What.cd is spying on Filesharingtalk

[backie]

it's really hard for someone such as myself not to think you just tow the line.

I'm banned from waffles.fm and what.cd, take that for towing the line... lol

Also... I don't ever remember referring to uk-t once.

So you got banned at two sites, that doesn't mean anything, plenty of line towers are banned at a few sites. Happens to everyone.

You didn't need to, I thought I would slam down any attempts to bring UK-T into play using them as an example.

[Tv Controls you]

I personally just think in order to maintain the privacy of our communities that we try to contain all our files in between members.
As I said before your shit blog, and your selling invites is pathetic, get a real job. That is the real reason.

Also if you think a pro selling topic is going to prosper on fst, you must be as stupid as everyone makes you out to be....

[ca_aok]

You didn't need to, I thought I would slam down any attempts to bring UK-T into play using them as an example.

Name dropping 1337 trackers enhances your argument greatly

I belive every user profits from using a torrent tracker aslong as they download stuff they don't. This whole let's not let people make money from piracy is just silly, when I was younger and there was no broadband in the UK I used to buy pirate VCDS (yea that far back) I was happy to do so and got my monies worth. Yet some people think that selling pirate DVDs is worse than downloading the stuff for your own usage or that selling invites to a tracker so someone who doesn't have the connections can download free shit too.

I firmly believe that's much worse. There's no proof that a download equals a lost sale, I certainly wouldn't have bought everything I've downloaded. In that sense, it's a zero gain/loss situation for the media companies. They weren't getting my money in the first place, and they didn't have an actual product taken from them.

As soon as you start pirating the material that you've downloaded for free, you're now directly taking their money. Aside from the moral implications it's also a greater crime in most countries. So yes, I'd say it's worse. You're taking shit given to you for free and selling it to people that don't know any better.

Making profit of torrents is perfectly ok, I highly suspect this site is making a profit off illegal torrent community. Sites such as xirvik and other seedbox providers are making profit off illegal torrents. Usenet companies are making a profit off piracy. It's just the trackers have decided theres a few things they don't like and people like you tow the line.

This site rakes in a shitload off ads, so I'd say it's definitely making a profit, but there's really nothing we can do to change that. As for seedbox resellers, I think they're incredibly flawed as they're basically profiting off children that can't google how to set up rtorrent or WINE+utorrent. A monkey can buy a server, install a premade disk image on it, fill it with more users than is worthwhile, and rake in a huge profit. At least the usenet companies have to pay for servers and bandwidth to an extent far greater than your other examples listed (though I'm sure they're still making a killing).

Oh, and why the hell are we even discussing this with you? backie, champion of internet privacy, who has the personal details of people posted on his blog? Your pathetic response of "well all this info was already online anyway" doesn't hold much weight, since guess what, the CSS info is already online anyway. Hypocritical much?

[backie]

Oh, and why the hell are we even discussing this with you? backie, champion of internet privacy, who has the personal details of people posted on his blog? Your pathetic response of "well all this info was already online anyway" doesn't hold much weight, since guess what, the CSS info is already online anyway. Hypocritical much?

Well, I don't think you can expect your personal information to remain private when it's in a public database, such as court records or a whois database. That's just me, I know it's weird. Mabye I should live like you, expect everything to remain private if it could be damaging to me.

[ca_aok]

Well, I don't think you can expect your personal information to remain private when it's in a public database, such as court records or a whois database. That's just me, I know it's weird. Mabye I should live like you, expect everything to remain private if it could be damaging to me.

By that logic, you should have no problems with the CSS leak. Let the hypocrisy continue!

And I think if we took a quick poll about whether you'd rather have your address and phone number posted in a publicly visible place or whether you'd rather have someone realize that you've visited BTRACS, I think I know what most people would pick as the greater invasion of privacy.

[Tv Controls you]

.....This has become so hypocritical I don't even know what to post....

ca-aok you act as if you have a regard for internet privacy now.....

[ca_aok]

Not really, it's not my info posted so it's irrelevant to me, simply pointing out that he doesn't give a shit about privacy as long as he's selling his drivel.

I can certainly sympathize much more with someone that has their real life shit posted compared to some trader that loses an internet account though. There aren't any real life consequences to trading, but there are real life consequences to having the personal details of torrent site admins posted.

[backie]

Not really, it's not my info posted so it's irrelevant to me, simply pointing out that he doesn't give a shit about privacy as long as he's selling his drivel.

It's more that I don't think you can expect privacy in public. Such as if you're in the street you can't complain if someone takes your picture. If your information is in a public database you can't complain with someone mirrors it.

[Tv Controls you]

If your information is in a public database you can't complain with someone mirrors it.

I'm sure you would be complaining if you got sued for displaying pedomax's personal details without his consent in public.

*side note... 1,000 post! lol

[Quarterquack]

If your information is in a public database you can't complain with someone mirrors it.

I'm sure you would be complaining if you got sued for displaying pedomax's personal details without his consent in public.

*side note... 1,000 post! lol

You can't get sued. Why don't people understand this already? If he paid a public outlet for phishing people's information then it would be questionable. Mirroring freely available information is what makes google so rich. Backie cannot be sued for it.