The Pirate Bay launches Oscar Torrents
This post was published 2 years 8 months 26 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.The Pirate Bay launches an interesting downloading service dubbed Oscar Torrents. News of the service comes by way of BoingBoing. Based on the title alone, I think it’s safe to assume that come Oscar week, bittorrent traffic will definitely have a serious boost as internet users catch wind of how easy it is to snatch downloads.
To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don’t think twice about it.
To all intellectual property landlords: we are aware that OscarTorrents might annoy you — but contain your righteous indignation for a while, and think: we’re only linking to torrents that already exist. Face it: your membrane has burst, and it wasn’t us who burst it. Your precious bodily fluids are escaping.
“your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lotter”. Thoughts?
I’d much rather take my chances winning the lottery, but even that’s detrimental to my pocketbook. : P
Netflix for me. : )
I’m thinking slapping the content owners in the face is a hilarious but dangerous move. Thats like if speed by a cop and he doesn’t pull me over… so I speed by a second time flipping him off.
As for the getting caught thing… torrents are like drugs… if used moderately you won’t get busted ;)
(btw … despite the skew of that sentence… I am not a drug user…)
If your anywhere but the US that might be true but in the UK there are loads of court cases. Hard to tell exactly without knowing how many cases there are and how many people use P2P networks. You could work out the odd from that.
Funny that they make their money off of giving away property of the companies they hate so much.
I have won the lottery on 6/11 times, just small sums. I dont like my odds
If I hated someone, that’s probably how I’d want to make money. Seems pretty logical. And, like you said, funny – in the “Nelson-laugh” kind of way; schadenfreude.
Actually getting caught downloading a torrent would be highly unlikely but uploading a torrent is different because your IP address is recorded within the torrent file therefore providing evidence linking your IP address to the file.
But how this stands in court makes me wonder because in order to prove that someone is in fact sharing “illegal” files you have to download the full content from the seed in the first place. So does that mean the RIAA needs to sue themselves?
my friend just got a Copyright Infringement Letter from Comcast for downloading Blood Diamond the other day….. =(
Also, in the letter….they gave the full name of the torrent he downloaded, what client he used, what port # was in use, his IP address, and how large the file was!
What torrent site was he using? The bay, or something that requires users (demonoid, oink, etc.).
I’ll have to ask him, I’m pretty sure it was a public tracker on demonoid.