Posts made by frostycab

@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.

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

if there is no USA copyright, then there is no copyright.

Wow....

(Sorry about the late response, but I had to nip down to the doctor. He told me I'd strained my eyes by rolling them too hard. )

@john32123666 I'm wondering if he's got something set in his client that stops or lowers the priority of the torrent once it's ratio hits 1, but no idea which client he's using.

Out of interest, do you mean the torrent shows as "Seeding" in your client but you're not getting any upload traffic, or do you mean it's actually stopping?

@xoxogay No file information at the top of the thumbsheet?

@xoxogay A good uploader will usually include thumbnails for each video with large collections, sometimes in their own folder so you can preview the content at a fraction of the size of the full download. I'm fortunate that I have good enough speeds to be able to keep my ratio fairly steady even with the large collections, but I think this should be a thing for all collections with more than, for example, 20 videos.

In all honesty just simply searching for the term "VR" throws up quite enough results for me without too many other tittles popping up.

@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.

@buckadams78 A quick search of the forums shows that this idea was first floated back at the start of 2018. I think we can assume that it's not at the top of the To-Do List.

@eobox91103 It's right below the link for the helpdesk in the support dropdown

The guy with the blonde hair could possibly be Elijah Zayne

@ronjremy The one lying down is Leo Grand (aka danceswithleos on a lot of socials)

@jokuihmemies said in Bolt Jr v Dr Brock and Commander Storm v Cadet Nebulime:

@john32123666 btw is that iafd site up to date? koz theres no info of videos of him being in herohunks

Not in the slightest. I submitted some corrections for Ander Wolfson 6 months ago an they haven't been added to his page yet.

@MrMazda Yeah, it's a tricky one. While the rules say that files mainly involving women should be in the straight or bi categories there's nothing specific about files that only involve women. I've always advocated for allowing straight content on the site as long as there is a SG4GE element to it, but I feel that an all-female cast pushes beyond that litmus test.

On the other hand, that torrent has been snatched 3 times and appears to have 4 users connected to it right now, so obviously it is of interest to some users. If there are no specific rule breaches and the description is massaged a little bit to more accurately reflect the true nature of the content then I don't think it's doing any harm here, though it may be worth the staff getting together and having a discussion about whether or not to amend the rules moving forward.

From the pics it looks like they're all fake/strap-on cocks. No genuine man-meat. My opinion is that this isn't really within the spirit of the rules, but I'll defer to @MrMazda's wisdom.

I've noticed a similar discrepancy with downloads. I see insane download speeds from .net, while here my downloads run significantly slower even if there is a much larger swarm. I've asked if I've got something set wrong in my client, but the only suggestion was to ensure that port-forwarding is set up properly..

Maybe I've misunderstood, but my understanding is that port-forwarding relates to routing traffic to the right local IP for a particular application/port, and the source of the incoming packets is irrelevant, leaving me wondering if some trackers are just inherently slower than others. I'd love to hear some insights.

https://streamgeeks.us/how-to-use-ndi-with-obs/

@idesigay This probably isn't what you want to hear, but I think you already know the answer so I'm just going to be blunt and say it. Go and see your doctor! Assuming you live in one of the majority of countries where homosexuality isn't outlawed I can almost guarantee that they will have come across this sort of thing before so be honest about when and how it happened, as well as any and all symptoms you've had. It might be embarrassing, but doctors deal with loads of embarrassing things.

Even if you don't want to say how you think this started, still go and see your doctor! You're making a connection between a fun pokey-bum-wank several months ago, but there are other health issues that could cause similar symptoms, up to and including some cancers.

Sorry if that all seems harsh, but you need to man-up and seek medical advice, not the opinion of random forum users. Best of luck.

One thing I'm curious about is why the torrent page isn't showing how many peers are currently connected. The whole entry is missing when I look at it. It should appear just above the reseed button.