BT- CHAT or Mininova problem - case closed

the simple fact is that this stuff doesn't come for free. honestly we would love
to run the site without ads. it would be great. however, the staff cannot be
expected to continually top up the funds every month, as it is completely
unaffordable - we are not talking about $14 adsl connections here, it is a high
intensity high bandwidth site, and it costs a lot to run. hopefully soon, it
will be possible to take off these pop-ups, as they are apparently causing an
issue.

however it is not our policy, nor is it the content providers to allow trojans
and/or virii. i have never encountered a warning about a virus. i'm not saying
that it doesn't happen or that some of them do not contain something that
shouldn't be there, however a lot of what av programs call trojans are not
really the case. if you run something like ad-aware, that considers cookies as
trojans - which they clearly aren't.

is btc dead? please say it's an aprils fools joke -- that site had a lot of
awesome postings, incl. 720p release for many shows.

it was indeed an april fools joke, you could still access it from clicking on
several links on the fake page 🙂

some issued have been resolved with disabling the popups on users account,
please read the news on the front page of www.bt-chat.com for more information.

also we have fixed a bug that apparently was stopping people from creating new
threads on the forum.

we are continuously looking for new ways to fund the site without the popups,
one of them is our new audio ad system that we are waiting for the company to
start launching, but have high expectations, which would allow us to remove all
other advertisements from the site, and should cause no problems to the visitor.

we have also found a problem with one of our new advertisers that caused ie
users to not be able to access the site. we have since fixed this also and
people shouldn't have any more problems.

please people check our site and post on our forum with any problems, so we can
try to fix them asap. i often forget to check the eztv forums, so your calls for
help may end up unheard for a while. we have lots in store for bt-chat in the
coming months, to hopefully make up for any troubles with these popups, we will
of course keep everyone informed! thanks!

anyone having problems with any of the rss feeds from bt-chat as of today?

something should be done about all the new torrents, that are misleading
unsuspecting peers, to spend in some cases days of valuable bandwidth, only to
discover that the file can only be opened by joining a porn website, or by
subscribing to some other form of ploy to deceptively extort money from peers.
so now the unsuspecting user has a huge file they just downloaded, and not
wanting to contribute to this scam, stops the torrent, which drastically
impairs there share ratio. it seems to me that these shady characters should
all be tracked down and permanently banned. also some of these ploys are in
rar format, which forces you to follow this same path just to get a password.
come on what happened to sharing.

that looks like a vista privileges problem. you might have to run the cmd window
as administrator. poor poor vista ;p

anyway...we are still trying to find out why this is happening, but have no luck
replicating it on our end.

nbtx i totally agree with skitzzzz. nobody is 'bugging' eztv and that post was
anything but helpful. have also donated to bt-chat and won't be again because
you cannot get support and in fact when ask for it you get snotograms! not
only that but you get bombarded with p0rn0graphic or gambling ads. since
adding the ad links to my restricted sites list (and don't tell me i shouldn't,
i have a perfect right to add this filth to my blocked list and shouldn't be
forced to watch it or be prevented from downloading torrents when i dont!!!).

i for one can't get onto the #bt-chat on irc.efnet.net help site that you refer
to?!? i get a message webpage cannot be displayed. maybe if the bt-chat help
forum worked or was accessible ppl wouldn't post here.

i cannot download any torrents, i get a popup telling me my settings do not
allow this action. "your current settings do not allow this file to be
downloaded". it's rather odd that i can no longer download torrents after
adding the filth to my restricted list.

cannot login, when i login in it doesn't recognise me.

as for instructions for blocking ads by your method, well i do not see
the "control panel" option that it says to click on.

soooo, the site is currently completely and utterly useless, i cannot get any
support, but i should not tell eztv about these problems, wonderful.

okay, since no one else has asked yet...what's up with mininova? all my rss
feeds to them are down and so is the site it would seem?

can someone help me please? everytime i've tried to download something from
mininova or bt-chat when i open the torrent in bitlord i get this message:
error: tracker return code: 403, stop! in tracker: http://eztv . tracker .
thepiratebay . org/announce

does anyone know why this is happening as it never used to before and now i
cant download any of my favorite shows

please help damsel in distress!!!!
thanks

we are still waiting on our new advertiser to get up and running before we can
remove all the popups from the site which everyone, including us are very eager
to do. we know the problems that people face with the popups, which is why you
can disable the popups from your account after you login. as for the support, i
have just setup our java chat client outside of the rest of the site. this can
be visited now at http://www.bt-chat.com/help.php

as for my previous posts...i'm only human, and when i get frustrated i vent like
everyone else, so sorry if you felt they weren't useful at all. we will
eventually get things going again away from all the popups and problems, we're
just waiting on a few other things to happen first so that we can do that.

i have bitlord... i get the same thing.. but this problem has no affect.. you
are still able to get the show you want with no hassel and at a fast speed..

i just have to express with all the adds popups and malware on all the torrent
file links, i know these are 3th parties sites eztv heavely depends on. however
these sites are getting anouying!

i meen adds ok, but those adds that get forced down your though, and you need to
hijack your computerback after just looses the fun.

im not talking the add should go, im just saying can we do it without all the
badpopups and scripts attempting to hijack your browser.

hell yes, im frustrated everytime i try to download something i donot get my
download but some other stupid things happends. its rusian rolete getting the
torrent or some malware. these popup im talking about are realy bad. and is
wasting the reputation of this site. i would not send a avg new computer user to
this site couse ill know ill be cleaning it next day.

now do not get me wrong i dont apresiate eztv. its great resource for your dose
of scifi. but ill will finaly giveup on a site that only attempeds to hijack my
browser and does everything i dont tell it to(its the 3th parties eztv depends
on). its getting a security risk,
its starting to look like some sleasy back alley site that cant be trusted,
serving everything but what asked, please eztv, donot allow it to trash you
reputation as a userfriendly and trusted resource. i find that eztv shold just
simple only link anny site that is performing intended actions. or least warn
peeple about the add flood that will come. i meen its rusian rolete clicking
those [1][2][3] links.
howabout [1(clean)][2(adds)][3(popups)] or such.

i would like eztv to find a better solution then all this malware invested
horror deal. im one no longer amuzed.

this been going of for weeks. well you got me...
if donating makes this go away then contact me for instuctions to collect.,
serously. please do.

i would rather pay then have this malware nightmare goon.

**notes** said a whole lot of bad things, but also said some good stuff. im
sertianly serous about all i said. it sertianly ontopic if this endsups where i
intended it(never used this forum). witch pages you link is what pages you send
you visitors to, if they get hijacked somewhere by clicking one of your links
then it isnt so silly they look at you. you have the ability to decide to link
it or not.

don't know if this is the correct area to post but...

mininova may be closed down soon....

hxxp:\\www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/mininova_faces_legal_action/

dutch anti-piracy body brein says it will ask a judge to halt all activities of
dutch bittorrent-tracker mininova, which draws over 30 million unique visitors
and five billion downloads a month.

the site started in january 2005 as a successor to suprnova.org, which went
offline in 2004 due to legal issues. mininova was already the ninth most googled
word in 2006 and alexa and comscore now rank mininova well above swedish site
the pirate bay.

brein estimates the site earns thousands of euros per month by selling ad space.
big advertisers include dutch rabobank, among others.

video makes up 60 per cent of the downloads on mininova and only 19 per cent is
music. however, brein claims 90 per cent of those files are illegal. the
anti-piracy organisation did ask mininova to filter its search results, but
couldn't reach an agreement even after negotiating for a year and a half.

mininova-owner erik dubbelboer says he will proceed to court with full
confidence. the site does have a notice and take down-policy just like youtube
and if a copyright holder asks the site to remove a file, the site wil simply
obey. "mininova is just too big to filter each file," he told dutch news site
nu.nl. "this is the only proper way to do it."

about 90% of the time i use mirror 1 for any of the torrent files i get the same
kinds of virus popups mininova has been getting. guess its time to find
somewhere a lil safer since this is getting as bad as mininova.

no my comp is not infected, the moonlight eps i was getting were the older ones
and the first link is to bt-chat and pop ups a plenty, some just popups some i
know for a fact are infectious. i run virus/malware scans daily. thanks for the
advice even tho i'm aparently a bit ahead of you on it