Posts made by Frederick

EWW!  Straight porn is almost as bad as scat!

Although there is not a tits bit of difference between 8.1 and 10, I would still go with 10 because Microsoft tends to punish people who don't keep their operating system current.

My first hard drive was a 1 gig drive that cost over $1000, so maybe I value the size of files more than other people.

This movie was posted with no description at all, no title that can be  researched on other sites, and just one picture of a guy sitting in his underpants.  I bet it is only about 15 minutes long, and does not have any sex nor nudity.  It is also posted under the FETISH category.  I wasn't aware that downloading enormous files with garbage content was a fetish, but I suppose that is some sort of masochism.

I did manage to find out what this post is.  It is Reese Wells of BG East videos and his wrestling videos.  There is virtually no nudity.  There are 11 files in the post, of which most are jpgs.

https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=8461e7ee87a62f0108da995e632c1e4b6dfd47208bb6a288

@cannonmc:

Frederick, combined with torrents I find the minimum is more than enough for me.

If you do try easynews again, get in touch and I can give you some shortcut tips for the Web interface 

I have not used the Usenet in years, but I remember they had a Web interface.  Before that, I always used Forte Agent.

I have noticed that plain old web searches now do a much better job of finding things than they did even a few months ago.

I fear that in the future, the internet will be completely regulated and there will be no anonymity nor "underground" left.

@Pawpcorn:

Yes, indeed, if you desire a trojan-like result of advertising web pages popping up all the time… out of your control, DO "upgrade" (to hell).

good point  but…
The popups only appear if utorrent is maximized.  if it is minimized, the little videos and their annoying sound do not play.

Utorrent 2.2.1 is from March 9, 2011.  It is over 4.5 years old.  UPGRADE!!

Yes, Utorrent put out a lot of bad versions.  But the current version is a lot better than 2.2.1
I notice that whenever a peer is running 2.2.1, the transfer rate is VERY SLOW.

@cannonmc:

Usenet hasn't died, it still has terabytes of posts a day. But the method of downloading has moved on.

For instance, Easynews has a browser interface where you can show only completed movies, no spam and all scanned, ready to download as a complete file.

It is still the first place I look for movies and software because the download is fast, I don't have to seed but I do have to pay $10 a month

Hmmm.. maybe I will give it another try in a few months.  The price has not changed - $10 a month.

@NYcram:

I recently went back to usenet (to get a TV series that is broadcast here with an infuriating delay of several months). I discovered that Easynews has 1-year retention on its web interface and 7-year (!) retention on its NNTP interface. Been exploring the NNTP backlog ever since.

The file names seem to be less obfuscated than I remember from the past. i don't know if Easynews uses some de-obfuscating process on the posts.

I used to use Easynews, and that is probably the best.  I used to chat with the guys that ran it… they went by the names "King Kong" and "Godzilla".  I think they are gone though... and I gave up on the USENET because of so many trash files and malware.  At the time, Easynews made virtually no attempt to clean the crap out of their groups.

I used to batch re-encode dozens of movies every day on USENET, but then the Usenet went to hell, so I stopped.

There are people posting great movies now, with excessive file sizes.  I am working on figuring out which settings are best for encoding without losing any quality.  I prefer to stick with the defaults of a program, but they usually need some tweaking.  You have to consider the codec, the format, and the resolution.

There are various codecs, but I have not yet determined which is best.

For formats, I'm looking at AVI, MP4, and WMV. 
The MP4 format has several sub formats including V1, V2, and PSP.  Why anybody would select V1, when there is a V2 is beyond me.

I value QUALITY above anything else, so if there is a noticeable difference in quality, I reject them.  A good way to compare quality is to look at the watermarks on the video.  If the text is just as crisp on the re-encoded movie as it is on the original AND the video plays smoothly, then you have a winner.

I am using AVS Video Converter, but I can get any of them.  If anybody has a recommendation on a better converter program or the best settings, please let me know.

I don't like buying a new 8 TB hard drive every 3 months to store oversized files.

I have a funny story related to that.  I once worked for a cheapskate who did computer installations for small government offices such as their city halls and public works.  My boss told the city manager that the computer he was building for them was fantastic.  It has a 1 GIGABYTE hard drive.  Not TB.. GB.  My boss told the city manager that 1 GB would be more than enough to last a lifetime.  I must admit that my cheapskate crook of a boss was telling the truth.. because my boss dropped dead 18 months later!  Serves him right for all the abuse I took from that idiot.

@cannonmc:

:clap2:

I'm not sure which comments you mean as I can't find many new ones today.

But I sympathise with your views. I have virtually given up posting here because hardly anyone says thanks (no, I don't mean bonus points, just thanks).

I am also amazed at people who demand 'what is this movie' when a couple of clicks by them could find the info (no hidden sites needed).

And anyone who makes cruel remarks after someone has gone to the bother of doing everything to post gets my contempt.

If you don't like the movie, shut up. If the poster may have got something wrong there are polite and gentle ways of pointing it out. If there is something really wrong (wrong title, wrong category..) there is the 'report' facility.

You have used the 'mot juste' in 'disheartening ' - that is exactly what it is after you have gone to all the trouble of getting things ready, seeding, using your bandwidth just to share.

I don't think the 'offenders' realise how many people they discourage, people who say 'OK, fuck it, I'll do something else'.

I hope you carry on sharing but I would not blame you a bit if you didn't

:hug2:

I almost never say "Thanks" because if I did, I would spend hours a day doing it!  Don't feel insulted if someone does not thank you.  If you posted because someone requested the movie, then you should not only get a thank you and points. 
When I leave comments that are negative, it is because they deserve a negative comment.  Someone posted an 11 minute video with terrible video resolution and no sound that was 9.6 GIGS  yes GIGS.  I was warning other people not to download that because that would permanently destroy the ratio of new users, and they could never recover from that.

@MrMazda:

This is just a hunch based on what I know about the legal processes for your area. You appear to be using your internet connection directly without the use of a VPN. It may be possible that a copyright troll has alleged your IP address to be suspected of copyright infringement, without actually providing specific details on what material that they feel to be infringed. This is most common when your ISP sees P2P traffic. I may be inclined to recommend the use of a VPN to skirt around this problem.

I personally use Pure VPN for this very purpose. While most VPN services are a paid service, I can say with confidence that the added privacy is definitely worth paying for the service. This will help to avoid any such issue between you and your ISP. From what I can see from the torrents that you have downloaded, I see no reason as to why your connections may be slow, which is why I am inclined to think that the DMCA may be the "problem" in your case, under one of the more obscure clauses that permits your provider to throttle your internet connection solely on the allegation of a suspicion of copyright infringement.

I do have NordVPN, but I only use it as a last resort.  My speeds have picked up again.  I can usually tell where the problem is.. because I use 4 different torrent sites a lot.  When only one of them is slow, I know that it is that site that has an issue.

On a side note.. I would be a lot more concerned about copyrights on mainstream movies, porn, software, and music if most mainstream movies, porn, software, and music were not garbage.

@Pawpcorn:

Ah, nice to know I'm "not alone"  :hug:

I do the SAME for Hollywood releases, as you; ALWAYS search out the 1080p version, yet limit file size to between 8GB and 12GB or my media box chokes on the data throughput, plus I'm limited on storage space (2TB HD in the media box, it's full, and I'm shuffling a 380GB mini-hard drive back and forth from PC to mediabox, in the meantime…

Back on the subject of porn... I see my choice as key to my sense of "visualization" (for lack of a better term, to where my psyche is certainly imagining that I'm THERE, IN the action  :cheers:)... The Higher the resolution, the BETTER I experience my fantasy of visualization. My lifelong "gift" of being able to "visualize" or "fantasize" in real detail... has been my curse, as well as my blessing... I'm a natural daydreamer. ::)

On another porn website I visit... I see upload offers (of the same video) in immediate sequence in 2 or three levels of resolution... and always (of course) there are members who choose one over the other...

Case in point: A current (new release, major studio) 3 listings, right now, about 2 1/2 hours old…
1080p   1.01GB   5 seeders, 3 leechers   (15.7%)
720p     540MB  21 seeders, 8 leechers   (56.8%)
std res  265.25  10 seeders, 4 leechers   (27.4%)

So... I guess I'd be in the 15.7% category of people who desire (and can afford) the 1080p HD version...
...and the vast majority chose the mid-range quality 720P version...
...and a little more than a quarter of the folks chose the standard lowest resolution version...

interesting on-the-fly survey, eh?

I'm in the minority  :blind:  

I know what site you are referring to with the various resolutions.  I avoid the 1080p choices.  Be careful of that site .. they don't always label the movies accuarately.  A movie that is labeled 1080p is sometimes low resolution, while a movie labelled as low resolution is actually high.  One thing I bitch about a lot is when someone takes an original low resolution movie, and encodes it as a 1080p movie which does nothing more than make the file bigger.  That annoys the hell out of me.

I used to use the USENET almost exclusively for files.  I vividly recall using those "magical" par files to repair and complete missing parts of files, and then using winrar to extract the files, etc.    I even paid for Easynews for several years - a premium usenet service.  My ISP used to have an excellent Usenet service included (which they did away with a long time ago).

I don't know what happened, but the Usenet got polluted with a deluge of fake files, malware, viruses, incomplete files, etc.  Some newsgroups had roughly 99% fake files in them!

What really annoyed me is that the premium usenet providers did nothing to filter out the malware or incomplete files or fake files.  On the usenet, typically a user is associated with the files they post, so if there is malware - that user should have all their files removed. That didn't happen though.

Luckily, as the usenet died, the torrents replaced them.  I don't know what I would do for files without torrents.

@Popper:

Vuze is a very powerful (feature wise) and customisable client, to the point it can become too complicated even for users knowing a bit about torrents. They got three levels of GUI options, therefore. It requires the Java Runtime, which is known for having frequently known vunerabilities.

Transmission was for long time the client of choice for Mac OS X users, but when µTorrent for Mac got "stable", I've seen many to change to it.

qBittorrent is running rather well on Windows, Mac and Linux. I just miss the Start/Stop and Force Start options in the version I use, which isn't the last stable available.

rtorrent/rutorrent is frequently run on Seedboxes and servers, it is a commandline client (rtorrent) with a graphic userinterface (rutorrent) accessed from your web browser and as far as I've seen (but not used) similar to µTorrent in look.

Other clients which get sometimes recommendations are Deluge, Tixati and BitComet. In the past we had mainly users of BitComet plagued with leaked passkeys (a few cases in total over years), though the developers on their forum say it don't exchanges torrents if set private … sorry, had not the time to test.

Bittorrent is put out by the same people that do utorrent.  They look and function exactly the same, but they are coded differently.  utorrent is faster for some reason.

I don't use Vuze enough to comment much about it, but I recall that in the past, everytime i started using Vuze, I stopped because of various issues.

Some torrent clients are much more aggressive in finding peers than others.  Some torrent clients are banned by various torrent sites.  I'm not thrilled with any of them.  I wish there was a torrent client which would disguise the ip address of the local computer whether it is seeding or leeching.

@cannonmc:

Actually, long time ago when usenet was king and we had superfast dial-up connections!), it was a sort of standard that 10MB (megabytes) was about right for 10 minutes of movie. If people posted huge files they would get shouted down because in those days posts got pushed off the group.

When collecting movies of the 80s and 90s I tend to stick to files between 600MB and 1.5GB. There is no good reason to download large DVD files made from movies of that era unless the original has been remastered or for the DVD extras.

I am all for bigger file sizes as long as there is a noticeable improvement in quality.  With the right encoding settings, it is amazing how small files can be and have excellent quality.  Also, with the wrong encoding settings, it doesn't matter how big the movie is, it is still going to be awful.  There are people that do things like take an old worn out VHS tape, and convert it to a digital file that fills up an entire DVD.  That is insane and annoying.

There are a LOT of categories, which is helpful. 
However, I think some categories should take priority over other categories.

For instance.. SOLO should be a primary category which takes precedence over most other categories
SCAT should take precedence over everything else.  I don't care if the performers are twinks, bears, condoms, amateur, hunks, etc.  If there is SCAT in the video, the primary category should be SCAT so the people that don't like scat can avoid it.

@Popper:

Only one vote is needed nowadays for the voting to be shown (due to low activity in voting).

OH!  That explains that!  Maybe give a few points for voting?
I hope it is set up so that the poster can't vote on their OWN post.

@WackyRabbit:

Is anyone else having a problem connecting to the Chat Room?  Is it working?

I used to use the chat room, but someone wanted me gone and attacked every comment I made. 
I have not used IRC in a long time, but that method of entering the chat room allowed one to log in "outside" of the website login.
It seems the IRC method may have been disabled.

The forums are a better place for asking and getting information.
The chat room turns into a flaming room - which is just a waste of everyone's time.

There is only 1 person who is a problem, and he "lives" in the chat room, so  I suggest ignoring the chat room and use the forums instead.

As anybody familiar with IRC knows - live chat rooms typically have one "master" who has the mentality of a 6 year old,  who fantasizes about being the god of the chatroom.  A classic example of that is the tech support moron on the utorrent.com website.  Just for fun, go to the utorrent.com website and check out their forums, and do a search on "DreadWingKnight".  You will find that he consistently dodges questions, insults the people asking the questions, posts and attack and then locks the thread so that nobody can respond. 
The most outrageous example of this is the "bencoding error" which is extremely rare.  It occurs in less than 1% of torrents.  I found what causes that error, I know how to manually fix it with a special bencode editor.  Utorrent is the ONLY torrent client that has the problem with these troublesome bencoding errors.  When I get a bencoding error on a torrent, I am forced to use another client such as VUZE or Transmission - QT for Windows.  For some reason, Harold aka Dreadwingknight, does not want anybody talking about that error.  Instead of saying "Thank you", Harold prefers to reply with a "Fuck You!" and locks the thread.

@creolaunt:

ever since I installed Windows 10, from beta 'til now, I've never experience throttling or connectivity issues. Perhaps the ISPs?

Actually.. I have noticed something like that.
For years, my ISP throttled me (and denied it).  My internet would be extremely slow, and I would do a speed test on the connection which would confirm that.  i found a way to defeat their throttling by using a VPN to "tunnel" through their detection of bandwidth usage. 
Lately, I no longer have the ISP slowing down my connection, but I am not sure that they have not found a more sophisticated way to "throttle" connections.  I have a lot of torrents that are transferring very slowly, even though my connection speed is at 100%.

I don't understand how this is possible:

This movie has been snatched ZERO times,
It has only 1 out of 3 votes necessary for a rating,
yet it already has a 5 star rating?

I don't understand how that is possible.  
It is not a big deal, the only reason I noticed it is because it is one of the posts that is not downloading.  
That get's back to the issue of ZERO times snatched.  
How can a movie wind up going "visible" if it is not available to download?