Re: Breaking Bad 720p Kickass Torrents
Gaspard Xenos
KA Torrents
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Version: 1.0
Unfortunately, the Piratebay is now down. Whether it will remain down, and if not for how long remains to be seen. I had been using Florian's fantastic Piratebay workflow to easily search and download files. With the servers down, I needed another backend and so another workflow. IMO, KickAss torrents is the best aggregator out there now that Piratebay is gone. So, I wrote a simple workflow to search and download torrents from KickAss.
There is only one keyword filter: torrent. Type that then your query. If you select a result, it will open the magnet link, meaning that your torrent client will automatically open to start downloading. Fast, easy. No whistles.
Enjoy!
This is interesting but limited. Are you planning on expanding it? Adding categories, possibility to copy magnet link, view top from category? Obviously I've had to start playing with the kickass .json api and it all seems doable
Obviously, though, some people do use those features. And seeing as how Piratebay just might not come back ever, working something up with KA seems like a good idea. I'm busy with other things right now, but I'm willing to help in small bits. Tho, from what I remember, your Piratebay workflow was written in PHP, which I don't know. So, I guess I'm saying, you can take all of my code and build on it and I'm willing to help when I can. Or you can make my workflow obsolete
Ok. TBH, I am beginning to suspect that your internet connection is wonky. The workflow runs clean for me every time. The error you are reporting says essentially that there is nothing there. Now, the request went through, so it's not that your internet is off. But the workflow isn't getting anything from the response.
Not in any sensible way that I can of. I personally don't really see any of that, but I'm mostly searching for TV episodes and movies. Is there some way to tell easily? I could filter results, but I would need to know what to filter on.
So crimes are ok if you don't do them alone? If someone holds another person down while they get raped, should that person not get in trouble because "well, they didn't rape anyone and they didn't break the law alone"?
If you let people sell/trade/give illegal things from your property/house, that's a crime. Unless you want to imply that a store can legally be a front for sex slaves or drugs without breaking any laws, that is.
This guy basically did the same thing, allowing millions of people to break laws on his "property". He made tons of money off of ads and such, and now he's going to pay the price for the millions of times he broke the law.
If you're admitting that people who commit crimes will always commit crimes, then this guy should spend the rest of his life locked away because you're flat out admitting he'll break the laws again and again.
So if someone steals 1 million from a bank and it's 1 million 1 dollar bills, did he commit 1 crime or 1 million crimes?
Sure not every piece of media is owned by the same company, but it's probably a few dozen only in total.
That's one (large) crime, because it's one act, where one person is stealing from one entity (the bank), and that's assuming they don't get extra charges like breaking traffic laws when they leave or possessing an illegal firearm, because in real life stealing 1 million dollars will often get you charged with dozens of crimes. What we're talking about is if someone went to millions of different banks, stealing a decent amount from each one. The "Game of Thrones" bank is not the same as the "Fran Bow" bank, you're stealing from completely different people.
Stealing a copy of One Piece episode 1 and then a copy of Bad Rats, and then a copy of Breaking Bad episode 1, and then a copy of Hey Jude, and then a copy of an ebook, and then a copy of millions of other things, are all seperate crimes. At the absolute "best" you can argue that stealing all 800ish episodes of One Piece is one crime, but that's a single series and there are literally millions of "things" you could download from KAT, hence the millions of crimes.
That's hilarious. There are thousands upon thousands of companies that make things ranging from music, to videogames, to porn, to anime, to ebooks, to programs, to pdfs, to manga, to many other things. There aren't only a few dozen, especially since there isn't just one "videogame company". When someone torrents FEZ, that isn't the same as stealing from the guy who made Braid or the people who make Call of Duty.
He created one site which was deemed illegal in some countries. Why is that million of crimes? Isn't that a single act too? How is that different from stealing the property of hundreds of people from a a Bank's safe?
By the way why is it theft? Will the owners lose their copy if somebody else copies it?
At best it should be comparable to accessory after the fact as he himself didn't "stole" the shared content, but strangely receivers aren't charged separately after every single stolen item found in the inventory.
You're either purposefully avoiding the truth or you simply don't know what you're talking about. "creating one site" wasn't illegal, but illegally copying and sharing files IS a crime. He is the one who pays for people to host torrents where people "steal" things, and knowingly allowed these things to be "stolen". What he did is like hosting a drug-trading event, and personally was the middle man who took the drugs, handed it to the other guy who wanted it. He paid for the servers and hosted the website. That's all on him, he is guilty of many crimes, just like people who use the website to illegally upload/download files are guilty of crimes for every torrent with illegal content they use, as long as they live in countries with laws involving torrents/downloading.
Don't argue semantics. We both know exactly what I mean when I use words like "stole", "copy", or "theft". That doesn't make you "right" when you say "haha, he illegally COPIED AND DISTRIBUTED billions of dollars of data, he didn't technically STEAL them!"
The only way you can argue that files have no value is if you're claiming the entire internet, including steam and this website, have absolutely no value. People pay thousands of dollars through Steam, there is significant value in this "data" that is stolen. Billions of dollars of data were illegally moved on his servers through his website, and that is (and SHOULD BE) a crime. The games that I legally buy are worse because pirates exist, and some games are just completely crippled in some circumstances because of forced-DRM that only exists because pirates exist. The existence of pirates hurts every single honest person who pays for what they want, whether they know it or not.
I'll respond directly to this statement, because you're making a fundamental mistake that shows you don't get the situation. When you leave money in the bank, it is not your money anymore, you simply "own" an IOU entitling you to that money back. Whether the bank is robbed or burned down, you don't lose your money, the bank loses that much and you still have your IOU entitling you to your money back (assuming it's a legitimate bank backed by the government). That money belongs to the bank, until you come to ask for money back. Stealing from the bank does not steal from the people who have accounts there, it only steals from the bank that owns the money. If someone steals the purses of everyone in the bank, THAT is separate crimes, but the bank itself is one entity with one "amount of money".
Saying any kind of property theft is worse than rape is just wrong as well. These are crimes against companies, not individuals, and most certainly not comparable to violent crimes against individuals in any aspect ...
I think sending someone to jail for 30 years for copyright infringement is manifestly too much. Is it a crime? Yes. Is it a crime that requires locking someone away from society for 30 years? No. He's not a danger to anyone else, which should be a requirement for a punishment that extreme.
This isn't "copyright infringement". It's literally MILLIONS of counts of copyright infringement. Assuming he's done 1 million crimes exactly (he's done a LOT more than that) he would be in jail for about 15.8 minutes per crime. That's practially nothing, and he'll have a much smaller ratio because realistically he's helped people commit many more than a million crimes. A crime is a crime, and should be punished as such, and this guy has commited a LOT of crimes. He's a danger to anyone who wants to make money off of their hard work, and to anyone who wants to buy videogames or other digital content without getting stuck with terrible anti-piracy files and DRM attached to it.
Microsoft sued my website for copyright infringement for a million dollars. No mention of criminal charges was ever brought up anywhere that I could find... then again, they never did find me. Thats why they sued my site and not me.
Stealing everything that an individual owns is different to having impacted your profits as a business. One is a direct and massive impact to an individuals quaity of life, more than likely depriving them of things with deep sentimental value or personal works that cannot be replaced. The other is less personal and less impactful by contrast. No, before you go there, it is not 'less of a crime' by the fact a crime is still a crime, but the scope is different. That is the point being underlined contrasting digital piracy to a rape.
How doesn't the punishment fit the crime? This guy has committed millions of crimes willingly, he deserves a long sentence as deterrence so other people don't think "oh, millions of crimes are no big deal, artists don't deserve my money, I'll just steal for myself and never get in trouble because they'll never care if I steal a few hundred because other guys steal millions and just get a few decades in jail".
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