Illegal Downloading Just Got More Difficult

so?there are like 100 other websites...

Yup. And what's cheaper than paying 1 dollar? Paying nothing!

lol did they really think this would stop anything... like lost_addict said... 100's more haha

This is the beginning of the end for P2P, Seriously!!! It'll be Demonoid or Mininova next... It's going pretty slow but soon we'll all be getting cease and desist orders from our ISPs, then we'll get throttled, then banned... I always thought ISPs would never cut off their biggest users(People who use P2P) because of the revenue, but recent activity in Europe and the US has made me realise that they would sell us down the river as long as the pressure from the music industry and hollywood continues... We knew we couldn't win in the end! R.I.P. P.B.

I stream....

If you were still using Pirates Bay - then you were doing it wrong anyway.

I used Pirate Bay occasionally, but stick to Mininova for most stuff...hopefully that won't go soon

Never heard of the site...now deffinately never going there.

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i stopped downloading several years ago

Ouch Synthetic - you posted a little close to my Webster's joke.

PaintByNumbers-you're absolutely right. hahaha

forget the music...that site was great for finding apps....gonna be hard to find a new one

Except they didn't give them $1, they gave them $8 million.

Yesss- just like how they turned Napster legit and look how it slowed us down sooooo much. The creation of DVD's increased film piracy. If you weren't so fucking greedy by making movie players obsolete and forcing people to buy new technology- you'd still be rolling in all your home video cash. But no- "Lets end digital piracy and CD burning by creating digital video files that can easily be transferred electronically or digitally burned to CD..."......

Yeah...they are crime fighting geniuses.

The only way BlueRay will takeover is if they stop making normal DVD titles...which will probably happen and Im sorry- $40 for a BlueRay disc is absolute bullshit. Im not impressed. Ever notive how DVD's were crystal clear until BlueRay came out? They are purposefully making DVD picture grainy- because I don't see the vast difference between my laserdisc and DVD titles compared to BlueRay until the titles released after the year 2007. So they make halfassed DVD compressions now...but I dont care- I ain't buying BlueRay- go fuck yourselves.

PrevalentMind - Sorry but your theory is all wrong. And I'll use an easy example. The Matrix was one of the best looking DVD's at the time it was released. But having recently seen a screen to screen comparison of The Matrix DVD vs. Blu-Ray on my friends TV - there is no contest. Blu-Ray is the real deal - tho I agree it is way too expensive, we have to remember that DVD was just AS expensive during it's early years. I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy but it all comes down to lines of resolution. DVD & LaserDisc were very close in that department - 500 for DVD vs. 425 for LD. That's pretty close. Blu-ray as we all know is HD which can go up to 1080. BTW up-converting DVD players are a joke. Did a test with IronMan up-converted DVD vs just DVD and it's the same.

As far as these Torrent sites go.....well as many get bought out or close down 1 to 2 more will pop up in it's place. New names - same games. Does this guy really think that these giant companies are going to let him sell their shit for $1 when they already have a good thing going with iTunes, Netflix, etc. And it's called The Pirate Bay. Who wants to buy legal shit from a company called The Pirate Bay. It makes zero sense. Ppl go there because it's free. None of them will stay now. It's like saying ppl will continue to shop at Wal-Mart if the prices go up because they like to shop there and they are established to that chain. No!!! Ppl don't like going to Wal-Mart. They go there because it's cheap. Nobody actually wants to be there. I mean look at their employees faces.....

sometimes people prefer old quality...ever noticed how clear indy 4 looks on blu ray?...almost looks too clear, like a playstation 3 game...and yea that's just way too expensive for blu rays...when dvd's first came out they were what? 25 bucks a new one?...like vhs used to be?...oh well...people have their preferences and i have mine so...i haven't bought a single blu ray yet, but i've watched many blu ray movies though...why pay for it when a friend or family member has one??...it's easy to do justice to hollywood...most people just can't see it, that's my guess...or some are stupid and pay for it anyway, or both...one thing i know is that i won't have to pay to watch transformers 2 again...not as long as somebody else buys it or lets me watch...fuck giving them more money!...hollywood makes too much money off of greed and too many ruined remakes...i say think twice before paying to see a particular movie...in the case of transformers 2, only payed once, just to see action, nothing more...not gonna pay anymore than that...like i said before, it's really not that hard to do justice to hollywood

Post Man- the truth is Superbit DVD is just as clear. When you load up on special feature though the film has to be compressed at a lower bit rate to be able to fit on a dual layer disc. The Matrix had loads of features and hidden egg extras not to mention a lot of interactive features...but you put Panic Room DVD Superbit next to its Blue Ray version- and you cant tell the difference. But I'm not wrong about illegal film downloading...they rob the files or they rip the DVD's- if everything was still on VHS pirating would be soo lame right now. You'd have to find a tape, have the means to digitally import in on a pc or mac and then you'd have to compress the file yourself before putting it on a peer to peer site...so I'm not wrong. Moving onto digital files increased piracy rates. It's really simple as film piracy wasn't even an issue in 2000-though music downloading was. The only people complaining about piracy before DVD was Metallica,

fucking sell outs

PrevalentMind
you are totally wrong about dvd, wether it`s suberbit or not and blu-ray. have you actually seen BR films ? it`s a totally new system. I have suberbit quick and the dead and it`s nothing compared to apocalypto blu-ray, just to name a one film.

The only thing Pirate Bay is good for is porn.

One day I'll get a BlueRay player, just to make my DVDs look a little clearer, but I won't buy any BlueRay movies until the prices drop.