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Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: TashaYarrr on 2007 September 03, 16:17:29 Or, some of it.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/847392 From the torrent-poster's blurb: Quote Don't want to give your money to TSR? Here is a selection of pay-only The Sims 2 content for free! Includes custom content from thesimsresource.com, birgit, holysimoly, rose sims2 and peggy sims2. 100% legal: EA has given users full rights to distribute ALL user-made custom content without permission! Thanks EA! All files that crashed my game were removed, and all have been virus checked. Important: If you are a member of TSR they may check the IPs of downloaders and compare them to their members. You do risk your account being locked, so be careful! Please keep this seeding! Thanks :) Sounds like a local. :) And no, I totally wasn't looking on bittorrent for an early release of BV. Why would you say that? (P.S...this torrent's been up for about two weeks, which coincides with the time I've been away from the forums due to dead computers and the getting of a real job. Sorry if it's been discussed--I did look around and try a few searches first.) Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: SparklePlenty on 2007 September 03, 16:23:09 Cool. More and more people are seeing the light.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: TashaYarrr on 2007 September 03, 16:29:15 Oh, interesting...the person who created the torrent included this link in the comments section on mininova, a link to their blog which lists all the contents of the torrent and has some other notes about it.
http://silverssimstuff.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/torrent/ It's not exactly exhaustive, but it's cool they went to the trouble. Ha, their avatar is wearing a hair I created back before we knew how to extract meshes. (Mods...I don't know if maybe linking the person's blog here is pushing their anonymity luck. They included the link in the comments section of the torrent itself, so it's already visible from mininova (a huge torrent site). Judgement call?) Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Ry on 2007 September 03, 16:42:59 Does look like a local.
Speak up matey...lol. I'm not surprised to find this on that site, after all I've seen Sims pay content on Limewire, Kazaa etc... since sims 1 came out. All those people who keep saying PMBD started this, they just conveniently forgot about the sharing that's been going on since the beginning, eh? Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: RedLove on 2007 September 03, 16:54:11 I saw that while I was searching for something from TSR. I just thought it wasn't really worth commenting on here. They do this on several of the *are* boards too. Although most of theirs are HORRIBLY unorganized. All of the stuff thrown in one folder and Zipped.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: dietofworms on 2007 September 03, 16:59:39 Um, is the person who posted the torrent implying that the TSR mods can cull IP numbers from downloaders of the booty? How is that possible, and wouldn't that be illegal?
Sorry if the answer is obvious, I'm a bit of a technonaif. :oops: Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Duckie on 2007 September 03, 19:37:41 Quote from: "dietofworms" Um, is the person who posted the torrent implying that the TSR mods can cull IP numbers from downloaders of the booty? How is that possible, and wouldn't that be illegal? Sorry if the answer is obvious, I'm a bit of a technonaif. :oops: I believe the person who posted the torrent is implying that TSR may be able to cull the IPs of the downloaders of the torrent (not the booty) and compare those against the IPs of the TSR member list. :) Quote from: "TashaYarrr" (Mods...I don't know if maybe linking the person's blog here is pushing their anonymity luck. They included the link in the comments section of the torrent itself, so it's already visible from mininova (a huge torrent site). Judgement call?) I don't think it's pushing their anonymity luck. If you explore that blog further they flat out say who they are/were at TSR, that they are a member here and that their TSR account has already been banned. I don't think they care if people know about this. :lol: Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Silver Arrows on 2007 September 03, 20:06:35 It's me it's me! No mystery. I was wondering why my blog had got so popular these last few days, and now I know :) I wasn't trying to be anonymous at all - I want TSR to know it's me, I wanna hurt mr prat thoma$! If you'd looked at the why I left TSR post on my site you'd know it was me.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: dietofworms on 2007 September 03, 20:08:53 Thanks for answering, duckie, but I still don't get it. How can someone check an IP from a third party source--e.g., TSR checking IP's of people downloading the torrent? Is that info generally available to anyone? I mean, can just anyone go to a forum, let's say, and find out the IP's of the people who are posting, downloading, etc.?
(I really don't care if I'm banned from TSR, I haven't posted or otherwise participated in light years. That's not my issue. But I'm shocked--SHOCKED--at the lack of privacy.) Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Silver Arrows on 2007 September 03, 20:15:42 you can see all the IPs of peers on bit torrent clients. Just click on the peers tab (in utorrent) and all the peers you're connected to show up.
Quote Ha, their avatar is wearing a hair I created back before we knew how to extract meshes. I love that hair and the others you made :D I use it a lot in my simmie stories.Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Quinctia on 2007 September 03, 20:28:30 Yay for torrents...definitely eliminates any bandwidth excuse. ;) And keeping down serverload here (when possible, while keeping all the files) is always good.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: RedLove on 2007 September 03, 20:34:53 Even Moar:
http://www.mybittorrent.com/info/928868/ Code: Files This is the one I found while looking for pictures of some cashcraft stuff I wanted to download. All people have to type is "cashcraft tsr" to find this stuff. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Duckie on 2007 September 03, 20:34:59 Quote from: "dietofworms" Thanks for answering, duckie, but I still don't get it. How can someone check an IP from a third party source--e.g., TSR checking IP's of people downloading the torrent? Is that info generally available to anyone? I mean, can just anyone go to a forum, let's say, and find out the IP's of the people who are posting, downloading, etc.? (I really don't care if I'm banned from TSR, I haven't posted or otherwise participated in light years. That's not my issue. But I'm shocked--SHOCKED--at the lack of privacy.) NO one, except Pescado, has access to the logs of who downloads from the Booty. NO one, except Pescado, knows the IPs of those downloading from the Booty. So far no one except LyricLee has had their Booty downloading log published or made public by him and he did that just to show what a hypocrite she is. Also, no one can get the IP address of any member on this forum except for Pescado. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: dietofworms on 2007 September 03, 21:11:59 OK, thanks duckie, I've got it. I forgot that torrent is P2P.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Soup Parrot on 2007 September 03, 23:29:57 Quote from: "dietofworms" Thanks for answering, duckie, but I still don't get it. How can someone check an IP from a third party source--e.g., TSR checking IP's of people downloading the torrent? Is that info generally available to anyone? I mean, can just anyone go to a forum, let's say, and find out the IP's of the people who are posting, downloading, etc.? (I really don't care if I'm banned from TSR, I haven't posted or otherwise participated in light years. That's not my issue. But I'm shocked--SHOCKED--at the lack of privacy.) SFV warns about this it is not impossible. Somehow TSR tracks their files by when and who downloaded it, they even know by the jpegs. Remember they make big bucks and probably paid someone to devise this system. File sharers cut their profits. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Frank on 2007 September 03, 23:47:00 I say the next step is to create a site like Insim/MTS2, laid out just as much, and offer up the booty, preview pics and such. The forum here was one step, torrents was the next, so why not go all the way, and rub the paysites faces in it?They have that shitty Save the Sims forum/site. Slap it all up big and nice......
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Pescado on 2007 September 04, 02:01:13 It would be fundamentally useless for TSR to spy on who is DOWNLOADING because the people downloading those files are either non-subscribers, making it pointless to download, or are subscribers, in which case it doesn't matter WHERE they get the files from afterwards.
The thought of instituting a torrent-based distribution structure where the current server helps to seed has been considered in the past and may be revisited if the need arises. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: zarah on 2007 September 05, 00:09:40 Quote they even know by the jpegs how do they know by jpegs? i've checked to see if the jpgs are watermarked, they're not, and it doesn't matter whether you're logged in or not, the jpg names are the same when saved to disk - it's not as though they are named differently each time they are accessed. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Quinctia on 2007 September 05, 00:31:08 I suppose they could look at who is seeding, but the chances that the people seeding are still the original seed are small, and then the chances that the original seed was the same person who subscribed to put the stuff in the booty or on the torrent are even smaller, and yeah...it's not likely to be of any help to TSR.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: naughty-nova on 2007 September 05, 04:37:49 Quote from: "BionixWV" I say the next step is to create a site like Insim/MTS2, laid out just as much, and offer up the booty, preview pics and such. The forum here was one step, torrents was the next, so why not go all the way, and rub the paysites faces in it?They have that shitty Save the Sims forum/site. Slap it all up big and nice...... *SQUEE!* Oh what fun that could be! and make all kinds of sims and Full Furnished homes and not worry Pay CC in it. OH the fun! Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Ash Redfern on 2007 September 05, 04:44:10 Quote from: "naughty-nova" *SQUEE!* Oh what fun that could be! and make all kinds of sims and Full Furnished homes and not worry Pay CC in it. OH the fun! You can already do that at SFV (http://www.simsfilevault.com/). ;) Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Bigtruckgirl on 2007 September 05, 05:40:23 Quote from: "Ash_Redfern" You can already do that at SFV (http://www.simsfilevault.com/). ;) Good point Ash. LOL Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: naughty-nova on 2007 September 05, 18:22:15 oh boy! * packs all her toys and runs off. :twisted:
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Silver Arrows on 2007 September 05, 21:19:55 Quote It would be fundamentally useless for TSR to spy on who is DOWNLOADING because the people downloading those files are either non-subscribers, making it pointless to download, or are subscribers, in which case it doesn't matter WHERE they get the files from afterwards. Not so very. Non-paying tsr members may download/seed the torrent, and any peer that the TSR spy is connected to will display on their client. It's not *just* seeders who show up! Even in my 'I LOVE tsr' days I still used to browse the torrents for tsr pay-stuff, and if I had actually found anything, I woulda downloaded it and probably got banned from TSR pronto.I mean, come on they banned me with NO proof at all that i'd file shared. They've done it to SFV members and they could do it to torrenters too. It's just a heads-up, really, letting people know TSR can and do spy on their own members. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Pescado on 2007 September 06, 03:58:31 Ah, but the point is, if you're a subscriber, you can *ALREADY* download TSR stuff from TSR. If you're NOT a subscriber, then you don't CARE if they ban you because you have nothing to lose!
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: zarah on 2007 September 06, 06:56:49 Quote from: "zarah" Quote they even know by the jpegs how do they know by jpegs? i've checked to see if the jpgs are watermarked, they're not, and it doesn't matter whether you're logged in or not, the jpg names are the same when saved to disk - it's not as though they are named differently each time they are accessed. anyone? bueller? Title: Thank You!!! Post by: IcemanSimmer on 2007 September 06, 20:44:12 Hello all!!! I found this site just a few hours ago through the exact same torrent at the top of the thread. I would just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the admins, members, and donators for such a kick ass site.
Just like all of you, I am a huge Sims 2 fanatic but sadly can't afford paying for some of the nicer custom content available at the paysites. I agree 100% with the aims of this site and am really excited that I found it. Thank you all once again!!!! You guys rock!!! Time to do some serious leeching off The Treasure Chest :) Peace my fellow simmers... Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: CrimsonPrince on 2007 September 06, 21:21:35 Welcome Iceman!
Just a friendly note: you might want to move your thank you to the proper thread before the canon balls start flying your way... Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Silver Arrows on 2007 November 07, 17:43:09 GAH! That prick thoma$$ has got two of my torrents removed from mininova: the first misc one and the sunair one
so just to show him there's no hard feelings i've created three more torrents ;) What I find strange however, is that T$R have been able to take down the torrents, yet EA have not been able to remove torrents of the actual game itself. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Quote If you're NOT a subscriber, then you don't CARE if they ban you because you have nothing to lose! Nooooooooooooo! You still lose access to the free stuff, and some ppl like to be part of the storytelling community (the only thing I really miss about tsr). And before you say the free stuff is all crap anyway, I will say there is a lot of good free stuff on TSR (how about asking ahthan ;) ). Yes its true you have to sift through a lot of crap to find it, but that is TSR's fault for having the kudos system, which encourages you to upload any old rubbish, just so u can get one step closer to the coveted minisite/free subscription day. Yes I was guilty of this too ;)I'm trying to decide which TSR artist to torrent next. I thought windkeeper would have a lot of takers, but obviously not. They all just seem to want frickin peggy and her animated crap. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Silver Arrows on 2007 November 07, 17:49:18 oh btw someone mentioned in another thread about getting stuff removed from TSR (i forget which thread sorry). Actually it wasn't EA who got my stuff pulled from TSR. EA were absolutely feck all use. It was in fact finding out about the torrents that made TSR change their mind.
Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Renegade on 2007 November 07, 19:08:10 Quote from: "The Game Master" What I find strange however, is that T$R have been able to take down the torrents, yet EA have not been able to remove torrents of the actual game itself. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Wow, that's so true. TSR is like the mafia of teh internetz. Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: enrico palazzo on 2007 November 08, 00:19:10 Would changing trackers make it more difficult to get the torrents taken down? Thepiratebay.org is pretty well known for not caving in to "legal" pressure.
Like the phorum, they have a section devoted to mocking such threats, that's worth visiting for the lolz: http://thepiratebay.org/legal (Their response to an EAxis email is near the top of the list.). Title: Booty on Bittorrent Post by: Silver Arrows on 2007 November 08, 17:11:20 Yeah I'm planning on uploading my next batch of torrents there. Currently doing rose's work next since she's thick as thieves with TSR ;) And yes I saw EA's threats to TPB too LOL
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