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EZTV had advertisments ("Download Fast" links for more than few months of this scandal.) yes while EZTV did have these links they weren't adverts, however click-throughs, pop-up and pop-under advertising and hosting their own torrents were never used as Nova is quoted and as stated in the article, EZTV is not for profit and no hosting nor ad revenue would be made to prevent litigation on profiting from piracy.
Citation needed for this claim - there is nothing officially posted by those websites which claim this. - Seems unlikely that there would be an announcement since EZTV is dissolved there is no one to make that announcement regarding not being an affiliate and back end work regarding preventing indexing would not be forth coming since it would defeat the purpose if they knew what was being done about it.
An IRC Channel is not an official source of information since anyone can place any topic/subject there. - Given that the channel bots are still running no one can make edits without channel rights let alone speak since every one is auto muted it is also quoted by MVGroup who were partners with EZTV who were in the channel at the time of the announcement information available on their forum - registration required.
Management of the website is the same, these are just claims without actual proves. - If you are going by the forums or anything on that page it should all be taken with a grain of salt given they own the domain and have a clone of the site, they can post anything they want as Novaking it does not mean it is them, this is the whole point of stealing the brand and pretending to be someone else. Domain holder information is a matter of public record whois all line up with the hijack and new owners as is quoted in the TorrentFreak article while not source for conjecture on this site it is still correct any edits relating to ownership being passed back to the original team would need to be sourced not the other way around as no source for return nor Nova or anyone else originally connected to the site is available the hijack and takeover would still stand unless proven otherwise with a viable source.
The official EZTV Bitcoin address is displayed on the website. - A bitcoin with an EZTV string does not make it official it just makes it a bitcoin with an EZTV string, the header posted bitcoin and the EZTV official bitcoin which is sourceable from other locations (their releases on other sites and their own official forum including the one on the clone site for example) do not match and as no announcement was made before the takeover regarding the a bitcoin change and no source after takeover is available either only a change after the date that EZTV was hijacked it can't be claimed to be official as there is no source for the change.
Adverts were present on the website for more months. - only on the .it domain and not the .ch domain up until the point that it was taken over by EZCLOUD then the adverts started on the other domains and the proxy.
As I said in an edit comment it appears a lot of the edits going on in this page are widely biased or have definite intent to remove sourced information meaning this has turned into a pissing contest. I'm in favour of leaving as is unless people can prove with source the claims beyond the hijack and announcement of EZTV official to disband, as beyond that point it is EZCLOUD an unknown and untrusted source by the torrent community and no information is forthcoming, if such information arises then a new section should be made for that purpose, however the mass edits to the hijack section should stop unless they can be verified while some are borderline OR they do back up the statements in the article Majikthise.uk ( talk) 19:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
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... whoever may be running it now. As torrent news sites note, it does a lot of pop-under ads and such, but it's still operating. 24.23.163.55 ( talk) 09:55, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Looks like that the hijackers have put up another clone site on the eztv.ag domain, which also links to 'mirrors' at eztv.it and eztv.ch. More disturbingly, this new mirror is currently showing up at the top of the google search results for 'eztv'. Pacula ( talk) 15:45, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Rather than simply removing something you disagree with, consider correcting it if you think it is wrong. However the inaction is in itself an action, and it is one of significant import from a legal stand point as in an attempt to avoid a potential legal quagmire they have inherently left themselves open to a significantly more vast one through negligence through inaction (the hijackers nefarious uses / but for the inaction of the legitimate owner, et cetera.) I have extensively tried to find ANY evidence of an attempt to regain control of the domain name and failed. In fact, there are numerous 'interviews' where the owner appears to have just walked away from the scene altogether - albeit they are in formats not acceptable as sources for Wikipedia, perhaps you can find one I missed? But it seems clear the overall reaction was one of resignation, even though they had numerous legal avenues through which to seek relief through tort, criminal, or even international law. <!//– ☠ ʇdɯ0ɹd ɥsɐq ☠ // user // talk // twitter //–> 02:20, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Majikthise.uk seems to have taken up the cause of protecting the new scam owners of EZTV by constantly removing sourced information of MVGroup no longer posting on EZTV willingly. In my source http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=60964 , the major encoder/releaser Jungleboy and karmax264 discuss the fact that EZTV is now a scam site and that "The eztv site is effectively lost which means no MVGroup stuff will appear there". At the bottom encoder karmax264 is seen breaking the news that scam site EZTV is now stealing MVGroup rips. karmax264 saying "Looks like MVG torrents are being posted to EZTV, even though we are no longer crossposting there."
Seems like Majikhise will only accept sourced information from someone like the NY Times. Have to wonder who he works for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.0.21.103 ( talk • contribs)
This needs to stop and now despite multiple removals by different people and requests to stop the anon user (76.0.19.7 / 76.0.22.91 / 76.0.17.167 / 76.0.21.103 / last 76.0.22.25) has been warned on no less then five different occasions now by three contributors to stop adding the same unsourced and irrelevant material to the page, and even asked to take place in a discussion on this talk page before re-adding the same information.
Apparently this is not good enough for them to consider as proper procedure in conflicted information resolution and they are looking like they will keep going ahead and adding it anyway even after removal, can we now class this as vandalism? Thereby I am now requesting intervention since I personally want this war to end as I want no part and since other contribs seem to be in agreement that this information is not relevant nor sourced correctly by the majority it should stay removed and something should be done either revoke their rights or semi-protected that section.
I tried to reach a compromise via talk but I'm done, any attempt by them to re-add after my last removal will now be tagged vandalism by myself. Since they obviously don't want to make an account they can't be that interested in the content nor quality of the information they are providing other then adding that information to an already borderline OR article section even going so far as to use a poor screen grab to try and back themselves up since the original "source" was protected by registration. — Majikthise.uk ( talk) 18:01, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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This needs to be rewritten to stop using past tense and to stop engaging in one-sided "fanboy" WP:OR about the topic. There was no interruption worth mentioning in "service", between the original crew operating EZTV and the post-takeover maintainers. The fact that it was blatantly taken over is quite interesting and should be covered. But the present article taking the fantasizing stance that EZTV is gone and a thing of the historical past is a severe WP:NPOV failure. You could call it a textbook example of how not to encyclopedically document part of the "copyright counterculture" of the Internet. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:10, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Downloaded and watching so it works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:7320:6a00:410:c259:d56e:ad5 ( talk • contribs)
We cannot conflate the scammers who stole the domain and set up a new site with the original group. This is like suggesting that I can buy a car from nissan.com, or that if someone steals my cell phone number and impersonates me, they have become me. - MrOllie ( talk) 15:27, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
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EZTV had advertisments ("Download Fast" links for more than few months of this scandal.) yes while EZTV did have these links they weren't adverts, however click-throughs, pop-up and pop-under advertising and hosting their own torrents were never used as Nova is quoted and as stated in the article, EZTV is not for profit and no hosting nor ad revenue would be made to prevent litigation on profiting from piracy.
Citation needed for this claim - there is nothing officially posted by those websites which claim this. - Seems unlikely that there would be an announcement since EZTV is dissolved there is no one to make that announcement regarding not being an affiliate and back end work regarding preventing indexing would not be forth coming since it would defeat the purpose if they knew what was being done about it.
An IRC Channel is not an official source of information since anyone can place any topic/subject there. - Given that the channel bots are still running no one can make edits without channel rights let alone speak since every one is auto muted it is also quoted by MVGroup who were partners with EZTV who were in the channel at the time of the announcement information available on their forum - registration required.
Management of the website is the same, these are just claims without actual proves. - If you are going by the forums or anything on that page it should all be taken with a grain of salt given they own the domain and have a clone of the site, they can post anything they want as Novaking it does not mean it is them, this is the whole point of stealing the brand and pretending to be someone else. Domain holder information is a matter of public record whois all line up with the hijack and new owners as is quoted in the TorrentFreak article while not source for conjecture on this site it is still correct any edits relating to ownership being passed back to the original team would need to be sourced not the other way around as no source for return nor Nova or anyone else originally connected to the site is available the hijack and takeover would still stand unless proven otherwise with a viable source.
The official EZTV Bitcoin address is displayed on the website. - A bitcoin with an EZTV string does not make it official it just makes it a bitcoin with an EZTV string, the header posted bitcoin and the EZTV official bitcoin which is sourceable from other locations (their releases on other sites and their own official forum including the one on the clone site for example) do not match and as no announcement was made before the takeover regarding the a bitcoin change and no source after takeover is available either only a change after the date that EZTV was hijacked it can't be claimed to be official as there is no source for the change.
Adverts were present on the website for more months. - only on the .it domain and not the .ch domain up until the point that it was taken over by EZCLOUD then the adverts started on the other domains and the proxy.
As I said in an edit comment it appears a lot of the edits going on in this page are widely biased or have definite intent to remove sourced information meaning this has turned into a pissing contest. I'm in favour of leaving as is unless people can prove with source the claims beyond the hijack and announcement of EZTV official to disband, as beyond that point it is EZCLOUD an unknown and untrusted source by the torrent community and no information is forthcoming, if such information arises then a new section should be made for that purpose, however the mass edits to the hijack section should stop unless they can be verified while some are borderline OR they do back up the statements in the article Majikthise.uk ( talk) 19:44, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
References
... whoever may be running it now. As torrent news sites note, it does a lot of pop-under ads and such, but it's still operating. 24.23.163.55 ( talk) 09:55, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Looks like that the hijackers have put up another clone site on the eztv.ag domain, which also links to 'mirrors' at eztv.it and eztv.ch. More disturbingly, this new mirror is currently showing up at the top of the google search results for 'eztv'. Pacula ( talk) 15:45, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Rather than simply removing something you disagree with, consider correcting it if you think it is wrong. However the inaction is in itself an action, and it is one of significant import from a legal stand point as in an attempt to avoid a potential legal quagmire they have inherently left themselves open to a significantly more vast one through negligence through inaction (the hijackers nefarious uses / but for the inaction of the legitimate owner, et cetera.) I have extensively tried to find ANY evidence of an attempt to regain control of the domain name and failed. In fact, there are numerous 'interviews' where the owner appears to have just walked away from the scene altogether - albeit they are in formats not acceptable as sources for Wikipedia, perhaps you can find one I missed? But it seems clear the overall reaction was one of resignation, even though they had numerous legal avenues through which to seek relief through tort, criminal, or even international law. <!//– ☠ ʇdɯ0ɹd ɥsɐq ☠ // user // talk // twitter //–> 02:20, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Majikthise.uk seems to have taken up the cause of protecting the new scam owners of EZTV by constantly removing sourced information of MVGroup no longer posting on EZTV willingly. In my source http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=60964 , the major encoder/releaser Jungleboy and karmax264 discuss the fact that EZTV is now a scam site and that "The eztv site is effectively lost which means no MVGroup stuff will appear there". At the bottom encoder karmax264 is seen breaking the news that scam site EZTV is now stealing MVGroup rips. karmax264 saying "Looks like MVG torrents are being posted to EZTV, even though we are no longer crossposting there."
Seems like Majikhise will only accept sourced information from someone like the NY Times. Have to wonder who he works for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.0.21.103 ( talk • contribs)
This needs to stop and now despite multiple removals by different people and requests to stop the anon user (76.0.19.7 / 76.0.22.91 / 76.0.17.167 / 76.0.21.103 / last 76.0.22.25) has been warned on no less then five different occasions now by three contributors to stop adding the same unsourced and irrelevant material to the page, and even asked to take place in a discussion on this talk page before re-adding the same information.
Apparently this is not good enough for them to consider as proper procedure in conflicted information resolution and they are looking like they will keep going ahead and adding it anyway even after removal, can we now class this as vandalism? Thereby I am now requesting intervention since I personally want this war to end as I want no part and since other contribs seem to be in agreement that this information is not relevant nor sourced correctly by the majority it should stay removed and something should be done either revoke their rights or semi-protected that section.
I tried to reach a compromise via talk but I'm done, any attempt by them to re-add after my last removal will now be tagged vandalism by myself. Since they obviously don't want to make an account they can't be that interested in the content nor quality of the information they are providing other then adding that information to an already borderline OR article section even going so far as to use a poor screen grab to try and back themselves up since the original "source" was protected by registration. — Majikthise.uk ( talk) 18:01, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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This needs to be rewritten to stop using past tense and to stop engaging in one-sided "fanboy" WP:OR about the topic. There was no interruption worth mentioning in "service", between the original crew operating EZTV and the post-takeover maintainers. The fact that it was blatantly taken over is quite interesting and should be covered. But the present article taking the fantasizing stance that EZTV is gone and a thing of the historical past is a severe WP:NPOV failure. You could call it a textbook example of how not to encyclopedically document part of the "copyright counterculture" of the Internet. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:10, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Downloaded and watching so it works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:7320:6a00:410:c259:d56e:ad5 ( talk • contribs)
We cannot conflate the scammers who stole the domain and set up a new site with the original group. This is like suggesting that I can buy a car from nissan.com, or that if someone steals my cell phone number and impersonates me, they have become me. - MrOllie ( talk) 15:27, 2 June 2021 (UTC)