Display Morelooks like french lover has gone tits up lol
just recieved this from were i bought the card from
"Unfortunately the transmissions have ceased for the French lover viaccess cards. Sorry for any inconvenience but we are not in control of satellite transmissions. "
Will you get any sort of refund mate or do they have anything in their terms to get out of it
The FBI has seized domains belonging to sites involved in pre-release music piracy. ShareBeast.com and AlbumJams.com now display the infamous Department of Justice banner informing visitors that the sites are being investigated for criminal copyright infringement. The RIAA welcomed the news, describing the takedowns as a "huge win."
As efforts to hinder file-sharing sites gather pace around the world, in Europe in particular, criminal actions in the U.S. remain relatively rare.
Home to the very Hollywood studios and major recording labels pressing for tough measures elsewhere, the United States has taken somewhat of a backseat, with only sporadic criminal actions to report in the past few years.
This past Friday, however, U.S. authorities say they took action against a pair of sites involved in music piracy. According to the RIAA, ShareBeast.com and AlbumJams.com were responsible for the distribution of “a massive library” of popular albums and tracks. Notably, the sites are blamed for offering “thousands of songs” that hadn’t yet enjoyed their official release.
On Friday, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seizure notices appeared on both sites, suggesting that the authorities concluded that immediate domain seizures were required to bring ongoing copyright infringement to an end.
According to the RIAA, ShareBeast was the largest illegal file-sharing site operating in the United States and recent IP addresses do suggest that at some point the file-hosting site was hosted in Illinois.
However, when compared to other household file-sharing names the site’s traffic stats were pretty modest. In fact, as can be seen from the chart below, the site had been on a serious decline for some months already.
Nevertheless, the RIAA says that it reported more than 100,000 infringing files to the service for takedown. That sounds like a reasonable assessment since the music industry group filed a similar number of complaints (118,000) with Google over the past couple of years. When all rightsholders are taken into consideration, complaints about ShareBeast averaged around 36,000 URLs per week.
In traffic terms, alleged sister site AlbumJams has never been significant. It reached the dizzy heights of 45,000th most popular site in January but almost completely dropped off the radar in May. According to Alexa it is now the 8,545,925th most popular site in the world.
“This is a huge win for the music community and legitimate music services. Sharebeast operated with flagrant disregard for the rights of artists and labels while undermining the legal marketplace,” commented RIAA Chairman & CEO Cary Sherman.
“Millions of users accessed songs from Sharebeast each month without one penny of compensation going to countless artists, songwriters, labels and others who created the music.”
The RIAA thanked the FBI and Department of Justice for its “strong stand” against Sharebeast but stopped short of commenting on what has happened to the site’s alleged operator. There has been no official statement concerning any arrests or any indication that the site was run from within the United States.
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IS RUNNING A PIRATE SITE WORSE THAN STEALING £8.5M FROM A BANK?
This week an Irish man was handed a four-year sentence for running a pirate linking site. The Court accepted that he led no lavish lifestyle. In contrast, a man who stole almost £9m from a bank and bought homes worth £1.4m, three Bentleys, three Aston Martins, a Porsche 911 and a Rolls Royce, was also jailed. He received just 3.5 years. Fair?
This week Paul Mahoney, the former operator of streaming links site FastPassTV and discussion and linking forum BedroomMedia, was sentenced to jail by Judge Philip Babington.
According to figures provided by the prosecution, Mahoney ‘could’ have cost the movie industry £120m in lost revenue. Ultimately, however, the claims of a film industry out for blood ended up somewhat watered down.
In the cold light of day the court accepted a figure closer to £12m – quite an ‘achievement’ for a “partially blind recluse” who lived in a bedroom in his parents’ particularly modest home.
Given the tendency of the prosecution in these cases to blow losses figures wildly out of proportion, it’s perhaps more prudent to look at numbers backed up by evidence.
It doesn’t appear to be in question that Mahoney made £280,000 in advertising revenue from his sites and he was found in possession of £82,390 in cash when he was raided. That’s a decent amount by almost anyone’s standards and was never likely to be looked upon lightly by the court.
So, on the basis that Mahoney made large sums of money illegally it should come as no surprise that having pleaded guilty to substantial fraud he should’ve expected a custodial sentence this week. Such is the current climate in the UK and few people watching the case expected anything different.
But while some might argue that the term should have been limited to a few weeks or a handful of months, on Thursday the court handed Mahoney a four-year sentence, one of the toughest in UK pirate prosecution history.
For someone of Mahoney’s standing that term seems overly cruel and it appears that Mahoney’s lawyers feel so too. On Thursday they announced that the 29-year-old will be mounting an appeal, presumably to ensure that any punishment received fits the crime.
As we wait for the legal basis of that appeal to be made public, readers might be interested to hear of another fraud case that was concluded this week.
It involved businessman Nicholas Marcou from London, who used his legitimate businesses and contracts with supermarkets such as Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury’s and Asda to fraudulently obtain millions from Barclays Bank.
According to figures provided by City of London Police, actual losses to Barclays Bank (versus the hypothetical losses conjured up in the Mahoney case) were £8,576,811.
Unlike Mahoney, who appears to have spent most of his adult life in a bedroom at his parents’ house, Marcou enjoyed ‘his’ money. According to a local news report he bought two homes worth more than £1.4m and £650,000 worth of cars including three Bentleys, three Aston Martins, a Porsche 911, and a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit.
While Marcou appears to have been driven by greed, Mahoney appears to have given much of his money away. According to a court report he “did not exhibit any of the features of a lavish lifestyle and his spending was concerned only to paying employees, running the site and accessing adult websites.”
It’s also worth bearing in mind that even if we take the previously mentioned £12m figure as accurate, those presumed losses were racked up by users of Mahoney’s site, not Mahoney himself. Site users were the ones who turned up and clicked ‘play’ and didn’t pay for whatever it was they watched. Although he clearly played a part, Mahoney didn’t take that money from the studio’s pockets, the public did. Marcou alone took the money from the bank.
Finger pointing aside, Mahoney ended up with a four-year sentence. For the record, Marcou the bank defrauder received just 3.5 years.
While anti-piracy groups such as FACT, who investigated the case, view Mahoney’s actions as extremely serious, something feels fundamentally wrong here.
Make no mistake, Mahoney should receive some punishment, if only because he knowingly and deliberately broke laws he knew could get him into serious trouble.
But should this man living on the fringes of society be given a more punishing sentence than a man who systematically stole £8.5m in cash from a bank in order to fund a dream lifestyle?
Perhaps in due course Mahoney’s defense team will raise the same questions. Until then he remains behind bars.
Sony Pictures considered BitTorrent Inc. as a potential acquisition opportunity to diversify its business, leaked information reveals. The file-sharing company made it onto a shortlist together with Netflix and TiVo, with Sony praising its effectiveness at downloading online media.
In Hollywood, BitTorrent is often framed as a threat due to its pirate stigma, but the technology also offers opportunities.
BitTorrent Inc, the company behind the popular uTorrent software, helps artists to legally distribute their work to millions of people every year.
TF can now reveal that Sony Pictures’ interest in the technology was so concrete that the movie studio listed it as a potential acquisition. In a draft presentation from early 2006 BitTorrent flanks other buying opportunities such as TiVo and Netflix.
The Sony presentation discusses options to “refine” its business and saw BitTorrent as a potential candidate to diversify. Among other things, buying BitTorrent could improve margins and facilitate growth.
To accomplish this goal Sony could invest $2 to $4 billion dollars, certainly enough to buy BitTorrent. Even Netflix, which didn’t offer video streaming yet, was within reach based on a $1.2 billion valuation at the time.
According to the presentation the acquisition candidates would bridge a gap between Sony’s entertainment content and the company’s technology devices.
In the case of BitTorrent this could facilitate the development of set-top boxes and TVs with built-in technology to download and play video content. This is an area BitTorrent was already working on with other partners.
In an overview sheet Sony sums up some of BitTorrent’s strengths as well as recent developments. It mentions the agreement with the MPAA to keep infringing content off its website, among others.
Sony was also aware of BitTorrent’s plans to launch its own entertainment store. This eventually launched a year later but never got any real traction.
Despite the enthusiasm Sony never bought BitTorrent. The company went for Grouper instead and eventually bought a 25% stake in Starz Media as well.
Today almost a decade has passed, and in hindsight it’s not necessarily a bad decision for Sony to have passed on BitTorrent. The company has a massive userbase but struggles to find good revenues sources.
Netflix, on the other hand, is definitely a missed opportunity as the company now dominates online media distribution worldwide.
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Supported by the French Government, several key players in the online payment industry are teaming up with copyright holders to ban infringing websites. The proposed agreement is a key part of the "follow the money" approach through which stakeholders hope to decrease online piracy.
Following the failed introduction of SOPA in the United States, movie studios and record labels are exploring alternative means to achieve the same goals.
The entertainment industries are lobbying the public and private sector to come to their aid. So far, this has resulted in Government supported voluntary agreements in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
It now appears that France intends to follow the same path. One of the key elements of the French approach is to strangle the revenues of pirate sites by making it harder to run ads and accept online payments.
Earlier this year Fleur Pellerin, France’s Minister of Culture and Communication, presented a paper outlining the Government’s plans. At the time, it was suggested that payments to and from pirate sites should be blocked where possible.
Yesterday several leading online payment processors including PayPal, Visa and MasterCard discussed a possible pirate blacklist agreement with copyright holders. Most services already prohibit copyright infringing services in their terms of use, but the new plan would go above and beyond current measures.
According to Minister Pellerin both parties are working on a voluntary agreement which would see copyright holders create and maintain a “pirate site” blacklist. The payment providers will then use this list to prevent sites from signing up or to terminate current accounts.
“The copyright holders will be able to report structurally infringing websites to payment processors, using their own skills and tools. In other words, the lists will be made by educated professionals and the actual blocking will follow soon after,” Pellerin said.
NEXT INpact notes that the new plan deviates from suggestions put forward in a previous report by the authorities which suggested that the blacklist would receive Government oversight.
Some opponents fear that without proper oversight the blacklist may become too broad. This could potentially destroy businesses which are not deemed illegal by any court.
This is not just a hypothetical threat.
Late last year U.S. Senator Leahy wrote a letter to Visa and MasterCard claiming Mega.co.nz and other file-hosting services have “no legitimate purpose or activity,” hoping they would cut their connections to the mentioned sites.
A few weeks later Mega was banned by PayPal, with the company subsequently reporting pressure from the credit card companies.
Whether the French blocklist will result in similar controversy will become apparent in the future.
It’s clear that payment processors have the power to severely limit the operation of sites that rely on user subscriptions. However, most torrent and streaming sites are unaffected. These sites generate most of their revenue from advertising and despite blocking initiatives in this industry, there are still plenty of advertisers who are happy to provide their services to these sites.
Sites preparing to offer free streams of this Saturday's Mayweather v Berto boxing match have been warned that they're being watched. Anti-piracy outfit KLipCorp says it has sent out emails putting sites and hosting companies on notice, even though infringements are yet to take place. One site, StreamSports.me, says it intends to offer the fight regardless.
Every single week, hundreds of sites across the Internet receive DMCA-style notices in response to copyrighted content being made available via their domains. Google alone receives more than 10 million.
No matter where these notices are sent, the majority have something in common. For a DMCA notice to be valid it has to report an infringement that is ongoing, or at the very least has taken place. Rightsholders can’t send a DMCA notice just because they think that an infringement might be on the horizon.
To tackle potential future infringement it is possible to obtain an injunction and a prime example of that appeared this week when Showtime went to court in the United States to try and prevent a site from broadcasting this weekend’s Mayweather v Berto fight.
While the company hasn’t gone to court, UK-based anti-piracy group KLipCorp is also taking a pre-emptive approach to dealing with expected piracy of Mayweather’s final fight. After being retained by UK pay TV outfit BoxNation, KLipCorp has been writing to sites warning them not to offer the fight illegally.
TorrentFreak was shown a copy of the notice by the operator of streaming links portal StreamSports.me, a site that appeared in the wake of the Wiziwig closure earlier this year.
He told us that while DMCA notices are commonplace, pre-emptive notices such as this are a new experience for him.
“Have you seen something like this? Basically, they say they are watching us, and warn us about listing the event prior to the event itself,” he explains.
KLipCorp says that the letter’s purpose is to “politely remind” sites of their obligations under UK copyright law, the DMCA, and the WIPO Copyright Treaty 1996, and to invite them to assist in the fight against piracy.
“The purpose of this notice is to place you in a position where you have actual knowledge of the intended infringement through your network, infrastructure and/or website and to seek your cooperation to ensure that legal action is only required against those who continue to facilitate infringement,” the notice reads.
“We invite you to co-operate with us in both the monitoring and protection of our Client’s intellectual property in respect of this Event.”
TorrentFreak caught up with KLipCorp founder Peter Lewinton who told us that the purpose of the pre-emptive notice is to make it clear that distribution or linking to streams of the fight is not approved by BoxNation.
“We are not trying to be heavy handed but simply want to draw attention to the ownership of the rights and limit piracy levels,” Lewinton explains.
“From our analysis DMCA notices have limited impact against the high audience non-compliant pirate sites in the live sports sector so a different approach is required.”
Another unique aspect of the KLipCorp notices is that they indirectly highlight an apparent ‘weakness’ in EU copyright law.
“We draw your attention to the fact that Box Nation’s intellectual property rights extend without limitation to the graphics, commentary and music associated with the live and recorded broadcast of the Event and in particular to the graphics of the BoxNation logo which appears in the broadcast feed produced by and on behalf of BoxNation,” the notice reads.
In a nutshell, this refers to the fact that following a Court of Justice of the European Union decision in 2011, live sporting events in themselves don’t qualify for copyright protection in the EU. While this essentially means that KLipCorp has no power to protect the video of the fight itself, it can protect IP owned by BoxNation which is transmitted over the top of the fight, such as graphics, audio commentary, music and logos.
“The overall event [may not be protected by copyright] but copyright exists in the items mentioned within the broadcast,” Lewinton told TF.
The big question now is whether the notices will be effective. Another KLipCorp letter recipient told TF on condition of anonymity that they are taking the threats seriously and won’t be allowing the fight to be streamed from their network on Saturday night.
“After being put on notice it raises the temperature for us so we’ll let others stream the fight instead,” we were told.
StreamSports.me, on the other hand, say their response will be somewhat different.
“The notice served one purpose: it informed me that actually there’s a big boxing event upcoming. I do not follow boxing usually, and wouldn’t have known otherwise. So I’d like to thank them for the pre-emptive DMCA warning, as now I will make sure this popular event is properly represented on StreamSports,” the site’s operator said.
Lewinton wouldn’t say exactly how many sites and services had received the letter but he indicated that it isn’t a large number.
“This is not intended to be a threat – just to draw attention to the possibility that in the final analysis [legal action] may be unavoidable,” Lewinton concludes.
picture showing fine Steve, thanks for the info
thread closed now as requested
Seems he has been sentanced to 4 years....
A man from Northern Ireland who made an estimated £300,000 from advertising revenue on several sites, including the now-defunct streaming portal FastPassTV, has been handed a four-year sentence. Paul Mahoney, 30, will serve two years in jail and two years on license.
fastpasstvFollowing an investigation carried out by the Hollywood-funded anti-piracy group Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), police in Northern Ireland raided a Londonderry home in May 2011.
They were searching for Paul Mahoney, the operator of streaming links site FastPassTV and discussion and linking forum BedroomMedia. Police arrested Mahoney while seizing computer equipment and cash totaling £83,000.
After being charged in February 2015, Mahoney pleaded not guilty. Several months later, however, he had a change of heart.
At a June hearing the 30-year-old pleaded guilty to all four charges against him including allowing the public to view copyrighted movies without rightsholder permission, conspiracy, and generating up to £300,000 in advertising revenue.
During a pre-sentence hearing last month, Judge Philip Babington was told by the prosecution that Mahoney could have cost the movie industry £120 million.
Mahoney appeared at Londonderry Crown Court this morning at 11:00am for sentencing and it’s bad news for the partially sighted man. The Court sentenced Mahoney to four years in prison, two of which will be spent on license.
“These offenses represent offending which undoubtedly put at risk very many millions of pounds as far as the greater entertainment industry was concerned,” Judge Philip Babington said.
“Offending such as this affects everyone in society at the end of the day although primarily the interests of those involved in film production, the results of which we all enjoy.”
Judge Babington said that Mahoney had put together “a very sophisticated scheme” which had allowed people to “view films on very many millions of occasions for nothing” while generating money from advertising.
He added that he had been left with no other alternative than to pass a custodial sentence “to show that behavior of this nature does not go unpunished.”
FACT Director General Kieron Sharp said that the case was an important one.
“Committing crime using the Internet is viewed by some as being less serious than more ‘traditional’ offending, which is particularly true of film and television piracy. This prosecution and sentence show that you cannot hide behind the supposed anonymity of the cyber world and that you will be identified, caught and convicted,” Sharp said.
PSNI investigating officer Detective Constable Yolande Healey said that Mahoney had been operating his sites for years.
“He thought he could collect substantial amounts of advertising revenue from his site and distance himself from the actual hosting of an illicit copy of a film by using unrelated third party websites,” Healey said.
“From his bedroom in Carnhill, Mahony thought he could make money from advertisers who were attracted by the volume of traffic from across the world on his website. He thought his form of cyber-crime was untouchable. He was wrong. Working with partner agencies, police will investigate any reports of criminality online.”
P2P group has released the updated version of “ProgDVB Professional Edition” for Windows. It is a complex yet simple to use digital video broadcasting tool that allows you to enjoy online radio and TV channels directly from your PC.
Description: ProgDVB – the universal and very power software for watching digital TV and listening to radio channels! ProgDVB allows you to watch SAT-Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB-PCI cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal computers with Microsoft Windows installed. It has options for working with network broadcasting and Audio/Video recording of the stream to different digital-media formats.
Features:
High Definition TV support including H.264/AVC
Picture-in-picture support as well as independent simultaneous recording/playback of several channels from one or more devices
Mosaic fast channels preview
Support for the majority of DVB, ISDB-T and ATSC devices including DiSEqC and CAM interfaces support
Support for all digital TV audio formats: MPEG, AC3, AAC,…
Time shifting functionality using the RAM or disk buffer of unlimited size
10 Bands equalizer
TV and Radio channels recording
And Many More..
Release Names: ProgDVB.Professional.Edition.v7.10.7a.Multilingual-P2P
Size: 45.5 MB
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All sorted now, was a fault with BT (as suspected), put a ticket in at 12.34pm and just come back now, happy days :17_002:
Left the HH5 unplugged for over an hour, still the same when i have returned and tried again, no matter what dns settings i use i get similar results
I am using a vpn now and can browse all sites without any issues, but i shouldn't have to do this
What troubles me more, is that i can't find any trace on the net of anyone else suffering the same problems today, BT often has problems with it's DNS servers and the fix has always been to use Googles, but thats no real improvment
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EDIT.... 35 minutes conversation with BT, call center destination unknown, they have admitted they are experiencing problems with their domain named servers (again) and hope to have things resolved within 48 hours
If that is the case, why is there nothing up on their site stating there is a problem and why is nobody else experiencing these problems
Oh well, will have to do some diy today
Thanks Joeuser, i have been trying a few from this list and what i am finding is that half the sites work and half don't, it is very confusing
I need to go out for an hour or so, so will turn off the router and leave it off while i am out and try again when i get back
Thank again for your help
I don't use BT, but what about setting BT as your primary and adding google just as a secondary?
Yeh good advice cheers joeuser, i have tried google as my primary and found some sites not opening, but will give your suggestion a try, appreciate the suggestion :thumb:
mainly affecting Google itself, Twitter, PayPal, LJ's and some others
thanks robocop, seems it is just me, i have been breached lol
it is weird when i switch to google's public dns the sites that wouldn't load start working but the ones that were working before are no longer working :06:
hopefully it resolves itself soon, i really can't cope with BT call center's
