Hentairu큦 admin made a short announcement today that the site has been closed down due to expensive costs, high moderating effort and lots of spammers abusing the site. There has been a DMCA request by Adult Source Media some weeks ago which may be seen as additional reason. Sorry to tell...It was fun while it lasted... too many problems was always hitting that site lolIt is a pity anyway. Perhaps you could make a revision of your signature - and I don큧 think you are homeless. Home is where you feel well and your friends are...Quote:Originally Posted by redroosterIt is a pity anyway. Perhaps you could make a revision of your signature - and I don큧 think you are homeless. Home is where you feel well and your friends are...Your right...On brighter news, i have alot more free time nowit's only been 3 days since i found the gold mine in Hru and now its gone.i feel like i just ate a whole box of dark chocolates. kinda makes you wonder how long akiba will last...Just remember that the 4 admins of The Pirate Bay have just been condemned by Swedish Court to 1 year jail yesterday because of copyright violation (movies / popular music), they have to pay 2.5 millon Euros too, they will fight against the judgement though...Main problem is that the server is not located in Sweden anymore and the admins don큧 tell where it is. Nobody really seems to know...Perhaps Denamic knows more about it from Svenska Dagbladet / Nyheter...Quote:Originally Posted by reingioltit's only been 3 days since i found the gold mine in Hru and now its gone.i feel like i just ate a whole box of dark chocolates. kinda makes you wonder how long akiba will last...nahhh, your gold mine is your digging skill, its only makes easier to get if its in one place/sitesafe to say AO is in strategic position as JAV rarely have problems with authorities and the biggest risk came from our Hens section (you realised that don't you)but with DLsite add here we won't have problem as many as othersas long the admins don't play with I'ntl copyrighted materialQuote:Originally Posted by xeruelnahhh, your gold mine is your digging skill, its only makes easier to get if its in one place/sitesafe to say AO is in strategic position as JAV rarely have problems with authorities and the biggest risk came from our Hens section (you realised that don't you)but with DLsite add here we won't have problem as many as othersas long the admins don't play with I'ntl copyrighted materialI큟 deleting or closing licensed or DLsite stuff almost every day. We just have to be attentive. We even eliminate licensed material which is not mentioned in the "DO NOT UPLOAD: list" like NuTech Digital stuff. That큦 the reason why I won큧 allow Happy Carrot stuff to be posted too...Only Japanese material or material of East Asian origin is allowed on A-O.not in Hru's case, it was a real gold ( feels more like diamond now ) mine. there were a bunch of stuff that could only be found there. there's a possibility that those could be found in some chinese site but i have no way of navigating there.yeah but i don't really care about the AV sections. i'm just here for the hens.When you consider the turn of events in Sweden regarding the Pirate Bay ...When you consider that this web community could still stay in touch chat-wise if it wanted to ...When you consider that chompy's pockets aren't all that deep ...I think you pretty much have to come to the conclusion that chompy will need to convert Akiba-Online into an Asian interests discussion site (err, webforum). Sweden has told the world that it's no longer going to protect those who link to illegal material: it's going to convict them for piracy just as it does those who upload the material illegally in the first place. Sure, Sweden isn't the only haven for pirates in the 21st century -- but it's one of the most famous. I see it as just a matter of time (< 10 years) before every country on the planet no longer provides pirates with safe havens for their servers, at which point in time I think we'd all revert to a P2P-like model of file sharing and website hosting (which we're not too far off from doing right now). But the catch is, all it takes is one mole to take down a community that way -- all it takes is one member who shares the treasure with one friend too many to bring the whole thing crashing down.In short, we're headed towards the inevitable "L O S E" in big, red, flashing letters -- a loss for pirates in the game between pirates and copyright holders. (SURPRISE SURPRISE, THE ONES WITH MORE CASH AND MORE POWER WIN. WHO'D HAVE GUESSED? [/all-caps sarcasm])But this really does beg two questions:(1) What, if any, is the future role of the DMCA in contemporary Internet piracy law? Sweden has just one-upped America's DMCA quite handily: and it was none other than Sweden in whom pirates the world over vested so much of their trust. (lol @ irony)(2) What will Sweden (and nations which applaud Sweden's court's decision) do with regards to sites like Youtube, sites which encourage users to upload user-created content and which (officially) attempt to take down any and all copyrighted material they find but which refrain from pressing charges against or from releasing to license-holders the IPs of the offenders in question?Because fundamentally I see this court's decision as something which will define our generation's (and future generations') legal privileges with regards to copyrighted media. The Pirate Bay says "We didn't upload it, we don't host it, but here it is. If you want it taken down, to take the matter up with us: take it up with whoever uploaded your stuff in the first place." Youtube says "We didn't upload it, we do host it, and here it is. If you want it taken down, just ask us politely: don't sue us, and if the guy who uploaded it complies with the DMCA within 7 days, then don't sue him either." Neither one is a nice situation for the music and video industries, but I think the Youtube model feels much less legally justifiable, even if it's the one the world is supporting and not TPB.