What.cd is spying on Filesharingtalk
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true that...I have been a VIP there for like a year now,and have never received a single invite in the past.
firefly_for_you
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So you got banned at two sites, that doesn't mean anything, plenty of line towers are banned at a few sites. Happens to everyone.
You didn't need to, I thought I would slam down any attempts to bring UK-T into play using them as an example.
But how many people has it inconvenienced in a concrete way? Sure it's stupid (though comparing a city in britain where the cctv thing is common to a city in the US where it's not is kind of silly), but at the end of the day, the cameras are at best, pointless in regular situations. And in the unlikely event someone commits a crime in that neighbourhood, it'll be recorded.
Likewise, if you aren't a trader, the CSS monitoring system is at best, pointless. If you trade/download cheats, it'll be recorded.
I'll tell you right now I have facebook, no myspace, and don't use online baking, who am I? I also visited wikipedia earlier if that helps
Likewise, if you aren't a trader, the CSS monitoring system is at best, pointless. If you trade/download cheats, it'll be recorded.
Shit with that information, I could be at your doorstep by tomorrow!
I'll tell you right now I have facebook, no myspace, and don't use online baking, who am I? I also visited wikipedia earlier if that helps
Racceee Girl <333
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If all this is true then not all the what.cd 'I got banned for no reason' whine threads are unfounded.
And ringhunter I think you are looking at ethics from a far too general point of view.
Rename the *.doc to *.pdf
And ringhunter I think you are looking at ethics from a far too general point of view.
Rename the *.doc to *.pdf
I'm sure the trader hunters would see it as a breach of their privacy against their will resulting in trouble/losses (their FST account).
Of course people react positively when benefiting, that's human nature. It's just pretty silly that they expect their "privacy" to be upheld while telling the staff here to violate someone else's privacy.
It's only a problem if you've got something to hide :whistling
Of course people react positively when benefiting, that's human nature. It's just pretty silly that they expect their "privacy" to be upheld while telling the staff here to violate someone else's privacy.
It's only a problem if you've got something to hide :whistling
look here: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-everything-related-to-the-board-9/t-trying-to-contact-cabalo-405450
sickofjesus is admin from what.cd and cabalo says :
and for other trackers its the same.... use proxy or don't use fst if you dont want to lose your acc.
im already banned from 3 trackers (www.gft.org, e****http://www.ex i gomusic.org , www.what.cd ) Because i want to trade my accounts in FST
sickofjesus is admin from what.cd and cabalo says :
Well, I've been contacted and it was quite helpful for the board.
Thanks sickofjesus.
and for other trackers its the same.... use proxy or don't use fst if you dont want to lose your acc.
im already banned from 3 trackers (www.gft.org, e****http://www.ex i gomusic.org , www.what.cd ) Because i want to trade my accounts in FST
Deshmiriai
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actually, turns out that bitme staff just don't give invites for users that are fst members. the thing is, nothing can protect average user against a staff stupidity or paranoia or bad mood or anything.
there's _no_ universal solution against it
they're humans and they're all different and they all act the way they feel it so it's impossible to predict at all what the reaction will be to any user action.
and there's no universal way of how to avoid it - from one side it's better to try not to give them any information at all on which they could take some actions and from this side css leak is a no-no even for those who formally don't brake no trackers rules, from other side - not giving information, using different nicks/emails can also make you a shady user in the eyes of staffers...
ps between histories that i witnessed during my time in bt, i saw US guy being disabled on some tracker because somebody found the similar nick on some indian trading forum with 2 year old messages. just one example of how bright staff can be sometimes.
pps it's more or less common practice to ban users belonging to some countries, so punishing users because of being users of other sites may be even less "nazi" thing to do actually
there's _no_ universal solution against it
what makes you so sure to predict actions of all staffers in the world? if anyone think that all staffers always act using common sense, reason or some kind of moral, even relative, is just plain naive....
they're humans and they're all different and they all act the way they feel it so it's impossible to predict at all what the reaction will be to any user action.
and there's no universal way of how to avoid it - from one side it's better to try not to give them any information at all on which they could take some actions and from this side css leak is a no-no even for those who formally don't brake no trackers rules, from other side - not giving information, using different nicks/emails can also make you a shady user in the eyes of staffers...
ps between histories that i witnessed during my time in bt, i saw US guy being disabled on some tracker because somebody found the similar nick on some indian trading forum with 2 year old messages. just one example of how bright staff can be sometimes.
pps it's more or less common practice to ban users belonging to some countries, so punishing users because of being users of other sites may be even less "nazi" thing to do actually
Well, I've visited many of those links and even some others shadier than the ones listed.
What does that make me? Suppose you're a staffer from what.cd, who never heard of me, and you come cross with my profile and see I visited so many tagged links, what would you think? There lies the question.
What does that make me? Suppose you're a staffer from what.cd, who never heard of me, and you come cross with my profile and see I visited so many tagged links, what would you think? There lies the question.
Literary Heroin
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I wasn't aware Fst banned members for trading via pm.
I know you just copy and pasted everything, backie is the real idiot not you.... but this has been a topic of discussion a while ago. Even on this forum we have anti css leak scripts for Firefox.
hombre said:
I know you just copy and pasted everything, backie is the real idiot not you.... but this has been a topic of discussion a while ago. Even on this forum we have anti css leak scripts for Firefox.
Have you even read what I have written? I don't have a problem with you calling someone out on some moral flaw in their conduct. I have a problem with pirates setting rules amongst pirates, and tying ethics to it. The way I see it, and the way I will continue to see it is, it's hypocritical to break rules society put in place, then expect people to have a semblance of respect to rules you yourself make up of nowhere. I hate backie's attitude as much as the next guy, but he's right when it comes to people blindly listening/following to trading/cheating rules. The true "honor among pirates" is the unspoken respect and understanding for each others motives, not the fact that we should aim for an impalpable utopia.
One of the my worst gripes with the scene are all the retarded standards; attempting to set rules by which rule breakers are attempted to be contained. I'm sorry if I'm the only one in this thread who realizes how retarded that is. Would you prefer to be treated by a sick doctor or a healthy one? Would you hire a carpenter whose office door is broken? Would you listen to a university professor who is shaky when it comes to the subject at hand? Then why would you listen to a pirate's ideals when it comes to rules?
Granted I have never delved in too deep into ethics/morality books/courses, I will agree that maybe my point of view is too general, but that's how I'm arguing. I'm not saying trading is right or wrong; you can form your own opinion of my stance from what activities I indulge in around here. What I am arguing is the fact that I believe it's wrong for a pirate to set rules for other pirates to abide by, and for that I needed to "look at the bigger picture" per se.
One of the my worst gripes with the scene are all the retarded standards; attempting to set rules by which rule breakers are attempted to be contained. I'm sorry if I'm the only one in this thread who realizes how retarded that is. Would you prefer to be treated by a sick doctor or a healthy one? Would you hire a carpenter whose office door is broken? Would you listen to a university professor who is shaky when it comes to the subject at hand? Then why would you listen to a pirate's ideals when it comes to rules?
Granted I have never delved in too deep into ethics/morality books/courses, I will agree that maybe my point of view is too general, but that's how I'm arguing. I'm not saying trading is right or wrong; you can form your own opinion of my stance from what activities I indulge in around here. What I am arguing is the fact that I believe it's wrong for a pirate to set rules for other pirates to abide by, and for that I needed to "look at the bigger picture" per se.
I personally just think in order to maintain the privacy of our communities that we try to contain all our files in between members.
As I said before your shit blog, and your selling invites is pathetic, get a real job. That is the real reason.
Also if you think a pro selling topic is going to prosper on fst, you must be as stupid as everyone makes you out to be....
As I said before your shit blog, and your selling invites is pathetic, get a real job. That is the real reason.
Also if you think a pro selling topic is going to prosper on fst, you must be as stupid as everyone makes you out to be....
Mauloof Ahmed
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good decision :yup:
Antoinnette
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At the risk of sounding like a hypocritical jerk, I actually agree and commend them for anything they can and will do.
I just don't agree with imposing their moral standards on people, but at the end of the day, they are doing their job. So is anon, so are the RIAA. Asking for any person or group to short-change themselves when it comes to doing their jobs because I don't agree with the moral side of it is egotistical.
Do I dislike traders/trading? Yes, but still, it's their choice and they're doing what they want. Just as they reserve that right, staff reserve the right to fight back against them should they choose so.
What I've disagreed with the full time is not the notion that trading is right or wrong, but it's that people seem to think it's morally wrong to trade just because some tracker staff said so.
Name dropping 1337 trackers enhances your argument greatly :yup:
As soon as you start pirating the material that you've downloaded for free, you're now directly taking their money. Aside from the moral implications it's also a greater crime in most countries. So yes, I'd say it's worse. You're taking shit given to you for free and selling it to people that don't know any better.
Oh, and why the hell are we even discussing this with you? backie, champion of internet privacy, who has the personal details of people posted on his blog? Your pathetic response of "well all this info was already online anyway" doesn't hold much weight, since guess what, the CSS info is already online anyway. Hypocritical much?
I firmly believe that's much worse. There's no proof that a download equals a lost sale, I certainly wouldn't have bought everything I've downloaded. In that sense, it's a zero gain/loss situation for the media companies. They weren't getting my money in the first place, and they didn't have an actual product taken from them.backie said:
As soon as you start pirating the material that you've downloaded for free, you're now directly taking their money. Aside from the moral implications it's also a greater crime in most countries. So yes, I'd say it's worse. You're taking shit given to you for free and selling it to people that don't know any better.
This site rakes in a shitload off ads, so I'd say it's definitely making a profit, but there's really nothing we can do to change that. As for seedbox resellers, I think they're incredibly flawed as they're basically profiting off children that can't google how to set up rtorrent or WINE+utorrent. A monkey can buy a server, install a premade disk image on it, fill it with more users than is worthwhile, and rake in a huge profit. At least the usenet companies have to pay for servers and bandwidth to an extent far greater than your other examples listed (though I'm sure they're still making a killing).backie said:
Oh, and why the hell are we even discussing this with you? backie, champion of internet privacy, who has the personal details of people posted on his blog? Your pathetic response of "well all this info was already online anyway" doesn't hold much weight, since guess what, the CSS info is already online anyway. Hypocritical much?
michael405419
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I bet you are right. Doesnt really bother me then. But I can see how it may upset some people.
leenibee .
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Well, I don't think you can expect your personal information to remain private when it's in a public database, such as court records or a whois database. That's just me, I know it's weird. Mabye I should live like you, expect everything to remain private if it could be damaging to me.