while you nerds pirate, bigger nerds are pirating your precious cycles

[brob]

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/utorrent-bitcoin-miner/

If you recently installed or updated uTorrent on your PC, you may have have picked up an unwanted passenger: a Bitcoin miner called Epic Scale. That piece of code comes attached at the hip with the latest uTorrent build (version 3.4.2) and uses your computer as part of a Bitcoin farm to generate revenue for someone other than you. Users first reported the situation on uTorrent's forums, and it was quickly confirmed by a senior support manager. He said that the app "cannot be installed without permission," but one user pointed out that there was "never a warning about it," even though he opted out of other bundled software.

Once it's installed, the program will take up CPU cycles, slowing your machine and causing it to burn more power. The support person described Epic Scale as "easy to uninstall," but that's doesn't seem to always be the case. It didn't show up in the "Programs and Features" list for Windows for one user, and another said he needed anti-adware software to be rid of it. (Epic Scale said the app can be uninstalled normally, but confirmed that it leaves behind registry keys.)

uTorrent's parent company BitTorrent said that the Epic Scale is "a great partner for us to continue to generate revenue for the company, while contributing funds to (philanthropic initiatives)." With the recent Lenovo SuperFish affair, however, users are on edge about unwanted software. One uTorrent forum user called Epic Scale's unexpected presence "disgraceful and quite a pity," adding "I will switch because of this."

Is nothing sacred anymore :anoncry

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

[Rufus]

µTorrent has been shit for a while. Impressive trajectory though. From ads to this.

I'm using qBittorent. It's practically the same thing.

[kick51]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

Bullshit, it's "I'm entitled so I want to watch this movie that cost 100 million dollars to make for free, because fuck whoever financed it and the workers"

Don't feed me that "I want it now bullshit" that worked 5 years ago, not now.

What's ironic is this is the same person that bitches because movie tickets are 15 dollars now. You are part of the problem, skippy.

PS: I could give two fucks about taking money out of a A list actor's pocket, they have enough. But you also hammer the 15 dollar an hour guy, the gaffer, the catering crew, and whomever else thrives off the production of the movie.

[benjipwns]

I have never upgraded from utorrent 2.2.1, never even thought about updating it. I think the version after it you couldn't use for some private tracker I used for like a month so I didn't update and then just sorta forgot about it for three years or whatever.

Use qbittorrent on laptop which runs ubuntu most of the time. It also downloads things from torrents.

[brob]

I'm using qBittorent. It's practically the same thing.

This website is so ugly I have to assume this is made by and for torrent connoisseurs who dwell in the deepest of basements

[king of the internet]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

Bullshit, it's "I'm entitled so I want to watch this movie that cost 100 million dollars to make for free, because fuck whoever financed it and the workers"

Don't feed me that "I want it now bullshit" that worked 5 years ago, not now.

What's ironic is this is the same person that bitches because movie tickets are 15 dollars now. You are part of the problem, skippy.

PS: I could give two fucks about taking money out of a A list actor's pocket, they have enough. But you also hammer the 15 dollar an hour guy, the gaffer, the catering crew, and whomever else thrives off the production of the movie.

I'm not entitled to shit. I just take it because I can. If I could download a car, or food, or rent, or whatever else, I would. Fuck the world as long as I get mine.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

Bullshit, it's "I'm entitled so I want to watch this movie that cost 100 million dollars to make for free, because fuck whoever financed it and the workers"

Don't feed me that "I want it now bullshit" that worked 5 years ago, not now.

What's ironic is this is the same person that bitches because movie tickets are 15 dollars now. You are part of the problem, skippy.

PS: I could give two fucks about taking money out of a A list actor's pocket, they have enough. But you also hammer the 15 dollar an hour guy, the gaffer, the catering crew, and whomever else thrives off the production of the movie.

I'm not entitled to shit. I just take it because I can. If I could download a car, or food, or rent, or whatever else, I would. Fuck the world as long as I get mine.

Yeah you're super cool. Thanks for fucking over the economy 5 dollars at a time. I bet you're the first to bitch when somebody takes something from you though.

[kick51]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

Bullshit, it's "I'm entitled so I want to watch this movie that cost 100 million dollars to make for free, because fuck whoever financed it and the workers"

Don't feed me that "I want it now bullshit" that worked 5 years ago, not now.

What's ironic is this is the same person that bitches because movie tickets are 15 dollars now. You are part of the problem, skippy.

PS: I could give two fucks about taking money out of a A list actor's pocket, they have enough. But you also hammer the 15 dollar an hour guy, the gaffer, the catering crew, and whomever else thrives off the production of the movie.

a little of column A, a little of column B.  that's why we got whales

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

Bullshit, it's "I'm entitled so I want to watch this movie that cost 100 million dollars to make for free, because fuck whoever financed it and the workers"

Don't feed me that "I want it now bullshit" that worked 5 years ago, not now.

What's ironic is this is the same person that bitches because movie tickets are 15 dollars now. You are part of the problem, skippy.

PS: I could give two fucks about taking money out of a A list actor's pocket, they have enough. But you also hammer the 15 dollar an hour guy, the gaffer, the catering crew, and whomever else thrives off the production of the movie.

a little of column A, a little of column B.  that's why we got whales

And 15 dollar movies, and stupid disc protection, and why we are going completely digital, and why we don't own our own games, and why it costs so much to attend a sports event. Etc.

[Madrun Badrun]

qBittorent kept re-downloading shit if it didn't shut down properly for me.

I use Deluge

[Great Rumbler]

Paid anime streaming of current shows has cut my torrenting down to almost zero. Why waste time looking for a torrent, downloading it, then setting up a Plex entry for it when I can just queue it up directly on my Roku?

[Rufus]

I'm using qBittorent. It's practically the same thing.

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This website is so ugly I have to assume this is made by and for torrent connoisseurs who dwell in the deepest of basements

Open Source. It is what it is.

[king of the internet]

And 15 dollar movies, and stupid disc protection, and why we are going completely digital, and why we don't own our own games, and why it costs so much to attend a sports event. Etc.

All good reasons to continue pirating shit.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

And 15 dollar movies, and stupid disc protection, and why we are going completely digital, and why we don't own our own games, and why it costs so much to attend a sports event. Etc.

All good reasons to continue pirating shit.

And someday you'll lose your job because of it. Make sure you don't point fingers on your way out.

[benjipwns]

The faulty assumption is that I would pay for the things I download. (Though probably more half the stuff I download is TV shows so I can watch them at my leisure on different devices rather than watching it as it airs.) I can't be assed to download games anymore because of Steam/Origin, I just play Civ V until it's under the price threshold then buy it and play more Civ V.

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Or that I care about Intellectual "Property." 

[close]

This website is so ugly I have to assume this is made by and for torrent connoisseurs who dwell in the deepest of basements

Open Source. It is what it is.

In other words, he's right lol

[Am_I_Anonymous]

The faulty assumption is that I would pay for the things I download. (Though probably more half the stuff I download is TV shows so I can watch them at my leisure on different devices rather than watching it as it airs.) I can't be assed to download games anymore because of Steam/Origin, I just play Civ V until it's under the price threshold then buy it and play more Civ V.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Or that I care about Intellectual "Property." 

[close]

This website is so ugly I have to assume this is made by and for torrent connoisseurs who dwell in the deepest of basements

Open Source. It is what it is.

In other words, he's right lol

Argue's politics, has no fucks to give about intellectual property...yup you're a democrat   

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Argue's politics, has no fucks to give about intellectual property...yup you're a democrat   

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benji is a libertarian, an anarchist to boot

Barf

[Rufus]

This website is so ugly I have to assume this is made by and for torrent connoisseurs who dwell in the deepest of basements

Open Source. It is what it is.

In other words, he's right lol

Yeah, pretty much.

[benjipwns]

Barf

Kinda hard to miss I would think?

Going to download like five random movies in response. All cams rated 7/10 or lower in the comments.

[TakingBackSunday]

I haven't pirated anything for months.  Only things I've been torrenting have been Doctor Who episodes because I don't get BBC America

[Stoney Mason]

µTorrent has been shit for a while. Impressive trajectory though. From ads to this.

I'm using qBittorent. It's practically the same thing.

This. Utorrent has been putting all that shady shit on your computer for awhile during install. Sadly a lot of other popular programs do this nowadays.

[Positive Touch]

Lolol look at AiA getting all bent out of shape over this, talking about "think of the workers!" meanwhile you support a group that works to pay ppl literally as little as their (multinational billion-dollar) employer wants to. is this what senility looks like

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Lolol look at AiA getting all bent out of shape over this, talking about "think of the workers!" meanwhile you support a group that works to pay ppl literally as little as their (multinational billion-dollar) employer wants to. is this what senility looks like

One isn't stealing, it's business.

If you're worth money, you'll make it. I am not going to be assed to give you 50,000 dollars a year if you're worth 24,000 because I don't reward those who don't reach.

And senile? You'd be blessed by god to be 1/2 of what I am at this age, deal with that.

[Positive Touch]

[Mr. Nobody]

  utorrent 2.0.4 for life 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Ironic.

[Mr. Nobody]

Stop pirating shit, problem solved you broke ass crackers.

it's not about money, it's about "i want this shit right now" or being too lazy to rip an iso.

 
also, amazing how shit utorrent is.  I'm still on that super old build before they implemented all the bloatware.

Bullshit, it's "I'm entitled so I want to watch this movie that cost 100 million dollars to make for free, because fuck whoever financed it and the workers"

Don't feed me that "I want it now bullshit" that worked 5 years ago, not now.

What's ironic is this is the same person that bitches because movie tickets are 15 dollars now. You are part of the problem, skippy.

PS: I could give two fucks about taking money out of a A list actor's pocket, they have enough. But you also hammer the 15 dollar an hour guy, the gaffer, the catering crew, and whomever else thrives off the production of the movie.

It's not so much entitlement (for most people anyway  ) as it is "it's free breh"

Can't argue with that at all 

I have no problems buying if it's good enough though

[Stoney Mason]

Arguing over this stuff is pointless. People are gonna pirate. It's 2015.

I think just about every "normal" person buys a lot of things and pirates some things. Most of us aren't pure angels.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Arguing over this stuff is pointless. People are gonna pirate. It's 2015.

I think just about every "normal" person buys a lot of things and pirates some things. Most of us aren't pure angels.

I'm fortunate to have had a father who said "Only buy what you can afford, live within your means. What you can't buy now should inspire you to work harder"

Pop

[benjipwns]

One isn't stealing, it's business.

Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, it's breaching the terms of a state granted monopoly. The original goods still exist.

One isn't entitled to an income just because they get the government to use force against others.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

One isn't stealing, it's business.

Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, it's breaching the terms of a state granted monopoly. The original goods still exist.

One isn't entitled to an income just because they get the government to use force against others.

So if you spend years of your life writing a book in order to provide income for yourself I should have the right to read it for free because entitlement. That's what I surmise you're getting at.

Then again I imagine it's hard for people who aren't creative nor able to own things that are desirable to understand what stealing that feels like.

[benjipwns]

So if you spend years of your life writing a book in order to provide income for yourself I should have the right to read it for free because entitlement. That's what I surmise you're getting at.

Sounds like a library.

But no, I'm not entitled to make money just because I wrote a book. People have to want to purchase it.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

So if you spend years of your life writing a book in order to provide income for yourself I should have the right to read it for free because entitlement. That's what I surmise you're getting at.

Sounds like a library.

Yup, one whom purchased the book and are within their rights to distribute said literature.

But then again I'm a guy who stole one thing in my entire life, a bicycle from a local store. And went back 10 yeas later and bought 20 of them for the local kids while returning the one I stole.

Morals.

[brob]

mods help

i made this thread so we could make fun of nerds being used as cyber mules, stop arguing about piracy like it's 2005

[benjipwns]

Yup, one whom purchased the book and are within their rights to distribute said literature.

Under the logic of copyright infringement, everyone who reads the book from the library is "stealing" from me by not purchasing their own copy of the book for my asking price. One original copy is being shared with tons of other people.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

So if you spend years of your life writing a book in order to provide income for yourself I should have the right to read it for free because entitlement. That's what I surmise you're getting at.

Sounds like a library.

But no, I'm not entitled to make money just because I wrote a book. People have to want to purchase it.

Use a circular argument much? Answer my question. If you write a book with the intent to sell it is it okay for me to hope online and read it for free?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Yup, one whom purchased the book and are within their rights to distribute said literature.

Under the logic of copyright infringement, everyone who reads the book from the library is "stealing" from me by not purchasing their own copy of the book for my asking price. One original copy is being shared with tons of other people.

Really? I'm pretty sure the relationship between author and library is a little different than you and the game you stole. Just saying.

[benjipwns]

Really? I'm pretty sure the relationship between author and library is a little different than you and the game you stole. Just saying.

I didn't steal a game anymore than I steal your thoughts when you post them.

Use a circular argument much? Answer my question. If you write a book with the intent to sell it is it okay for me to hope online and read it for free?

Of course it is. You feel the price of my book that you're willing to pay for it is zero. It's my duty to convince you otherwise in some manner.

mods help

i made this thread so we could make fun of nerds being used as cyber mules, stop arguing about piracy like it's 2005

We have pirated your thread.

[Trent Dole]

Creative shit has been payment optional for ages now. Sorry you special snowflake fucks have to do actual work like the rest of us now.

[Take My Breh Away]

qBittorent kept re-downloading shit if it didn't shut down properly for me.

I use Deluge

Deluge

uTorrent

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Yeah yeah, enough of this it won't solve anything. Back to insulting nerd pls.

[CatsCatsCats]

I found this copyright clash more entertaining though 

Re:OP Old versions, stripped down clients for life.

I do pirate a lot less because of Netflix, XFINITY On Demand, etc. don't want people to pirate your shit? Make it accessible.

[Kara]

When I write the Great Esperantine Novel I'm going to publish it under a NC Creative Commons license. Hack the planet (for Bitcoin mining).

[Am_I_Anonymous]

When I write the Great Esperantine NovelI'm going to publish it under a NC Creative Commons license. Hack the planet (for Bitcoin mining).