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goomer
12-22-2004, 08:36 PM
Is it my system or has the whole torrent service been vanished? I am not sure if I can talk about this in this forum, but this week all of my regular sites are down! Any suggestions? I am stuck!
nehkid
12-22-2004, 11:00 PM
I think its alright to talk about as long as we're not telling people how to do it. But yes, in a few days time a large amount of the sites were taken down. I doubt you'll keep the entire community down though. Just got to revert back to the basics, like irc to get torrents. Trackers are still up all over the place.
essexman
12-23-2004, 05:19 AM
well from wot i have heard. they are shutting down the bit torrent network. the dude who made it was bosting about how well it is working againest the record/film company's. so he might suffer a prison sentence.
so i heard, i could be completely wrong
DABhand
12-23-2004, 01:04 PM
They cant touch him, as he said "Its nothing to do with me on how people use my software"

Which is 100% correct.
nehkid
12-23-2004, 02:27 PM
As long as they have tracker software, the BT network can't be shut down. Open source means it can constantly grow. Decentralized means the people who design it isn't responsible for what people download. There are some legitamite ways to use BT. There's a BT link on the official Anarchy Online site that I used to download the game from.
plank
12-24-2004, 03:58 AM
if BT dies, someone else will invent some other way to download things. It's just like the Kazaa issue, there are legal ways of using BT
nehkid
12-24-2004, 04:51 PM
Well, after reading a bit I figured out what happened. Basically the MPAA, a movie copyright group did a major crackdown on eDonkey sites. Many got cease and desist letters. One site owner got arrested and his servers taken down. Some BT sites felt the heat like nova and decided to take their core sites down. The forums at nova and the irc channel are still active though.
robbbert
12-30-2004, 06:14 AM
There is new BT software under development which allows each seed to also
be a tracker site. This removes the need for central trackers, and then BT
can continue unmolested by companies that are making record profits.