HOW SAFE IS UTORRENT.....
- Thread starter DuceTheTruth
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utorrent is just a program needed to download from torrent sites. you cant actually download anything through it like limewire. the safety of the download depends on the safety/quality of the site that is hosting the file. the best torrent sites are private sites meaning you must be invited by an existing member. the best torrent program is azureus/vuze (in my opinion)
be very cautious when downloading from public torrent sites that you can find through google
there are tons of viruses & spyware included with their files
be very cautious when downloading from public torrent sites that you can find through google
there are tons of viruses & spyware included with their files
I used to fuck with pirate bay allllll the time til I read this shit one day....now I kinda stray away from using their shit...
The four main backers of The Pirate Bay could be personally on the hook for 15 million kroner ($2.5 million) after record labels requested the amount in damages from the Stockholm District Court yesterday. Gottfrid Warg of The Pirate Bay responded with the elegance that always characterizes the group's pronouncements, telling Sweden's The Local that "the record companies can go screw themselves."
The proposed damages are based on 24 albums, though the founders are also charged with helping to violate copyright on nine films and four computer games.
The Pirate Bay has long made the argument that it is merely a search engine and hosts no infringing content of its own. Given that reality, it would seem that putting the responsibility on those who actually download infringing material would be the sensible alternative, but The Pirate Bay doesn't like that idea, either. When the Swedish government proposed a plan that would allow ISPs to turn over IP addresses of suspected file-swappers in court cases, The Pirate Bay pitched the move as "a declaration of war on Sweden's youth."
Sweden's youth apparently believe that they have a right to copies of films, music, and even textbooks authored by others. A new site called Student Bay launched late last week to host scans of copyrighted academic books. The group says that "in Sweden it is claimed that education is free," according to a translation in The Local. "Despite this students are forced every term to spend thousands of kronor on books necessary for their education. It is totally unreasonable."
Getting a free education and paying a few hundred dollars a year for textbooks certainly sounds like a good deal, but a representative of Sweden's academic publishing trade group says that even these numbers are often inflated. Stefan Persson told The Local, "I have every sympathy for the financial situation of students, but the costs that are often quoted surprise me. The Student Barometer puts the average student's academic literature expense at 150 kronor ($25) per month, far less than for mobile telecoms, for example."
The four main backers of The Pirate Bay could be personally on the hook for 15 million kroner ($2.5 million) after record labels requested the amount in damages from the Stockholm District Court yesterday. Gottfrid Warg of The Pirate Bay responded with the elegance that always characterizes the group's pronouncements, telling Sweden's The Local that "the record companies can go screw themselves."
The proposed damages are based on 24 albums, though the founders are also charged with helping to violate copyright on nine films and four computer games.
The Pirate Bay has long made the argument that it is merely a search engine and hosts no infringing content of its own. Given that reality, it would seem that putting the responsibility on those who actually download infringing material would be the sensible alternative, but The Pirate Bay doesn't like that idea, either. When the Swedish government proposed a plan that would allow ISPs to turn over IP addresses of suspected file-swappers in court cases, The Pirate Bay pitched the move as "a declaration of war on Sweden's youth."
Sweden's youth apparently believe that they have a right to copies of films, music, and even textbooks authored by others. A new site called Student Bay launched late last week to host scans of copyrighted academic books. The group says that "in Sweden it is claimed that education is free," according to a translation in The Local. "Despite this students are forced every term to spend thousands of kronor on books necessary for their education. It is totally unreasonable."
Getting a free education and paying a few hundred dollars a year for textbooks certainly sounds like a good deal, but a representative of Sweden's academic publishing trade group says that even these numbers are often inflated. Stefan Persson told The Local, "I have every sympathy for the financial situation of students, but the costs that are often quoted surprise me. The Student Barometer puts the average student's academic literature expense at 150 kronor ($25) per month, far less than for mobile telecoms, for example."
