Since Napster first hit the scene in 1999, Internet piracy has been a hot button issue. I love music, and Napster was when i reallllly started to get into the Internet. Piracy has come a long way since the early days of P2P sharing and there is a wealth of content that can be accessed for free over the Internet. Now i am not looking to incriminate myself (or any of you for that matter) during this travelogue, but more so explore the advancements that have arisen in piracy (such as torrenting), look at what it can offer and the way it allows for complete democratization of media content on the web as well as the consequences of this kind of activity. The sites i plan to start my travelogue with are two sites a friend of mine introduced me to a Summer or two ago- waffles.fm and Tvtorrents.
Waffles.fm is a torrent community revolving around the distribution of audio files. It is a tight community of music nerds which allows members to download from a massive community pool of full albums. There are high standards for the quality of the media uploaded and shared on the site and strict rules which must be followed at all times.
Tvtorrents is a pirating community which revolves around tv shows. This site is loaded with HD rips of any series you could imagine with seasons conveniently packaged together for quick and easy downloading.
Both sites work off a ratio system which affects how much any given user can download (which i will touch upon in a later post) It should be interesting to take a look at how these sites are used as well as how their use effects the industries they are attacking and what they must do to remain functional domains.
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This sounds interesting. Just wondering, what kinds of rules are made in a community which breaks the rules?
This is really smart…have you ever heard of the pirates bay? also is Waffles open to anyone or do you need a code? I used to use albumbase.com before it went under, and then a friend recommended demonoid.com, but you need to get a passcode for it and you can only get that code at a certain time of the day, or somthing crazy like that.
Yeah, i used to use sites like “piratebay” “Mini-nova” “torrentz”, but those are all public trackers. I prefer the quality on the 2 sites i mentioned plus torrentleech.com – if for no other reason than ratio requirements make it so there are always plenty of seeders. Waffles and Torrentleech both have really strict invitation policies. Torrentleech is only open for invitations a few times a year. With Waffles.fm you need to know someone on the inside who can get you an invitation which they themselves must earn through proper site use.
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