Posts made by raphjd

@Bonk:

A party for a website that shares movies illegally… just hope there won't be any police raid :police:

Sorry no police raid as I can't make it.  :police:

Just goes to show, spammers will get caught.

I'm sorry but we don't give ratio points to people.

There was plenty of info on the site as to how to get and maintain a good ratio.

Anyway, you obviously haven't read anything here because you would know that you can always upload stuff that's not on here.  I'm sure GT.net has some stuff that we don't and vice versa.

@tony1971:

Hi
I am new to this site..
I would like to know.. what happens if you have downloaded a film but turns out no one is uploading from you.. does this affect your ratio?  I do not want to be classed as someone who just takes a film without sharing but if no one is uploading from you.. what do you do? keep it still open or find something that there is lots of people leaching etc!
I would be greatful for any help

I would do both.

@young2by2:

I loved the most recent addition (april 2008) of Discover Magazine.

Title of article :  20 things you don't know about Matting

#12  Homosexual behavior is found in at least 1,500 species of mammal, fish, reptile, bird, and even invertebrates.

That's why I say it's genetic.

Many of the animals found to have gay behavior are not capable of more than instinctual behavior.

What issue are they trying to "correct"?!

The guy that made the "I Love You" virus wanted to show his ex girlfriend how powerful he was.

BTW, the reason virus makers target Windows is because of the sheer numbers that use it.  If everyone switched to another OS, then that would be the target.  Cost has nothing to do with it.

Gay is from nature, just as being hetero is.

Part of the reason many heteros claim that being gay is a choice, is because many gays are forced or feel forced to live a lie due to societal pressures.

It's a lot easier for to gays to come out today in the west, at least, because people are starting to understand that being gay is a natural thing.

A lot of people view public discussions about politics and religion as taboo.

I know gay people who will never vote for anyone who supports gay rights.  They have various reasons for this, some are gay and ashamed and some just don't want gay marriage, so they can justify their whoring around.

I have in the past voted for people that were against gay rights because they were good at other things that needed doing for the nation. Former Sen D'Amato {R - NY} was against equal rights, but he was the only hope the US had in fighting the banks and he regularly spanked them in Congress. With him gone, there is no one to protect us from those evil money grubbing bastards any more.

I also won't vote for a 1 trick pony who bring nothing else to the gov.

In a perfect world, I wouldn't have to care about the issue of equal rights for gays.

3 Internet Providers in Deal for Tailored Ads

By ERIC PFANNER
Published: February 18, 2008

LONDON — For years, Internet service providers have watched with envy as the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sliced up the online advertising pie. Selling Internet access has been a good business, but selling Web advertising has been an even more lucrative one.

Now, three Internet providers in Britain have teamed up to try to obtain a piece of online advertising for themselves. The three companies — BT, Carphone Warehouse {including AOL UK} and Virgin Media — announced a deal last week with a company called Phorm, whose technology tracks Web users and sends them ads related to their interests.

Phorm said it would set up a new online advertising platform called the Open Internet Exchange, which any Web site would be allowed to join. Proceeds from ads shown on these publishers’ sites will be shared with BT, Carphone Warehouse {including AOL UK} and Virgin Media, which together represent more than two-thirds of Britain’s Internet access market.

The three Internet providers have agreed to give Phorm access to customers’ browsing records, letting it track a Web user’s every move. That way, the Internet exchange can send an ad directly to a select audience anywhere on the Web, rather than hoping that the user lands on a site displaying the ad.

“Now, you can turn things around for the advertising industry, and say, ‘You define the audience you want to reach,’ ” said Kent Ertugrul, chief executive of Phorm, which is based in London.

A marketer that wants to reach wealthy golfers, for instance, would not have to restrict itself to advertising on golf sites. Because the ad system would track golfers’ Web habits, it could follow them to other sites and show them golf-related ads there, too.

To a certain extent, advertisers can already do such behavioral targeting, as it is known. But the method has been less precise than many advertisers would like, because existing Web ad networks create only broad profiles of Internet users, based on visits to selected sites and certain keyword searches.

At a time when many people are worried about privacy, the Internet service providers’ agreement to share records of their customers’ Web habits might set off new alarms.

Phorm said it would guarantee anonymity by tracking each user with an assigned number only, and by regularly clearing the data. Phorm said its privacy procedures had been examined and approved by the Ernst & Young accounting firm. {NOTE: it was not checked by any privacy experts, not to mention that Ernest & Young have had more than a few scandals over the years}

Customers of BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media can opt out of the new system when it is introduced next month. But they will be encouraged to stay by being given a higher level of protection against online fraud. Analysts at Investec Securities said the Open Internet Exchange could generate £85 million, or $167 million. in annual revenue for BT alone by 2009.

Analysts said that in the short term, the Open Internet Exchange and similar services would allow Web publishers to charge higher rates for advertising, because ads on their sites would become more relevant. Over the longer term, however, they could undermine Web content owners by letting service providers wrest away control of ad sales.

Esther Dyson, a technology investor and analyst, questioned whether the quest for more effective behavioral targeting might lead the online advertising business astray.

Bombarding consumers with more and more ads, even “relevant” ones, risks sending them to social networking services and other places on the Internet where advertisers find it harder to reach them.

“For advertisers, breaking into these walled gardens is the challenge,” Ms. Dyson said.

NOTE: all blue text added by me

Hmmm, I'd give him a case of beer with that offer. 

Unfortunately, the article doesn't mention that the murders were business partners of Brent Corrigan.

With the murder, Brent's legal troubles are now solved and he can do what he wants.  How convenient for him.

When I lived in Key West, there was a guy {Vidal} who claimed not to be gay because he never kisses men. Of course he was a total dick pig bottom and dressed like a $3 female whore.

Anyway, it sounds like you have some issues regarding your self image of masculinity.  What you described is quite common in latin men.  They'll have sex with every man on the planet, but would kill anyone who dared think of them as gay.

Loving a man does not make you a flamer, who calls the electrician in to change the light bulb. My partner and I do a lot of our own car repairs and home DIY and we are both crap at flower arranging.

It seems that Demonoid might be coming back on line.

Their tracker is back up and running, but no word if it's Demonoid or who exactly is in control of it.

EDIT:  Here's the zeropaid.com article;

hXXp://www.zeropaid.com/news/9280/Demonoid+Tracker+Back+Online%2C+Now+Hosted+in+Malaysia

As always, the general rules for the site still apply here.  Please read the rules and faq pages and this thread for more info;

http://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=1209.0

1. This section is for anything that doesn't apply to GT.ru, torrents, BT. etc.

As always, please check this thread often as it will be updated as needed.

Here's the hanky codes;

hXXp://www.gaycityusa.com/hankycodes.htm

@ ThanhBKK

Yep, you understand the reason why it won't happen.

We had a former mod {think French} who thought anyone under 30 was a twink and anyone under 40 was a youngblood. Even though he disagreed, he went along with the site rules and posted them in the correct sections.

@ everyone

There's a post in the condensed rules sticky thread about picking categories.  Fetish is always fetish, black is always black, latino is always latino, etc, etc.  Of course if it's {chosse category} is only a small part of the video, then choose what is the main part of the video.

A twink s/m video is still an s/m video.

Use your common sense when picking.  Also, if mods see that it's in the wrong category, we'll move it.

The article details were in the opening post.

Advocate, The,  May 24, 2005  by Mike Hudson

@CountAchee:

Most likely you all will disagree, but I think that should be multiple categories for each torrent, for example, a video that could be a hunks, bareback, oral sex all-in-one and so on 

If the current torrent list is anything to go by, people will be spamming their torrents in every category.

It's not just you.  The new forums are much faster.

from zeropaid.com;

RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalties Cut by 39%?

Proves it doesn't care about music artists and petitions copyright judges to lower rate from 9 cents per song, about 13% of the wholesale price, down to 8% of the wholesale price, or around 5 1/2 cents per song.

There is an interesting report via the Hollywood Reporter from early last week that proves once and for all that the RIAA really doesn't care about music artists, or "content providers" as it often refers to them as. For record labels are working to lower the "mechanical royalty" it's required to pay to songwriters and publishers.

The RIAA says the current rate of 9 cents per song, about 13% of the wholesale price, is "out of whack with the rest of the world and historical context" and wants it reduced to 8% of the wholesale price, or around 5 1/2 cents per song. That's a reduction of around 39% in revenue for those actually responsible for creating the music in the first place!

"The contributions songwriters and music publishers make to the creation of songs, and to the music industry overall, are significant – indeed critical -- to the success of the industry," Israelite said. "The NMPA will fight vigorously in the coming weeks to make sure songwriters and music publishers are fairly compensated for their work."

The RIAA defends the move by noting how it has to suffer while music publishers have not. "Record companies are suffering a contraction of their business at a time when music publisher revenues and margins have increased markedly," the trade group wrote. "While record companies have been forced to drastically cut costs and employees, music publisher catalogs have increased in value due to steadily rising mechanical royalty rates and alternative revenue streams made possible, but not enjoyed, by record companies."

Say what? The whole reason why record companies are "contracting" is because their very business model is doing so. It only makes sense that as music goes digital, that as physical CD stores close, those who marketed, manufactured, distributed, or had anything to do with them would find their jobs at risk. It's called Economics 101, and so to try and get a slice of other people's revenue simply because one refuses to adapt and find new sources of revenue is abhorrent.

Cutting the royalties paid to music publishers and songwriters won't solve the music industry's woes, instead it will only exacerbate the problem of a business model that refuses to recognize the changing landscape.

At least this proves once and for all that the RIAA really doesn't care about music artists like it tries to so often claim.