Govna su uplutala u Piratski zaliv

[Ghoul]

Here's a few Pros & Cons for a few of the current filehosters.


Netload

Pros:
Decent Free Speeds (300 kb/s) ,
Very Reliable ,
Long lived files ,
No PPD ,
Copy any Netload link to your own account ,
(Popular - many got a premium account) ,
No Download volume limits for free users?

Cons:
Semi Cash Host (Pays Per Sale),
Captchas for free users


Crocko:

Pros:
Decent Speeds (300 kb/s) ,
Reliable ,
Long lived files ,
No PPD ,
No Download volume limits for free users?
Cons:
Wait Times (not too bad),
Captchas for free users


Hotfile

Pros:
Decent free download speed (300kb/s),
Reliable,
Good file management ,
Long lived files ,
No PPD ,
No Download limits for free users?

Cons:
Loose Account Banning for any dmca ,
Semi Cash Host (Pays Per Sale) ,
Captchas for free users


Mediafire

Will probably be the best hoster left, as long as you don't get any reports or have any obscene/sexual filenames whatsoever (5 strikes and you,re out model) which after they will instantly ban your account and delete all your files (not just the implicated).

Pros:
Fast DL Speed (500-1000 kb/s),
Good Management,
Strictly Non Cash hoster ,
No Download limits for free users

Cons:
Very loose account banning! ,
Random Captchas for free users
Does not work well in Download Managers such as JDownloaders

Uploaded.net/Ul.to
is together with netload,rapidshare & hotfile the longest still running hoster.

Pros:
Very reliable ,
Long lived files ,
Good Management ,
Backup from any Ul link to your own account,
(Popular - many got a premium account)

Got lots of files on Ul.to never shared or downloaded dating atleast 3 months back, which have not yet been deleted , Very fast premium downloads (+5 mb/s).

Cons:
Cash-hoster.
Long Wait times for free users.
Captchas for free users


Zippyshare

Pros:
Very fast downloadspeed for free users (+5 mb/s) without any restrictions apart from random appearing captchas

Cons:
Unreliable,
Very short lived files although they claim 30 days after last download.
Doesn't work most of the time with download managers like JDownloader.
Captchas

uloz.to
Pros:
Slow-Decent free DL Speed (~200 kb/s),
Reliable ,
No Download volume limits for free users
Cons:
Captchas for free users

narod.ru
Pros:
Slow-Decent free DL Speed (~200 kb/s),
Reliable ,
No Download volume limits for free users

Cons:
Captchas for free users, In Russian only


bayfiles.com
Pros:
(Fast free DL Speed(+2mb/s)*
Reliable ,
No Download volume limits for free users?

Cons:
Captchas for free users,

*Unsure of wait times and/or Fast downloads between downloads for free users since the first file will always give an option for downloading premium link (still being a free user) , yet after you downloaded a file, a premium download link will still appear for the next file but will not work, only the free link will still work.


Most of the other mentioned hosts here are part of the 1000's of filehosters who have sprung up since the megaupload takedown, 80% of them have then closed doors again without notice everything lost for the uploaders.

[Meho Krljic]

Zippyshare je, da kucnem u drvo za sada odličan ali naravno videćemo kako će se pokazati sad kad krene masovna migarcija k njemu posle kliničke smrti repida.

Billionuploads daje ogromne brzine ljudima bez naloga (jutros sam skinuo gigabajt za manje od deset minuta) i ne limitira veličinu fajla koji tako možete skinuti (ili bar ne na neku smešnu vrednost - taj gigabajt koji sam skinuo je bio jedan fajl), ali onda vas dočeka sa kuldaun vremenom. No, to i jeste donekle pošteno, mislim, posle jednog giga, neka četiri sata čekanja mi se čini kao pošten trejdof, uzimajući u obzir da Hotfile i dalje posle svega 15-ak MB udara sa 25 minuta kuldauna.

Limelinx u ovom trenutku deluje izvrsno, jako je brz, ne primećuju se limiti, ali videćemo kad počnu na njega da kače veće fajlove, do sada sa samo skidao stripove sa njega (bez naloga) i to je kao san.

Rapidgator imam premium nalog koga obnavljam na trideset dana jer se ne usuđujem da platim više posle opekotina sa fileserveom i filesonicom od zimus i sa premium nalogom on radi izvrsno, brz je (ne kao repidšer, ali i dalje dosta brz) i otkad je JDownloader unapredio svoje plaginove, sa njim radi savršeno. Problem, ako nemate premium nalog je u kuldaun vremenu, koje je srednje dužine i u tome što fajl veći od 500 MB (ili možda 1 GB ako se ne varam da su nedavno digli limit) ne možete skinuti. Ali pošto igre i pornografiju dosta njih kači na RG, mislim da se plaćanje premiuma ovde donekle isplati. ne znam kako je za obične filmove, doduše.

Ryushare je koliko shvatam sjajan za premium korisnike, ali za free korisnike je donekle spor - ne puževski kao oni neki silni ruski hostovi - i ima ogroman kuldaun, što me isto odbija i kad su u pitanju Luckyshare ili Uploaded...

O onim Rusima tipa Letitbit mislim sve najgore - spori su, ogroman kuldaun i tako to. Izbegavati. Jedini ruski host koji mi deluje razumno je pomenuti rapidgator.

Share-Online nije rđav, pristojne mada ne brze brzine i razuman kuldaun, ali njega jako malo ljudi koristi.

Netload je neupotrebljiv.

Filefactory veoma ćudljiv.

Depositfiles zapravo ne tako rđav, daje velike brzine free korisnicima ali ima i srednje dugačak kuldaun...

[ginger toxiqo 2 gafotas]

...zasad, ključni problem ostaje konkretna ponuda linkova za pominjanje share-hostere (npr. ZS jesste brz, ali je sve manje ZS linkova za aktuelne ponude, a i kada ih ima brzo  umiru i slično...)

[Meho Krljic]

Da, naravno, što popularniji filehost, to se linkovi brže ubijaju. Ja sam baš zato odabrao rapidgator da ga plaćam jer pošto nisu ni u Americi ni u EU, manje ih plaše DMCA takedown poruke i linkovi duže opstaju.

[Ghoul]

Zippyshare i Mediafire su donedavno bili super, ali u poslednje vreme postali su znatno manje pouzdani, tj. sad umeju da budu ćudljivi
- nedavno sam skidao neko čudo iz npr. 12 fajlova sa Zippyshare, i posle skinutih 10 ili 11 mi je kazao: 'e, sad je dosta, skino si limit, vidimo se za 24 časa' ili tako nešto razbešnjujuće.

Mediafire takođe ume da randomly briše fajlove, pa mi je malko nepouzdan kad skidam filmove seckane u više fajlova.

aca mi mnogo hvali PUTLOCKER ali ja još nisam dovoljno njime baratao da bih išta lično mogao da kažem.

poslednjih dana isključivo koristim torente.

[Meho Krljic]

E, da, Putlocker nije rđav - dobre brzine i pristojni limiti, ali isto ima satanski dugačak kuldaun kad se limit dostigne.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Putlocker је британски. Zippyshare је француски.

Док се хостери не преселе у државе које не шишају претерано антипиратске законе, биће екстремно непоуздани.

[-_-]

nedavno sam skidao neko čudo iz npr. 12 fajlova sa Zippyshare,
i posle skinutih 10 ili 11 mi je kazao:
'e, sad je dosta, skino si limit, vidimo se za 24 časa'
ili tako nešto razbešnjujuće.

Putlocker nije rđav - dobre brzine i pristojni limiti, ali isto ima satanski dugačak kuldaun kad se limit dostigne.

Nisam koristio ni jedan od ova dva,
al ako su slicni ostalima,
mozda se limit da izbeci promenom IP adese!?

[Meho Krljic]

pa, trebalo bi da može. Ja imam statički IP a suviše sam lenj da se zezam sa nekakvim VPNovima itd.

[tomat]

ako imaš dinamičku IP adresu onda možeš da koristiš neki od softvera za promenu IP adrese. ako se ne varam, JDownloader je imao neki plagin ili skript koji je automatski menjao IP adresu posle svakod završenog daunlouda.

ja to radim seljački, resetujem modem.

[-_-]

ako imaš dinamičku IP adresu onda možeš da koristiš neki od softvera za promenu IP adrese

Staticku, htede da kazes?

Ja ne volim da koristim dodatni softver,
lakse je da se ide preko proxy-ja:
samo se ukuca cetvorocifreni broj (nadjen na netu) u browser i to je to.

ja to radim seljački, resetujem modem.

Sto seljacki? I ja imam dinamicku,
ovo je najlaksi nacin i nista mu ne fali.

[Tex Murphy]

Турбобит није лош.

[Meho Krljic]

Britanija, zemlja istine, ljubavi, slobode:

Pirate Bay proxy gets shut down after music industry legal threat

A proxy service allowing access to banned piracy website The Pirate Bay has been shut down after legal threats from the music industry.
Minor political group the Pirate Party UK launched the proxy earlier this year ahead of a High Court order blocking The Pirate Bay site.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) threatened legal action if the proxy was not removed.
The group has now said such proceedings should no longer be necessary.
The High Court's ruling in April this year meant The Pirate Bay - which was formerly one of the UK's most visited websites - had to be blocked by all the country's major internet service providers.
However, the Pirate Party UK - which is not affiliated with the Pirate Bay - launched a special section of its website which allowed UK users to circumvent the ban and still get onto the site and download movies, music and other pirated material.
'Undermining growth'
After launching the proxy, the Pirate Party website's popularity skyrocketed. According to monitoring service Alexa, prior to the proxy's launch the site was ranked 1,943 in the UK.
It then jumped to 147 - higher than the likes of Netflix, the Huffington Post and the NHS.

At the beginning of December, the BPI wrote to Pirate Party UK leader Loz Kaye to request the proxy be shut down.
Mr Kaye refused, prompting the music industry body to instruct its solicitors to contact the party's executive members individually to warn of possible legal action.
"We asked Pirate Party UK to remove the proxy because The Pirate Bay is an illegal site that is undermining the growth of legal digital music services," said BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor in a statement on Wednesday.
"We believe its executives should respect the law, and the basic right of creative people to be paid for their work.
"There are many fantastic digital music services that make it simple to get music legally online. This outcome will help ensure that this new digital sector in the UK can grow, continue to innovate for music fans, and create more UK jobs."
'Fantastic year'
On Friday, the Pirate Party said it would comply with the BPI's request.

"Despite attempts by elected members to resolve this situation, the law at present is clear and makes any decision to continue hosting the proxy untenable," said the party's lawyer, Frances Nash.
"This is not the outcome the party wanted; however, any challenge to this proposed action would make it financially impossible for the party to deal with other issues for which they actively campaign on a daily basis.
"The Pirate Party strongly believe that site blocking is both disproportionate and ineffective and will continue to lobby for digital rights and their wider manifesto."
Speaking to the BBC, Pirate Party UK leader Mr Kaye said taking on the BPI in court would have been "financially impossible", but said he was happy with his party's stance up to this point.
"No political action is wasted," he told the BBC.
"I look forward to carrying on the political work in 2013. This year has been a fantastic year for our brand of politics. It's clear that it's becoming politically poisonous to be anti-internet."

[Karl Rosman]

[Meho Krljic]

KOJOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    CAR!!!!

[sodomizer]

niko ne prica nista o rapidserbiji?

[Meho Krljic]

Oh, ti šašavi Irci, hoće da naplaćuju linkovanje na njihove novinske sajtove

[Meho Krljic]

A ako su ikom potrebni dalji dokazi da je američki patentni sistem nužno reformisati, evo ga: firma preti tužbom kompanijama koje imaju skenere (bilo koje) jer ima patent na "skeniranje i slanje dokumenata elektronskom poštom". Dakle, neko u američkom patentnom zavodu im je odobrio patent na proces... kuku.

[sodomizer]

ja cu da patentiram disanje vazduha, da vidimo kako ce to da mi prodje.

[Meho Krljic]

Evo jednog lepog grupnog intervjua sa Ričardom Stolmanom, ljubaznošću Slešdota:

http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/163248/richard-stallman-answers-your-questions

[Meho Krljic]

Studija koju je finansirao Gugl (ne baš nezainteresovana stranka) pokazuje da korisnici p2p servisa kupuju 30% više muzike od drugih ljudi. Kao da to nismo znali..

[Meho Krljic]

A Kim Dotcom tvrdi da je njegov novi servis MEGA dostigao cifru od milijun korisnika za 24 sata.

[Meho Krljic]

Kim Dotcom's Mega Fileshare Service Riddled With Security Holes

Is Mega handing encryption keys to users to protect itself from future legal problems?


Security experts have found a host of security vulnerabilities in Kim Dotcom's new online storage venture Mega, but many suspect his claims of tough data protection were only a smokescreen to distract attention by law enforcement agencies.
Mega, a follow-up to Dotcom's Megaupload service shut down by law enforcement, launched on Sunday. Its founder boasted it was "the privacy company", offering 50GB of free online storage to every user and blanket encryption across the site.
Yet many potential security vulnerabilities have been highlighted by the community, including flawed encryption key handling, a cross-site scripting hole and problematic claims surrounding deduplication.

Mega uploading insecure stuff?
The encryption "is less than ideal", according to Alan Woodward, from the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey. That's largely because it is all done through Javascript in the browser, which means that anyone who can break the SSL encryption on Mega could get hold of the keys.
The SSL encryption being used on some Mega domains appears to be 1024-bit encryption, which can be broken with far greater ease than 2048-bit encryption – viewed as best-practice amongst experts. At least one of Mega's sites uses only 1024-bit encryption to "reduce CPU load", although Mega.co.nz uses 2048-bit.
Furthermore, if a hacker gained control of the Mega server they could either just turn off the encryption or get hold of the private key to decrypt users' files. Even though Mega says it doesn't hold the keys, Mega admins could get hold of them, as it would only take a minor code change on Mega's servers to access those keys.
Some are concerned US law enforcement agencies, who are already trying to extradite Kim Dotcom over Megaupload's alleged support for copyright infringement, will simply order Mega to hand over the keys.
"I can imagine the FBI are typing up their warrant as I type requiring the keys to be collected and the content of the servers to be analysed," Woodward told TechWeekEurope.
Deduplication is another problematic issue. As was seen with Nokia recently, deduplication of encrypted data requires that information to be decrypted, repackaged and then encrypted again. The case of Mega is different, as it claims it can identify duplicated files, hinting the content may not be entirely secret.
According to Mega's co-founder Bram van der Kolk, speaking to Forbes, it is looking at the entire encrypted file. So if a user uploads the same file encrypted with the same key twice, or if a copied file from a file manager is uploaded, one of those duplicate files will be deleted.
But the fact that Mega uses Javascript's pseudorandom-number generator to produce the RSA keys, so users can share information with each other using public and private key infrastructure, is also an issue, as it is a method known to be predictable and lacking in entropy.
Despite the numerous security issues, many have questioned whether Mega isn't simply boasting about its security to protect itself from law enforcement action. If it does not own the keys, and does not access user data, it will be oblivious to the legality of content uploaded to Mega.
"I think Mega is using encryption not for the security of their users but their own personal legal protection," Woodward added.
"I cannot imagine anyone who understands encryption would trust their precious data to Mega's scheme as it currently stands. It would appear that Mega is after people who are looking for somewhere to store their data with a provider who wishes to adopt a position of 'see no evil'."
The password problem remains both a security and usability issue, but Mega has promised to let users reset passwords soon. Currently, if they forget their password, they can wave goodbye to their files, regardless of the level of encryption.
UPDATE: Co-founder of Mega, Bram ven der Kolk, promised TechWeekEurope an update from Mega on the issues and has delivered in a company blog.
He confirmed the user password is used to create the master AES-128 master encryption key, which is held on Mega servers, which in turn unlocks private keys and the user's content. This means Mega could indeed be ordered to find keys and then open up user content.
It also means that the lack of password reset is a big problem – if you forget your password you will have lost the key, meaning even if you got a new password, it wouldn't recover your files. But van der Kolk has promised some changes.
"A password change feature will re-encrypt the master key with your new password and update it on our servers," he explained. "A password reset mechanism will allow you to log back into your account, with all files being unreadable.
"Now, if you have any pre-exported file keys, you can import them to regain access to those files. On top of that, you could ask your share peers to send you the share-specific keys, but that's it – the remainder of your data appears as binary garbage until you remember your password."
To deal with the JavaScript pseudorandom-number key generation, used to produce a 2048-bit RSA key pair during sign-up for sharing files, Mega will add a feature that allows the user to add as much entropy manually as they see fit before proceeding to the key generation. That's on top of the entropy provided by user mouse movements and key inputs.
Answering the SSL questions, the Mega co-founder added that a JavaScript verification system had been created to check code uploaded from 1024-bit encrypted connections against 2048-bit-protected connections, to ensure content hasn't been changed.
"All active content loaded from these 'insecure', static servers is integrity-checked by JavaScript code loaded from the 'secure' static server, rendering manipulation of the static content or man-in-the-middle attacks ineffective. The only reason why HTTPS is supported/used at all is that most browsers don't like making HTTP connections from HTTPS pages. And, using more than 1024-bit would just waste a lot of extra CPU time on those static servers.
"A piece of JavaScript coming from a trusted, 2048-bit HTTPS server is verifying additional pieces of JavaScript coming from untrusted, HTTP/1024-bit HTTPS servers. This basically enables us to host the extremely integrity-sensitive static content on a large number of geographically diverse servers without worrying about security."

[Meho Krljic]

Klej Šrki, a povodom smrti Arona Švorca:

Remembering Aaron by taking care of each other

My friend Will Morrell, brilliant and sardonic, was the first person I ever knew to make his living close to the machine. A few years after we got out of college, he got a job in New York designing DSP chips for pinball machines, and crashed with me for a couple of months. During his stay, he convinced me I could dump my theater career in favor of finding a way to make my living on the internet. That turned out to be one of the most important conversations of my life, but I'll never be able to thank him properly. He killed himself a few years ago.
I teach at NYU, where a quartet of students recently decided the world needed a privacy-respecting alternative to Facebook. The result, Diaspora, was the longest of long shots, a project that shouldn't have a chance in hell of working, but it's turned into an interesting experiement, largely because of Ilya Zhitomirskiy, whose Wikipedia page calls him "the most idealistic and privacy-conscious member of the group." Ilya killed himself a little over a year ago.
Then there's Aaron Swartz.
Aaron's suicide has stirred the kind of political anger he cared about — as Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman said in her heart-wrenching and beautiful memorial, Aaron would have loved to be here — and those of us who care about the things Aaron cared about have to work harder to support open culture and the free flow of information, now that he's not with us.
But there's something else we need to do. We need to take care of the people in our community who are depressed.
Suicide is not hard to understand, not intellectually anyway. It is, as Jeff Atwood says, the ultimate in ragequitting. But for most of us, it is hard to understand emotionally.
For a variety of reasons, I've spent a lot of time with people at risk of suicide, and so have become an amateur scholar of that choice. When I first started reading about it, I thought of it as the last stop on a road of stress and upset — when things get bad, people suffer, and when they get really bad, they take their own lives.
And what I learned was that this view is wrong. Suicide is no more a heightened reaction to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than depression is just being extra sad. Most of us won't kill ourselves, no matter how bad things get. The common thread among people who commit suicide is that they are suicidal.
It's tempting to narrow our focus to the proximate causes. Ilya killed himself because of the stresses of running a startup, Aaron because of out-of-control prosecutors. And these are proximate causes — without Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz gunning for Aaron, he wouldn't have hanged himself two weeks ago. He had people near and far who loved him, but given what was happening to him, that wasn't enough.
But suicide is not only about proximate causes. Bernie Madoff destroyed his friends and his family, turned his own name into a curse in every community of which he was a member, and there he sits, in the jail cell where he will almost certainly die, writing missives to the outside world about the state of the financial system. Madoff hasn't killed himself because he isn't the kind of person who kills himself.
The reasons someone commits suicide at a particular moment aren't all the reasons they commit suicide. Often those aren't even the most important reasons. No one likes this part of the explanation. It makes an event that's already as awful as it can be more awful, because it renders it inexplicable. Most of us, even with our occasional desires for the ground to swallow us up, can sympathize but never really empathize.
Among the /b/tards of 4chan, there is a culture of celebrating people who 'an hero' (their preferred synonym for suicide), but there's also a message that frequently gets copied and pasted in those threads, whose core paragraph is:

so instead of killing yourself, why don't you just get the fuck out? leave the basement, leave your house, leave the mother fucking country. go on an adventure. spend your time doing something awesome, like tracking down some terrorists. go be james bond. go fuck up a shark with a harpoon. danger? fuck that, you were going up against 100% death rate before, you're being safe now? fuck EVERYTHING man the world is your oyster.

This message is both energetic and clueless, like most of /b/, an adolescent version of "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose", where not caring is a prelude to excellent adventures.
But not caring doesn't mean giving up on the things holding you back. Not caring — real despair — means giving up. Period.
The warning signs are well known. Persistent withdrawal. Mood swings. Previous attempts or family history. Talking about it. Self-erasure. The American Association of Suicidology has a good overview. There's no perfect checklist, but we are better at knowing the signs in general than we are at acting on them in specific cases. Ask yourself "Whose suicide would sadden but not surprise me?"
The useful responses are well-known too. Reach out. Ask. Listen. Take casual mentions of suicide seriously. Be persistent about checking on someone. Don't try to cure or fix anyone; that's out of your league. Just tell them you care, and point them to professional resources. Wikipedia has a list of English-language suicide prevention hotlines. Help Guide has a good overview of what we know about prevention generally, and how to help the potentially suicidal.
We need to remember Aaron by supporting free culture, and by limiting prosecutorial abuse. But we also need to remember Aaron by taking care of each other. Our community is unusually welcoming of people disproportionately at risk, but we are also unusually capable of working together without always building close social ties. Github is great for distributing participation, but it is lousy for seeing how everyone is doing.
We need to remember Aaron by thinking of those among us at risk of dying as he did. Most of them won't be martyrs — most of them will be people like Ilya and Will — but their deaths will be just as awful. And, as with every cause Aaron stood for, we know how to take on this problem. What we need is the will to act.

[Meho Krljic]

Bizarna ali slatka pobeda Antigve nad SAD:

Bekgraund:

Antigua Government Set to Launch "Pirate" Website To Punish United States

The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade "blockade" preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua's favor. The country now hopes to recoup some of the lost income through a WTO approved "warez" site.
Antigua and Barbuda is a small country in the Caribbean that for years had a flourishing gambling industry.
A few years ago 5% of all Antiguans worked at gambling related companies. However, when the U.S. prevented the island from accessing their market the industry collapsed.
"What was once a multi-billion dollar industry in our country, employing almost 5% of our population has now shrunk to virtually nothing," Antigua's High Commissioner to London, Carl Roberts, said previously.
Hoping to rebuild the gambling business Antigua filed a dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO), which they won.
In 2005 the WTO ruled that the US refusal to let Antiguan gambling companies access their market violated free-trade, as domestic companies were allowed to operate freely. In 2007 the WTO went a step further and granted Antigua the right to suspend U.S. copyrights up to $21 million annually.
TorrentFreak is informed by a source close to Antigua's Government that the country now plans to capitalize on this option. The authorities want to launch a website selling U.S. media to customers worldwide, without compensating the makers.
The plan has been in the works for several months already and Antigua is ready to proceed once they have informed the WTO about their plan. Initially the island put the topic on the WTO meeting last month, but the U.S. blocked it from being discussed by arguing that the request was "untimely."
This month Antigua will try again, and if they succeed their media hub is expected to launch soon after.
Antigua's attorney Mark Mendel told TorrentFreak that he can't reveal any details on the plans. However, he emphasized that the term "piracy" doesn't apply here as the WTO has granted Antigua the right to suspend U.S. copyrights.
"There is no body in the world that can stop us from doing this, as we already have approval from the international governing body WTO," Mendel told us.
TorrentFreak is in the process of obtaining details of the content to be offered and the prices to be charged. One option would be to ask users for $5 a month in return for unlimited access to U.S. media.
As predicted, the suggestion to suspend U.S. copyrights is already meeting resistance from United States authorities.
"If Antigua actually proceeds with a plan for its government to authorize the theft of intellectual property, it would only serve to hurt Antigua's own interests," the U.S warned in a letter to the WTO last month.
According to the letter Antigua will ruin their chances of getting a settlement should they approve a site that sels U.S. copyrighted goods without compensating the makers.
"Government-authorized piracy would undermine chances for a settlement that would provide real benefits to Antigua. It also would serve as a major impediment to foreign investment in the Antiguan economy, particularly in high-tech industries," the U.S. added.
Antigua doesn't appear to be impressed much by these threats and is continuing with its plan.
If the Antiguan media portal indeed launches, it will make headlines all across the world, which may result in the site becoming one of the larger authorized suppliers of U.S. media on the Internet. 

I potvrda od strane STO da je ovo okej:

Antigua's Legal "Pirate Site" Authorized by the World Trade Organization

During a meeting in Geneva today the World Trade organization (WTO) authorized Antigua's request to suspend U.S. copyrights. The decision confirmed the preliminary authorization the Caribbean island received in 2007, and means that the local authorities can move forward with their plan to start a download portal which offers movies, music and software without compensating the American companies that make them.
Last week we broke the news that the island nation Antigua and Barbuda wants to start a Government run "pirate" site.
Today, this plan came a step closer to reality when the Caribbean country received authorization from the WTO to suspend U.S. copyrights during a meeting in Geneva.
This decision affirms the preliminary approval that was granted to Antigua in 2007 after the country won a gambling related trade dispute against the United States.
At the moment it's still unclear what Antigua's exact plans are but TorrentFreak is informed that the media portal will offer movies, TV-shows, music as well as software to customers worldwide.
Antigua's Finance Minister Harold Lovell said in a comment that the U.S. left his Government no other option than to respond in this manner. Antigua's gambling industry was devastated by the unfair practices of the U.S. and years of negotiations have offered no compromise.
"These aggressive efforts to shut down the remote gaming industry in Antigua has resulted in the loss of thousands of good paying jobs and seizure by the Americans of billions of dollars belonging to gaming operators and their customers in financial institutions across the world," Lowell says.
"If the same type of actions, by another nation, caused the people and the economy of the United States to be so significantly impacted, Antigua would without hesitation support their pursuit of justice," the Finance minister adds.
The Government has not given a time-frame for the release of the site, which has been in the works for a few months already. Ideally, Antigua hopes to settle the dispute before opening up their free media portal but there are no signs that the U.S. is going to comply with the WTO rulings.
Thus far, the U.S. has only warned Antigua that "Government-authorized piracy" would harm the ongoing settlement discussions.
"Government-authorized piracy would undermine chances for a settlement that would provide real benefits to Antigua. It also would serve as a major impediment to foreign investment in the Antiguan economy, particularly in high-tech industries," U.S. officials said earlier.
However, these comments haven't changed Antigua's course. Emanuel McChesney, Chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda Investment Authority, is not impressed by this apparent scare tactic.
"We assume this is just rhetoric for public consumption, and we look forward to the United States putting aside these tactics and focusing their future efforts on thoughtful negotiation rather than on hyperbole and intimidation," McChesney.
The Antiguan government further reiterated today that the term "piracy" doesn't apply in this situation, as they are fully authorized to suspend U.S. copyrights. It is a legal remedy that was approved by all WTO members, including the United States.
If Antigua does indeed pull through, it will be rather interesting to see how the U.S. responds. It might add a whole new dimension to the ongoing "war on piracy." 

[Perin]

A kad smo kod piraterstva, ima li neka srodna duša da je član Asia Torrents-a

i koja mi može poslati invite za pridruženje ovome predivnom sajtu?

[Ghoul]

poslao bih ti ja, ali nisam na vreme bio upozoren da ta sekta zahteva da članovi moraju da SIDUJU, pa mi je rejting pao na ivicu do isključenja, tako da sada nemam dovoljno poena ni da tamo prdnem a kamoli da zovem nove...

[Perin]

poslao bih ti ja, ali nisam na vreme bio upozoren da ta sekta zahteva da članovi moraju da SIDUJU, pa mi je rejting pao na ivicu do isključenja, tako da sada nemam dovoljno poena ni da tamo prdnem a kamoli da zovem nove...

Ah....bedak!!! 

[Meho Krljic]

Kaki su smradovi ovi iz američkih telefonskih kompanija..

AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone

I haven't had a data plan in years.
I have my own reasons, I travel out of the country enough that I don't like having a contract if I can help it. I like to keep those costs as low as possible (especially if I'm out of the country & not using it) and spend money on other important things like my business.
That's usually not a problem. I usually just get the basic call/text plan and keep things simple. Fine with me. Because of this, for the past 2-3 years, I've had a flip phone - yes from the stone ages. It was actually quite nice as I'm on my computer enough – I don't need to constantly check my email.
That said, 4-5 months ago, the hardware on my old flip phone was dying (that happens when it's from 2008). I was out of contract with AT&T and so I could have chose to get a new subsidized phone & shiny new 2-year contract with them, but I simply bought a used out-of-contract iPhone 4 from my friend and swapped in my sim card (that whole commitment thing again). Again, no problems. America! Neat.
After using the iPhone as a dumb phone for all intents & purposes (call, text, no data) for the last 4-5 months or so, I get a text message out of the blue from AT&T that they've detected I'm using a smart phone and that all smart phones require a data plan - never mind that I actually had data turned off. That would be only a little annoying if it was just a notification message, but they went ahead, chose a data plan for me, and started billing me from then on.
However, they maintained that just because I was using a "smart" phone (that was not using data & for all intents & purposes a "dumb" phone) on their network, they could automatically start charging me for a data plan that I wasn't using.
Obviously, if you get into a contract with AT&T from buying a subsidized phone, you have to have a data plan – I get that – that's the concession you make when you sign up for that 2 year contract. But, I bought mine second-hand, out of contract, turned off data, didn't use it and had no intention to in the future.
After about an hour on the phone with them trying to understand "our deal", I think I finally figured it out:
According to AT&T:
They can opt me into a contract that I didn't agree to because I was using a phone that I didn't buy from them because it had the ability to use data that I wasn't using (and was turned off). To top it all off, they got the privilege of charging me for it because I bought a differently categorized device – even though the actual usage of their network did not change at all and I never reconstituted a new agreement with them.
According to them, this is "standard practice."
Their solution: either get a basic phone (pretty hard to find one without failing hardware these days) or if you ever want to use a smart phone (even if you don't buy it from us or use data), you'll still have to have a data plan.
Cool story AT&T.

[Tex Murphy]

Ја немам појма ни шта је тај дата план уопште, али ово стварно личи на посљедњи стадијум ретардације. Шта, сад ће почети да хапсе људе који у кухињи држе ножеве (за мазање, резање хљеба и сл.) јер МОГУ да се користе да се неко повриједи?!?!?!?!?

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, data plan ti je pretplata na toliko i toliko Internet protoka tokom meseca i tako te stvari. Čovek je kupio sekondhend telefon, koristio ga kao TELEFON, dakle, bez Interneta i tako toga aonda su mu ovi nametnuli Internet pretplatu iako nema nikave veze s njima, samo zato jer mogu.

[Tex Murphy]

Која стока, па и м:тел су постидили!

[sodomizer]

poslao bih ti ja, ali nisam na vreme bio upozoren da ta sekta zahteva da članovi moraju da SIDUJU, pa mi je rejting pao na ivicu do isključenja, tako da sada nemam dovoljno poena ni da tamo prdnem a kamoli da zovem nove...

reče cenjeni drug kritičar...

[Ghoul]

poslao bih ti ja, ali nisam na vreme bio upozoren da ta sekta zahteva da članovi moraju da SIDUJU, pa mi je rejting pao na ivicu do isključenja, tako da sada nemam dovoljno poena ni da tamo prdnem a kamoli da zovem nove...

reče cenjeni drug kritičar...

reče anonimni sodomit... 

[Meho Krljic]

Za svašta se dele patenti u toj Americi:

Amazon wins broad patent on reselling and lending 'used' digital goods

In the real world, lending a book to a friend or selling your used music collection isn't exactly groundbreaking. In the digital world, it's patentable.
Amazon.com has been awarded what appears to be a broad patent on a "secondary market for digital objects" — a system for users to sell, trade and loan digital objects including audio files, eBooks, movies, apps, and pretty much anything else.
The patent, originally filed in 2009 and granted on Jan. 29, covers transferring digital goods among users, setting limits on transfers and usage, charging an associated fee, and other elements of a marketplace for "used" digital goods.
The Seattle company is already implementing the approach in its feature for lending Kindle books, but the bigger question is whether the newly granted patent could impact others pursuing similar businesses, such as ReDigi — a "pre-owned digital marketplace" that has attracted legal attention from major music labels.
[Follow-up: Rival shrugs off Amazon patent on resale of 'used' digital goods]
One of features of Amazon's approach is the ability to "maintain scarcity" of digital objects. From the patent ...

... an object move threshold ("OMT") may be set. The OMT may limit the number of transfers of a used digital object to other personalized data stores when the used digital object has been moved more than a threshold number of times, thereby helping to maintain the scarcity of the digital object in the marketplace. For example, a popular used digital object such as a song may have an OMT of three, only allowing three permissible moves of the song to other personalized data stores. After the OMT is reached, the used digital object is no longer permissibly moveable to another personalized data store...

Read the full text of the new Amazon patent here.

[sodomizer]

poslao bih ti ja, ali nisam na vreme bio upozoren da ta sekta zahteva da članovi moraju da SIDUJU, pa mi je rejting pao na ivicu do isključenja, tako da sada nemam dovoljno poena ni da tamo prdnem a kamoli da zovem nove...

reče cenjeni drug kritičar...

reče anonimni sodomit... 

Jbg, šta da ti radim kad ti prvu knjigu nije izdalo UKS. 

[Ghoul]

poslao bih ti ja, ali nisam na vreme bio upozoren da ta sekta zahteva da članovi moraju da SIDUJU, pa mi je rejting pao na ivicu do isključenja, tako da sada nemam dovoljno poena ni da tamo prdnem a kamoli da zovem nove...

reče cenjeni drug kritičar...

reče anonimni sodomit... 

Jbg, šta da ti radim kad ti prvu knjigu nije izdalo UKS. 

pljuni mi pod prozor, anonimni sodomitu. 

[Perin]

Ko hoće da se učlani na AsiaTorrents, sad mu je prilika, otvorili su sajt za nove članove!!!! Ko zna koliko će trajati, so hurry the fuck up!!!!

Asia Torrents

[Meho Krljic]

Dvoje američkih ekonomista napisali su predlog ukidanja patenata jer vele da od njih nikakve koristi a samo štete:

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.3

[Meho Krljic]

Games Workshop još jednom dokazuju kakvi su neljudi:

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/games-workshop-trademark-bully.html

Naime, autorka M.C.A. Hogarth je doživela da joj Amazon ukloni eKnjige sa svog sajta jer je Games Workshop uputio DMCA žalbu da ona koristi njihov trejdmarkovan termin "space marine". Problem? Prvo, GW nema trejdmark u oblasti eknjiga, već igara i veliko je pitanje da li se može govoriti o automatskom prepoznavanju trgovačke marke u drugoj oblasti ako je nisi registrovao u njoj. Drugo, kakve, zaboga trejdmark ima veze sa DMCA?? DMCA pokriva autorska prava, ne trejdmark, zašto moroni sa Amazona dobrovoljno uklanjaju  radove koji očigledno ne krše autorska prava?

[Tex Murphy]

Ko hoće da se učlani na AsiaTorrents, sad mu je prilika, otvorili su sajt za nove članove!!!! Ko zna koliko će trajati, so hurry the fuck up!!!!

Asia Torrents

Ја се учланио. А шта има занимљиво на овом сајту?

[Father Jape]

Dvoje američkih ekonomista napisali su predlog ukidanja patenata jer vele da od njih nikakve koristi a samo štete:

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.3

Povezano, govor Nika Mejlera od pre nekoliko godina očito na nekom britanskom skupu ljudi iz IT branše:

http://caesar.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/high/072_Free_as_in_Market_the_misunderstood_entanglement_of_ethics_software_and_profits.ogg

[Perin]

Ko hoće da se učlani na AsiaTorrents, sad mu je prilika, otvorili su sajt za nove članove!!!! Ko zna koliko će trajati, so hurry the fuck up!!!!

Asia Torrents

Ја се учланио. А шта има занимљиво на овом сајту?

Dobrih korejskih/japanskih/kineskih filmova i serija! I pomalo erot'ke! 

[Nightflier]

Games Workshop još jednom dokazuju kakvi su neljudi:

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/games-workshop-trademark-bully.html

Naime, autorka M.C.A. Hogarth je doživela da joj Amazon ukloni eKnjige sa svog sajta jer je Games Workshop uputio DMCA žalbu da ona koristi njihov trejdmarkovan termin "space marine". Problem? Prvo, GW nema trejdmark u oblasti eknjiga, već igara i veliko je pitanje da li se može govoriti o automatskom prepoznavanju trgovačke marke u drugoj oblasti ako je nisi registrovao u njoj. Drugo, kakve, zaboga trejdmark ima veze sa DMCA?? DMCA pokriva autorska prava, ne trejdmark, zašto moroni sa Amazona dobrovoljno uklanjaju  radove koji očigledno ne krše autorska prava?

Kill the mutant. Burn the heretic. Purge the unclean.

[Ugly MF]

Jel warez-bb u nekom problemu ili samo moj browzer?

[Mouchette]

Jel warez-bb u nekom problemu ili samo moj browzer?

I kod mene isto!
Ostaje nam dobra stara piraterija iz sedamdesetih 

[Melkor]

Mislim da je do prekomerne navale tokom vikenda, ne mogu da izdrze serveri. Cesto im se dogadja u poslednje vreme.

[Meho Krljic]

Piše na njihovom blogu da imaju prijave da nisu dostupni na mnogim mestima a i sajtovi tipa downornot vele da su down, tako da, strpljenja.

[Albedo 0]

zar taj warez-bb još postoji

šta tu ima a da piratebay nema?

[Melkor]

Knjige, za pocetak. I za kraj, sto se mene tice.