@raphjd Criticising one law and the newspaper which has championed it is not "bashing conservatives". It was literally a criticism of the law in the title of the thread! You have made a grossly incorrect assumption about me and my politics based on this single comment. This particular law happens to have been passed by a rightwing government, had it been passed by a leftwing government and promoted by virtue signallers at The Guardian newspaper I would have been equally critical of it. A bad law is a bad law regardless of who passed it. There is no need to take such criticism so personally as an attack on your personal beliefs.

The whole world is not a toxic left v right, us v them contest like you seem to see it. Like I said, I come from a different political culture and this pointless trench warfare is something which adds literally nothing to political discourse.

BTW What you did is the epitome of a strawman argument. You brought up negative things done by someone else to draw attention away from the issue at hand. As a forum admin I thought you would at least be able to grasp that basic concept.

@john32123666 The vast majority of upscaled content that is being shared on here ranges from pretty poor to downright terrible. It's at epidemic levels these days and since Topaz made their software more basic and cheaper there are users with no experience thinking they are suddenly digital video experts. I blame how Topaz are advertising their software, as some kind of magic solution than can turn anything to HD or 4K, when in reality it can do nothing of the sort. Most of what I have seen on here has been destroyed by the software (by the person using the software in fact) and it looks like anime or an oil painting.
I've been working with digital video for almost two decades and started using AI enhancement as a part of my workflow for some restoration jobs about 2 years ago. It's a fantastic tool when used correctly, but unfortunately I rarely see it used correctly here, I stopped sharing my own AI enhanced videos some time ago because I was embarrassed to be associated with the "AI Enhanced" label. I assume most users see that and scroll on by.
Lately when I see a bad AI enhanced video, I try and get the original version seeding again (if I can find it), because in most cases the original is considerably better.

@AlexDemand It usually takes a few minutes for the tracker to update after you delete a torrent from your client.

@lololulu19 No, no, no, no, no. AI models have no function to restore colour. They use learned algorithms to remove noise and interpolate pixels to improve fidelity - that is all. With a poor quality source video, like a VHS transfer, they just cannot differentiate between noise and picture and will remove detail and enhance noise.
Anyone who wants to restore old VHS tapes will need a professional grade cassette player to digitise the tapes and should be using conventional software to stabilise the picture and balance the colour, and to fix VHS issues like signal noise, haloing, ringing etc. As a final step AI software can be used, but in most cases VHS picture quality is too low res for AI processing to be effective and the processed video comes out either looking like anime, or like an oil painting left out in the rain.

@lololulu19 Because while you were downloading other segments the high priority segments were downloaded by one of the peers that you can connect to, and they were downloaded by you once your other downloading segments completed. The high priority only works when these files are available from a peer you can connect to, if they are not available your client will download other available files. This is particularly apparent when a torrent is new with only one seeder.

@lololulu19 It's simply because the peers that you are connected to don't have the high priority segments that you are missing. You may not be connected to any seeder, but instead other leechers so only the files / segments they have downloaded will be available to you.

@raphjd You're like a parody at this stage. You're so blinded with rage you can't understand what I'm saying and continue to rant at me because you think I'm a leftist

Thanks for the laughs. I'm taking a self imposed holiday. I suggest you take a few breaths and look at the wider world and perhaps release some of the rage at another target.

"Forum administrator" hahaha

@raphjd It's a political topic. Move it to the politics section. You're an admin

@raphjd Criticising one law and the newspaper which has championed it is not "bashing conservatives". It was literally a criticism of the law in the title of the thread! You have made a grossly incorrect assumption about me and my politics based on this single comment. This particular law happens to have been passed by a rightwing government, had it been passed by a leftwing government and promoted by virtue signallers at The Guardian newspaper I would have been equally critical of it. A bad law is a bad law regardless of who passed it. There is no need to take such criticism so personally as an attack on your personal beliefs.

The whole world is not a toxic left v right, us v them contest like you seem to see it. Like I said, I come from a different political culture and this pointless trench warfare is something which adds literally nothing to political discourse.

BTW What you did is the epitome of a strawman argument. You brought up negative things done by someone else to draw attention away from the issue at hand. As a forum admin I thought you would at least be able to grasp that basic concept.

@raphjd I didn't say I wasn't being political. It's a discussion about a law. But what I said was related to the law under discussion. You brought up a whole litany of unrelated people, entities and proposed laws in an attempt to drag the conversation into a left v right mud slinging contest. I'm not from that political culture, and I don\t care to engage with it. If you have anything to add to the conversation, that is actually related to the law under discussion, besides strawman arguments and rhetoric, then please do.

@raphjd I didn't mention the UK Labour Party or The Guardian newspaper (I'm aware the article the OP linked to is from there, but I was talking about the actual law, not the newspaper article), the US Democrats, "Trudeau's party" (the Liberal Party fyi), Tony Blair, The Snooper's Charter, or the BBC. None of those have anything to do with the current law. So there is literally nothing of any substance in your post, just strawman arguments and empty rhetoric. I don't believe there is any point engaging in that level of political mud slinging, because it contributes nothing to any political debate. Enjoy the rest of your day.

@twinkerzzz

Hi twinkerzzz

A lot of the law seems to be about preventing people seeing porn who don't want to see it, and ensuring that under 18s can't access porn. I can see it having two outcomes: 1. UK users will be bombarded by even more pop-ups like those annoying cookie ones, asking to verify they are over 18 and willing to view adult content when they visit any site that may have a nipple or an arse cheek on view, or 2. some sites will just block UK users to avoid the bother and the only dick you'll be able to see without a VPN will be Piers Morgan.

This part of the law seems to be an attempt to pander to the moral outrage brigade who are in a perpetual state of Daily Mail induced panic or rage. Its only impact will be to annoy adults who are trying to do something perfectly legal.

There is another part which covers the distribution of material which includes a person who hasn't given their consent for the material to be distributed. This doesn't refer to anything mainstream (like OF or cam videos) that is being pirated (there are plenty of other insufficient laws for that) but rather material like revenge porn, private sex tapes or WhatsApp images, baited images or videos etc. Basically anything that you have received in confidence without the explicit consent to share it, or anything recorded secretly like in public toilets, changing rooms or on nude beaches. Some of this is already illegal to record, but this law now makes it illegal for anyone to send it on to another person. Most of this is already illegal here in Ireland, and punishable by up to 7 years in prison, and there is currently a public information campaign on TV and online. Judging by the reactions online nobody here had a clue about the law until they saw the TV campaign, including myself.

One thing to keep in mind when torrenting is that you are not just a downloader, you are also an uploader, so anything currently active in your client is being distributed by you. This site isn't a content distributor, it just facilitates the transfer from user to user, and no files are hosted by the site. So ultimately you are responsible for whatever material you download and distribute, and you are always responsible for complying with whatever laws apply in your country. Remember the vast majority of users here will be outside the UK and oblivious to your laws, just as I can't do anything if somebody from Saudi Arabia downloads a file I am hosting and gets prosecuted (or worse) for it.

@lololulu19 Because while you were downloading other segments the high priority segments were downloaded by one of the peers that you can connect to, and they were downloaded by you once your other downloading segments completed. The high priority only works when these files are available from a peer you can connect to, if they are not available your client will download other available files. This is particularly apparent when a torrent is new with only one seeder.

@lololulu19 It's simply because the peers that you are connected to don't have the high priority segments that you are missing. You may not be connected to any seeder, but instead other leechers so only the files / segments they have downloaded will be available to you.

@AlexDemand It usually takes a few minutes for the tracker to update after you delete a torrent from your client.

@AlexDemand It sounds like you may not have had a download slot available when you added the torrent to your client, so it didn't begin downloading until there was a slot available, by which time the free leech period was over.

Remember if you don't download all the files included in a torrent, and leave the partial download seeding, it will still count as a leeching torrent, and occupy one of your download slots until it is paused or removed from your torrent client. You can see a list of your leeching torrents towards the bottom of the Details & Stats section in the main site. You can also check the number of download slots you have available to you in the Details & Stats section.