What's up with that?

[npdbls]

Torrent search engines are going down as we speak. We're seeing ISP throttling and full out blockage as well for some. Many distributors of Ubuntu flavors rely on peer to peer sharing of their OS's images. I found one distro that ONLY provides links for their current build's live-installer to that certain 'bay of pirates'. Even Cannonical links surfers to its own .torrent files. What can be done?!:-|:-s

[djyoung4]

Torrent search engines are going down as we speak. We're seeing ISP throttling and full out blockage as well for some. Many distributors of Ubuntu flavors rely on peer to peer sharing of their OS's images. I found one distro that ONLY provides links for their current build's live-installer to that certain 'bay of pirates'. Even Cannonical links surfers to it's own .torrent files. What can be done?!:-|:-s

find something new. its been done before.

[Grenage]

What can be done?!

Create a moderated torrent site for media that doesn't infringe on copyright. If no such sites already exist, it's not a bad idea.

[dgw]

Torrent search engines are going down as we speak.
The Pirate Bay was down for a day or so, and is back up now. The world didn't end. Are there other torrent search engines going down "as we speak"?

[NCLI]

Everything seems fine on my end.

[mkvnmtr]

Google, File+torrent

[npdbls]

agreed

[npdbls]

ISOhunt is affected. My ISP definitely throttles me back, and I think they are attempting to block access to specific sites.

[Phrea]

http://linuxtracker.org/
And most distro's have their own torrent tracker [including Ubuntu].

I don't see the problem.

[dtmbmw325i]

Sounds like another hit for MediaDefender. They are targeting torrent sites and taking down whether good, bad, or indifferent just because they can.

[doas777]

Sounds like another hit for MediaDefender. They are targeting torrent sites and taking down whether good, bad, or indifferent just because they can.
actually, they are out of the game (have been for a couple years), but a number of smaller companies have sprung up in their stead.

If the direct P2P paradigm (torrents, emule, lime, etc) don't adopt some anonomizing protocols like I2P, there is little to save them, since everyones IP is vissible to everyone else. the new trend is moving to (or back to) indirect P2P, like rapidshare/direct download, NNTP, IRC,etc.

[gnomeuser]

Create a moderated torrent site for media that doesn't infringe on copyright. If no such sites already exist, it's not a bad idea.

ClearBits (http://www.clearbits.net/)

[Grenage]

ClearBits (http://www.clearbits.net/)

Cheers!

[Shpongle]

ClearBits (http://www.clearbits.net/)

Thanks GnomeUser :-)