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Everyone chillax a bit.

It looks like the backend is having some issues tonight. I'm sure it will all be back up and running within a few hours, if not sooner.

You can check your connection to the backend with this link: https://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/stmdd/ Once you get a good response from that you should find things start working again.

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God, I couldn't agree more!

There's a series of uploads on here titled <country> Twinks and Amateurs <month>" and it drives me up the wall. There are occasionally some OK files in them, but whoever is putting them together is padding them with several GBs of "Extras" which are normally just poor quality rips of full films already on the site.

It's not an isolated case either. I downloaded an OF rip that contained multiple duplicates and endless 3-second long clips of someone brushing their teeth.

I loved this site a few years ago, but the overall standard of uploads is becoming shocking. People reupload huge collections of files, perhaps adding a couple of pictures just to change the overall size of the download and it gets accepted. Proper titles, descriptions and pictures are a thing of the past, and the system actively encourage people to upload fake pics to other people's torrents with the promise of extra seedpoints.

There's good stuff here, and I don't have any intention of turning my back on the site, but I wish somebody could find a way of actively improving things, because I can guarantee I'll never donate while things remain the way they are.

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@rashoo I think we might need just a little bit more information....

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@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

Uploading porn does not violate copyright law since porn cannot be copyrighted because it is considered obscene.

Repeating this ad nauseum does little to change anyone's mind. As I've pointed out on several occasions in the past you seem to be under the impression that something you've read online somewhere applies globally. Even if porn couldn't be copyrighted wherever you are, that does not mean that anything in other parts of the world.

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Jesus Christ!

How many times are you going to post about this crap. This is the third or fourth thread you've started to voice your resentment of being "lumped in" with trans people. Nobody is lumping you in with trans people. The trans people had a meeting and they don't want you. Get over your own bigotry and/or insecurities, live your own damn life and shut up about it because we don't care!!!

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@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

To the people who actually believe that gay porn has legitimate copyrights, I suggest you leave this site..

Thank you. Your suggestion has been considered and thrown in the bin. The reciprocal of your idea also applies if you feel like taking that option.

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

At the entrances to shops that sell porn, they have signs up saying that there is no admittance for anybody who is a member of law enforcement.

Gotta say, I've never seen that in the UK. Or Amsterdam. Or Prague. Or Spain. Or Germany. Guess they'd better all close up shop in case Buford T Justice happens to drive past while he's chasing The Bandit.

As has been said many times before, this site is not a democracy. The site owner gets to decide what happens on here. If they choose to comply with DMCA, most likely having sought legal guidance on the issue from a professional and not someone with a tinfoil hat on, then that is up to them.

We, the members, do not own the site. We are not responsible for it. The site goes to great lengths to protect its members' anonymity. The owners do not have that protection, so they can do what they like as far as I'm concerned.

As I said, even if there is some bizarre law or statute wherever you are, that has limitations. Porn can be and is copyrighted in many countries, and that copyright is applied to all signatories of the Berne Convention, including the US.

A (fairly long!) article on porn copyright on Lexology reads:

"Similarly, a French court[28] recently held[29] that copyright will not be denied to pornographic work only because of its genre and that the choices governing the design can be considered as original for copyright purposes. In the Australian case Venus Adult Shops,[30] dealing with copyright infringement of pornographic films, the Federal Court held that there is no statutory basis in the Copyright Act 1968 to refuse copyright on the grounds of content or offensive subject-matter of the work in question."

Regarding the UK it goes on to state:

"It is therefore reasserted that copyright law should acknowledge automatic and content-neutral creation of copyright for all works satisfying the legal requirements of copyrightability, including those at the verge of illegality (such as pornography), since the societal value judgments, including morality and public interest, are constantly developing in time and space; and that correspondingly, copyright should serve its "expressive value for society"[39] by promoting free expression or challenging these value judgments."

Now please do tell us all how your US-centric ideas trump the laws of other countries.

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@john32123666 When someone has read the rules and simply forgotten something I can forgive that. When someone hasn't read the rules thoroughly enough to know them properly, I can sort of forgive that. (There are quite a lot of them and it's not an easy read..)

But when someone clearly knows the rules and chooses to ignore them then they're just asking for it. Any torrent site is only as good as its uploads, and it seems to be worse now than it was a few years ago. People are getting lazy, and have no interest in quality uploads. They just want the ratio.

Let's hope that the mods have "explained" the rules to him.

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@lololulu19 said in Straight or Gay?:

who is exclusively a bottom for females pegging him

I genuinely can't believe I have to explain this, but what people do or don't do on camera for money does not necessarily reflect their personal preferences or sexual orientation.

From the sheer number of posts you've made along these lines I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect that you have may have fantasies that lean deep into "straight buy does gay stuff" territory. If so there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't think you really need us to validate that fantasy for you. Believe whatever you want to believe about porn actors, because at the end of the day all of it is really just fantasy. That's the whole point of it. I think you're overthinking it. Imagine someone is straight or gay if you like and just enjoy it for what it is, a performance.

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It seems to have become very common these days to add lots of pics to upload listings that aren't actually from the upload itself. These are usually album/promo pics that show one or some of the performers posing for headshots or whatever. I'm not totally opposed to having clear shots of performers somewhere, but they're starting to get spammed in such a way as to make the site messy.

By way of example I present this set of upload from a 2-hour window earlier today:

10 uploads in 2 hours all using the same pictures over and over again. They have kindly added a thumbnail sheet for each one which I suppose might make them compliant with the rules, but I would argue that the overall presentation is misleading.

This is becoming more and more common it seems. Is there any point in reporting them all, and if so, how? Do we just report it as pic-spamming or what?

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Not here for a fight, but just want to point out that "this will happen eventually if we don't change by 2023" means something very different to "this will happen in 2023" Reading the post properly shows that she said we had 5 years to change course, not that we will all die in fire and brimstone in 5 years. The article even says "an article predicting humans would go extinct by 2023" which any rational person would realise is different to what she was saying. Lazy journalism trying to sensationalise something by misinterpreting it.

FWIW, I don't think anybody has any real clue as to when the planet will (or did) reach the tipping point.

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@chuckBKK I think Casey Tanner doesn't really fit the list. While he did die young he apparently had severe preexisting health issues that weren't linked to his career or lifestyle.

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Can somebody please explain to me what the fuck is up with Helix (or ex-Helix) models dying so young???

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@MrMazda Genuinely starting to wonder if we were separated at birth.... LOL

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@Chaser18 said in Ratio seems impossible to keep up:

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Want to add:

You can also use seed points to make a torrent freeleech. So see something you fancy and it's not freeleech? Use the points there (or on a torrent you already are seeding) because freeleech torrents tend to get leeched more.

That's true, but personally I'd not bother with that method unless I know that I can get a good return on the points investment.

For starters, you can only freeleech a torrent when its more than a week old, so you've missed the initial surge and need to be fairly sure that you'll get downloaders for it. Also, for those people who don't have fast upload speeds you run the risk of a couple of people with fast connections distributing many more packets than you, so once you've uploaded perhaps a couple of copies of the original you're no longer a preferred seed.

I much prefer simply exchanging my points for ratio credit. 600 Points will give me 10GB back, and while I could potentially get more through freeleech I'm not a gambler. Each to his own, I guess.

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UK here, and my system time is always 1 hour ahead of site time throughout the winter period. Can't remember if it corrects itself during BST. It's not an issue.

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@MrMazda said in Are collection rules enforced?:

@justatest90-0 ...and whether or not they have the energy to go down a rabbit hole. I'm always up for that challenge.

Any hole's a goal, eh?

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@ianfontinell-0 You shut your god damn mouth! Haha. MEN is fairly crap, but I like some of the ASG and quite a bit of SU.

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Hullo!

Minnie is quite a nice hamlet. Crossed The Pond for a week in 2018 and I like it there (mostly.) Not so keen on St Paul! I hope it's getting warmer for you there now, and I also hope there's a little less "spiciness" going on.

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@ianfontinell-0 Dammit! I thought about Threshhold, but I wasn't sure enough to suggest it.

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Doesn't ring a bell, but the setting and image quality makes me think of the old Factory studio films. Might be worth looking in that area?

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