In countries all around the world the music and movies industries are increasingly looking to web blockades to solve their piracy woes. The belief is that by blocking file-sharing sites at the ISP level, subscribers will eventually get frustrated enough to start testing out some of the legal offerings available. Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to have an ISP blockade of The Pirate Bay. ISP Eircom backed out of a court battle with the major labels represented by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and in 2009 blocked the site voluntarily. Progress on having The Pirate Bay blocked by other ISPs then slowed due to legal issues, but once Ireland’s signing into law of the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012 had been completed, the ball was rolling again. Following an action initiated by EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal against the ISPs UPC, Imagine, Vodafone, Digiweb, Hutchison 3G and Telefonica O2, in June 2013 the High Court gave the service providers just 30 days to block The Pirate Bay. Now, just as expected, the labels are back. In their crosshairs this time is KickassTorrents, the second most popular torrent site in the world. The early signs suggest that achieving success will be a walk in the park. On Monday, Sony, Universal and Warner Music will head off to the High Court with demands that Ireland’s largest ISPs – Vodafone, UPC, O2, Digiweb and Hutchison 3G Ireland – block subscriber access to the site. Speaking with the Irish Times, UPC – one of the few ISPs worldwide to aggressively contest blocking demands – confirmed it had been served with legal papers. “UPC declined Irma’s request in pre-litigation correspondence to voluntarily block Kat. Our position is that ISPs should not, on a voluntary basis, choose what can or should be consumed by internet users. Such matters are for the government or the courts to decide,” the ISP said. However, not all ISPs are taking such a strong line. Imagine, an ISP that was listed among the defendants in The Pirate Bay case, says it has informed the labels it will block KickassTorrents voluntarily if the defending ISPs lose their case. IRMA chief Dick Doyle also confirmed that his group had reached agreements with several other ISPs in Ireland to block Kickass, even though they are not involved in the case. Aside from Eircom’s position against The Pirate Bay, this appears to be the first time that ISPs have agreed in bulk to block a file-sharing site voluntarily. Success in this case for the labels, which appears to be almost guaranteed, will open up the possibility of even wider blockades in Ireland such as the ones across the water in the UK. And with ISPs now offering voluntary blocking if the conditions are right, the way seems smoother than ever before.

Well Gentlemen and Ladies , Christmas is fast approaching us all, and myself and Mary now find that we will have to ask for your help with the Server costs this month, due to bad weather I have not worked for nearly 6 weeks and find it hard to stretch our income for the Server this month, Any help would be greatly appropriated, I do not like asking for help but I will swallow my pride and ask for it for once. Any donations made will be given a Double Ratio Boost Yours Rick

This week's WFL selection, banner competition and µtorrent issu - LL - Today, 11:07 µtorrent users please note that, in spite of being on the approved list, µtorrent 3.3.2 simply does not work for our torrents. If you have already upgraded please downgrade to either 3.3.1 or one of the older, more stable versions such as 1.8.2, 1.8.5 or 2.2.1. If you have not yet updated please disable automatic updates until further notice. Last chance to enter the Christmas banner competiton! Entries will close tomorrow and the public vote will follow soon after. Please follow the link on the home page to enter. This week we have 5 great freeleech packs for you to enjoy! These torrents can be downloaded from the blue 'recommended' section of the browse page, or via the mini torrent wheel to the right of the shoutbox. Mr Palfrey of Westminster Series 1 (1984) The Invisible Man Series 1 (1984) Touching Evil Series 1 (1997) Ørnen: En Krimi-odyssè (The Eagle) Series 1 (2004) Afterlife Series 1 (2005) These torrents will remain freeleech until Saturday 7th December , after which time any download amount will be counted. Please remember that these are full series packs and must be seeded for at least 72 hours (3 days) or until the ratio has reached 1. Mr Palfrey of Westminster was a British television drama which ran in 1984–85. Mr Palfrey is a mild, middle aged man—the epitome of a middle rank British Civil Servant. He is also a spook. Unveiling covert assassinations, government cover-ups, military skullduggery, and counter-counterintelligence is all in a day's work for Mr. Palfrey of Westminster, who's part of what could be called the Internal Affairs wing of Britain's intelligence department. Played by the superb Alec McCowen (who also appeared in Frenzy, Travels with My Aunt, and Gangs of New York), Palfrey is dapper, capricious, fussy, and combative with his superiors when he doesn't get his way--but above all cunning. The Invisible Man is a six-part television serial based on the science fiction/fantasy novella by H. G. Wells, screened by the BBC in the UK throughout September and October 1984. It was produced as part of the BBC 1 Classic Serial strand, which incorporated numerous television adaptations of classic novels screened in serial form on Sunday afternoons. Starring Pip Donaghy in the title role, the series follows the same plot as the original book, of a deranged scientist who discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven to insanity by his inability to reverse the formula and is evoked to use his invisibility to terrorize those around him. Out of all the numerous film and TV versions of H. G. Wells' book, this remains to date the most faithful to the original text. Touching Evil is a crime drama following the exploits of a crack squad on the Organised & Serial Crime Unit, a rapid response police force that serves the entire county The series is named after the lead character, a half-Icelandic half-Danish police officer named Halgrim Ørn Hallgrimsson, nicknamed "Ørnen" (the eagle). In the first episode, a new international criminal investigative unit is being formed under Thea Nellemann (Ghita Nørby), and Hallgrimsson (Jens Albinus) is persuaded to take the job as the lead investigator for the unit. He puts together a small team of experts in their fields. Their cases cross the borders between Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and various other countries; and involve biker gangs, former Russian KGB, possible terrorist threats and international fraud. Throughout the series Hallgrimsson deals with recurring flashbacks and possibly post-traumatic stress from a childhood incident. University lecturer Robert Bridge (Andrew Lincoln) becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy (Lesley Sharp) in this chilling TV series.

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Explaining the Recent Downtime 22 hours and 11 mins agoHide As many of you are aware, a leak of J.D. Salinger’s heretofore unpublished “Three Stories” found its way to What.CD in the last day. It is our current belief that this leak originated as a physical copy on eBay and made its way to our site in digital form thereafter, although we cannot confirm this lineage at present. The official request for these stories has existed on What.CD for some time, and although many thought it would never be filled or otherwise viewed it as a harmless act of communal wishing, the request’s existence was in no way a formal endorsement by What.CD Staff. The site was temporarily brought down so that we could work to preemptively resolve issues related to the leaked content and the publicity it has received. Our first priority can and must be the protection of What.CD. Due to this case’s rare and unlikely circumstances, due to the unnecessary and unwanted attention the Salinger leak has brought, and due to our desire to comply with the desires of the Salinger estate or other involved parties in this matter, the content has been removed from What.CD. It is not to be re-uploaded under any circumstances, and anyone found doing so will have their account disabled. We thank you for your patience as we continue to resolve this matter. Additional details will become available as is necessary per the discretion of the Staff. (Discuss this post here)

OK i think what we are going to do is split the prize between the only two entries we got one did not have ST in the picture and the other was a old pic But the whole staff would like to thank both of you for entering the 2013 Halloween costume contest i will get credit granted soon Topic locked

New staff member! We're happy to welcome Cyrus as a member of the staff! He will mostly focus on mo.. well, we don't really know but whatever he'll do, he'll probably do it great! A lot of additional uploaders have been approved lately, so keep in mind to name your uploads properly, and include a well defined description of the upload! Not abiding by the uploading rules, will cost you your uploading privilege! Weekend signups closed! As said before, the open weekend signups were never planned to be permanent, and we have now decided to once again shut the gates to our community, only making it possible to join by invites! This means that you as a member have a larger responsibility than before when it comes to inviting people. Remember that the trading or selling of invites to Extremebits have never been and will never be allowed, and if you are caught doing so you will be banned with immediate effect! Read the FAQ if you have further questions about invites! As some already might have noticed, we've changed back the status message for the connectable status to "Yes/No" to avoid further confusion!

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Every week millions of people download the latest episode of the Showtime hit series “Homeland” via file-sharing sites. Tens of thousands of these downloads originate from Poland, where it can take weeks before the episodes air on local TV. This huge interest in unauthorized copies has created a high demand for “pirate subtitles,” a niche which the group Hatak has been serving for years. Many copyright holders are not happy with these pirate subtitle releases and prefer to shut these sites down. But where others see a threat, the Polish book publisher Wydawnictwo Otwarte (Open Publishing) decided to use this unauthorized distribution channel to its advantage. The publisher is selling the Polish translation of David Kaplan’s book “Homeland: Carrie’s Run,” which is a prequel to the popular TV-series. In a unique opportunity to appeal directly to thousands of Homeland “pirates,” the publisher teamed up with group Hatak to promote the book. “We decided to advertise via subtitles because we wanted to show the book to all the fans of the Homeland series in Poland, no matter where they watch the show,” Maciej Migda, Managing Director at Wydawnictwo Otwarte told TorrentFreak. The publisher explained that they wanted to plug the book in spots where people would see it as useful information instead of an ad. This means that the added text should not interfere with people’s viewing habits. “We also wanted to inform them about the prequel book in a specific context. When they watch the credits and flashbacks from the Carrie’s past we catch them with the phrase ‘How did it all begin? Let’s read the prequel book,” Migda says. Below is a screenshot of the subtitle file and how it appears on-screen. In this case during the opening credits the subtitles show the text “How did it start? You will learn from a book prequel “Homeland: Carrie’s Run.” Subtitle file promoting the book TorrentFreak spoke to Karol, the Hatak group member who translates Homeland for Polish viewers. He tells us that the cooperation with the publisher is not really an ad, his main motivation is to bring the book to the attention of Homeland fans. “It’s just information for the ‘Homeland’ fans about the new book, based on Showtime’s hit series. Unfortunately, the book promotion in Poland was really poor, so I thought placing the mention about it in subtitles was in the fans’ best interest.” The publisher gave Hatak several copies of the Homeland book in return for the promotion, which the group gave away via their Facebook page. “The publisher gave us a few copies of the book, so we could organize the prize competition on Facebook. In addition, we received a few copies of ‘A Captain’s Duty’ for our Facebook fans, without running an ‘ad’ in the subtitles.” “I think it’s a really good deal that makes everyone happy and so far I haven’t had any complaints from the users,” Karol notes. The Polish Homeland subtitles are downloaded by roughly 4,000 people every week, which results in a lot of highly targeted promotion for the book. According to the publisher, Homeland fans appreciated the guerrilla advertising which resulted in at least a few extra sales. “The responses we got so far tell us that people appreciated the fact that we informed them about the book, and some have bought it,” Migda informs TorrentFreak. To our knowledge this is the first time that a copyright holder has teamed up with a subtitle group to promote related content. While we don’t expect this type of promotion to become mainstream anytime soon, it is a great example of how unauthorized distribution is able to add value for copyright holders.

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From very early in its life the Internet became a mine of amazing things, but while accessing information was relatively easy for most, becoming a publisher was a different matter. Soon enough regular people learned the skills to put up a rudimentary webpage, but it wasn’t until the advent of mainstream file-sharing networks that anyone could become a publisher of information, simply by putting a file in a folder. As a result countless pieces of media – from music and video, to documents, artwork and software – were distributed by individuals to every corner of the Internet-enabled globe. Over the years many thousands of curiosities have appeared online in this manner, such as unfinished movies, unreleased songs, top-secret military documents, plus all manner of sundry ephemera subsequently given almost eternal life. Today, fans of writer J.D. Salinger will have something particularly extraordinary to talk about. What.cd, an invitation-only BitTorrent tracker, is probably the most coveted source of music on the Internet. The site is a veritable goldmine of audio of every conceivable genre, all wrapped up in the best software interface the BitTorrent site world has to offer. But technicalities aside, what the site has is an incredible community that contributes to the enjoyment of every other member of What.cd, and not just with music either. Yesterday one of What.cd’s users uploaded an amazing set of files – three previously unpublished stories by reclusive American writer J. D. Salinger. As can be seen from the screenshot above, the first story offered was The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, a coveted piece some Salinger experts describe as a “superior” work. “Of great intrigue are the works of JD Salinger which he has determined to remain unpublished,” reads a piece on Dead Caulfields, a site dedicated to the works of the writer. “The author’s decision to withhold these pieces is a never-ending source of speculation. Initially, Salinger anxiously submitted many of these stories to various magazines for publication, but by 1950, he increasingly begins to draw them back. The term ‘unpublished’, when referring to Salinger, is but a mild indication of the ferocity with which these works are guarded,” the site explains. Only adding to the intensity is the fact that The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls is only available to read at the Princeton library and under supervision in a special reading room. It is one of two titles bound up in a legal agreement which forbids the release of the work until fifty years after Salinger’s death. He passed away in 2010. Of course, that agreement now lies in tatters. The stories have escaped What.cd and are already doing the rounds on The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites. Only adding to the previously unpublished works’ availability, the entire set now available for anyone to read on image upload site, Imgur. This leak, like hundreds before it, raises many questions, both legal and moral. As his work, Salinger was obviously entitled to do whatever he liked with these stories and following his death those wishes seem to have been carried out by those he entrusted them to. However, one has to question why even after death someone would choose to consider a work so ‘exclusive’ as to wrap it up in security and hide it away from those who might enjoy it most. Has Salinger been financially damaged due to the works being made widely available to anyone who cares to read them? Absolutely not. Is Princeton in a worse position now that the lid has been blown off their ‘secret’ possession? Hard to say. There will be those who say that morally the user on What.cd shouldn’t have uploaded the stories as this was against Salinger’s wishes. But isn’t the world a richer place today now that he has? If information isn’t shared and people aren’t allowed to benefit from its availability, one really has to question the point of its existence. Whether Salinger fans are delighted or outraged at these leaks, one thing is pretty much certain. No matter what side of the fence they sit on, fans will read these stories – possibly several times over – and worry about the morals later. source:TorrentFreak

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PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL are the main areas though atm. PM me if you think you are up for a challenge. Coding applications will be handled in the following way: The will be pms between me and the one who wants to code, it will be like a basic job interview with us having a chat about what you can do and what you can't do. Then i'll outline a small assignment to evaluate your true ability to write the code needed for ST, the resulting code will be send to me and evaluated. if this passes you have a great chance of helping to develop the best site on the planet This might sound like a lot of work just to get to code, but I have to ensure that everyone on the development team is writing the highest quality code possible for us to be fast stable and secure And don't worry, if you can't pass the coding assignment there might be other ways to help the site The staff do not bite, and i will not be making fun of people or anything if it turns out they aren't what we need for coding. I might on the other hand suggest an alternative way of helping the site

DDoS is currently affecting tracker announces. Our tracker is related to the BTN tracker so news on theirs should coincide with us. Rioting/lynching is not required/recommended. Thank you for your patience. [Discuss] Dear GGn Members, As the site grows day by day and new content is being uploaded and shared at an amazingly fast pace, we feel that our staff team needs your help. We are looking to hire Forum Moderators, Torrent Moderators and Bloggers (non-staff) to help in improving and maintaining GGn, and preserving our quality standards. Follow the links below for more details about each position being offered. The hiring will continue until the respective thread is locked or the same is communicated through here. Forum Moderator: /forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=4888 Torrent Moderators: /forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=4402 Bloggers: /forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=4521 We also thought that this is a good opportunity to highlight our Uploader user class. If you upload regularly, you might want to consider joining our Upload Team. See /forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=734 for further details. -GGn Staff [Discuss]

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