BBC NEWS
HIV scandal in gay porn industry

By Madeleine Holt - Culture Correspondent, BBC Newsnight
[Many people Newsnight spoke to did not want to be identified]

Three films have been withdrawn from sale following a Newsnight investigation into the health risks of
so-called bareback gay porn - which shows men have unprotected sex.

It follows concerns within the gay community that performers are being infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Two of the DVDs featured footage from a week-long shoot during which eight British models had sex with each other in multiple combinations
without condoms.
Four of those who took part were diagnosed as HIV positive soon after. One of the men told the BBC he was distressed that footage which he
believed showed him becoming infected had been put on sale.

After all the gay community has been through why are we putting people at risk for porn (Chi Chi Larue - US gay porn director)

In a separate case a British producer, Rufus Ffoulkes, was jailed last week on a child pornography charge for putting a 16-year-old boy in a gay
porn film in which he had unprotected sex.
The US company which released the film had refused appeals to stop selling the DVD until it was approached by Newsnight.
Now, Britain's leading bareback film company, Icreme, has told the BBC it has decided to only do films using condoms.
Most heterosexual pornography has never featured condoms. But showing unprotected sex became taboo in gay porn after HIV and Aids
emerged in the 1980s.

We have been talking about condoms so long that people are bored or think they know it all (Ceri Evans - Sexual Health Adviser)
Yet in the last four years there has been an explosion in the production of bareback films. They now make up about 60% of the gay market.
Some health officials believe this is a sign of a wider complacency in society about the risks of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases
which is mirrored in rising statistics for new infections.

Ceri Evans, Senior Sexual Health Adviser at West London Centre for Sexual Health, told Newsnight: "I think that there is a possibility of something
being called condom fatigue.

"We have been talking about condoms so long that people are bored or think they know it all. Education in schools is not what it could be,
for anybody, for heterosexual but particularly if you are gay."

The rise of bareback porn exasperates many who lived through the 1980s and 1990s.

In the US the leading gay porn director Chi Chi Larue has taken a very public stance against bareback films.

"After all the gay community has been through why are we putting people at risk for porn," he says in a new advert aimed at persuading consumers
to boycott bareback films.

In Britain the campaign against bareback is being lead by a director called Steven Brewer.

He is inviting both producers and performers to sign up to a new code of practice designed to minimise risk within the gay porn industry.
He told Newsnight: "I just don't want another 18-year-old model crying on my shoulder not sure how to tell his partner or his parents that
he is now HIV positive."

Story from BBC NEWS:
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@raphjd:

Anyone know how to put this in Vista x64?

(Quote from ISOHUNT Forum - Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:15 pm)

PG2 does work on Vista(x86) but not on Vista(x64) …
I am running Vista(x64) so I don't use PG2. I just add the ipfilter.dat to µTorrent's settings folder.
By typing this into the run dialog %AppData%\uTorrent. It will open the folder. Just rename the nipfilter.dat
to ipfilter.dat and copy it into that folder.

IP filtering with uTorrent

If you've been using BitTorrent to download any of the more popular files, such as the latest episode of some major TV show, you may have found yourself
receiving lots of "Wasted" data. This is data that has been discarded after being deemed corrupt or invalid by your BitTorrent client. Every so often, you will
have received more wasted data than the size of the files you are downloading!

This is happening because Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, which send out fake or corrupt data in order to waste
bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading major copyrighted torrents, as much as a fourth of the peers you are connected to
can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this. Once you've established a connection to one of these fake
"peers", your IP has been logged and will most likely be sent to the RIAA/MPAA!

But there is a way to fight back! If you are using the latest µTorrent (1.7+), you can employ a little known feature called IP filtering. The author of µTorrent
has gone out of his way to hide it, but it's there nonetheless. But before we can activate this filter, we need to retrieve a list of currently known Anti-P2P
organization IPs.

This is most easily done by downloading the latest blacklist from Bluetack (the same people who wrote SafePeer for the Azureus BT client)
at hXXp://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz. This list is updated daily, and contains all known Anti-P2P organizations, trackers and peers, as well as
all known Goverment/Military IP addresses as collected by the Bluetack team. Once downloaded, extract and rename the file to "ipfilter.dat" in preparation
for the final step.

To make the list available to µTorrent, you need to put it in %AppData%\uTorrent. So type this into the Address Bar, or click Start -> Run and type it
there. After placing the ipfilter.dat in this folder, start µTorrent and go into preferences (Ctrl+P), then click on "Advanced". In the right hand pane, make sure
that "ipfilter.enable" is set to true, and then close the dialog. That's it for the configuration.

You can verify that the list has been loaded by looking under the "Logging" tab of µTorrent, where you should see the line "Loaded ipfilter.dat (X entries)".

Congratulations! You are now protected against most of the garbage-distributing peers; and the likelyhood of the RIAA or MPAA knocking at your door
has been substantially reduced! I'd go as far as to say that you shouldn't be using µTorrent at all without this feature turned on! And even if the law
enforcement side of it doesn't bother you, you should still be interested in reducing the amount of garbage data that gets sent your way, which in turn
leads to quicker downloads, and isn't that something everybody should strive for?

Note: It's advised that you update the list at least once a month, to keep you updated on the movement of the Anti-P2P organizations. One tool that will
aid you getting these updates is the "Blocklist Manager" from the same people who made the list; go to hXXp://www.bluetack.co.uk/ and download it.
On a related note, this note from the µTorrent FAQ should come in handy: "To reload ipfilter.dat without restarting µTorrent, simply open the preferences
(ctrl+p), and press enter to close it again."

What is ipfilter.dat?

This is a simple text file that specifies IP ranges to block. The format is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
You can also use single IPs on a line (i.e. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). It ONLY supports blocks: it will ignore all text specified afterwards (such as what BLM and
Tiny BLM does).

Do not pad IPs with 0s to ensure that it will work (i.e., write 64.12.15.0 not 064.012.015.000), though it is reported to work anyway.
Each new IP or IP range must be placed on a new line.

Place it in %AppData%\uTorrent, and set ipfilter.enable to true in the ‘Advanced Options’.
To reload ipfilter.dat without restarting µTorrent (1.7+ only), view the Peers tab, right click, and select "Reload IPFilter."

P2P researchers: use a blocklist or you will be tracked… 100% of the time
By Nate Anderson | Published: October 10, 2007 - 11:42PM CT

The old cliché "You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you" turns out to apply quite nicely to the world of P2P file-sharing.
A trio of intrepid researchers from the University of California-Riverside decided to see just how often a P2P user might be tracked by
content owners. Their startling conclusion: "naive" users will exchange data with such "fake users" 100 percent of the time.

Anirban Banerjee, Michalis Faloutsos, and Laxmi Bhuyan collected more than 100GB of TCP header information from P2P networks
back in early 2006 using a specially-doctored client. The goal of the research was a simple one: to determine "how likely is it that a
user will run into such a 'fake user' and thus run the risk of a lawsuit?"… "P2P: Is Big Brother Watching You?"
For years, P2P communities have suspected that affiliates of the RIAA, the MPAA, and others have been haunting P2P networks to
look for those who might be swapping copyrighted files. It's more than a hunch; it's well documented that companies like SafeNet
(formerly Media Sentry) engage in this sort of work, and that their testimony is routinely produced at trials. It helped to bring down Jammie
Thomas, in fact. But identifying these organizations is hard. The nature of their business is to remain shadowy, but P2P advocates have
spent years compiling "blocklists" of IP ranges that are suspected of belonging to such companies. Connect to a "user" who has an IP
address in one of the blocklists and bam: you've just been tracked swapping a file.

By parsing all of the TCP headers that they collected over the course of 90 days, the UC-Riverside researchers came to several conclusions:

If you don't use a blocklist, you will be tracked. Every one of the researchers' test clients that did not use a blocklist soon connected to an IP
address found within those lists. It turns out that 12 to 17 percent of all IP addresses on the network belonged to these blocklisted ranges.
Trackers aren't that hard to avoid. While "naive" clients may all connect to blocklisted users, it wasn't that hard to stay away from the vast majority
of such "fake users." Researchers found that "avoiding just the top 5 blocklisted IPs reduces the chance of being tracked to about 1 percent."
Content owners hide their tracks. Much of this tracking work is farmed out from content owners to companies like SafeNet and BayTSP,
and these companies in turn take care to hide their tracks. When the researchers ran reverse DNS lookups on the blocklisted ranges, they found
that only 0.5 percent of those addresses resolved back to media companies in an obvious way.
Meet the BOGONS. One of the strategies for remaining anonymous is to operate from BOGON IP ranges. These ranges are unallocated blocks
of addresses that should ordinarily not be used on the public Internet. Of the top fifteen blocklist entities that were discovered during testing,
12 were in BOGON ranges. The researchers note that "these sources deliberately wish to conceal their identities while serving files on P2P
networks," and reverse DNS queries on these addresses produce little useful information.

The takeaway here is simple: P2P users who don't utilize the blocklists are just about guaranteed to be tracked by "fake users" operating out of
those ranges, and thus seem to open the door to possible litigation should the dice be rolled against them.
The study does have one major caveat, however; it does not attempt to determine if the blocklists actually correspond to tracking organizations
like SafeNet. The researchers note that "this would be interesting and challenging future work." While using a blocklist makes it easy to avoid
connecting to IP addresses found on that list, it's not clear that every range on the lists is really a tracker. Conversely, there's no way to know
if addresses not on the list might in fact be tracking users.

It's obviously Jeff Daniels from Bel Ami.

look here: hXXp://www.belamimodels.com/model.php?id=11

@jjgr:

I already suspected, but did not want to believe! I did not know that there was paid boys to be gay. My Good what money does to pleople

what a strange attitude. if being bisexual is as normal as being gay or heterosexual then it's as well pretty normal for bisexuals to act both ways
(just bi-sexual). it depends from their living conditions and their prevailing preferences. they can be friends with, sleep with or wed a man or a woman.
I believe being bisexual and a gay-movie actor is no discrepancy at all and has nothing to do with 'gay for pay', it's only one part of their personality.

being straight and acting gay for money in gay-movies or as a hustler, that's a different matter.

summarized: why are you amazed about the quite natural behaviour of a bisexual guy?

@magicmike:

Jaaa Jaaa, mach dich nackig tommy !  ;D

HAAALT, nix da, magicmike - ich will endlich mal wieder leute sehen, die was anhaben !!!
würdest du denn vor 80.000+ leuten strippen? und das auch noch gratis? was würden deine enkel dazu sagen?
"geiler opa, boooah ey?" oder würden die vor scham in eine andere stadt ziehen?

@Bonk:

A party for a website that shares movies illegally… just hope there won't be any police raid :police:

Bonk, look at yourself in the mirror. How do you recognize yourself? As a criminal file-sharer?
Not long since you became a member of a huge worldwide 'criminal organization' (?) - intentionally, voluntarily!
Why did you join? Do you feel guilty about that meanwhile? Or are you bound by an official order to collect and
share gay porn? Maybe you are you a secret or self-proclaimed cyber-cop? What is the intention of your reply?

Berlin is not the capital of North Korea, China or Tibet and the mayor of Berlin is openly gay anyway.
The policemen, attorneys and judges who are members of this 80.000+ community just like you and
me -I'm virtually certain about that- would also enjoy some impressions of the party later.

That's life.

To all whom it may concern

I'm living 'only' about 400 km far from Berlin, but despite of the promised free beer I have to meet my obligations at home.
As this is a worldwide community and many of you live 10.000 or even over 20.000 km far from the event in Berlin and have
no chance to join the party, I think it's a good idea to ask Tom and the staff for producing a small video-clip or alternatively
a series of pictures which would be published later on here. That way all off the 80.000+ members can take part at least
indirectly.

Do you agree with this request ?

keanu

moin moin, mgr

obwohl 'nur' ca 400 km von berlin entfernt zu hause, bin ich am 4. april leider verhindert. einigen anderen z.b. aus japan. brasilien, usa, frankreich etc.
wird's ähnlich gehen. aber trotzdem könnten alle 80000+ gemeinde-mitglieder an dem event teilhaben, athmosphäre schnuppern, etwas von der musik
hören und euch alle, die ihr da seid, ein wenig besser kennenlernen.

DREHT DOCH EINFACH EINEN KLEINEN FILM VON DER PARTY und macht einen torrent für alle daraus !

(vielleicht auch mit kurzen interviews/statements von tom und euch unverzichtbaren fachleuten hinter den torrents).
zumindest aber eine kleiner geburtstagsparty-foto-torrent für alle dürfte locker drin sein, denke ich mir.

gruss
keanu