The Pirate Bay

[luckyjim]

Glad I'm not the only one peteroldracer.

[Mowser]

Quite amusing reading some responses to this. Many posters here have a VPN so they can watch BBC. When you access BBC TV there's a messge saying

BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only. Find out why.
If you are in the UK and see this message please read this advice.

When you click "find out why" there's a message saying

Because of rights agreements you can only download or stream BBC iPlayer TV programmes while you’re inside the UK.

I suppose it all boils down to what is more illegal.

[firsttango]

A tremendous bit of FREE advertising for The Pirate Bay in its new guise courtesy of the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30477678

[swerve]

So if you are watchng uk tv illegally then you also are classed as a perv. Or not peter. Please advise.

Lmao

[Miro]

A tremendous bit of FREE advertising for The Pirate Bay in its new guise courtesy of the BBC

Yes, articles about the demise of TPB are all over the internet like a rash, not surprisingly. As a result, the overall volume of torrent downloading traffic has increased since. Would seem to be a shot in the foot for the copyright police.
If looking for comparisons to TV channels being watched illegally, I should imagine there are far more people in Spain watching UK Sky Sports & Movies now, than before the satellite for the FTA channels was changed - but with no corresponding increase in Sky subscriptions.

[Acen]

Has it increased? It seems that there are less out there up to date.

As for UK tv programs i cant find them anywhere in particularly "Steph and Dom meets Nigel Farage"

Any recondmendations of where to look??? (just saying LOOK) no need to call the A.com Police.

Lets see how long this message stays on the site.

Please PM if people do not want to post. thanks

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la libertad de expresión es un derecho fundamental

[markwilding]

I found it on 4OD and a torrent site.

Although I don't normally need to use torrent sites I decided to do a test and it downloaded nice and quickly so even with slow internet speeds, you should have it within a couple of hours.

For 40D use Zenmate.

[Mowser]

Zenmate here too. Ch4 needs to have the adblock disabled.
(Acen. pm sent).

[Mowser]

Some half-decent things here - and it's legal!

https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCiplayerglobal

[Miro]

Has it increased? It seems that there are less out there up to date.

I wasn't referring to the content available, only the number of users accessing it. Don't even know how you would be able to determine whether the content available has increased or decreased; I was only quoting articles I've read that state that torrent traffic has increased, which just seems logical. People who wouldn't normally bother, are probably trying it out because of all the publicity surrounding it (MarkW, for one!)

[markwilding]

That's true,
I downloaded something the other day just to see if I could. I haven't watched it and I doubt I will that way.

[firsttango]

Seems to be back, much the same as before

[rafiki]

I thought i'd give this a look and used uTorrent to download a film from Pirate Bay. Apart from Windows Media player not recognising the compression codec for the downloaded file I had a constant panic from Malwarebytes Pro about nasties trying to do my system harm. Is this usual? What am I missing here or is there a way to do this safely - and be able to watch the resulting download!

[Lyric]

Are you lot using the .se or .cr site?

[firsttango]

The original site with a swedish domain

[firsttango]

I Apart from Windows Media player not recognising the compression codec for the downloaded file!

If watching on computer use VLC Player, as it recognises virtually every file format

[Lyric]

Thanks, I tried it earlier after Mark's post - nada, which was why I asked.

[Mowser]

Download the latest Windows Media player codecs.

http://download.cnet.com/Media-Player-C ... 49065.html

[gerryh]

... I had a constant panic from Malwarebytes Pro about nasties trying to do my system harm. Is this usual? What am I missing here or is there a way to do this safely -

This is not meant to be a holier than though type answer but that is the risk you take when using sites like Pirate Bay. Some are riddled with nasties that will infect and take over your computer and/or do an identity theft and empty your bank account.
It is your choice whether or not you are willing to take the risk.
Cheers
Gerry

[Mowser]

and empty your bank account.

How could they do that if I don't have bank details on my computer?