Torrent Sites to Land Web Users in Jail

Torrent Sites to Land Web Users in Jail · by **azdewars** on Mon 29 Aug 2016, 16:44

WARNING: This is not to be taken lightly. I have first hand experience on this matter with the FEDS. Three servers were setup around the world for torrent website. To take down the site, all three had to be located and shut down to dissolve website. Took FEDS 18 months to do that. I'm still trying to get the skid marks out of my jeans. The USA government is dead serious on this matter after close observation of how the UK's war on Piracy intensified. There are many little islands in the Pacific Ocean that are now inhabited
The Indian government has just issued a warning to internet users who access blocked torrent sites in the country, saying viewing any one of them could lead tothree years' imprisonment and a fine of $4,546. The government has blocked thousands of sites over the past five years due to their noncompliance with the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, but many users were still able to access them. While the government was quick to hand out the penalty, many experts disagreed on the issue. One complaint, by lawyer Apar Gupta, was that notice being sent to users is not phrased properly. "The sections which [sic] are referred in the notice do not criminalize mere access in isolation," he added. Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Centre, Prasanth Sugathan, also clarified, "Visiting any website, even if it is a blocked site, is not illegal either under the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957 or the Information Technology Act, 2000." The only exception could be if a person views child pornography, Sugathan continued in an interview.
The matter is a John Doe order, which "refers to an unidentified entity and orders content owners to shut down entire websites in order to prevent them from allowing piracy without needing to go to court each time," explained aMedianama report. In response to requests from the Indian Department of Telecommunications, internet service providers have begun blocking the URLs using a DNS-filtering system and including the agency's warning against accessing torrent sites.
Respectfully,
john - azdewars

by **Paul** on Mon 29 Aug 2016, 20:14

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JimQ916

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Sat, Aug 27 2016 9:29 AM

Thanks for the info John....I used to use torrents to get some music but haven't used them recently. I was about to get some music for my dad but I'm most definitely not gonna do it now. Where is Napster when you need them?

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dschom5

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Sat, Aug 27 2016 12:19 PM

Good thing I don't even know what a Torrent site is. Whew.

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pdb1

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Sat, Aug 27 2016 1:14 PM

azdewars:
There are many little islands in the Pacific Ocean that are now inhabited

Must have been one helluva tsunami .

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pdb1

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Sat, Aug 27 2016 1:18 PM

BitTorrent is a communications protocol of peer-to-peer file sharing which is used to distribute data over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and peer-to-peer networks have been estimated to collectively account for approximately 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on location) as of February 2009.[1] In November 2004, BitTorrent was responsible for 25% of all Internet traffic.[2] As of February 2013, BitTorrent was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwidebandwidth, more than half of the 6% of total bandwidth dedicated to file sharing.[3]
To send or receive files one uses a BitTorrent client: a computer program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. Such clients include μTorrent, Xunlei, Transmission,qBittorrent, Vuze, Deluge, and BitComet. BitTorrent trackers provide a list of files available for transfer, and allow the client to find peers known as seeds who may transfer the files.
Programmer Bram Cohen, a former University at Buffalo student,[4] designed the protocol in April 2001 and released the first available version on 2 July 2001,[5] and the most recent version in 2013.[6] BitTorrent clients are available for a variety of computing platforms and operating systems including an official client released by BitTorrent, Inc.
As of 2013, BitTorrent has 15–27 million concurrent users at any time.[7] As of January 2012, BitTorrent is utilized by 150 million active users. Based on this figure, the total number of monthly BitTorrent users may be estimated to more than a quarter of a billion.[8]
Downloading torrents and sharing files[edit]
Users find a torrent of interest, by browsing the web or by other means, download it, and open it with a BitTorrent client. The client connects to the tracker(s) specified in the torrent file, from which it receives a list of peers currently transferring pieces of the file(s) specified in the torrent. The client connects to those peers to obtain the various pieces. If the swarm contains only the initial seeder, the client connects directly to it and begins to request pieces.
Clients incorporate mechanisms to optimize their download and upload rates; for example they download pieces in a random order to increase the opportunity to exchange data, which is only possible if two peers have different pieces of the file.
The effectiveness of this data exchange depends largely on the policies that clients use to determine to whom to send data. Clients may prefer to send data to peers that send data back to them (a tit for tat scheme), which encourages fair trading. But strict policies often result in suboptimal situations, such as when newly joined peers are unable to receive any data because they don't have any pieces yet to trade themselves or when two peers with a good connection between them do not exchange data simply because neither of them takes the initiative. To counter these effects, the official BitTorrent client program uses a mechanism called "optimistic unchoking", whereby the client reserves a portion of its available bandwidth for sending pieces to random peers (not necessarily known good partners, so called preferred peers) in hopes of discovering even better partners and to ensure that newcomers get a chance to join the swarm.[22]
Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular content, it is less useful for unpopular content. Peers arriving after the initial rush might find the content unavailable and need to wait for the arrival of a seed in order to complete their downloads. The seed arrival, in turn, may take long to happen (this is termed the seeder promotion problem). Since maintaining seeds for unpopular content entails high bandwidth and administrative costs, this runs counter to the goals of publishers that value BitTorrent as a cheap alternative to a client-server approach. This occurs on a huge scale; measurements have shown that 38% of all new torrents become unavailable within the first month.[23] A strategy adopted by many publishers which significantly increases availability of unpopular content consists of bundling multiple files in a single swarm.[24] More sophisticated solutions have also been proposed; generally, these use cross-torrent mechanisms through which multiple torrents can cooperate to better share content.[25]
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Torrent Sites to Land Web Users in Jail

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Downloading torrents and sharing files[edit]