Comments on: BitTorrent ‘illegal hacking program’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:12:43 +0000

i downloaded bitTorrent today and it made all my programs launch to that program. Making me unable to system restore nor open any of my program files.

Idk how to fix it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:33:10 +0000

I really wish I had read this before I went to the University of Rochester

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:35:55 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:46:09 +0000

SIU Carbondale has blocked most of the p2p programs out there, including Bit Torrent, IRC, DC++, all the way down the limewire. I had got in contact with one of the campus administrators and this is what they had to say about the matter.

Despite my plea that I would only be using bit torrent for legal use, (IE – http://www.systm.org, linux distros, etc…) they said that there was no way that they would unblock bittorrent, even for one person. Is this right? Is there something that can be done about this? Or maybe is there something that “you” can do about it without them neccessarily knowing…?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:59:18 +0000

MPAA/RIAA lies to people and slanders products where they are not screwing people out of cash. No surprise here.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:01:40 +0000

New York Times? Hows that supposed to make it any less bogus? It might be more interesting though from NYT…maybe some dirty bombs involved and sleeper cells or something.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:15:34 +0000

Skype is owned and run by those 2 pricks who still own the fasttrack and are still up to their throats and still secretly involved with Kazaa. With a bit of luck they will be exposed when the real ownership lid is lifted on Sharman Networks. Skype belongs in the same sewer as those ugly parasitic hackneyed networks.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:54:24 +0000

Grammar Nazi:

ludicrous

Please learn to spell.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:39:19 +0000

Um…doesn’t this totally smell of a bogus story? The person posting this on that forum was a new member with only 3 posts before it. T

here isn’t any link to a news story from a news source (sorry, p2pnet isn’t a news source…get back to me when it’s on CNN/BBC/New York Times.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:09:21 +0000

6. I would bitch-slap their admin/prof for their UTTER ignorance and stupidity. Anyone that stupid or easily PUSHED around, have not right being in front of the lecture teaching students.

Yeah, you heard me. I actually have a lot of weight on campus. (kidding about the bitch slapping, but I’ve actually TOLD several prof off or ARGUED PURSUASIVELY when they are acting stupid — Yes, it is your right to disagree!).

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:36:56 +0000

Don’t forget, they’ll have to PAY for the privilige of watching hours on end of Teletubbies and Barnie… After all, they’re being “entertained” by it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:13:48 +0000

I second that!

And they shall be beaten back to their senses, and subjected to “De-disinformation” and “De-propaganda” — OR — at their option, they may choose the MPAA punishment of being forced to watch hours on end of Teletubbies and Barnie!!!

Ha ha ha, take that !

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:05:28 +0000

All people watching movies will forthwith be arrested on campus for supporting this mafia!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:43:39 +0000

This is F@$!%! up!

I’m a parent myself, and this is just nonsense. I’ve spoken to my school board about them teaching these “values” to my kids, and made it very clear that there are better values and issues to teach children. Whether you’re a parent, a student, or just an individual, make your voices heard. Tell them that this is INAPPROPRIATE and not the place for them to spread their propaganda. If they what to spread propaganda, there is already a mechanism in place — it’s called television and lamestream news.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:01:41 +0000

It would seem with the insertion of the RIAA and MPAA into the business of schooling that colleges and uni’s have become afraid. Not afraid for the students mind you, afraid for the institution. Where, oh where, is teaching students to think for themselves?

In the 60’s it wasn’t uncommon for students to band together on campuses across the nation to discuss methods of interfering with “the man” to disrupt the war machine. Usually the uni’s didn’t interfear and by being passive to the students activities on campus, they passively endorsed the think for yourself and after hours involvement in social gatherings. That spirit is being actively killed in the sake of the dollar. These schools instead of teaching young adults to think are backing up the cartels. From flying off at the handle (obviously wanting to say don’t use bittorrent; we could be held liable) without understanding the issues and wildly supporting the cartel in the process. The cartel has been well known to use misleading claims, wild speculation, and legal barriers as tools to get its own way. It has done so for so long that even the institutions and media are spouting its lines as the undeniable truth. When the facts are rubbed in it nose, the cartels blithely ignore what isn’t in their benefit or attempt to twist it into something more supportive of their ideas.

One wonders if that won’t be the major lesson learned by those students instead of thinking for themselves. No wonder the world is going to heck in a handbasket!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:35:47 +0000

My son is going to Brunel Uni (UK) in Sept. I was scanning the computer network terms of use. In the middle is a statement that goes “P2P file sharing pograms (such as kazaa, grokster, bittorrent, Skype) are expressly forbidden”. I’m not exactly surprised, and the issue is likely to be bandwidth as much as copyright issues. Still irritating though to see Skype and BT lumped in with the rest.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:47:04 +0000

If my school EVER told me bittorrent was an ‘illegal hacking program’ I’d:
1. Laugh in their faces.
2. Explain what a ‘hacking program’ really is.
3. Explain what bittorrent is, and its uses and benifits.
4. Write a good essay about bittorrent and explain why the policy against it is so ludacris.
5. Get every student I could to sign the essay as a petition.

Thats what I’d do… and I encurage ALL stupids to do the same!

Its so sad that these colleges are calling bittorrent the ‘illegal hacking program’… because it most certainly is not! Its a very benificial technology, thats used to distribute large files, Including Linux distroes and other large installs and software. And although some people use it for downloaing media that most would call illegal… Thats not bittorrent’s fault! Bittorrent is a much needed program in this day and age… and unless internet speeds become a LOT better within the year… it will always be needed.