Mindless Ramblings of The Cool Ones

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Originally Posted by CosmicTraveler

Is it a moral thing or do you just not trust them? 'cause Demonoid is an invite only site, hence why I use it... No secret government torrents trying to bust my pirating ass. I do what I want 'cause a pirate is free!!

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Good question, to which the answer is both. In the similar vein of my switching from banks to credit unions years ago, I also found Newsgroups to be better (for me) than p2p sites. They are similar and yet different in key ways. I find torrents (p2p) to be not worth the risk of exposure to viruses. I value my electronic devices and don't want viruses anywhere near them. ;) While the risk is still there with Newsgroups, it's not nearly as bad, in my opinion. To the point that, I've been using Newsgroups for around 5 years now, and have yet to ever have a virus.

Many ISP, use to offer some basic free access to Newsgroups. I'm a Cox subscriber and can say their East Coast operations recently shut down the free service. This didn't factor for me at all, as I actually pay a monthly fee for my access to Newsgroups. That does settle my 'moral' issues with the content I'm 'picking up from the ether'. Also, when I was introduced to Newsgroups it was described as digital trash bin. If you throw away a dvd and someone else picks it up and watches, that's not stealing, it's recycling. :) These studios couldn't charge you with piracy cause you aren't giving it away to anyone specifically (like with p2p), you are just, putting it out there.

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I see. That actually makes a lot of sense. Although I'm still going to go about it my way ( due to the fact that I have no steady income. ) But were I to have a job, I might be more inclined to hit a newsgroup if just for the sake of keeping the FBI out of my hair... I've had at least two friends get notices from them for downloading things like roms and movies. It hasn't happened to me but if it did I'd probably be more cautious.

While I don't give two craps about AMVs I figured I'd be so kind as to share the song from which I ripped my forum name.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxg8AnFdgo4[/ame]

Drink up. Be merry!

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Originally Posted by CosmicTraveler

While I don't give two craps about AMVs I figured I'd be so kind as to share the song from which I ripped my forum name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxg8AnFdgo4

Drink up. Be merry!

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Nice! So, what is the name of the group exactly? Did a quick google of Gintama and brought me to the anime show. Will have to research more later, as I'm filming today...

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The group is Soul'd Out, if you like their sound look up Diggy-MO' also. He's the main MC for the group and now he's gone solo. There's also a few instrumental tracks by the group's keyboardist called Master's Groove ( Part 1 and 2 ) that you'll wanna check out.

By the way who you filming today?

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Originally Posted by CosmicTraveler

The group is Soul'd Out, if you like their sound look up Diggy-MO' also. He's the main MC for the group and now he's gone solo. There's also a few instrumental tracks by the group's keyboardist called Master's Groove ( Part 1 and 2 ) that you'll wanna check out.

By the way who you filming today?

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A hole puncher...

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I... it... what?

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Originally Posted by Ms Remy M

Good question, to which the answer is both. In the similar vein of my switching from banks to credit unions years ago, I also found Newsgroups to be better (for me) than p2p sites. They are similar and yet different in key ways. I find torrents (p2p) to be not worth the risk of exposure to viruses. I value my electronic devices and don't want viruses anywhere near them. ;) While the risk is still there with Newsgroups, it's not nearly as bad, in my opinion. To the point that, I've been using Newsgroups for around 5 years now, and have yet to ever have a virus.

Many ISP, use to offer some basic free access to Newsgroups. I'm a Cox subscriber and can say their East Coast operations recently shut down the free service. This didn't factor for me at all, as I actually pay a monthly fee for my access to Newsgroups. That does settle my 'moral' issues with the content I'm 'picking up from the ether'. Also, when I was introduced to Newsgroups it was described as digital trash bin. If you throw away a dvd and someone else picks it up and watches, that's not stealing, it's recycling. :) These studios couldn't charge you with piracy cause you aren't giving it away to anyone specifically (like with p2p), you are just, putting it out there.

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I agree and have also subscribed to a newsgroup provider. I have used newsgroups for years before but that was when ISPs allowed free access but most have now ceased that service or have very poor retention services. It is surprisingly cheap to subscribe nowadays costing an average of $10 per month for an unlimited service. Most providers will now guarantee around 1000 days retention so you have a pretty much endless amount of files to download. I also understand with various laws and MPAA searches torrents are becoming less and less viable and for the time being the SSL security offered by newsgroup/usenet providers allows for secure downloading which, would make it more difficult for authorities to track what you actually download.

My only issue with usenet at the moment, is its growing popularity. This has led to various password protected uploads which, lead you to a ad-ridden website that pretends to reveal the password to your file if you fill in 10 million surveys. :-/ Also you do tend to get a lot of movies dubbed in german or with hard coded dutch subtitles - this is especially annoying because the only good rip of Twin Peaks I can find has Dutch subs all over it :(

As you love your newsgroups too Ms Remy I have PM'ed you a few tools that might help you locate movies on usenet (apologies if you already know of/use them) :D

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Originally Posted by CosmicTraveler

I... it... what?

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lol Sorry, I meant, The Hole Puncher! :p


I wish I could play this song as well in real life as I do on Rock Band :)

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Originally Posted by thepiedpiper

I agree and have also subscribed to a newsgroup provider. I have used newsgroups for years before but that was when ISPs allowed free access but most have now ceased that service or have very poor retention services. It is surprisingly cheap to subscribe nowadays costing an average of $10 per month for an unlimited service. Most providers will now guarantee around 1000 days retention so you have a pretty much endless amount of files to download. I also understand with various laws and MPAA searches torrents are becoming less and less viable and for the time being the SSL security offered by newsgroup/usenet providers allows for secure downloading which, would make it more difficult for authorities to track what you actually download.

My only issue with usenet at the moment, is its growing popularity. This has led to various password protected uploads which, lead you to a ad-ridden website that pretends to reveal the password to your file if you fill in 10 million surveys. :-/ Also you do tend to get a lot of movies dubbed in german or with hard coded dutch subtitles - this is especially annoying because the only good rip of Twin Peaks I can find has Dutch subs all over it :(

As you love your newsgroups too Ms Remy I have PM'ed you a few tools that might help you locate movies on usenet (apologies if you already know of/use them) :D

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Yes, I agree, the popularity has been an itching feeling in my side. I have a thing about not liking to do what everyone else is doing. For a while, mainly last couple years, password files were a big problem, but I eventually found a few different posters that rarely if ever use passwords, and I just f5 their pages to keep updated with media. Mostly it's just the subs that are protected. I never try to get those passwords, and would advise not to bother either, those surveys and such are suspect. Movies have been hit or miss at times, with the gluttony of German releases spewing out. Had a hard time finding the Human Centipede, but eventually did *gross* :o The R5's continue to come in at a decent pace though, which movies are hit and miss. I have resigned myself to waiting for the DVD retail release and then grabbing those. Insidious being my most recent R5 grab :)

I do tv series collection as well, and I can usually get away with only 1-2 episodes having the hard-codes. What I despise most, is missing an episode out of a whole series, so I take the hard-codes as the lesser of two evils, especially if it'll complete the series so I can burn off to a disc for archives.

I'm all for shemes.com freeware Grabit, and binsearch.info combo of tools. Only problem with that setup is that finding comics can be a little more difficult than any other media type.


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