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From Zeropaid.com;

The Pirate Bay: 'BitTorrent as a Protocol Won't Last Much Longer'

One of BitTorrent's most senior pirates speaks out in an in interview for a German blog and what he has to say may cause some concern over at BitTorrent Inc.

In Berlin to check out the Oil of the 21st Century conference this past weekend, Brokep over at The Pirate Bay was interviewed by the German blog Netzpolitik.org about his thoughts on the past, present, and future of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site.

It is admittedly a slow at first, but about 11:40 in it gets quite interesting. When asked to discuss his vision for the future of the Pirate Bay, Brokep said he it will continue to "…still grow for a couple of months or maybe a year," but that he doesn't "...think that Bittorrent as a protocol will survive much longer."

Not around much longer? Yep, you heard it right. Brokep explained that The Pirate Bay is currently working to replace BitTorrent with a new protocol of its own.

There are apparently several reasons for the decision and none of them have anything to do with Swedish world domination. The first is is that BitTorrent Inc. recently decided to close the source of some newer additions of the BitTorrent protocol

"The biggest problem is that it's owned by the Bittorrent company, which develops new versions of it," Brokep said in the interview. "So we don't have any input as users to say what we want in the protocol. And Bittorrent is funded by companies which we don't necessarily like as well."

The second reason is that wants to develop a protocol that finally deals with the increasing influx of anti-piracy organizations, spammers, and other riff raff to the BitTorrent scene.

He writes:

Running TPB, I've been thinking a lot of how to make the content cleaner for the end user. Spam-blocking, fake-blocking, and being able to clean file-names in bundles is a big thing that I would like to see more of in the new protocol.

Brokep would also like to see redundancy in uploaded content taken care of as well, something I'm sure the former MODs at OiNK would liked to have had at their disposal instead of having to post endless "dupe" warnings.

Brokep continues:

Also having the same content from several uploaders is something we see a lot of, as well as on most of the other major trackers, so being able to share peers between trackers and between users with the same files in different bundles on the same trackers (through hash search services) would really increase download speed and availability.

Brokep realizes that's a big gamble, but he thinks that's it's a necessary one. "So if our new protocol works," he says "we will be one of the big websites still. If it doesn't, maybe someone else takes over."

Moreover, Brokep says "..to compare with torrents instead of having a complicated encoded file, we simply have a '.p2p' file that is a bzip2ed file in XML format which contains a list of files in the bundle."

"This would also make all files have file-hashes which will make it even harder for fakers and spammers," he said.

The Pirate Bay crew supposedly already developed a working client, but an initial release isn't expected until sometime early next year.

From Zeropaid.com;

Canadian Gov't Study: P2P Increases CD Sales

Most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing habits concludes that there is a positive correlation between file-sharing and CD sales.

The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada is a a newly commissioned study by Industry Canada, a ministry of the federal government, and includes some of the most extensive surveying to date on the music purchasing habits of the Canadian population .

Conducted by Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz of the Department of Management at the University of London in England, the study concludes that illegal file-sharing does not cause a decrease in music sales as the music industry has insisted all along. In fact, it does just the opposite, in that it apparently tends to actually INCREASE music purchasing.

"Our review of existing econometric studies suggests that P2P file-sharing tends to decrease music purchasing," says the study. "However, we find the opposite, namely that P2P file-sharing tends to increase rather than decrease music purchasing."

What makes the study so fascinating is that it's been commissioned and released with the blessings of the Canadian Federal Government and not some self-serving poll commissioned by the music industry.

Among the key findings:

• For every 12 P2P downloaded songs, music purchases increase by 0.44 CDs. That is, downloading the equivalent of approximately one CD increases purchasing by about half of a CD.

• No relationship between P2P file-sharing and purchases of electronically-delivered music tracks (e.g., songs from iTunes).

• Roughly half of all P2P tracks were downloaded because individuals wanted to hear songs before buying them or because they wanted to avoid purchasing the whole bundle of songs on the associated CDs and roughly one quarter were downloaded because they were not available for purchase.

• Only the effect of illegally downloading music that is not available for purchase influenced music purchasing, with a 1% increase in such downloads being associated with nearly a 4% increase in CD purchases.

• People who also own an MP3 player appear to be less likely to purchase CD albums.

The study also found that other forms of entertainment such as movies, concert tickets, and video games tend to increase with music purchases. It has been argued in the literature that the increase in the number of entertainment choices has led to a decline in music purchasing, but the study concludes otherwise. It found that a reported interest in music is very strongly associated with music purchases.

Moreover, this analysis of the Canadian P2P file-sharing subpopulation suggests that there is a strong positive relationship between file-sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file-sharing increases CD purchasing. Furthermore, it finds indirect evidence of the 'market creation' effect of P2P file-sharing when music is otherwise unavailable.

The study is somewhat difficult to sort through, but the conclusions are unmistakable: file-sharing actually benefits music sales. It basically confirms what I've said all along and that's that BitTorrent tracker sites like OiNK actually made better music fans of us all and allowed us to discover new music that we wouldn't have found otherwise. You can read the study for yourself here.

@DarknessWing:

@nomadix:

Howdy Mates ;

about 65 glass implants currently - about 50 more to go in -
did nipple - left - took out 17 years ago
6g P A havent worn in 3-4 years - used to wear it in my ear when not installed for sex

I am rather fond of scarifications - embossing the skin

Cheers:

What is glass implant?

Exactly what it sounds like. He has a piece of glass implanted under his skin.

This is why I tell everyone to turn on their encryption. :whistle:

Not to mention it helps to at least partially defeat some of those bastard ISPs that don't allow file sharing.

From Zeropaid.com;

Encrypted UK BitTorrent Traffic Increases by 1000%!

Will make proposed ISP content filtering meaningless.

In an interview with the BBC a few weeks ago, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated in the UK. He then called on ISPs to take a "more activist role" in the problem of illegal file-sharing and said that ""If we can't get voluntary arrangements we will legislate."

Now it seems that new data obtained by The Register form a large UK ISP may actually mean that the proposed initiative will largely be ineffective for the number of BitTorrent users encrypting their traffic has increased dramatically.

In the last 12 months alone encrypted BitTorrent traffic has increased from 4 to 40%. Instead of encrypted torrents accounting for a mere 20Mbit/s of total network bandwidth they now comprise an astounding 200Mbit/s. Inversely, unencrypted torrents that once used 500Mbit/s of bandwidth now use only 350Mbit/s.

The development rightly has the British Phonographic Institute(BPI) already pulling their hair out and will certainly lead to claims that it can mask terrorist or child pornography related activities - their standard "in case of emergency" arguments.

Either way the news means that efforts to get ISPs to take a "more activist role" with illegal file-sharing will pretty much be pointless. Although deep packet inspection will allows you to identify encrypted file-sharing packets, you will be unable to actually look inside those packets for evidence of copyrighted material.

Neil Armstrong, products director at BT-owned ISP PlusNet, said: "It isn't possible for us to tell if a customer is downloading a copyright file or not unless we specifically 'snoop' every packet on the customer's line.

"We would obviously only do this where we have a proper request from the relevant legal authority to do so, and even then it is unlikely we would be able to see inside encrypted payloads," he said.

This development regarding increasing levels of encrypted BitTorrent traffic really drives home the point of how the music industry's fight against illegal P2P and file-sharing services is a losing battle and a total failure. They've spent hundreds of millions, if not several billions, of dollars defeating Napster, KaZaA, Grokster, Limewire, and Morpheus in successive order, but what did it really accomplish? All people did, the smart ones anyways, is migrate to more secure file-sharing programs like Usenet and BitTorrent. Even if they somehow succeed in cracking down on these two it will only mean that somebody will just invent an even more secure P2P protocol to succeed it.

In the meantime, 10 years later the music industry is still trying to figure out how to eliminate illegal file-sharing, even going so far as to propose banning prolific pirates from the internet itself. You think it would've figured it out by now that no matter how hard they try file-sharing is here to stay. It's a technology arms race that they'll never win.

@markboyjkl:

i have ratio 0.145. is it bad?

Yes, you need at least 0.350 or 35% to download.

You can find a lot of covers @ www.cdcovers.cc/covers

It's 99.999% non porn, but has a lot of GLBT theme covers.

We do not allow you to trade invites to other torrent sites, nor ask for them.

This restriction also applies to pay sites.

His last video was Mechanics 2 in 2005 and his escort service page was last updated in 2005.

@freakster83:

Hey. I am new here and i understand the that we are only allowed 3 active torrents if our ratio is below a certain level. My ratio is current 0.115, but i cant seem to download anymore stuff from this website. the tractor status says "bad ratio blah blah blah…. your current limit is 3 torrents at the same time"

I have only 3 torrents but only one seems to be working

That's because 1 file is 2 months old and the other is over 5 months old, both have only a few seeders. They tend to take longer to fully seed when they have a bit of age to them.

You are seeding 1 file and leeching another. Did you fix the problem?

If not, post the link to the torrent you are having problems with.

There are companies in the UK that are pretty good, just have to shop around.

Most of the "mainstream" ISPs are thieving bastards. However, with a bit of digging, you can find some decent ones.

My IPS lets me download 330gb a month, 45gb of that is during 8am to 8pm {edit Monday - Friday}, for £30. If I go over that amount, they charge me for the package that my usage fits into + £5 for that month. Then I go back to my normal package.

I made a guide on using this software;

http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/forums.php?action=viewtopic&forumid=7&topicid=1091

I'm not a fan of face pubes, but the guy with the Matrix shirt on is much better looking.

The good studios have actors who can have sex without looking at the camera. It's the low budget ones that have the rubbish actors.

I've seen a variety of videos over the years and like FOOF, I can't think of many videos where they came without wanking. The ones that do cum without wanking probably got wanked off off camera just before the shot {pun intended}.

I prefer twinks and frats.

Sadly, the best studios {Eurocreme and it's sub studios} are no longer allowed to be posted here. :weep:

Any movie with overly muscled, bald guys is an automatic turn off for me. Same with fisting and such.

I forgot to mention that it's also illegal to disconnect you without a 30 day or your next billing cycle {which ever is later} written notice in the UK, except as part of a court or police order {ie you are breaking some law}.

A bunch of reforms went into law on 14 Feb 2007, giving consumers more rights as far as internet usage went.

Before 14 Feb 2007, we were at the complete mercy of the ISPs.

It's illegal in the UK not to clearly state the download limits.

Ironically enough, UK ISPs are allowed to claim "unlimited bandwidth" in their sales pitch as long as they include a Fair Use Policy or FUP stating what "unlimited bandwidth" actually means.

As an example, BT {British TeleCom, the former state owned phone company} has an unlimited package that only gives you 3gb per month at whatever download speed you can get {usually 3 to 4mb}, but after that, you are restricted to 10kb up and down.

Please be aware that many of the videos have multiple names due to them having multiple distributors.

Here are a few examples;

Allez les bleus!
aka: Screw Balls
aka: Kicker = Ficker
aka: Soccer Fuckers
aka: They Came From Behind

Bains douches
aka: Bareback Sauna
aka: Cum Inside: Bareback Members Only

Le Gland bleu: Deep Down Under
aka: Divers Go Down
aka: Diving Lagoon
aka: Plunged: Deep Down Under

Hard Sex
aka: Down on Your Knees: Forbidden Desire
aka: Leather Muscle Studs

Internat
aka: Dirty School Boys
aka: Further Education

I just found this out because I was sorting through my porn collection and found a lot of duplicates.

Here's a great place to find out if you have any duplicates;

http://www.wtule.net/Intro
GEVI