Originally Posted by escoman (Post 15758117)

Originally Posted by Jace (Post 14032907)

I was stating my personal opinion, not law, and that is honestly how I feel...not saying I haven't bought stolen merchandise when I was younger, but I accepted the fact that i was just as guilty as the person who stole it, anyone that thinks in a different way has a lot of growing up to do

sometimes instead of looking to the law to see if what we are doing is right or wrong, we should look inside our conscience :winkwink:

Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links (Post 14032881)

can someone please seed American Cannonballs please

Originally Posted by infowolfe (Post 14034078)

In our ideal world, we'd be leveraging new technologies for promotion and distribution of content, no matter who the source is. Say release a small 'teaser' via Bittorrent with an option to 'buy' via a private/authenticated Bittorrent tracker or direct download. Which would cut down on the costs of releasing things like full-length motion pictures, music cds, etc, since the customer would be sharing the load, instead of the content producers having to make a massive investment in infrastructure.

If you'd like to look at some of the things we've done as a company to help the open source world (which has almost nothing to do with you guys), we've helped 2 years in a row now with Gentoo Linux distribution's Bittorrent releases of new livecds as "super seeds." We also picked up "super seeding" of the Belenix releases.

For those of you who say that we've stolen your content and are profiting from it, perhaps you should see my earlier post about searching google with filetype:torrent, since google's ads are shown with their search results, they're obviously just as "evil" as we are, and yet it's not them that's here posting telling you guys the easiest way to get shit done with torrent sites, it's me. In that same post, you should read their DMCA takedown procedure, I guarantee it's a bigger pain in the ass.

If you doubt what I've got to say about taking things down in a reasonable timeframe, ask Eric at removeyourcontent.com how long it took me to respond to his emails yesterday. I do have a new portal in the works for rights-holders, and if people from here are interested, I'll let you guys be some of the first to sign up (I'd actually like to give Eric at removeyourcontent.com first crack at it, even though i haven't told him yet).

I wear 2 hats, copyright agent and sysadmin... and i'm planning on leveraging the sysadmin portion to make the copyright agent portion as easy as possible, since I'd rather spend my time making my infrastructure better than having to deal with copyright shit, since it's a drag for me and a drag for you.

Promoting a Creative Commons licensed band called ALTered Zero
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) using Bittorrent to distribute DRM-free content created by them
Misc discussion on legit uses for P2P networking (Bittorrent focused) w/ links to "Steal this film" and others
More independent music being released via Bittorrent
Trent Reznor talking about a private music Bittorrent site that he released his content on being shut down. (oink.me.uk)
Comments on Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and Canadian musicians telling the music lobby not to use their names in persecuting their fans
Belinix OpenSolaris distribution using isohunt for distribution of their DVDs
Discussion on filtering torrents on behalf of Copyright holders

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear (Post 15759356)

fyi content owners do not need to be polite, they either submit a proper dmca or the dont. They can be as rude as they want , you are obligated to follow thru a dmca complaint or you are liable its as simple as that. Now if you are talking about people not following the proper dmca process, yes it would def be a good idea to be polite

Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin (Post 14031061)

I'm masturbating.

Originally Posted by rowan (Post 14030855)

If you're running a site that expects DMCAs then shouldn't you have a thicker skin?

Originally Posted by Fuckin Bill (Post 14034185)

Said the man with the tube script in his Sig.

Originally Posted by infowolfe (Post 14030862)

actually, they do... and they're much more of a pain in the ass than i am :)

http://www.google.com/dmca.html

they require you to send them postal mail ;-)

and you'd also expect to see your dmca notice on chillingeffects.org

speaking of google, try something along these lines if you'd like to find out what sites have torrents of your content: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=filetype%3Atorrent+debbie+does+dall as

the important portion of that search query is "filetype:torrent" if you've got content out there that google can index, that type of search will turn it up for you...

i hope you guys realise, that even though I work for isohunt and the boss is anti-porn, i'm not a bastard, i'm not trying to steal your shit, hell, i don't even watch porn... i'm honestly on your side in this, and i think that if you go about your business in a professional manner, you can get a lot done as far as reform's concerned... shit, it was the porn industry that made the betamax obsolete... porn that made dvds commonplace and the internet as big as it is today...

so please, don't see me as the enemy, i'm personally trying to help you guys out.

Originally Posted by infowolfe (Post 15759452)

My main point is that you're more likely to get people to act on good faith if you're polite about it. If you're an asshole about things, and there's anything that can be nitpicked, it probably will be.

Originally Posted by infowolfe (Post 15759452)

Anyway, call us thieves if you want, it just shows that you're completely ignorant of the situation.