is specially true for warez forums (article forgot about those) but i've seen it on torrents as well. imko,

it’s already being done. you download a movie only to find audio going out of sync in the middle of the movie or at the end, and they even cleverly move out of sync around so that it’s late at one point then going forward at another so you can’t just use software to shift audio to correct timing.

This is specially true for warez forums (article forgot about those) but i’ve seen it on torrents as well.

]]> By: liam http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-250094 liam Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:53:14 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-250094 you're so right about the rush! i get so excited watching utorrent and the download rate changing. afterwards i have to smoke. you’re so right about the rush! i get so excited watching utorrent and the download rate changing. afterwards i have to smoke.

]]> By: kpbcntlhgh http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-236742 kpbcntlhgh Tue, 29 May 2007 08:45:16 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-236742 <a href="http://fvsqqmm.com" rel="nofollow">agtwssbst</a> agtwssbst

]]> By: andy http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-236595 andy Tue, 29 May 2007 05:08:29 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-236595 like your articles very informative gets the mind to think like your articles very informative gets the mind to think

]]> By: don http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-236121 don Mon, 28 May 2007 19:35:56 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-236121 # twr May 15th, 2007 at 12:55 am Don’t forget the modern “sneaker net” ! These days, with 300 GB portable drives getting cheaper and cheaper, more and more goodies are shared among my friends by simply plugging and unplugging various USB devices. +1 # twr

May 15th, 2007 at 12:55 am

Don’t forget the modern “sneaker net” !

These days, with 300 GB portable drives getting cheaper and cheaper, more and more goodies are shared among my friends by simply plugging and unplugging various USB devices.

+1

]]> By: chocalatebunny http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-235803 chocalatebunny Mon, 28 May 2007 13:48:27 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-235803 Oh and Josh - welcome to the 21st Century. Oh and Josh – welcome to the 21st Century.

]]> By: chocalatebunny http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-235801 chocalatebunny Mon, 28 May 2007 13:46:54 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-235801 I think that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. And if I get caught, I'm pleading insanity. I think that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. And if I get caught, I’m pleading insanity.

]]> By: imko http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-234453 imko Sun, 27 May 2007 10:10:29 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-234453 Hi. I have an idea how to fight against p2p piracy, and I don't know who should I share it with? - maybe you could forward it to someone able to do it.... Idea is pretty simple, it is about the movies piracy: To distribute in p2p networks, the copy of new movies but a little bit changed i.e.: - movies without ending (no last scene) - movies without some parts inside (the culmination part) - movies with different order of scenes (beginning, finall scene, the the rest) The idea is, to punish those who download the illegal movies, with taking from them the pleasure of wathing the movie - what is the pleasure if you know the end by the beginning, or if you watch the film but it is somehow incomplete - some parts are missing? I think it could work - it is very difficult to judge if the film in an oryginal version or is it changed, if the changed films would be distributed from strong connection server it could spread all over the p2p very quickly. What do you think? Regards Imko Hi.

I have an idea how to fight against p2p piracy, and I don’t know who should I share it with? – maybe you could forward it to someone able to do it….

Idea is pretty simple, it is about the movies piracy:

To distribute in p2p networks, the copy of new movies but a little bit changed i.e.:
- movies without ending (no last scene)
- movies without some parts inside (the culmination part)
- movies with different order of scenes (beginning, finall scene, the the rest)

The idea is, to punish those who download the illegal movies, with taking from them the pleasure of wathing the movie – what is the pleasure if you know the end by the beginning, or if you watch the film but it is somehow incomplete – some parts are missing?

I think it could work – it is very difficult to judge if the film in an oryginal version or is it changed, if the changed films would be distributed from strong connection server it could spread all over the p2p very quickly.

What do you think?

Regards

Imko

]]> By: meli http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/comment-page-2/#comment-228769 meli Mon, 21 May 2007 12:06:37 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/help-key-the-essential-guide-to-piracy/#comment-228769 The problem isn't with piracy, it's with shitty music. You can try to justify the fact that you haven't become a big rock star by blaming P2P all day long but, the truth is, plenty of new music is discovered all the time and new artists are topping the charts every day. It doesn't really matter how the music gets to people, it's that the music DOES get to people. Plenty of people still buy their music, either because they're scared to do otherwise or because they're a loyal fan or whatever, but they -will- buy it if it's any good. I can think of a few bands off the top of my head that took a risk, put in the initial cost, and offered their music for free and have become incredibly successful by working with this system. Why? Because they make GOOD music. The problem isn’t with piracy, it’s with shitty music. You can try to justify the fact that you haven’t become a big rock star by blaming P2P all day long but, the truth is, plenty of new music is discovered all the time and new artists are topping the charts every day. It doesn’t really matter how the music gets to people, it’s that the music DOES get to people.

Plenty of people still buy their music, either because they’re scared to do otherwise or because they’re a loyal fan or whatever, but they -will- buy it if it’s any good. I can think of a few bands off the top of my head that took a risk, put in the initial cost, and offered their music for free and have become incredibly successful by working with this system. Why? Because they make GOOD music.

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