@lololulu19 said in Can a ratio be too high?:
Personally, I wish people would refrain from posting anything that involves pain, simulated deaths, vaginas, scat, ancient porn, and porn featuring what I consider to be unattractive people. Also, I'm not fond of most solo stuff NOR orgies of more than 4 people.. nor videos with digitized genetalia nor videos where you never see a face.
Uhhhhhhh....... 
@lololulu19 So many unconnected and disjointed thoughts in one post. I think you've also followed a couple of red herrings, but I'll try to stick to the main point.
Porn, in and of itself, is not obscene, at least not globally. If a court in Texas or Utah was to find that porn was obscene it would not have any effect on its standing in other countries. My understanding is that such a ruling would not even need to be recognised by other states. It's not unlike the situation surrounding marijuana in the US.
Given your numerous references to the US I think you've perhaps focussed your impressions around that and not fully appreciated the issue as viewed in other countries. Though something may be considered obscene somewhere that has very little bearing on whether or not it is able to be copyrighted.
You say that selling porn on the internet is illegal. Where exactly? Does that include The UK? Czech Republic? Netherlands? Germany? Brazil? How are all the porn studios, for instance in California, getting away with it if they're such an outrage to decency? I'm happy to read any citations you can provide to support that argument as it pertains to international copyright, and concede your point if they back up your assertions.
Your point about background music is certainly a valid one, at least here in the UK. I worked in a restaurant that got fined because we had a radio playing in the kitchen that could be heard by people on the phone. A bit petty, I think, but not something you can argue against. The police playing loud music is a new one on me, but that may be a US thing.
In fairness, I can see how you may have some to your conclusions about porn copyright, as I did do a quick Google search and found that the first 20 pages of results all seemed to be from US law firms and media. I read a few articles and the general consensus seems to be that nobody knows is its protected or not. It appears that the US courts at least are unprepared to come to a decision, and as such simply dismiss most cases, usually because the sheer number of cases would threaten to overwhelm the judicial system.
The point is that different countries, and indeed regions within some countries, have differing views on what is obscene as well as how respectful they are of copyrights. In Saudi Arabia all porn sites are apparently banned. China has acquired something of a reputation for ignoring copyrights and patents, at least when they are owned in other countries. None of these these things detract from the fact that the creator of a work, be that written, painted, filmed, played, or anything else which matches the definition, may have that work copyrighted. The only difference is how a particular legal system deals with a claim.
EDIT: Having re-read the original post in this topic, I think we've all gone off on red herrings. I believe @benignlulz was asking about non-porn trackers for TV shows and the like. I also believe his question was directed more to the idea that his ISP might find his internet activity suspicious and investigate, which I completely understand.
@lololulu19 said in Other private trackers?:
the reason being that XXX porn cannot be copyrighted - which is a topic that I am tired of debating
Link/citation, please. I'd like to read more about that.
@lololulu19 said in Problem to share a rar file:
technically, you are not supposed to upload RAR files, but in the case of binaries, that is often done.
Nothing against it in the rules. They simply say not to upload video packed in archives, so all good in this case.
I know this sounds basic, but have you confirmed that there are leechers actually trying to download the file(s)?
As a sort of general observation, my own feeling is that as internet speeds have gone up over the years it has made it harder to maintain a good upload ratio. If you think about it, back in the Internet Stone Age it took much longer to transfer files. As such, you would sometimes end up with much larger swarms as new people connected. Now with ultrafast fibre people are able to download in a very short time, meaning that the seed to leecher ratio goes up much faster. Thus you have a shorter window of opportunity to get in on the action before there is very little demand for your input to the swarm. There are so many seeds and so few leechers that each seeder uploads less overall.
@lololulu19 So what you're essentially saying is that ever so often you don't feel horny for about an hour? And the rest of the time you're ready to go?
@JasonSteve No idea, but that's definitely part the RawStrokes logo at the top
@lololulu19 If any studio is particularly on-point regarding DMCA infractions, there is no reason to expect them to be any less proactive regarding their older productions than they are their newer scenes.
In the case of this studio, I have noticed a real trend of them releasing "new" films/DVDs that are simply compilations of some of their old scenes. Indeed, they seem to be one of the worst studios for do so. I have seen the same scenes crop up in multiple ostensibly new films. This, to me, seems like a huge "fuck you" to those people who still purchase films rather than simply subscribe to their site as they are charging premium prices for something the customer may already have paid for. It's not unlike those wretched trading card packs for kids that are sold in newsagents. The kids end up just getting the same cards over and over again with nothing new.
Nevertheless, the studios financial interest in those scenes still exists, and as such there is no reason to expect that they will simply turn a blind eye to sharing of scenes they may have shot a decade ago. Also, while I agree that recent work isn't as good as it used to be, I don't see why that should have any bearing on their approach to DMCA breaches.
@pupkinvasya I can see your thinking, but I don't think so. I know the angle in the pic is bad, but I don't think he's got the tattoo, and the eyebrows don't look right. Also, (again it's a bad angle) it looks like he's missing the chin dimple.
@raphjd I am not a liberal or conservative. I am an individual asking a valid question, but your response is loaded to the gunnels with accusatory language. I have always tried to see things from every side, and often play devil's advocate, but it's impossible to do that with someone who has put you in a box and refuses to open the lid. However, if wanting to hear about relevant, connected evidence before blindly accepting your version of things makes me a liberal then I guess I must be one.
All you've done in your original post is taken a tragedy, added your own bias and turned it into an attack by comparing it to as yet unrelated events.
@raphjd said in 2 NJ Republicans shot dead near their homes 1 week apart:
You guys were happy when the guy stalked and murdered the guy with the MAGA hat and other politically motivated violence.
You guys love criminals and violence. That is why you got rid of bail so your beloved criminals can commit more crimes with little to no downtime. You guys love BLM and we know from the video they got Twitter to remove that they support black criminals.
Jesus Christ! Will you stop putting words in my mouth for 10 seconds??? I have never said anything like that, and I don't support that attitude at all. Got rid of bail? I'm a Brit, so how am I to blame for the US getting rid of it???
@raphjd said in 2 NJ Republicans shot dead near their homes 1 week apart:
At this point, we don't know which it is.
EXACTLY!!! Yet by posting it here you've obviously decided that it is political, and have once again chosen to try and use it as ammunition against "Us Guys" with no evidence.
@raphjd That's just more deflection and an attempt to silence. Maybe it was politically motivated, or maybe it was some nutter who didn't like a coffee they serve at meetings. Either way, I hope they catch the bastard and throw the book at him, but will you PLEASE just stop trying to use everything that happens in the world to promote a political agenda without offering anything to back it up.
@raphjd The article makes absolutely no reference to race at all, so what I'm saying is where does white privilege come into the story? Or white supremacy? To my eyes, this is another example of people taking what is in itself a tragic event and injecting it with personal bias.
@raphjd said in 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Video Of Her Getting Jumped By School Bully’s:
Everything to you people is "white privilege" and/or "white supremacy".
Stop right there. Stop with this "you people" attitude. There are things we agree on and things we don't. That is life. Language like that is clearly intended to silence someone when they question something and it does little to promote debate, which I thought was what this forum was for.
@raphjd said in 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Video Of Her Getting Jumped By School Bully’s:
She was white and her attackers were black.... When you clearly can't make something about race, you demand we not talk about race.
Not every bad interracial interaction is down to race. Sometime people just do bad things. Immediately alluding to a racial cause can mean that other more relevant issues get swept aside and not discussed.
@raphjd said in 14 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Video Of Her Getting Jumped By School Bully’s:
Hell, even when everyone involved in an incident is non-white, you people make if about "whites are evil".
I have NEVER said anything even vaguely along those lines, either in this forum or anywhere else. Don't try to put words in my mouth.
@blablarg18 Perhaps my comment might have been phrased better. However, nearly every time I have questioned or asked for an explanation of his reasoning from @raphjd in this sub-forum he has repeatedly and consistently sidestepped anything people ask, refusing to engage with anyone who challenges his assertions beyond telling them they are liberal puppets because they're not simply accepting what a random person on the internet has told them. To the contrary, blindly accepting these things is what leads to people becoming puppets. And yes, some of his replies to previous comments have been rude, abusive and downright crude, so I was trying to say I'd like a direct answer without the usual deflection.
Now if we could return to the issue at hand, I'm going to admit to being rushed and just taking the Wikipedia definition of white privilege which reads "White privilege, or white skin privilege, is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances."
As such, my original question still stands. A girl got bullied and committed suicide. There's probably more to the story, but we only have the article posted above to go on. Where in this article does any privilege come into this?
@nix54 I might have misunderstood what you said, but I think you've go t that wrong. Your ratio is entirely dependant on how much data you download and upload, and has nothing to do with with the number of individual torrents itself. It is the ratio between the total amount of data you upload across all your torrents on the site dived by the total amount of data you have downloaded via the site.
@raphjd said in 2 NJ Republicans shot dead near their homes 1 week apart:
I know the liberals here will be overjoyed about this,
Why is everything you say an attack on somebody? 2 people lose their lives, and your first thought is to have a poke at "the other side."
Your post even says that motives are unknown right now. This isn't even a politics post, and should at best be in the News forum.
@raphjd I think you know that I disagree with most of your posts, not because of any liberal/conservative agenda but because I see them as a stretch most of the time, and I don't bother commenting because I know that it will usually illicit a wave of abuse rather than engaging in civilised debate, but....
You want to maybe actually explain where the "white privilege" is in this story?
I know its not very helpful, but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the first pic was the infamous Chunder Dragon video... Don't watch if you're squeamish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhnjsOAjElM
@cteavin said in Speedtest changes dramatically when I download torrents but doesn't match ul/dl rate.:
Hope you enjoy your new connection.
I wish I could. Engineer never turned up, so after Vodafone initially cancelling my first order without reason or notifying me after waiting 5 weeks, I had to re-order, wait another 5 weeks, and they didn't show up again. Now being told it'll be another 5 working days, so that's going to be next Wednesday now.
30 years ago companies would never get away with shit like this, but now all you get is some poor minimum-wage worker on the phone who can't say anything other that "Sorry." Customer service doesn't matter anymore.
