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[labgeek]

Originally posted by: Spike

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Usenet.

/thread

Do I lose my "geek" title if I don't know what usenet is?

-spike

Pretty sure if you don't know what Usenet is, you never had one to begin with...

 

[bandana163]

Originally posted by: BullyCanadian

Originally posted by: Skiguy411
What makes you think they are gone? Last time I checked they were just having problems with their site.

They better not be gone!

did you even read the first page of the site? the FBI has taken over

Bwahaha.
Yes, of course, they have nothing else to do...

They've been hacked (and this isn't the first time).

 

[BrokenVisage]

Ha! Wasn't even on my torrent website list txt, no biggie.

And you can keep your high-and-mighty secretive Usenet groups, I'm happy being a BT 'n00b'.

 

[Skiguy411]

Anyone wanna post a screenshot?

Nevermind.....Link for those who cant see the hacked paged

 

[Skiguy411]

From another forum....

* Now talking in #elitetorrents
* Topic is 'Site: Down | Tracker: Up | Forums: Down | Radio: OFF | News : Site will be up when it's fixed. Stop asking.'
* Set by Spinn12!feeling2@217.64.127.14 on Wed May 25 09:35:20

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: Skiguy411
From another forum....

* Now talking in #elitetorrents
* Topic is 'Site: Down | Tracker: Up | Forums: Down | Radio: OFF | News : Site will be up when it's fixed. Stop asking.'
* Set by Spinn12!feeling2@217.64.127.14 on Wed May 25 09:35:20

Ask when the site will be back up.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Ha! Wasn't even on my torrent website list txt, no biggie.

And you can keep your high-and-mighty secretive Usenet groups, I'm happy being a BT 'n00b'.

It's so secretive, one of the weekly news magazines (Time or Newsweek) did a cover story on Usenet (specifically alt.bin.*) like 10 years ago. Most of the people who use Usenet now are, well, noobs.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Ha! Wasn't even on my torrent website list txt, no biggie.

And you can keep your high-and-mighty secretive Usenet groups, I'm happy being a BT 'n00b'.

It's so secretive, one of the weekly news magazines (Time or Newsweek) did a cover story on Usenet (specifically alt.bin.*) like 10 years ago. Most of the people who use Usenet now are, well, noobs.

Then why do most of the people who use it now call torrenters noobs? Just because it's relatively new compared to Usenet?

 

[PhaZe]

something doesn't add up. If it was real I highly doubt the FBI would kindly put the elitetorrents logo. also, read the message

THIS SITE
HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SHUT DOWN BY
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

Immigration? What's with the Homeland Security logo?

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Ha! Wasn't even on my torrent website list txt, no biggie.

And you can keep your high-and-mighty secretive Usenet groups, I'm happy being a BT 'n00b'.

It's so secretive, one of the weekly news magazines (Time or Newsweek) did a cover story on Usenet (specifically alt.bin.*) like 10 years ago. Most of the people who use Usenet now are, well, noobs.

Then why do most of the people who use it now call torrenters noobs? Just because it's relatively new compared to Usenet?

Dunno about that, I have only been using bit torrent for a couple years so I am still pretty new at it I guess. Never even heard os usenet but if it has been around for many years thats probably why. I tend to be a "next gen" nerd, not so concerned about "old" tech.

-spike

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: PhaZe
something doesn't add up. If it was real I highly doubt the FBI would kindly put the elitetorrents logo. also, read the message

THIS SITE
HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SHUT DOWN BY
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

Immigration? What's with the Homeland Security logo?

Amusingly enough, the page source shows that it was created in MS Word :laugh:

If (and this is highly unlikely) it's actually real, then some moron at the FBI needs to outsource to someone who actually knows how to make websites

 

[BriGy86]

whats so great about bit torrent anyway?

the other night when i used it, it took about 3 hours to down load a simple vid file

 

[JacobJ]

Originally posted by: PhaZe
something doesn't add up. If it was real I highly doubt the FBI would kindly put the elitetorrents logo. also, read the message

THIS SITE
HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SHUT DOWN BY
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

Immigration? What's with the Homeland Security logo?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now run by homeland security...

 

[Trente]

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=801

 

[Crusty]

[13:02] * Now talking in #elitetorrents
[13:02] * Topic is '2,0Site Status : Down : ET Was DNS Hacked, Not FBI Job | Any More news sites?'

/thread

 

[Cristatus]

WHOA! Slyck has contacted the FBI to ask whether they have shutdown the website. I think that would've been a bad move, because if it wasn't then they'll shut it down anyways. What irony!

 

[orakle]

Guys, it's for real.

US Immigration & Customs Enforcement

Can we have a moment of silience?

 

[Sqube]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050525/ap_on_hi_te/movie_downloading

Site shut down. Maybe he should've kept his mouth shut.

 

[bandana163]

Originally posted by: logic1485
WHOA! Slyck has contacted the FBI to ask whether they have shutdown the website. I think that would've been a bad move, because if it wasn't then they'll shut it down anyways. What irony!

Yet another piece of proof that Slyck has dull minded columnists...

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Spike

Dunno about that, I have only been using bit torrent for a couple years so I am still pretty new at it I guess. Never even heard os usenet but if it has been around for many years thats probably why. I tend to be a "next gen" nerd, not so concerned about "old" tech.

-spike

Back before web forums were around (and before they stopped sucking), Usenet was the main Internet message board system (except they were called newsgroups, not forums). As a message board system it kind of sucked, because once you posted a message it would take hours or even a day to get to all of the other servers on the Internet (on the plus side, that helped limit how much time you could spend on it, so the addiction wasn't as bad as with Anandtech ). But you can attach binary files to messages, so it quickly became popular for pornography and pirated software.

 

[KeyserSoze]

/.




KS

 

[ironcrotch]

Originally posted by: Sqube
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050525/ap_on_hi_te/movie_downloading

Site shut down. Maybe he should've kept his mouth shut.

LMAO!!! idiots

 

[aplefka]

Fvck, so glad I rarely used ET. In fact, I think I only ever used it once.

 

[ironcrotch]

Originally posted by: aplefka
Fvck, so glad I rarely used ET. In fact, I think I only ever used it once.

I used ET a lot, it sucks but I jsut think its funny that Slyck columnists are idiots.

 

[userman]

So how many anandtech members got arrested?