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Sports streaming site Wiziwig and torrent site Elitetorrent stopped linking to copyrighted material today. Worried that they will face hefty fines under Spain's new anti-piracy law, both sites have decided to throw in the towel.

For a long time Spain has had a reputation for being easy on copyright infringement, but this lenient stance shifted last year. After continued pressure from entertainment industry groups, new copyright law amendments were passed which outlaw sites that link to pirated material.

The changes expose site owners to massive fines of up to €600,000 if they fail to respond to takedown requests in time. This liability also applies to non-profit sites that only use advertisements to cover their costs.

Today the changes officially go into effect and already they’ve resulted in two prominent casualties. Popular sports streaming links site Wiziwig.tv and torrent index Elitetorrent.net have both stopped linking to copyrighted material effective immediately.

With hundreds of thousands of visitors per day Wiziwig is the goto site for many sports fans who can’t watch their favorite teams through legal channels. wiziwig

According to the owner the site was specifically setup in Spain, where linking sites were declared legal in the past.

With the new amendments, however, the site can no longer operate from Spain without risking potential bankruptcy.

“Today is a sad day for all fans of live sports streaming, as we at Wiziwig have to announce that we’re forced to close our website, at least for now. This due to new laws in Spain,” the site’s owner writes in a statement.

“Failing to comply with the new reform puts us at risks of fines being as high as €600,000,- and also losing our domain, hosting and other necessary stuff to operate wiziwig,” he adds.

The founder of Elitetorrent.net also took drastic measures in response to the new legislation. et-censuradoHis website, which is ranked among the 100 most visited sites in Spain, didn’t shut down completely but removed all torrents.

“I have always shown to be operating within the law, so I regret that after 11 years elitetorrent.net has to remove all links to downloads that are copyright protected, to suit the new legislation,” Elitetorrent’s Juan José says.

“Despite having fought battles for years against powerful forces, this last battle is very unequal and impossible to win. While the powerful use an army with tanks and warplanes, I can only fight with a stick,” he adds.

Elitetorrent.net remains open without links to downloads, but the owner is encouraging visitors to stay on board. He plans to transform the site into a lively community of movie and TV-fans, with news, trailers and other information.

Wiziwig.tv will shut down completely with the site’s owner deciding to push official content instead of unauthorized streams. He’s joined a new project, GetYourFixtures.com, a website providing information and official links to live sports events.

Happy New Year!

As another year has drawn to a close and a new one begins, we must once again celebrate! We celebrate a year closed: good cheer, good music, and most of all, good community. May 2015 continue to bring cheer and good will to all of you, and may it bring good music - starting now!

ClosingTime's Legend Pick

Of Porcelain - A Southern Summer's Breeze

Genre: downtempo, idm, electronic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=593146

Review: dancefever5000.wordpress.com wrote:
This is the music for hopeless romantics, made in the City of Angels by a renegade poet. My fickle soul falls in love with music on a daily basis; maybe my heart is made Of Porcelain too. Stop and listen.


I love triangles entrapment edit: We take this opportunity to thank ClosingTime for his incredible service to the community!



chai's Staff Pick

Imperial Drag - Imperial Drag

Genre: alternative, pop, rock, alternative.rock, glam.rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=335572

Review:
Glammy arrangements, gender-bending lyrics, and goofy lead guitar licks: No, it's not another posthumous Freddie Mercury project — it's a post-Jellyfish effort by Roger Manning. And while Imperial Drag's Queen-meets-the-Zombies keyboard-heavy power pop is often cloying, it also sticks in your head like bubble gum in a synthetic wig.




brancusi's Staff Pick

Anton Bruckner: The Symphonies - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

Genre: classical

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72399540

Review:
Bruckner was utterly unique - a medieval mystic and a Baroque contrapuntist stuck in a nineteenth century harmonic body - and Haitink understands this. Philips' mid-'60s through early-'70s sound is rich, warm, deep, and fully competitive with the best contemporary sound.





vitiate's Staff Pick

Charanjit Singh - Synthesizing - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat

Genre: Electronic, Indian

Torrents: torrents.php?id=731970

Review:
It's easy to get distracted by what this album sounds (an early 1980s precursor to acid house), or the fact that the title references disco, which it isn't. Discard that and instead take it for what it is - an electronic composition that does for Indian classical music what Walter Carlos (now Wendy Carlos) did for Western classical music. The fact that there's a great backstory of this being a legendary "Lost Album" just adds an interesting layer of context - an album ahead enough of its time that, despite being forgotten, sounds like one of the foundations of several modern genres, not least because of heavy usage of the Roland TB-303 and TR-808.




Ajax's Staff Pick

RotFront - 17 Deutsche Tänze

Genre: Alternative, Gyspy, World

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72777903

Review:
Grab the vodka and the pickled herring, we're partying with the devil tonight.




Glacier's Staff Pick

Lagwagon - Trashed

Genre: Punk rock, skate punk, melodic hardcore

Torrents: torrents.php?id=51507

Review:
Trashed.





Logos' Staff Pick

65daysofstatic - Wild Light

Genre: post.rock, electronic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72573012

Review:
Turn your volume up!
If you really want reviews, knock yourself out.




PepoteRouge's Staff Pick

Skip James - Today!

Genre: acoustic.blues, delta.blues

Torrents: torrents.php?id=140604

Review:
This is the later work of one of the finest blues men from the thirties, and what a powerful comeback it is. It has all the great things from this era's folk/blues music: Evocative lyrics, haunting vocals and sometimes simple but very personal accompaniment, and all that in sound quality that was never possible at its peak. Another reason to pick this album specifically is that it features intimate rerecordings of some of his best original songs together, and like a blues man they only got better with age. Amazingly Skip James' trademark falsetto is unharmed. Here it ranges between silky and haunting, between soothing, incredibly sad and very dark while his fluid picking never lets you slip in attention throughout the songs. They are poetic, vivid and quite accessible stories of hard times and the folly of man, delivered with a load of soul. Beautiful from the very first track on.





DixieFlatline's Staff Pick

David Darling - Dark Wood

Genre: Instrumental, Classical, Ambient

Torrents: torrents.php?id=265341

Review:
Nature is a haunted house.




Gautam's Staff Pick

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Genre: soul, rhythm.and.blues

Torrents: torrents.php?id=51310

Review:
>inb4 Gautam is a pleb




Lisbeth's Staff Pick

Kiasmos - Kiasmos

Genre: Minimal Techno, Modern Classical

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72803803

Review:
"If you've got the patience, then this is a remarkably rewarding listen." - The405





Bourbon's Staff Pick

Yellow Swans - Going Places

Genre: Noise, Drone

Torrents: torrents.php?id=691579

Review:
The final album from Yellow Swans, Going Places is a focused and appropriate climax from this prolific noise/drone duo.





puddy's Staff Pick

Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1

Genre: jazz

Torrents: torrents.php?id=102588



WithTiredEyes' Staff Pick

Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic

Genre: Rock, "Indie"

Torrents: torrents.php?id=39123

Review:
I hadn't listened to anything Mike Doughty had done since Soul Coughing, until a friend reminded me that he existed and I decided to pick up this album. Yes, Dave Matthews provides vocals on "Tremendous Brunettes", but whether you like him or can't stand him, this disc is solid all the way through and deserves to be played loudly and have its lyrics analysed. Go download this.





sprinkle's Staff Pick

Mathusalem - Magic Feel

Genre: Synthwave

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72667573




SevenNationArmy's Staff Pick

The New Basement Tapes - Lost on the River

Genre: Rock, Folk

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72827421




brd's Staff Pick

Sonna - We Sing Loud Sing Soft Tonight

Genre: post.rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=40275

Review:
Pretty songs come a dime a dozen, and simple beauty is not what makes Sonna so special. There is a complexity to their music, executed so seamlessly that it often goes unnoticed. It's that complexity that makes every song so memorable. Subtle changes in time signature and tempo creep in without jarring the listener. More often than not the guitars are playing in different time signatures simultaneously, yet never become the tangled mess one would expect. With the occasional hushed verse of vocals poking through in spots, the pieces are elevated to near pop song status, breathing angelic life into fragile, somnambulant compositions.






Entrapment's Staff Pick

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Genre: indie, psychedelic, lo.fi, pop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71992220

Review:
Lo-fi indie rock with hooks like you wouldn't believe. You need to listen to this.




Peppermint's Staff Pick

Gustavo Santaolalla - The Last of Us

Genre: Soundtrack, Ambient, Folk, Instrumental

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72506745

Review:
One of the best videogame soundtracks to match one of the best games.

The Lottery

Play The Lottery

Even though we have a site-wide freeleech underway, we will still run The Lottery... Winners of the freeleech prize will be given a choice of using the freeleech now and getting some attention given to the show or saving it to use at a later time... This freeleech postponement will however be at the staff discretion, based on how many shows are current on Staff Picks at that time.

The game will be simple and explained in the forums.
You could win upload credit, a show choice for staff pick, custom title or even VIP, but you could lose too...

But you can't win if you Don't PLAY.

Game description and Rules have been posted here.
Game is officially started so come play now.

New Year, New Shows

Happy New Year!

In celebration of another new year, and a whole new crop of shows becoming safe (you have all read the rules on what's safe, right?), we will be having a site-wide freeleech! Enjoy all of the old shows, and the new batch of shows that ended in 2010 that will be uploaded

FREELEECH IS OFF
Merry Christmas and All the best in 2015 from HDT staff!

2015-01-01 16:05:42 - Technical difficulties - not fixed yet

The tech difficulties have not been fixed yet. Our ISP is run by morons and we are trying to work around their limits. Consider this as a prolonged test run unless clearly stated otherwise. Follow the twitter (twitter.com/xbtmusic) if you want to be up to date with the situation. Or come to IRC which will work in a moment.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015 FOLKS!

We wish you all the best for the new year and take it easy with celebrating / curing yourself!

At the same time we are now celebrating TBy's 10 year anniversary! Guess we can call ourselves old now?
We will have a couple of small surprises coming to celebrate it whenever we get them ready, but should be soon.
Nothing really big, but some stuff that we are sure will be appreciated by you users.

PS. Sorry about the fireworks, we could not afford better.

Stay tuned. //Staff

Tracker and IRC Downtime!

There's been some issues with one of the servers and we are awaiting the host to answer our support ticket. Unfortunately, it may take some time for the tracker and IRC to come back online, probably a week.

Please send a Staff PM if you are just one day away from being disabled by Hit n Run Watch and/or Ratio Watch and we will reset them. Note that:

Ratio Watch duration is 2 weeks from the time you get the message from System. Your account is put on Ratio Watch if your ratio is below your required ratio.
Hit n Run Watch duration is 1 week from the time you get the message from System. Your account is put on Hit n Run Watch if you have accumulated more than 5 HnRs.

Staff PMs and support threads concerning current downtime and how to get out of ratio/HnR watch will be disregarded. If you have any queries regarding downtime and ratio/HnR watch, unless they need to be kept secret, please use the discussion thread.

Lastly, we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users. We will continue trying our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

- GGn Staff

PS: There will be freeleech once tracker is back up.

Power User Uploading!

We have some upload slots that have become available. If you think you have what it takes to join our team and become a member of Bitsoup staff then this is the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Before applying for a staff uploader position you MUST be able to answer YES to the following

Have you been a member for AT LEAST 6 month
Are you Connectable!
Are you able to upload AT LEAST 10 torrents per week (any category , any size)
Are you familiar with the Uploading Guide

If you have answered YES to all of the above then you can make your application by Contacting Me

PLEASE NOTE not all applicants will be successful and those who are will be on a trial period.

Good Luck to all who apply

Leatherface
(Administrator)

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Just want to thank for the year 2014, a lot of setbacks of various authorities, but the quote says himself, "what does not kill you makes you stronger" and this also applies to the Star Bits. We will never give up! Here we go towards 2015 and allows the hand to grow more Cheers to you!

// Maed With Staff

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Consider the passage of years as a gate. You can go through this gate in the new year and take with you only good things and then close it behind you, so worries and sorrows to can not follow.
Do pinch wings to move easily over which brings new An. Pick that is beautiful and really enjoy. Spend nice early this year to live thrills all year!
If I had expectations in 2014 that we have not been fulfilled, if the 2014 I considered below par, then either bring everything not 2015 brought this year, whether you desire to be fulfilled, or that dreams take shape and best wishes accompany you a year from now.
Each of us hope that the future will be better, although I found that it's not. Yes, it seems, the past is always better than this, and this better than the future. However, in our soul remains hope, remain those moments where we hope joy remain illusions that this time, we reach peaks of happiness.
If everybody wants you this day to be a wonderful, we wish you all the days to be full of joys and achievements, so this new year fill your soul with gladness!

Happy Birthday!

The staff tekken.ro

On this day the Feast of St. Stephen, we join those from deep down you want to have only part of fulfillment, satisfaction and good health to all who bear this name, you and all those close to you who are celebrating on this day. Happy birthday, full of happiness and fulfillment, and St. Stephen will guide you always!

Dear users! 1. Yesterday to counter numerous cases of hacking was carried out by a sudden operation "blocking" suspicious accounts and change passwords Preventive all without exception. Large% of logins on the club undergoes additional verification to 7 first symbols of personal passkey, which in 95% of cases only knows the real owner. We apologize for this inconvenience! Unfortunately, many accounts from intruders there Paso, but we are planning to block such users manually.

We hope that this will solve all the problems of theft accounts except stupid cases their voluntary transfer from the owner to the attacker. It is strongly recommended as a preventive measure to change your password and to your mailbox, which is tied to an account at the club!

2. The modernization of the club changed the organizational structure and received a more secure layout. From now on we are duplicated in several countries, which greatly reduces the risk of tripping project. Nuances not be made ​​public.

3. At the request of users of the final transition to the domain http://hdclub.orgwill be postponed until the end of the holiday period. All processes will be completed on January 15-17, 2015, and each will receive detailed instructions in advance to minimize the consequences of this transition.

4. Raised new mail server and patency of letters by tests increased by 30%. During December, many have been able to take advantage of email-support service to solve their problems.

5. Package details such as geo-targeting system, enhanced labeling of certain types of hands, etc. will also be included immediately after the holidays and annual frilicha. To this is added and the final version of the rules of the club. I heartily congratulate you on the upcoming holidays and wish in 2015, good health, a happy peaceful life and a good time with HD-movies and music. Stay with us!

Some technical difficulties

Our ISP had experienced some routing issues during the night and selected traffic was being cut off. The issue has been supposedly mended and hopefully the service won't be interrupted again. We were hence down for around 8h. Thanks for bearing with us.