These days, if I was an internet pirate, I would be really worried. If I was an American expat living off the Dutch dime, I would be really worried, especially with the Wi-Fi in street cafes. If I was a pirate bragging about my exploits on a newsgroup, I would have my bags packed and my passport ready.
It's pretty common knowledge that now everything is being tracked on the internet - that's built into the design. They know who you are and where you live and everything you look at and/or purchase on the internet. If I was that dumb, I'd just go ahead and turn myself in to the Dutch police - since they already know who he is after he met them at the station to complain about somebody online posting libel about him. What up? I always thought he was dumb, but is this one of the dumbest pirates on the planet of all time or what? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : They are even tracking TAILS users these days. Morally, if you can pay for a show you should. My beef is that they've gotten into this thing of getting people to "own" a TV series thus paying far more than they should. A lot of people might rent at $1 an HD episode. They would get a rental window of 2 days to watch ONCE they began watching. This is the way renting movies works online. But they charge you 3 times as much to "own" an episode and how many people are REALLY going to watch at TV episode more than once? It's a scam. BTW, Netherlands was one of the first countries to sign the copyright accords so they don't exactly ignore copyright infringements. But they probably prefer to make an example of a Dutch citizen. But they also might not like the opportunism of Hollywood studios. On 02/23/2015 10:40 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: In the US, either use an anonymous proxy on BitTorrent or grab stuff off Usenet newsgroups. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On 02/23/2015 08:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I watched the pilot episode last night and thought it was okay. I got a kick out of Amy Aquino (who resembles Edie Franco) as she played a witch in the final two seasons of Syfy's version of "Being Human". But I followed up with the Netflix recommended "Felony", an excellent Australian cop film with Tom Wilkinson. A bit of a TM connection too as it's Benaroya Pictures which is Michael Benaroya's company. His grandfather, Jack, was Seattle area businessman who practiced TM and lent a suite in one of his business parks for a center. I taught at that center and Jack would occasionally drop by. I don't know when I'll see the remaining episodes of Bosch (lots of other good stuff to watch anyway) as it's mainly a carrot to get you locked into Prime and I don't order enough stuff from Amazon to make it worthwhile. It's funny. You're always all about what these series *cost* you to watch them, and I (being a Pirate) am all about whether they're worth watching for artistic reasons. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. But in the US folks would be well advised to stay away from the pirating. Our guvmint is becoming quite authoritarian and fascist. People how have been used to grabbing a show or two off Pirate Bay are getting notices from their ISP that they've been observed doing so. I would probably watch "Bosch" and will eventually as probably most of the "Amazon Prime" shows will eventually be available to regular members. Only the pilot or first episode are now and for free. So while you watch some video that someone probably screen grabbed off a computer since it is practically impossible to grab a DASH encoding I got to see the episode in fairly good 720p or maybe OK 1080p. I can't get a figure from Amazon BD app though I can get that info on the Netflix BD app. However having edited quite a bit of video I can see telltale signs of the two resolutions. As for the show's artistic merits I didn't find it any better than many other cable network serials but definitely above most broadcast standards. Artistically "Felony" was much better. Funny thing about streaming quality is that I could tell when the Oscars were over because all of a sudden my viewing of the Felony at 1080p suddenly dropped down for about a minute as folks hit Netflix after the Oscars. On 02/22/2015 12:15 PM, ultrarishi wrote: My wife and I just started watching this as well and love it. We're only 2 episodes in, but are really enjoying it. Love the dialog. She's a big fan of the Michael Connelly's books. It's funny to see Titus Welliver in a a likable role after playing so many a-holes. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : They are even tracking TAILS users these days. Morally, if you can pay for a show you should. My beef is that they've gotten into this thing of getting people to "own" a TV series thus paying far more than they should. A lot of people might rent at $1 an HD episode. They would get a rental window of 2 days to watch ONCE they began watching. This is the way renting movies works online. But they charge you 3 times as much to "own" an episode and how many people are REALLY going to watch at TV episode more than once? It's a scam. BTW, Netherlands was one of the first countries to sign the copyright accords so they don't exactly ignore copyright infringements. But they probably prefer to make an example of a Dutch citizen. But they also might not like the opportunism of Hollywood studios. On 02/23/2015 10:40 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: In the US, either use an anonymous proxy on BitTorrent or grab stuff off Usenet newsgroups. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On 02/23/2015 08:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I watched the pilot episode last night and thought it was okay. I got a kick out of Amy Aquino (who resembles Edie Franco) as she played a witch in the final two seasons of Syfy's version of "Being Human". But I followed up with the Netflix recommended "Felony", an excellent Australian cop film with Tom Wilkinson. A bit of a TM connection too as it's Benaroya Pictures which is Michael Benaroya's company. His grandfather, Jack, was Seattle area businessman who practiced TM and lent a suite in one of his business parks for a center. I taught at that center and Jack would occasionally drop by. I don't know when I'll see the remaining episodes of Bosch (lots of other good stuff to watch anyway) as it's mainly a carrot to get you locked into Prime and I don't order enough stuff from Amazon to make it worthwhile. It's funny. You're always all about what these series *cost* you to watch them, and I (being a Pirate) am all about whether they're worth watching for artistic reasons. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. But in the US folks would be well advised to stay away from the pirating. Our guvmint is becoming quite authoritarian and fascist. People how have been used to grabbing a show or two off Pirate Bay are getting notices from their ISP that they've been observed doing so. I would probably watch "Bosch" and will eventually as probably most of the "Amazon Prime" shows will eventually be available to regular members. Only the pilot or first episode are now and for free. So while you watch some video that someone probably screen grabbed off a computer since it is practically impossible to grab a DASH encoding I got to see the episode in fairly good 720p or maybe OK 1080p. I can't get a figure from Amazon BD app though I can get that info on the Netflix BD app. However having edited quite a bit of video I can see telltale signs of the two resolutions. As for the show's artistic merits I didn't find it any better than many other cable network serials but definitely above most broadcast standards. Artistically "Felony" was much better. Funny thing about streaming quality is that I could tell when the Oscars were over because all of a sudden my viewing of the Felony at 1080p suddenly dropped down for about a minute as folks hit Netflix after the Oscars. On 02/22/2015 12:15 PM, ultrarishi wrote: My wife and I just started watching this as well and love it. We're only 2 episodes in, but are really enjoying it. Love the dialog. She's a big fan of the Michael Connelly's books. It's funny to see Titus Welliver in a a likable role after playing so many a-holes.
