Giganews DMCA Rampage: Embrace 100% data loss.

[temisturk]

Should I try to defend "bittorrent culture"? I could take a shot but this is the newsgroups section so I'm not sure it would be appropriate to do so here? I just wanted to say there was a choice, which I've done, not to evangelise or try to troll newsgroupies. I need your unreliable guidance to know whether now would be a good time to stfu or not?

[mjmacky]

I'm trying to see how defending bittorrent culture would offend newsgroup users, but I just can't find the angle. Your arguments, depending on their nature, might offend the spirit of intellectual development so that's your chance to take.

By the way zot's a totally uninformed pussy, beck38 is probably wedged between 2 server stacks tired and hungry with no one responding to his cries of help, and hypatia is a plant from the MPAA here to spy on all of us and undermine some supposed movement.

[temisturk]

I was just thinking about it being off-topic, some forums don't like that. And I got bitten by american idol for merely mentioning downloading in the movie section so I'm just being careful. Anyway, you're going to have to make a more specfic accusation than "bittorrent culture is a horrible horrible plague" if I'm to make a more specific defence than "no, it's not, it's a wonderful garden full of sunflowers."

[lightshow]

So are there any usenet providers who are not succumbing to the takedowns at alt.binaries.xbox360?

I know for sure newsdemon is taking articles down.

[mjmacky]

I was just thinking about it being off-topic, some forums don't like that. And I got bitten by american idol for merely mentioning downloading in the movie section so I'm just being careful. Anyway, you're going to have to make a more specfic accusation than "bittorrent culture is a horrible horrible plague" if I'm to make a more specific defence than "no, it's not, it's a wonderful garden full of sunflowers."

You'll never catch idle in a mood where he isn't bitching about something or at least extremely annoyed. I'm surprised he hasn't hung himself. Personally, I enjoy the melancholy (and I'll ignore any of his attempts to define his mood). But no, I don't feel like going on an extremely long tirade about bt culture. Much of my ranting can be found during my 200th-700th posts probably (no idea because I can't check).

[temisturk]

OK, we'll call it a draw then.

[hdjunky]

So are there any usenet providers who are not succumbing to the takedowns at alt.binaries.xbox360?

I know for sure newsdemon is taking articles down.

yes but it prolly isnt a good idea to advertise who has it all. dont need to do the work for the copyright a-holes.

[mjmacky]

OK, we'll call it a draw then.

I never draw, and I only lose if I decide to take a loss. This was me sparing you from a routing, and me sparing myself from irritable bowels.

[lightshow]

yes but it prolly isnt a good idea to advertise who has it all. dont need to do the work for the copyright a-holes.

I think it's fine to freely discuss this. The companies that issue the DCMA have full knowledge of all the major channels of which binaries of their stuff can be posted. Really the discussion on our side would be which providers stand up to DCMA requests and/or are able to drag their feet for a measurable amount of time.

[temisturk]

Ah, that explains your avatar