@vexbit said in Double ID on URLs:
I've actually figured it out.
Clever sleuthing on your part! I can remember that some years back not every website was hospitable to omitting the www: If the full address was www.sitename.tld, and one manually entered simply sitename.tld, the DNS system (or something like that) would get all confused. I think that got cleaned up, even if there are some interesting artifacts as you have discovered.
We all know where the Big Apple is. But do we know where the Minneapolis?
One hundred years ago everyone owned a horse, and only the rich had cars. Today, everyone has a car, and only the rich own horses. The stables have turned.
Bread is like the sun: I rises in the yeast, and sets in the waist.
Will glass coffins be popular? Remains to be seen.
Orion’s belt is a big waist of space. (OK, that wasn’t so good…only gets three stars.)
We should legalise cannabis, and use the taxes on it to repair the roads. We could call this Operation Pothole.
February 22, 2022 (2/22/22, or 22.2.22) was on a Tuesday, so perhaps it should have been called 2’s day.
To the guy who stole my antidepressants: I hope you’re happy now.
I got the words “Jacuzzi” and “yakuza” confused. Now I’m in hot water with the Japanese mafia.
There's probably somebody who thinks that all upscaling is bad--which isn't strictly the case. Using simple software to increase the resolution of a video file won't improve the quality, and just makes the file larger. Many people have done this, falsely claiming to have converted the file to HD.
On the other hand, there is some very sophisticated software that can make some improvement to the quality of a file when increasing the resolution. If the uploader has done this, they do indeed merit our thanks. While a 20-year-old file cannot be made to look like a current HD file, it can look a bit better.
I suspect that the one-star rater assumes that the uploader just increased the resolution without any quality improvement (which is the case with most upscales). Blowing up a file with no benefit deserves a low rating, but unless somebody has downloaded the material and compared it to a lower-resolution original, s/he's not going to know whether it's a "good" upscale or a "bad" one. It would be nice if the torrent page software only permitted rating by people who have completed a download of all the material, but that sounds like a massive software headache.
From "EverybodyWiki" (https://en.everybodywiki.com/Pavel_Novotný_(actor)), results not guaranteed:
In March 2009, Novotný was arrested at the Havana airport in Cuba, with a traveling companion named Zdeněk Tovara, reportedly a male prostitute, for, among other things, insulting Cuban leaders Fidel Castro and Raul Castro. Their trial was in November 2009. They faced five years in Cuban prison. Entertainer George Michael supplied legal and financial aid for them until they were released to the Czech Republic in May 2010.
I did some quick web searching on both his stage name (Pavel Novotny) and birth name (Jaroslav Jirík) and didn't find anything recent. He seems to have faded into history.
@bi4smooth said in Gaytor.rent forum domain:
One can NEVER have too many friends...
...especially if one is renting a gaytor: "No, no, @bi4, don't do it! Or at the very least, don't let it suck you off."
@bi4smooth said in Gaytor.rent forum domain:
Unless you think you want to "rent" a gay alligator?
My dear, bestiality content is banned from this site. Besides, it sounds rather uncomfortable.
@LordNemesis One big problem with huge torrents is that if they have content from a studio that is aggressive--and rapid--with takedown requests, it's possible that nobody will get even one completed file, even if s/he has only selected a few files from those available. The uploader thus gets seed credit, but downloaders can be left with nothing usable. I agree that some forced moderation here could be appropriate.
I share your dislike of unintelligible file names with no thumbnailing. This is inexcusable given the ease of solving this problem: I have a utility called "AMT Auto Movie Thumbnailer" (freeware available at https://funk.eu/amt/ ) that will make bulk thumbnail mosaics from a whole directory of videos--one can give it a whole folder of video files and it will produce a preview image for each one. These can be included in their own directory in a torrent so that downloaders can decide which--if any--video files they want to download.
@dretafari This question isn't likely to get an official answer: The owner(s)/operator(s) of the torrent site prefer to keep the inner workings confidential, for their protection and the protection of the site. This is quite understandable given the complexity of the legal issues involved.
I have a hunch, though, that there is some robust planning to keep things going in the event of unforeseen problems. Several years ago the site vanished completely, but was back within a few months.
@lololulu19 said in Why does "old porn" look old?:
My speculation is that someone has a 40 year old VHS tape in a drawer, that they convert into being a DVD.
Also, people from the 1980's would make copies of copies of copies of VHS tapes, and the quality would go down with each copying since it was an analog process done with machines of different characteristics. (Every video tape recorder--even from the same manufacturer--has slightly different head alignment and such. Tapes can look very good when played back on the machine that recorded them, but they lose quality when played/recorded on multiple machines.)
Some older American studios (e.g., Catalina) made "anniversary editions," and those can look decent. But material from Germany in the 1990's is often third or fourth (at least) hand since those studios were shut down for using underage models.
@john32123666 said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
[WATCHOUT OVERLOAD] ENTRY
That kind of "excessive load" is always welcome on this site.
@kutas said in Empornium, PornBits, Pornolab invite:
Hi there!
I'm looking to join Empornium, PornBits, Pornolab tracker.
I'm not familiar with those sites. I have a gazillion points on https://gay-torrents.org , but invites to that site are not in much demand these days. One GentleUser to whom I sent an invite actually complained to me that he didn't like the site.
I have seedbox 10 Gbps connection
Are you bragging about the size of your connection? 
@Headstrong19 I used to enjoy that programme--my favourite was the tenth Doctor (David Tennant), and I also enjoyed the eleventh (Matt Smith, especially when the cast included Arthur Darvill, who I find very attractive). From the twelfth Doctor on, though, I don't find the show as interesting.
A few years ago I had the French-German "Smart" tiny car, which was actually quite roomy for passengers because it was only a two-seater. I called it my Tardis, because it was larger on the inside than on the outside.
@john32123666 said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
"excessive load"
This happens when a website is updating [Server is busy]
So it doesn't mean a thing ...
I didn't think my attempt at humour was so obscure. Here's an example of what I think of when I hear "excessive load:"
And speaking of amusing images, I checked the forum a few minutes ago and got the following screen:
The term "excessive load" could mean a number of things to this community...but I better stop, since this is admittedly off-topic, and I don't want to be labeled a troll.
@john32123666 said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
Trolls are people who leave intentionally provocative or offensive messages on the internet in order to get attention, cause trouble or upset someone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Thank you for that Wikipedia page--it has some very amusing images, such as "Don't feed the trolls" and "Internet troll popping out of the computer" (which I initially read as "pooping," perhaps an even more appropriate title).
I can think of someone in the forum who fits that definition of troll quite well, although s/he hasn't participated in this thread. I won't mention any names, lest I be labeled a troll (although I've been called far worse than that on here).
@lololulu19 said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
I have begged for people to provide even one example of someone being successfuly sued for sharing content. I am still waiting for that one example.
I would also like to see an example. There's an interesting article at https://torrentfreak.com/judge-understands-bittorrent-kills-mass-piracy-lawsuits-140130/. In essence,
This means that a studio would have to sue each person sharing or receiving a file individually--that's a lot of effort for little return.
@NF16 said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
This is something I'm reasonably familiar with, having previously been attacked by one of the studios several years ago. It took hiring a lawyer to get them to back off from their threats against me.
I''m sorry you had to go through that. Your screen name sounds familiar--perhaps you shared this story in the forum, and that's what spurred me on to researching things like the FlavaWorks case. I think I posted a response, but haven't followed up on that since then.
@lololulu19 said in Why are porn star ID request posts being deleted ?:
@eobox91103 one new excellent point you made was that even if they did pursue it.. it would be a CIVIL matter and not criminal, since no money was transferred.. and also.. since it was not sold, they can't collect any money from the sale.. of something that was not sold! Hypothecially, the could sue for damages - but that has never happened. Even if awarded damages, in a civil suit, that is next to impossible. Is have two fantastic examples of that.. I already mentioned Fred Goldman winning a $35 million award against OJ Simpson in CIVIL court.. but Freddie has yet to see a dime of that. Another case was Hulk Hogan suing Gawker and being awarded $115 million. Well.. Hogan has yet to collect a dime of that.
There have been cases where porn companies have sued people who shared or downloaded copyrighted material. I don't have data on how many (if any) of these actions resulted in awarded damages, but it's difficult to collect on a civil lawsuit. The two high-profile cases you mention are an example of that, but even "mid-sized" cases in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars are tough to collect, unless the defendant has insurance to pay it. While there are ways to forcibly collect on a judgment, they are difficult and time-consuming, and often not worth the effort on the part of a plaintiff who "won" the judgment.
Some porn producers who sell subscriptions include a condition in their terms of service providing that a subscriber is liable for a certain amount of damages (usually around $50K) if s/he shares copyrighted content. This can make a subsequent civil action easier to win, but still doesn't help with collection.
Another spin on all this is an interesting case involving FlavaWorks; see https://www.thesword.com/flava-works-gay-porn-lawsuit.htmlhttps://www.thesword.com/flava-works-gay-porn-lawsuit.html . In brief, FlavaWorks contacted one of their subscribers directly who had torrent-shared their material, and asked for payment of $97K. The subscriber was a public figure and counter-sued on the grounds that FlavaWorks was trying to extort money from him. I don't know how it turned out, but I think both cases dissolved.
(FlavaWorks was in hot water over some other issues--I seem to recall that the city or county of Miami was suing them for operating a business without a license, and the city of Chicago was suing them for doing porn scenes in a row house in a manner that could be seen from the street. Since both of these actions involved a government, the studio was under greater threat of asset seizure, etc. I don't know how these turned out.)
@Kowmei said in Different way to have sex...:
... Also, I particularly love when the top's penis goes from between the thighs to between the butt cheeks. Basically, the expectation of being penetrated, without being actually penetrated, is much more intense than penetration.
This can work out well for the (pseudo-) bottom as well, since a cock rubbing against the perianal region will stimulate the prostate and create a sensation similar to being fucked.
