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Comcast should be sued...again.
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on May 04, 2012, 02:13:38 PM ---BakaBT Country Statistics. US users make up around 1/5th of the site's userbase, so if the site were to lose all of them, it would have quite an effect.
That said, there are plenty of ways around any surveillance/censorship, so even in the worst-case scenario, there's no way BakaBT would lose all its US users. And, even though it is possible for foreign copyrights to be enforced in the US, the people backing this ISP Monitoring scheme (the MPAA, RIAA, etc) don't give a crap about anything that doesn't make them lots of money, so very little, if anything, on this site would be targeted to begin with. The biggest threats would be companies such as Funimation, and their work is banned from this site for that reason.
This isn't quite as big a problem as many people make it out to be, although it's not good. American users should be safe using BakaBT anyway, and if any are worried about their security, then using a VPN (ideally located outside the US) will render this whole scheme totally ineffective, as well as increasing your security in general.
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The only funny problem with using a VPN outside of the US is you get that local google.com's search engine. XD
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on May 04, 2012, 02:13:38 PM ---BakaBT Country Statistics. US users make up around 1/5th of the site's userbase, so if the site were to lose all of them, it would have quite an effect.
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Look at the same statistics a bit closer. While there are many users, from USA, it is Sweden that are the seeding gods. Cutting USA off would only mean fucking over the seeder/leecher ratio on this tracker ;D
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on May 04, 2012, 02:47:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on May 04, 2012, 02:13:38 PM ---BakaBT Country Statistics. US users make up around 1/5th of the site's userbase, so if the site were to lose all of them, it would have quite an effect.
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Look at the same statistics a bit closer. While there are many users, from USA, it is Sweden that are the seeding gods. Cutting USA off would only mean fucking over the seeder/leecher ratio on this tracker ;D
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We'll either get affected. All my seeds are non-seedboxed. I'm standing at 24.15 TB and I seed my torrent like a fucking monster. What provider do I use? Comcast. Not just some "comcast" set up. I've got a Business Class so I get unlimited bandwidth and all ports opened. They're expensive, but they're worth it. Now, I need a VPN.
AceHigh:
A VPN that would be of same speed and limitations can't be cheap I imagine...
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on May 04, 2012, 02:13:38 PM ---BakaBT Country Statistics. US users make up around 1/5th of the site's userbase, so if the site were to lose all of them, it would have quite an effect.
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That's a tad higher than I thought it was. Maybe I'm just naive, but I usually expect closer to 1/2 of the users on any site being American.
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