The Underground Gamer private torrent tracker site is back up after being down for several days. Somebody had decided to pose as a member of a Brazilian Anti-Piracy agency, and sent an email to their hosting service to get them shut down, claiming that Underground Gamer was violating copyright laws and engaging in piracy.
Yes, every torrent that Underground Gamer lists is under copyright. Yes, technically every member of the community is a pirate.
But (this is a big "but") Underground Gamer is only sharing the torrent file information, and (this is a big "and") specializes in electronic computer games and gaming manuals that are out of print and production. In other words, the stuff that no publisher or company is supporting. Like the old FASA Star Trek and Doctor Who RPG game manuals (which is what I was looking for when I stumbled across the site).
As a result of this unpleasantness, Underground Gamer is no longer going to have open signups. One bad apple (a former member of the site) spoiled it for everyone. I hope that they like paying outrageous prices for out-of-support material on Ebay.
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Banned my favorite torrent client
This is going to be a whine session, so someone better bring some crackers and cheese.
Earlier, this month one of the private torrent trackers that I get stuff from banned the use of uTorrent 2 on their tracker. (Basically, it favors other people using uTorrent 2; therefore it was unfair to those who used other clients.) In fact, every torrent client I like is on the banned list.
Now, I realize that no matter how you dice it, sharing torrents is stealing, unless you are sharing your own material. I have mixed feeling about the torrent sites. The reason I fluent the torrent sites is that I am hunting for out-of-print books, and I do not currently have a DVR (my VCR setup is pretty bad because I am using a digitual converter box and do not have cable). Basically, I can only tape what I am currently watching; therefore I would have to pick between House and Chuck. And we all know that the books I am after will never be reprinted (there is no market for them---there are only about a dozen of us interested in them).
Nevertheless, I know that I am doing wrong by downloading torrents. On the same grounds, DVRs, VCRs, and photocopy machines are also instruments of evil.
I did briefly try kTorrent: just long enourgh to realize that it was not really user-friendly (how the heck do you get it to download a torrent to an external hard-drive?). I do have one torrent client on my computer that I can use, but it it not great if you need to restart seeds after restarting your computer (bittornado). And I have a lot of files to seed.
I have came to the conclusion that this torrent site is out to annoy me. Heck, one of the clients they suggest, you have to compile yourself. Hmmm...my computer programming days are long past; I prefer my programs to come in prepackaged form.
Anyway, that is my complaint of the day---I can no longer use my favorite torrent client.
Now, give me that cheese and crackers.
Earlier, this month one of the private torrent trackers that I get stuff from banned the use of uTorrent 2 on their tracker. (Basically, it favors other people using uTorrent 2; therefore it was unfair to those who used other clients.) In fact, every torrent client I like is on the banned list.
Now, I realize that no matter how you dice it, sharing torrents is stealing, unless you are sharing your own material. I have mixed feeling about the torrent sites. The reason I fluent the torrent sites is that I am hunting for out-of-print books, and I do not currently have a DVR (my VCR setup is pretty bad because I am using a digitual converter box and do not have cable). Basically, I can only tape what I am currently watching; therefore I would have to pick between House and Chuck. And we all know that the books I am after will never be reprinted (there is no market for them---there are only about a dozen of us interested in them).
Nevertheless, I know that I am doing wrong by downloading torrents. On the same grounds, DVRs, VCRs, and photocopy machines are also instruments of evil.
I did briefly try kTorrent: just long enourgh to realize that it was not really user-friendly (how the heck do you get it to download a torrent to an external hard-drive?). I do have one torrent client on my computer that I can use, but it it not great if you need to restart seeds after restarting your computer (bittornado). And I have a lot of files to seed.
I have came to the conclusion that this torrent site is out to annoy me. Heck, one of the clients they suggest, you have to compile yourself. Hmmm...my computer programming days are long past; I prefer my programs to come in prepackaged form.
Anyway, that is my complaint of the day---I can no longer use my favorite torrent client.
Now, give me that cheese and crackers.
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