Hey, anyone know whats up with arenaBG? When you connect you get a warning that says (as of 5/4/2011):

"Access denied! Your national law may provide civil or criminal sanctions even for infringements of copyright law for non-commercial purposes"

Should we just avoid this site altogether or is this just a common occurrence for arenaBG? Did they get hacked again by the Bulgarian Web police (why do those Bulgarians have such a bee up their butts anyways--bunch of web vampires if you ask me). And how come a site like Big Boss isn't having trouble. Is Big Boss a legit site? They are Bulgarian too, they have open signup and big selection. Why are they not getting bombed by the Bulgarian web vampires? Should I also be weary of Big Boss?

Anyone have any suggestions/news about areanBG (and info about whether Big Boss is legit site)?

Shesh...I've been reading up on this. Those poor Bulgarians. The problem is that they have been so subjected to the U.S.S.R. rule that they don't even realize that their current government is returning to similar big brother tactics. The Bulgarian cyber police are saying that they have plans to monitor all civilian internet activity and use that information to prosecute what they deem inappropriate activity. That is the same thing as the secrete policy pushing down your door to search your house just on the chance that you might be doing something that they don't like. If only the Bulgarians would grow a pair and stand up to these big brother tactics then maybe these fascist governments won't be able to take hold. But alas, it looks like it is going that way for Bulgarians. They seem to have liked being under the U.S.S.R. domination, and so they are looking for ways to go back under such domination (this time it is likely through being subservient to the slightest whims of the EU). Poor Bulgarians.

Basically it goes like this. If you want to get rid of all trackers and other even more seedy sites (though whats more seedy than a tracker...get it...seedy...seeders...ahhh haaaaa...ok, bad joke)...then you have to essentially establish a fascist or totalitarian style government. To get rid of these sites all you gotta do is eliminate all respect for individual rights. But that is pretty huge. So, most of us civilized nations don't do such silly things. As citizens of free nations we tend to fight against our government disrespecting the individual rights of its citizens. Thus, these nations limit the extent to which our government can pursue these so called seedy sites. Not because everyone wants such seedy sites, but simply because we are unwilling to allow our government to disrespect individual rights in their effort to get rid of these sites. Of course, that is good news for these seedy sites (and for us), but that's life in a free country.

So, like it or not, in a free Country, we respect individual rights. This means that our government is limiting in its ability to monitor the activities of its citizens. This is to say that you cannot monitor people that are not doing anything wrong. This means that if you are respecting individual rights then you cannot monitor the activities of citizens unless you first KNOW that those specific citizens are doing something wrong (and then you would still need to get permission from the courts to actual perform the monitoring). There is a big difference between this approach of respecting individual rights and those tactics used by Bulgaria (and other fascist/totalitarian leaning governments). The idea that Bulgaria government feels that it is perfectly acceptable for them to monitor anyone they want whether they are doing anything wrong or not, is NOT respecting the individual rights of Bulgarian citizens. Even if you hate the idea of people sharing files over the internet, as a Bulgarian, you should be petrified by the tactics being used by your government. These are the tactics of a totalitarianism, no different then the one that used to control your country (U.S.S.R.). But that is my point above. I really think that the Bulgarian people just don't know better. The government says things like "We are going to monitor what you are doing and if we determine that we don't like what you are doing then we are going to toss you in prison", and they don't even bat an eyelid over it. They seem to want to be ruled over and have no individual rights. If they don't get off their butts and fight these fascist Bulgarian politicians then I hope they get what they deserve. I hope they get to be slaves to the establishment and that all of their individual rights are lost to them. They don't deserve them if they are willing to let them go so easily.