Mininova Shuts down

[stocky]

I'm pretty sure your ISP won't give a shit who was downloading, it was your account, therefor you are responsible.



LOL, yeah try blaming your neighbour for downloading kiddy porn when the cops come a knocking. I'm sure that will stand up in court.

explain where youre getting kiddy porn from. completely different topic. why wouldnt it stand up anyway? surely for your kiddy porn example to work, the actual illegal files probably would have to be on the users computer, which clearly they wouldnt be if a neighbour was using the internet.

explaining something to your ISP provider is completely different to explaining something to the federal police

ISPs generally dont give a damn about illegal downloads anyway. if they did, they wouldnt be able to sell plans with huge data limits and they would lose money

[Rufus®]

explain where youre getting kiddy porn from. completely different topic. why wouldnt it stand up anyway? surely for your kiddy porn example to work, the actual illegal files probably would have to be on the users computer, which clearly they wouldnt be if a neighbour was using the internet.

explaining something to your ISP provider is completely different to explaining something to the federal police

ISPs generally dont give a damn about illegal downloads anyway. if they did, they wouldnt be able to sell plans with huge data limits and they would lose money

So just because there is no illegal item on a computer means that it was never there?

It's an example at the extreme end. My point is, you are the end user, it is your connection and you must maintain it. If you fail to secure it properly, don't whinge when you lose you're connection or worse.

Analogy: If you lend your car to someone and receive a fine at a later date, unless you can prove it wasn't you driving, you lump the fine.

I do agree, the only time ISP's contact the end user is when the RIAA or whoever kick up a fuss about a particular IP address.

[levymetal]

reminds me of that man who blamed his cat for downloading kiddy porn.

[alien]

So just because there is no illegal item on a computer means that it was never there?

Most likely it will still be there, even if the user has deleted it. Government standards is to rewrite over the sectors which contained data with garbage at least 7 times. Depending on security clearance of the data it may increase to 13 as a minimum. This is so that the data can't be recovered.

[Deutscher]

MiniNova was good back in the day, also used Torrentreactor.
Now only use Isohunt (music/games/software/tv series) and axxo.superfundo.org (for movies, very good quality rips).

[MudBlood]

Firewalls???

There's only one real solution!! Firewalls are for beginners..

Tor: anonymity online

[MagiTEK]

Firewalls???

There's only one real solution!! Firewalls are for beginners..

Tor: anonymity online

Even Tor isnt completely anonymous. Hacking Tor – Trust Nobody - Privacy and Identity Theft

But yes. it is better then nothing.