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Look Forward to the new Canadian DMCA

June 4th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Online, Piracy

In Canada a few days ago, the third attempt to update the copyright law since our last big reform back in 1997 was introduced.  It was called Bill-32, and although many big issues people had with the last one were resolved, I believe that the digital lock issue (not being able to break digital locks without breaking the law) outweighs all of things that were fixed with the new bill.

Today, in Canada it is technically illegal to copy songs from your CDs to your iPod, even though many people do that!  Also, it is technically illegal to tape tv shows at the moment!  That also is a common practice, which is why these laws are overlooked.  These issues make it clear that the copyright law does need updating, but although the new copyright bill will fix these problems, and give the consumer more rights, the fact that any content creator will basically be able to “ixnay” any of these rights that were given to the consumer simply by adding a digital lock is unfair to consumers.

If a customer was sold something with a digital lock, then they basically can’t do anything with it except what the rights holder wants the customer to do with it!  This is ridiculous and must be changed!

See these articles for more info:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Copyright+bill+makes+easier+target+illegal+file+sharing/3103853/story.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1652537/canadian-copyright

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uTorrent 2.0s uTP REALLY Kills Your Speed

April 14th, 2010 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Apps, How Tos

Hey everyone!  I just got the new uTorrent update, as it was rolled out a couple weeks ago, and it updated in like two seconds after clicking Yes.

I then went on TorrentFreak, and I read that in this uTorrent update there is a new protocol developed by BitTorrent Inc and Bram Cohen, called uTP – and it basically throttles your downloads so that the ISPs don’t have to.  I don’t believe that by limiting global download speeds we will see any sort of improvement in our internet – likely it will give our ISPs who are already sluggish at upgrading their infrastructure another reason not to spend money on infrastructure upgrades.

To disable UTP fully, then go to Options > Preferences > Advanced and set bt.transp_disposition to 5.
Then go to Options > Preferences > BitTorrent and uncheck Enable Bandwidth Management.

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Pirate Bay shut down by BREIN, moving to Nuclear Bunker

October 7th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Piracy

The Pirate Bay was taken down today by anti-piracy agency BREIN.  BREIN recently sued Mininova, who lost the civil dispute and was ordered to remove all of their infringing torrent files in august.

The Pirate Bay has plans to switch to move to an ISP called CyberBunker, which is was a NATO nuclear bunker from the 50s that was sold in the 1990s to the current owner.  It is its own republic and is surrounded on all sides by the Netherlands.  Check out the Republic of CyberBunker’s website for more info about the history of the country.

The nuclear bunker is used as hosting facilities, and it can withstand a nuclear strike as well as an EMP blast, and CyberBunker certainly won’t cave to threats from BREIN!

As the owner of CyberBunker, Sven Kamphuis, said, “I don’t expect BREIN to do pretty much anything at this point. The last conversation we had with them was about some mp3 site they wanted to have shut down somewhere in 2001/2002. It took around 3 hours at 2am at night and the end result was that both parties agreed not to agree.“

The bay has been up and down rather sporatically throughout the day, and it should be online steadily soon.

All-around, this is great news for fans of the Pirate Bay, and great news for torrenters all-around.

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Automatically download TV Shows using TED

July 18th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Apps, Piracy

TED is a program that automatically searches for new episodes of your favorite tv shows on RSS feeds and then automatically downloads them and opens them in your Torrent client of choice to download.

This program’s pretty handy if you want to use your computer sort of as a PVR but instead, just automatically download the shows off the internet.

You can select shows from a list of preset shows, click subscribe and then Ted will automatically download the show the next time a new episode comes on the RSS feed.

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Demonoid Invite Giveaway!!

April 29th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Online, Tech

Just Comment if you’d like one!!

I will email it to you!

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How to use old interface in Vuze

November 23rd, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

Are you sick of the new interface in Vuze as many people are?  Here’s how to use the familiar old interface that Azureus had.

 

  1. Open Vuze
    (Right now it will still be in the Vuze interface as shown)
  2. Go to the Tools menu
  3. Click on Options
  4. A new window will appear
  5. Look in the item list on the left for “Interface” and click on the plus arrow beside it
  6. Click on “Start” in the list that appeared
  7. Click on the “Show” button beside “Display Vuze UI Chooser”
     
  8. The window that will come up has the option for “Classic Interface”, so just click on that and click OK.
  9. Click on restart, and you’re all set!
     
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How to download torrents (for ABSOLUTE beginners!)

November 11th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Tech

If you really like music and you just don’t want to buy it, in Canada you can download it for free (note that this can be illegal in some places).  To download music using BitTorrent, you need a “torrent client”, and a good one is uTorrent available at http://www.utorrent.com/, and it is probably the most secure one available. Download it and install it. Once you have it, you can download torrent files such as the ones available at my favourite torrent website, http://www.isohunt.com/. When you search on the website, it comes up with results like the ones displayed at this link: http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=klezmer.
In the picture above, you can see three things circled from the search – Size column, S (seeds), and L (Leechers/Peers).
Size is how big the file is – you don’t want to download something too big because that might fill up all your space. S or seeds, is definitely the most important column. It tells you how fast your download will be. If there are more seeds than leechers (or L in this picture), then your download will be a lot faster. The circled download would probably be a good choice out of all the results. Still, don’t be scared to download something with only 4 or 5 seeds because it could be a good download too – just keep this a standard rule of thumb to pick the best one.

When you’ve picked one, click on its title. This page will come up:

In the above picture, you can see the download .torrent button. Just click on that, and internet explorer or firefox will want to download the file – press “open” instead of “save”, and if it prompts you for what program top open with with, open the file you download with uTorrent. Then choose some or all of the files you want to download and a spot to save them to and then press ok.

While it’s downloading (it can take overnight or longer sometimes), you can minimize utorrent and it will disappear to the lower right section of your screen the “system tray” where the clock is. The icon is a U and you can click it any time (double click) and it will bring it back up (to check your download’s progress).

Wait a while until it’s done and “seeding”, and when it starts seeding that means the download’s done, so you can right click it and click “stop”. To stop it from seeding (I highly recommend you do that) Right click the torrent in the main window and click “Open Containing Folder”, and then it will bring up the folder with all your files in it.

As another final note, Mininova is an excellent site for your purposes if you really just want to download music and may even be better than Isohunt. http://www.mininova.org/cat/. For music, just click the music category.

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Transfer Files Easily Using BitTorrent

April 29th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Uncategorized
BitTorrent is a wonderful protocol that makes transfer of big files simple. Have you ever wanted to send a huge file to your friend (such as the ISO image of that wedding DVD you can’t mail to your friend)? Well, here’s the answer. Download a program called uTorrent at www.utorrent.com and install it. Now, open it (it will probably open by itself once you’re done installing it). Then click on the file menu, and click on Create New Torrent (or press “Ctrl + N”). A window will pop up. In “Select Source” click either on Select File (if it’s only one file you’re making the torrent of), or click on Add Directory to add a whole folder of files to the torrent you’re going to distribute. Once you’re done that, click on the “trackers” field and paste this in:

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

These servers track the downloading and uploading from the peers.
Type in a comment for your downloaders in the “comment” section.

Check the “start seeding” checkbox but leave the “private torrent” box alone.

Click on “Create and Save As”. Save that file in “My Documents”, and send that file to any people who want to download the file. Then leave uTorrent open for a long long time, and when you are leaving it open, you are sending the file to the people who are going to recieve it. Tell them to leave uTorrent open for a long time too, so everybody gets a chance to get the file. If you want to publicly share your torrent, go to http://www.mininova.org/upload and upload it for the whole world to see!

Hope this will help!

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