thebox.bz launches torrent web site for UK TV to rival UKnova
Posted on 17 May 2007 by Stuart
Since 2004 UKnova.com has firmly held the BitTorrent crown for UK TV Episode Distrubution, But is all this about to change with the introduction of thebox.bz a new torrent site for UK TV Episodes.
thebox.bz launched officially on the 7th may 2007 and has already attracted 2500 users to the web site. There are a few differences between both of these torrent sites the main one being that UKnova does not allow commercially available material to be posted ie. TV Episodes that have been released on DVD, thebox.bz does allow this type of material along with SCENE releases of British TV Episodes.
For a lengthy period of time UKnova has been notoriously hard to register with because of the user limit applied to the tracker, this has left many willing participants locked out of the community. thebox also has a 40,000 user limit so if you want to take part register fast or miss the chance of UK TV again.
It looks as if some hostility between the two sites that was brewing has at last been amicably resolved and both parties now seem to be co-existing quite happily. UKnova however do not like members downloading torrents from UKnova and seeding them at thebox as a new torrent.
Another few key differences with thebox is that posted torrents remain live forever and not just 28days like UKnova, And anyone can upload a torrent at thebox without having been granted special permissions.
It’s good to at last see an alternative to UKnova although i see it being hard to shake it’s crown loose just yet as the King Of British TV Distrubution. thebox however does have a few differences that will appeal to some users, the major one being the availability of commercial material on the tracker.
If you missed out on registering for UKnova get over to thebox.bz now as it really is a great alternative for British TV Torrents.
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September 6th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Having been on uknova for 2 years, i’ve hardly visit since they relaunched.
UKNova have shot themselves in the foot with their redesign – it’s unusable, ugly and just a complete waste of time (for the developers, the mods who field calls for improvements, and users who faff around trying to find stuff that was clear and concise on the old site).
TheBox looks great and is intuitive. Once the community gets to a decent size – byebye uknova!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:54 am
Hi
I want to download footballer’s wives and I need to sign in
can anyone help please??
Thanks from Croatia!
November 14th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Hi Goran,
Unfortunately thebox.bz seems to have closed public registrations and the only way to gain access now is by being invited by another member.
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Have to agree totally – they really screwed up on the redesign of Uknova. It wasn’t needed. I guess somebody just wanted to play with AJAX!
November 25th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I know this sounds crappy but does anyone have an invite for thebox?
I found an old Dennis Potter play on there called Blue Remembered Hills, but I can’t get my mitts on it without signing up and its closed at the mo.
kidcreole@japan.com
Thanks for any cooperation.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:11 am
TheBox deactivated my account, even though I’ve been seeding all of my torrents 24/7 ever since I downloaded them and have never deleted a torrent. I guess apparently seeding all of my torrents 24/7 isn’t enough for them! They must want me to seed for at least 35 hours a day to keep my account!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
The box now has a far greater number of active torrents than UK nova. The box also has a good number of free downloads and faster downloads. It might be a newcomer compared to UKnova is far better.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:41 am
any invites for thebox.bz as currebtly they advise:
We have reached our maximum open signup limit (60,000). We now require an invite to join. Please try to get one from a friend.
stormmax@optusnet.com.au
thanks in advance
March 17th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
the list is getting very long but if anyone can offer an invite i would greatly appreciate it i keep my share ratios up with all bittorrents that i use
April 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Cant get an invite to thebox.bz or UKnova then come to http://totalchaos.me.uk/account.php for UKTV
May 16th, 2008 at 2:21 am
thebox is shit they disable accounts with no notice the site gives you no idea whats going on…
June 4th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Just a pity some of the admins at thebox are a bunch of powerill, fascist pigs who seem to hate their members.
At least good old UKNOVA isn’t that kind of third reich.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
After being a member for a year and seeding to a ratio of 4, my account was canceled.
The explanation, via irc, was that “you cheated, now get off the channel”.
If I was going to cheat, my ratio would have been higher than 4.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Absolutely, don’t bother with thebox.bz. It’s run by a bunch of ignorant kids.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Agreed! I have a great ratio and am a very straightforward P2P user but since having unnecessary trouble with the rightly identified kids at thebox.bz I have little patience to give them another chance, nor to waste my upstream bandwidth on these fool’s sharing website. Just leave them to bark dementedly at each other on IRC like the Beavis & Butthead types they clearly are.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Of said nasty, power hungry “kids” at thebox.bz, none is worse than the bitvh called Jessamy. Google the name, and you will see I’m not the first or the last that will tell you this. But far from being a kid, this bitch is a 38 year old woman that should know better. I had a good share ratio, had been with them for a few months and all was fine. I inadvertently posted a spoiler in the forum for which I got a warning…..I emailed the mods to apologize for my mistake, and also express my dismay at the rude, and abrupt manner in which the warning was given. a few hours later, I found I couldn’t log onto the site and had no way of contacting them to remonstrate. So via proxy, I tried to gain access to the site….just to be able to find out how to IRC (I am a newbie to IRC) and for no other reason. I wasn’t trying to duplicate my account, I’m not stupid and knew that wouldn’t work anyway – I just wanted to speak to a mod/admin member. Lo and behold, I got the witch Jessamy who delighted in further abusing my character.
Stick the UKNova folks, and stay away from the little hitlers at thebox.bz
September 15th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Couldn’t agree more with the previous poster. I too had a run in with the evil ‘Jessamy’ – she is obviously high on a power trip and comes across as a horrible person. What is scary is the fact she seems to be online 25 hours per day, when there are only 24 hours IN A DAY. What kind of woman she is this tells us a lot about. 38 years old, obviously no children, or if she has they’re getting neglected and are orphans of the internet. Also watch out for a staff member called ‘Jait’, he/she too is a total power mad fuckwit. Someone above said that they seem to hate their members, well that is exactly how I was made to feel. In my case I was threw off the site for disagreeing with one of the staff in a forum thread. They simply cannot take criticism, you either suck up to them or you get banned. My advice to anyone unlucky enough to get an invite is to leech it for all its worth, stay barely within the rules ratio wise and no more. DO NOT invest much bandwidth other than that, as it will invariably lead to heartache. Shortly before I was banned I had three PM’s from other members warning me that I’d be banned and to keep my mouth shut, but I am never one to shy away from what is right – and I spoke out against the staff for the rude manner in which they spoke to a younger, newbie member. A good cause and well worth losing my account for. I’d do it again tomorrow. I never even gave them the satisfaction of the IRC – they use that only to further abuse banned members and it will NEVER get you your account back.
Anything I now want off that site I get my brother to get me, so I seriously hope they read this and know that I got the last laugh. I get more downloads off thebox.bz than when I was an actual member. And most of the I upload to public trackers. My little way of paying them back so to speak. PMSL!
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
I’ve no idea why I was banned; not even an email.
All you have to do is get another account from a different IP, i.e. web-cafe, library, wetherspoons pub free wife, set up an account.
It takes them a day or so to twig, but you already have your torrent torrenting.
They will forcibly close them, but you just start them again.
You cannot upload, but that’s their problem if they won’t let you.
Hopefully another civil torrent tracker will spring up.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
PS, you can email Miss Jessamy at
Email: Jessamy@thebox.bz
(From: ip565f6ed1.direct-adsl.nl if that means anything to anyone).
Found on another forum (just google jessamy thebox.bz and look in the forum).
Perhaps send her a few home truths.
manners makyth man
November 5th, 2008 at 11:20 am
thebox.bz staff are all fooking wankers
December 7th, 2008 at 4:32 am
It’s sad really, seeing a bunch of people anonymously libelling people who help out a site and who, day after day, freely give their time and effort to help make the experience as pleasant as possible for everyone.
Complaints about blatant and obvious rules violations are of course going to be dismissed. Things like duplicate accounts, obvious cheaterware torrent programs, and the ability to appear from 5+ IPs at once on a single account… c’mon now, you’re not fooling anyone. RS1662, this means you.
BTW – Jessamy was helping out at thebox, but no, she never got her own email address. Any posting you see sporting that email is someone messing with her. She seems to have accumulated a few ’stalkers’, mostly guys who can’t tolerate a woman with power… it sucks, but when you have a site with 60k+ active users, there’s always going to be a few impatient, obstinate, or would-be abusers who just can’t merge in with the rest of the kids and play nice.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I rather think Hatamoto is somewhat biased as the site owner…
Jessamy is particulary sarcastic and unpleasant, but the staff are all very officious. “Not merging in” is reason enough for them to ban you.
Anyway, my advice is that if are going to join, is you should avoid the forums, stick to the rules and keep your head down. Uploading something will attract attention to yourself, so sadly something else to avoid imo.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Good advice… and do what I do: get a new IP number every so often.
They sometimes seem to make uploading as difficult as possible – a twat called Hexelein is usually responsible for this.
Something called Daveywolf (hiding his fat arse on a couch in Cardiff behind that ooh-fierce anime) is required to give his permission whenever there might be mild deviations from the sites strict rules.
Thebox.bz staff are definately officous little toerags – the kind who would make great traffic wardens, if only they had balls and hairs on their chests.
It’s a site to be plundered for the rare bits. All the common stuff is available elsewhere.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Been a member there for a while. Couple of points worth mentioning
The site does not tolerate cheaters who use modded clients, does not like duplicate accounts and is particularly hard on anybody who abuses other members or staff. Chat and banter is OK but be offensive or abusive then you will get a warning keep doing it and they will ban you
That something called Davveywolf is a moderator who checks shows are Ok to upload i.e. that they meet the sites quite strict rules on what is and is not allowed.
The site is a limited site in that it targets UK produced stuff only and does not allow shows produced outside of the UK. Anything uploaded that does not meet its rules gets deleted quickly by the staff so others don’t waste bandwidth downloading something they can’t seed back
The site has ratio rules you need to follow but lots of free downloads across all the different categories there.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Been a member for months with about a 2.05 ratio.
The site has excellent content.
The site has an ample amount of FREE content to let any newbie establish a good ratio.
The site has very clear rules and replies rapidly to any questions.
The site has no tolerance for idiots.
We love thebox and recommend it highly.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Yeah very strict indeed… all rules and no thinking from the staff there. All the pleasant grace of Alan Sugar himself.
I once put two identically specified programs up: one got deleted, one didn’t. Logic in that? There wasn’t.
The official Jessamy sacking line is that she suffered from RSI!!! Too much grinding her teeth while typing probably. Some staff are OK – but you absolutely must bow and scrape and lick a*s to them, ditto with the mods on the forums. It’s a really unhealthy atmosphere there.
Still – TheBox.bz is useful for rare shows.
I’m currently experienting with ratio cheating software.
It might well get me banned, but so far so good – and I get disabled by them every so often anyway when the ratio has gone so low they warn me.
I just unplug my modem and wake up the next morning with a new IP address and I’m back on leeching.
Sorry to crow and all that, but the staff are just tossers and without them I might still be making a contribution – like I do with other trackers.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
You betcha… the staff are real powertripping ego-kiddies…
Hexelein, Davveywolf, Jait, Jessamy…
…THEY are the real “crap in the box”.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Big Brother has excellent content.
Big Brother has an ample amount of FREE content to let any newbie establish a good ratio.
Big Brother has very clear rules and replies rapidly to any questions.
Big Brother has no tolerance for idiots.
We love Big Brother and recommend Him highly.
In case you were wondering where you’d heard all that before.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
It’s sad to see such bile for something entirely run by volunteers at no cost whatsoever to the ‘customer’.
Here’s a quoted selection of linguistic highlights from the preceding commentary:
“little hitlers, powertripping ego-kiddies, officous little toerags, evil, fat arse, fuckwit, ignorant kids, bitch, fascist pigs”
All the talk of ‘kids’ running thebox when looking at some of the language and comments expressed here it’s rather a case of pot, kettle, black.
Indeed, it’s interesting that people are still (loudly and bitterly) talking about Jessamy given she left the staff team many months ago.
It also says a lot that certain persons choose to attack her (and other staff members) personality, health and family which she has been open about, while remaining anonymous themselves.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
@Minicab
Is there really no case to answer? Smoke, fire, no, without?
When the *anonymous* mods and staff can behave decently, maybe there won’t be a dark side to the commentaries on thebox.bz.
And it IS interesting that one staff member still seems to bring up such bile – that staff member was a symptom of the whole problem, and did a great and justifiably remembered disservice to the site – as are the other staff mentioned above now doing.
It’s an excellent source for TV torrentz, but there’s an nasty undercurrent there, and it’s right to discuss it.
Think back on this when it’s your turn for an for an undeserved ban.
January 19th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hi exthissoontobeexthat (that’s a hard nickname to type!
)
I understand what you are saying about the smoke and fire – yes there have been one or two past members of staff who have – to be frank – gone about their business in less than satisfactory manner but the key is they have gone now… yet others like myself are tarnished with a one-size-fits-all brush.
The site is constantly evolving with new people coming and going from the staff rota so for sure there will be more, how should one say, ‘enthusiastic’ characters, but you should rest assured, we are nice people really (remember, there’s no tonal implication with written text so people can often take things the wrong way).
But then the same is very much true of the parts of the (ex)membership; you would I’m sure be shocked and appalled at some of the abuse we have received in direct messages on site. I always make a conscious effort to be polite with people and hold myself to the standards I would expect of others yet even so I’ve had some very nasty messages which I really haven’t deserved.
For example a while back I deleted a torrent which was ‘Lost’, the American tv show for the (one would have thought anyway) obvious reason that it’s not UK tv. I was polite when entering the reason for deletion stating that unfortunately this was not UK tv and therefore not allowed on site but please feel free to upload any UK shows you may have tucked away on an old tape etc.
The reply I got? “Fuck you and your shitty site you cunt” – just like that, out of nowhere.
So you see I’m rather saddened by the implication that I don’t ‘behave decently’ because I’ve always done my utmost to be considerate and welcoming – indeed, I have many contacts with other sites where we mutually offer invites to the communities with free GBs to start accounts off and make a conscious effort to welcome new members in the introductions thread and irc.
Alongside the point I mentioned before about the misinterpretations which can occur from the lack of tonal implication in the written word (hence my acute attention to grammar and spelling, also a form of politeness in itself), I feel I should point out the issue of volume. The staff inbox gets roughly 40 messages per day plus those received personally by staff members – I know for a fact that one of our admins gets over 200 per week. That’s an awful lot of replying to do especially since the vast majority of them are questions or complaints about things explained in the FAQ, Rules and Help forums so it must surely be understandable if when answering the same question for the 30th time that day the sentences become shorter and ’snappy’?
But I digress.. So to return to your point regarding bans, I have myself been banned from trackers but have then been re-enabled. How? By following the rules and going to the relevant irc support channel wherein I have been polite and talked to the staff there in a reasonable fashion. And that really is the key to second chances and suchforth, not losing one’s temper as many seem to do from the off, the staff have no personal issues with anyone but yet many take things such as automatic system bans (when the scripts have detected something is not right) personally and react with fury and it this genre of personality who then tend to rant and rave when backs get put up.
I’m not saying the site is perfect but someone’s hero will always be someone else’s villain – the freedom fighter or the terrorist (not that I am equating the world of file sharing directly to such stature) – especially those in the front row (in particular the criticism leveled at Davveywolf is unfair, he simply looks at the production credits to see if it fits a 66% UK rule, that’s it). We really do our best so to see and read commentary such as that preceding this is really rather upsetting and for persons such as myself who devote significant amounts of out-of-hours time to help provide what is for the vast majority a wonderful and valuable resource, is unjust in the extreme.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I’d like to thank you for your reply, Minicab
You give a cogent and sympathetic repost to many of the above criticisms, and I’m sorry that I’ve not had dealings with you on thebox.bz – my experience would have been utterly different, I’m certain.
It is in attempting to upload and share where I have had most stupifying, byzantine, illogical, and inconsistant experiences, with staff members Davveywolf and Hexelein.
Full details are just boring, but this is my reaction:
I recently saw a request by a member for something rare, which I had and wanted to share. Rather than risk going through all the work, making a mistake perhaps, and getting a torrent deleted yet again, I simply put the programme on Sendspace and PM’d the member.
If that’s how I feel, is that good for the site?
Rhetorical question, really, because the site is doing fine without my contribution – BUT IT COULD BE BETTER!
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As for the bile… Well, when you get arbitarily and anonymously dealt with, on the far side of a flat screen, the only way to get the steam out is with bilious comments: the nastier the better, I guess. I stand by my “officious toerag” etc comment aimed at Davveywolf and Hexelein… If they are upset: good; but I obviously exclude you, and other staff who do behave decently.
Time prevents a fuller reply, but I *have* read your message above, I appreciate it, and I wish you well.
exthissoontobeexthat
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Hi
I thought I would add my words seeing many are taking delight in “slagging” me and others off. One of my roles is to ensure that any requests to upload content meets the sites strict UK content rules.
As the site is a UK TV site then obviously US shows such as Lost etc are not allowed but there are many shows which are shown on UK TV but are not UK produced and the majority of problems arise when someone uploads Lost and then abuses staff when it is deleted because their logic usually goes along the lines of “Well it was shown on UK TV so it must be allowed”.
I always try to be fair and explain why something is not allowed or why I have deleted it and if someone can show by supplying info etc that it is UK produced then I will give what is called pre-approval to stop it being deleted again
The site operates quite strict UK content rules and those are what I have an others to work to and when giving reasons for saying no I always try and explain why it is NO.
The problems arise when users get abusive because they cannot get their own way. As minicab has pointed out the abuse can get quite bad and what he printed above is what I would call polite compared to some I and others have received.
We are all volunteers and believe it or not Humans and we do make mistakes but if I make a mistake I am quite prepared to hold my hand up and admit it and will apologise as well (publically if needed). In fact I have done that on more than one occasion and will go out of my way to help to correct the error.
What I and others will not tolerate is abuse of any kind either to myself, other staff or other users and anybody who does become abusive will be very quickly dealt with.
January 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Excellent, davveywolf… glad you’ve been reading.
With this sudden outbreak of ‘decency’ amongst The Box staff I look forward to seeing a more enlightened and pleasant experience on the site.
exthissoontobeexthat
January 26th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Yada yada yada – more self justifing No means NO – I’m in charge – gobshite from Mr Davveywank.
“Quite strict 66% British rule” Yeah – we’re not talking about Lost here:
We’re talking about such Examples – The Tudors – not British TV, Affinity – not British TV.
CRAP!
As someone above said – all rules and no thinking.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Tudors I rest my case
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/companycredits
Production Companies
* Bórd Scannán na hÉireann [IRE]
* Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [CAN]
* PA Tudors [USA]
* Peace Arch Entertainment Group [USA]
* Showtime [USA]
* TM Productions [IRE]
So now you can see what we mean about abuse etc when someone’s uploads what is not allowed. We research and try to check all uploads to check they met the sites rules
FYI BBC is listed as a distributor not a producer of Tudors. There may be many British Actors but there is not one UK production company so it is not UK produced
January 26th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
EXACTLY the kind of dickhead response I’d expect from you.
The Tudors was, to all sound minds, a British TV series, after all it WAS shown on British Television – with British Actors – about a British Subject – with British Broadcasting Corporation – in the British Language.
I assumed… and about a million other people assumed…
SO – why not make an exception, you complete arsehole!
It’s exactly that kind of ANAL thinking that I’m talking about.
You might have rested your case bum-boy, but mine stands: All Rules And No Thinking.
[If there was a Joey Deacon smiley, I'd be using it for you DW.]
January 27th, 2009 at 1:02 am
exthissoontobeexthat Said on:
January 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Excellent, davveywolf… glad you’ve been reading.
With this sudden outbreak of ‘decency’ amongst The Box staff I look forward to seeing a more enlightened and pleasant experience on the site.
Well hopefully you’ve been reading the above comments from ‘Dusty’ and can see the sort of attitude we have to deal with.. Quite how this kind of language and insults is justified after – as you say, our taking the time to come here and try reason with the barrage of insults – is shocking.
I hoped ‘a more enlightened and pleasant experience’ was developing within the discourse here but I have been proven sorely wrong and which sadly serves as an example of the less pleasant side of the web we put up with.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I am sorry you take that attitude Dusty but at least others can now see the level of the some of the abuse we get when we give reasoned answers. The site has always operated a policy and set of rules that is about UK TV produced by UK companies. Anything not for UK TV but produced by a UK company maybe uploaded if it can be shown it was UK produced.
There is plenty of thinking and some rules which the site use to decide what is uploaded on the site. The site was set up with the remit of UK sourced material as there are many other sites where non UK show can and are uploaded and if something is not allowed then you are free to upload it somewhere else.
What you are not free to do is to attack staff or other users if you don’t agree with a decision. You can by all means argue or try and state the case for a show but personal insults etc are not needed or allowed and at the end of the day a decison is made and should be respected.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Yawn – you’re right and I’m wrong – yawn… Tudors is obviously a foreign TV show, just like Lost and Smallville, and Neighbours, and Max Headroom, and Affinity, and Falcon Crest, and…
[Translation: sorry, your arse obviously hurts]
Put your head over the top and you’ll get it shot at – learn to expect this with the internet and get over it boys.
And when you make dumb-ass decisions expect some criticism, and loads of insults – which obviously irk you more than the point about British TV.
And BTW – personal insults [or criticism!] might not be allowed on *your* site, but they’ll get out somewhere and everywhere.
Last word to you:
January 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Leave it.
Just accept that some things – like Australian Soap Operas ‘Neighbours’ and ‘Home And Away’ are BRIITISH in the eyes of The Box, and some British programs are not British in the eyes of The Box.
It’s for your own good.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Fuck it… you’re playing with my head now…
January 27th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
It’s simple, D-Woof, my friend:
Australian soaps is British because it’s on British television. OK? Plus they have the same Queen. OK OK??
The Tudors was paid for by Yankies, but it’s on the BBC, it’s about Britain, set IN Britain, so therefore it’s NOT British.
God knows who funded Affinity – it was an ITV thing over Xmas set in London, with English people in it, so was probably funded by some Romanians or something. And is NOT British TV.
Max Headroom was a British TV pilot, but the second series was Canadian… and so is NOT Romanian OR British *OR* Australian.
So we can’t have it.
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What is really comes down to is WHO is likely to get thebox.bz closed down thru legal actions: BBC or the American funders?
January 27th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
But those rules are just idiotic.
Are you SURE your not playing with my head?
January 27th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Don’t know who is taking my name in vain but please do not post and pretend to be me. if you are going to post don’t hid behind someone else’s nick.
The last 2 posts are not by me so cut it out
January 27th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Sounded like you, sweetie. I thought it was.
Are you British. Or Australian?
January 28th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Glendowers Piss! I don’t know who I am now.
Cut It OUT!!
You rEally are jUst playing with my heAd nOw.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:11 am
The last 3 posts are not by me. I am a staff mod at The Box and have posted a duplicate of this post on the forums at thebox.bz along with an explanation to prove this statement.
Thank you.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:43 am
But what about the BBC TV series ‘Threads’ about the aftermath of nuclear war:
those melting milk bottles simply HAVE to be British: no one else in the world has milk delivered to their doors, only for the bottle to melt in a nuclear attack.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Sorry answer is No to this as it was a co-produced show between the BBC and 2 other non UK companies so it cannot be uploaded here. The TV version that is here is an old torrent and should not really have been uploaded here and will be deleted soon.
It makes sense to us. Sheffield location or no.
Got to get two doctors to sign a declaration for me in the morning, though… so who knows – I think I’m sane, but 66% of the medical profession think I’m a fuckwit… could be a bad one for the Wolf.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:55 am
One part British + two parts non-British = not UK produced.
Milkbottles, Sheffield, Tudor Kings, London Gaols, PMs, Tony Hatch theme-tunes, British actors, British subjects, British locations, British TV NOTWITHSTANDING….
Remember: it’s for your own good.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:05 am
boy this is a pantomime. People pretending to be Box Staff. Why dont you come out and say exactly who you are… or are you too afraid…?
What Davveywolf has said stands. Its not gonna change. Its the rules the site goes by, these rules are the best way of moderating a BRITISH produced TV tracker… what part of British (apart from the english actors) the irish sets, the irish filming, etc out of the tudors can you say is UK/British produced… answer none.
You are talking at different ends of the scale.. hey why not let CSI or NCIS on the site… after all theyre shown on Channel 5 in the uk …
(and the answer would be no to CSI or NCIS as well)
so come out of your shells and show a bit of spine & backbone & norman spirit and show who you really are..
January 28th, 2009 at 1:19 am
To NOT quote President Obama – Its not gonna change…
What part of BRITISH do we not understand? Apart from British actors, British subjects, British locations, British language, British kings, British broadcasting corporation, and British bloody milkbottles…
I see this is going around the IRC like a virus: therefore *get the message*.
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BTW Sorry, but the answer is NO – CSI and NCIS are American programs. You should know that.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:25 am
I am an immature idiot who can’t understand that something needs to be PRODUCED by uk companies to be allowed on site!
Oh wait fuck I’m confused I’m posting under so many nicknames now I don’t know what I’m saying!
Oh yeah, ‘House’ stars a British actor as the main role, this should be allowed!
Who am I??? Agggh..
January 28th, 2009 at 1:27 am
I guess it will change one day – everything changes – all is flux – all things are in motion.
One day THREADS *will* be a BRITISH TV series about BRITISH milkbottles being melted due to an nuclear attack on BRITISH Sheffield.
Until then, our heads will be in the sodding sand.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:29 am
I am Dusty pretending to be box staff – it’s fun!
I’m a dickhead fascist knob end who is also known as SpineyNorman! Or am I? God this is confusing..
January 28th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Will you guys get a GRIP please.
None of you are me.
Not even ‘Dusty’.
@’Dusty’ – ‘House’ is NOT British TV – it’s just got some Brit in the lead role of US TV series, like ‘The Equalizer’ . Immature twat.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:36 am
strange you know spiny norman… so do i and all his aler-egos… oh well i suppose mr sand man is in the know too..
sad when a rival site & a capper on the rival site resorts to this immaturity.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Well – I’m confused – especially as the moment the word ‘fascist’ enters the converstation, the argument has ended.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:42 am
who’s the fascist? you? oh ok..
yawn… this is very boring..
January 28th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Fascist is good.
It is, in fact, for your own good.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:58 am
It’s zuffle!
January 28th, 2009 at 2:22 am
All I know (from The Box as it happens) is that British TV is *NOT* British TV… despite what anyone might think.
So what does ‘produced’ mean exactly? Ask Michael Deeley and he will say that ‘Blade Runner’ was HIS film…. the fucking fuck it was.
Nope… it was a BRITISH film. You will be *banned* for saying otherwise.
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Zuffle?
Bless you.
Ermmm… there’s a bit of green snot on your sleeve. Sorry.
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And who the cunt is Spiney Norman? – is HE British? Like Neighbors and Home And Away are British??
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@Dusty – you ain’t me babe.
@ smpjc08 – poodle
@ Hexelein – ‘produced’ is such an anal concept
@ Davveywolf – push out as the poodle enters you, it’s easier that way.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:39 am
I’m doubting this ‘Threads’ thing now – I remember milkbottles…
It must be British… Welsh even… I’ll ask my friend the Trick Cyclist.
Expect an enlightened update soon.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:49 am
And the moral of the above story is that rules thebox.bz are full of horrendous errors and if they just used a bit of *thinking* they’d be a bit more fine than they are.
Remember: thinking, not rules
January 28th, 2009 at 3:14 am
finished now? or any more immature comments? this really shows the amount of abuse we get.
God, if i was paid for this, i’d want a pay rise lol
You are a very bitter immature individual who seems to seek an audience.
TheBox has its own rules. Other sites have their own uploading rules. Same goes for the various countries around the world, different laws for different countries.
SO stop comparing different sites, that logic isnt gonna work.
TheBox has a strong community, people should respect that we “do our thing” and at the same time we do listen to constructive critism, not immature loonies that post as various people to crave attention.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:25 am
As a person who has been on staff recently at thebox, and who is active both at thebox and uknova, maybe I should share my perspective on things. I was a very active member in the forums at thebox during the SpinyNorman thing at the end of May. To hear him tell it, Jessamy is an awful person. The only one who has spewed out the kind of hate SpinyNorman has spewed out regularly since then has been jaffa. Okay, Jaffa I can understand. After all, he wanted his old job back. But SpinyNorman I really can’t. I’ve cut close to the line all along in the forums and never had any problems there for saying what I thought when Jessamy was on the staff. Of course, I don’t believe in hurling personal insults in the forums, either, nor in pms to staff. On the other hand, I did question things. I was actually surprised when Jessamy asked me to be on staff. My opinion of her changed rapidly when I actually got to know her.
In reality, when Jessamy ran thebox, she would take the time to listen to the other staff members. She actually cared about what they thought. She was forgiving of mistakes, saying simply, that’s how we learn. She created an extremely supportive atmosphere in the staff room. Furthermore, we all backed her decisions because we knew that she had taken the time to hear out everybody. She had taken all of our views into account before expecting us to back up the staff line. So we felt like we had all had input into the decision. In reality, Jessamy is a wonderful lady. She really didn’t like animosity between sites, and was supportive of my efforts to ameliorate them.
In fact, it was SpinyNorman who really kicked off the latest pissing contest by his posts and uknova about Jessamy, and his deriding the fact that thebox does actually have standards. (I never understood how having standards is such a bad thing.) Many of the people at uknova actually seemed to be making an effort not to jump in and take the piss. However, the thread did deteriorate into a piss take, and caused people at thebox to get upset. Personally, I wish thebox would just ignore the dude. He’s a troll. He can’t get over the fact that we actually expect people at thebox to do their research, and that insulting people does not usually get you what you want there.
And as for the remarks earlier in these comments on Hexelein, all I can say is that she has a lot of patience, and is more than willing to help someone get it right. She’s spent countless hours helping me and people I know learn how to properly do an upload. She trained me well enough that even though I upload at several other sites, I’ve never had any problems meeting or exceeding their standards. And really, it doesn’t hurt to take pride in what you’re doing, now does it? It’s nice to have the correct dates on things, a well laid out description, and a nice template showing all the technical details. All anyone ever has to do is ask for help, and the woman will go out of her way to help you! Defo Hexelein is one of the best people I met over there as well.
Peace Out
January 28th, 2009 at 9:15 am
You guys were up late! I went to bed. LOL.
Sounds from your posts that you are all VERY well trained to me.
There have to be rules, I know – that’s why it’s illegal in Britain to carry a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. Rulez is Rulez.
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Now – immature as it may sound to you – did you have a decent answer as to why Threads is NOT British, Neighbors IS British, Home and Away is British because British people watch it, and Affinity is NOT British because no-one watched it – even though Andrew Davies wrote the script.
Or are you just going to tell me exactly how lovely all you lovely staff members are?
Peace Out?
Piss Off.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:35 am
For the last time – NO.
Threads was an Australian co-production. Therefore it is not British TV. Therefore it is not on The Box.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Ah, I see now. Thanks.
And Australian soap operas are British.
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@smpjc08
…and you call me a loonie!
The great thing about having such high standards is that you can fit in a whole load of double ones.
I guess people should respect that.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am
You are right about the fact that I’m an immature idiot who is posting under the guise of TB staff. This is now clear to anyone reading this thread. Once again, I really am a bitter (and bored) dickhead.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Quite – any one who poses as someone else and then makes immature comments in their name has got to be real butt-hurt, bored and bitter.
But I can see the temptation…
January 28th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
As if someone is going to post ‘i am a dickhead’ comments in their own name… You ain’t fooling me.
That would be as mad as…
…as mad as some of TB rules.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
And very childish.
So just stop feeding the troll.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:33 am
I will shortly be a member of TheBox for a full year now.
To my mind, there is simply no finer torrent site.
Looking for a programme not allowed on TheBox?
Then go elsewhere.
When you signup on TheBox, you agree to play by the site’s rules.
Plain and simple.
Personally, I have never had a single issue or complaint with TheBox and hope to always keep it that way.
Judging from some of the commenters, I can only say there is no pleasing some folks, especially those who are simply seeking to argue.
Posting abuse, calling people names, and posting another individual’s personal info to encourage harassment is ludicriously childish, and depending on jurisdiction, possibly illegal.
It is also simply rude.
Long Live TheBox.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:43 am
As if a staff member is going to post that the site rules – that would, to quote myself, be mad.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:57 am
Btw, I am not a member of TheBox staff as anyone can verify.
Just an extremely satisfied customer.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Just a clue here: when the real ‘Dusty’ posts in his own name, the sentences will tend to make sense.
Any illiterate posts attributed to me are likely to be Box staff, exposing their expected stupidity.
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@nealkas
In a way I think you are right – rules are agreed to on joining any organisation, but once a member, the member is then free to question and influence any rules. When that process is blocked, thrown offline, ridiculed, stifled, then the member may resort to ‘underground’ methods.
That is what is happening here – but I’m glad you are personally satisfied.
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Once more, though, I draw attention to the idiocy of rules which, for example, allow Australian soap operas to be uploaded, but not shows such as Threads, The Tudors, Magic Roundabout, etc.
Both classes – I would argue – are as much part of British Television as each other… yet one is allowed by the anal-ferrets at thebox.bz , but not the other
I refer also to the so called ‘high standards’ of The Box: yes, they are high – near-autistically so – and negated by the foolish contradictions refered to above.
It’s just a little thing, and not worth losing sleep over… but if, as a result of the argument not being answered, I feel the need to call Hexelein and Davveywolf fuckwits of one species of other, then please excuse me.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
You’re just a biter twisted little pratt who thinks he’s better than us.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Incidentally, I am Spiny Norman and I have actually nothing to do with the previous discussion. I guess there are others who seem to be angry for reasons of their own. (Don’t feel like reading everything that has been said.)
There is such a thing as “hear the other side”. I think it’s a principle that thebox doesn’t apply when they should. Of course sometimes “the other side” talks utter crap.
But then again, it’s probably no use talking to people who aren’t listening, which is exactly what is wrong with thebox, I think.
I never got a proper explanation why I was blocked, which is why I have been a bit angry ever since. I’ll not go into details, but basically I was shouted at and insulted without explanation so many times that I returned the favour and was then banned.
The other torrent site has nothing to do with this. Both sites have had threads about each other, the thread at thebox is far more vile than the one at uknova, which slowly died and was later locked.
I could return here to check the response, but maybe it’s better if I don’t.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Sorry, smpjc80, but it’s worse than that: *you* think I’m better than you.
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January 29th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
SpinyNorman, if you aren’t one of the pretenders in the previous discussion, then maybe this wasn’t the place to bring up my feelings about the matter. However, what I did say, is just how I felt about comments made fairly recently in forums. There’s only one uknova thread at thebox, and it’s fairly boring, after the first couple of pages. (It’s 23 pages long, with 25 posts per page.) There were some volatile threads, but almost all of them took place the first couple of months that thebox was open. They’re archived, and can’t be posted in. The one at uknova was just locked recently.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Sheesh!!!
There’s some anger round here!
But I can understand it. For every Minicab, in my experience, there are three or four toerags.
EG: My second banning offence seems to have been asking a newbie question on the forums, getting snided by a ‘more senior’ kiddy, objecting to the snide comment, and… lights out, no explanation.
Well – lights out until I realised I could switch the modem off, get a new IP, keep my head down, and leech.
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With that, and if even some of the comments above are genuinely attributable to real Box staff, I’m not surprised that their childish attitude to running what – if it were real life would be a major small company – is causing such annoyance.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:06 am
would you all prefer it to be like funfile, where every MOFO (donor) is allowed to practice abuse on newcomers? if you dont like it when rude little shites are kicked from theBox, Tough titty!
BTW it seems to be either offline today or I’ve been banned too
February 6th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Wow, that was a rather epic flame war. I’ve been on thebox since launch and never had any problems, as I didn’t do anything to jeopardize my account. I’m sorry some of you bitter people didn’t follow the rules and got booted. I’ve got nothing but praise for the site itself and its current staff. They’ve always been very helpful in regards to my questions and complaints. Thanks to the moderators for all their efforts and a great community. Giggedy.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I’m glad the site has supporters – and many of them.
But it has also made mistakes. And mistakes lead to criticism, and criticism leads to flame wars, because the staff can’t man up to the criticism.
The other problem, for some people, is that the DO follow the byzantine ‘rulez’, they do NOTHING to jeapordize their accounts, and yet they STILL find they get banned.
Unless you count speaking back to a superior kiddy a break of the ‘rulez’ that is…
No matter.
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@OldtvSeeker
You might have been banned.
Did you do anything wrong?
Or did you follow all the rulez and do nothing wrong?
Either way… you might have been banned.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:25 am
We’ve just had another good example – I suspect someone reading this might be responsible for it.
The offending programme was “Sherlock Holmes – Whitechapel Vampire (2002)” – starring Matt Frewer and a CANADIAN TV show.
It got under the radar for a few hours and then we deleted it.
Trouble for some users was that they were half way through downloading it – well tough, I’m afraid: you know the rules, and it’s up to you to assertain that a programme you download meets the rules. There were even a few few comments saying it was Canadian, so you should hvae known better. One comment was even “shhh” – as if that would stop it getting reported, huh!
And the whingeing we got?
Loads of it.
But the rules are there for good reason and all have to abide.
smpjc08
February 10th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Anyone else noticed how frequently the moderators and staff at thebox.bz seem to be winning their own site competions..?
Check it out – blue star by the names. Smell fishy?
I guess rulez is rulez yet again.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:47 am
That comment from staff member smpjc08 simply HAS to be a put-on, right? None of thebox.bz staff are so arrogant as to post something like that here in the open… are they? Not talking about the program deletion, but the self-evident gleeful contempt for the users.
Actually, I can see why that particular program isn’t British. That bit is fine… still can’t see why Neighbors is British, Threads isn’t British, Home And Away is British, Affinity, Magic Roundabout, The Tudors etc etc aren’t British…
And no explanation continues to be given. I guess I’ll continue to wait for that…
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However, staff winning their own competitions is just astounding! Even I hadn’t spotted that one. I did just check it out though – sure enough Hexelein and Sweetmess have both got blue ‘competetion winner’ stars by their names… I didn’t look any further.
If a company has a promotional competition, the small print always says something like ‘employees and their relatives are not alloweed to enter’. Not because the charlady’s husband can influence it in any way, but to avoid the merest sniff of an accusation of improper doings.
Well it’s just typical that The Box fucks up on that front too.
So we add the smell of fish to the nasty atmosphere at The Box.
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Incidentally… I did see that Skiff seems to have fallen out with Jait, because Skiff says this in the ‘about myself’ page: JAIT – juvenile anal intercourse tinkerbell.
Twat.
April 21st, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Hey! Thought we’d gone off line for good… (a few pages missing though.)
In the mean time, some new developments at The Box:
Firstly, staff moron Hexelein has resigned.
R E S U L T ! ! !
“Gone, but not Forgiven”.
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Secondly, some British TV has been allowed on the site at last!
What once was:
Torrent 42621 (Private Schulz – Series (1981) [VHSRip (XviD)] *DW Staff Approved*) was deleted by hexelein (TB rules broken: Not a UK production (only 50% UK), not allowed on the site.)
Is now:
Yes this can be uploaded, please put Admin Exception in the title at the end and link back to this topic as well in the description
http://www.thebox.bz/forums_post.php?action=reply&topicid=20195
So, congratulations go to Sweetmess for having a bit of a brain!
Well done.
This is a real u-turn for TheBox.bz
Next step… how about British TV series ‘Threads’?
May 4th, 2009 at 8:58 am
And YES… here it is – “Threads”:
http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=75886
by smpjc08 (Administrator and Capping Team Leader) at 2009-05-03 23:16:52
definately approved.
#190440 by domjolly (Power User) at 2009-05-03 23:24:32
Where’s the link to the staff approval ??
This has been denied permission loads of times.
#190443 by smpjc08 (Administrator and Capping Team Leader) at 2009-05-03 23:27:45
I decided and used my Admin powers – so I asked Greydesk as HE had the DVD of it..
Im not going to explain myself.. its here.. enjoy it
So there you are staff morons Davveywank: CHANGE!
smpjc08 must have been reading this blog
May 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Dusty you seem to have some real problems mate. Davveywolf is a Mod and Smpjc08 is an Admin so I would have thought it is obvious that discussion has taken place amongst staff there.
It appears that show which appear to be border line can now be approved by higher level staff as you mention sweetmess and smpjc08 who are both Admin level.
Davveywolf as a Mod obviously does not have a level of authority to approve these so it seems he or others must be putting requests up the “chain” for decisions such as these.
You seem to have issues with staff there who are after all are only volunteers and have to work with the sites rules so why are you so anti them when they have to work with the rules the site has set up.
On the site reasoned discussion etc seems to work, being abusive etc does not so why don’t you just give it a rest and let them get on with their site. If you want to use it then just live with what is or is not allowed. Being abusive and resorting to name calling is very childish in my opinion and usually does not get results anyway.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:27 am
@ Fed Up
Yes – I have some problems with the rudeness and stupidity of some of The Box staff; I do something about it.
But, you know, I don’t have so many problems any more… TheBox.bz has decided to be sensible about programmes it was previously being an arsehole about, and now isn’t.
Whether it was ‘behind the scenes reasoning’, or (just possibly) my telling them what unthinking twats they were contibuting to the debate doesn’t matter.
If you recall from the (ad nauseum) debate above (page 6), smpjc08 wrote “What Davveywolf has said stands. Its not gonna change. Its the rules the site goes by, these rules are the best way of moderating a BRITISH produced TV tracker… “. This was about ‘Threads’, among other shows.
Now that infalibility is infalibly different. So don’t go claiming that there’s some hierarchical difference between Mod and Admin… it all staff.
They were wrong, and now they’re right.
It’s a result.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Dusty I am sure even you must realise different staff have different levels of access and authority when it comes to running a site otherwise they would all be just called Staff wouldn’t they. And I would think common sense would show that an Admin can make decisions that a Mod cannot so it is obvious to me is that they must have changed their rules/procedures etc. But I am almost certain they had nothing to do with you rants and insults here and more to do with the site evolving and re-defining itself as it continues to grow.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
But the quote I gave above was an Admin deferring to a Mod…
May 10th, 2009 at 9:55 am
No it wasn’t I read that as an Admin agreeing with a Mod’s decision as that was the rules at that time. And as I said it seems the rules have changed as there are other shows which appear to be allowed but with an Admin’s approval and not a Mod’s i.e Admin has more authority than a Mod which I would expect to be the case.
Anyway no more gripes etc as thebox seems to be evolving quite nicely in my humble opinion as a happy site user
May 10th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
You read it differently to me then; but that’s allowed.
Not sure why you can’t just accept a throbbing great u-turn when it’s poking at ya: they were being arseholes about these obviously British programmes, and now they’ve stopped being arseholes.
Don’t know if they’re still being arseholes in the forums, as I haven’t been there for a while.
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As for “no more gripes”: sure thing, it’s a good place to get British TV programmes… and now that they’re finally allowing some British TV on, it’s even better.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:20 am
well if you didnt like thebox i wouldnt bother with uknova..its slipped over the years, if u want quality or can get it on dvd you wont find much there anyway.nowdays its mostly full of radioshows, news or stuff ripped from a vhs cassette. tracking marks anyone?
June 9th, 2009 at 2:08 am
haha yea right “i can’t believe it’s not television”.. me neither!
June 10th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Hi
Just to let anybody who is interested the site is currently open for sign ups as it has raised its maximum user limit.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Yeah – good time to join thebox.bz.
It’s one hell of a lot better since many of the crap staff went.
July 21st, 2009 at 6:32 am
Sadly, little Davveywank has been spreading himself around the other .bz sites, like some kind of dirty-protest.
He deletes things he knows nothing about and thins aren’t relevant; he bans a class of upload on which a concensus in the forums with other admin had been reached, his fat wanker feet are fucking up all around.
Don’t you have a job, Davveywolf? Don’t you have a wife and kids who need your attention??
July 24th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
I see somebody else doesn’t like Davveywolf. How did he manage to upset you then and on what site was that?
July 25th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Why are people getting so worked up about whether they are allowed to upload something there or not? If it’s not allowed, why not just upload it to Demonoid or something?
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
>>Why are people getting so worked up about whether they are allowed to upload something there or not? If it’s not allowed, why not just upload it to Demonoid or something?
Why?
When 10th-Dan-wanker Davveywolf deletes something that has been agreed on the forum; when King-Of-The-Sheet-Stainers Davveywolf deletes a torrent that he knows nothing about, but thinks doesn’t come under a certain category…
Well – as a downloader – that works me up. And not in a good way.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Here’s your evidence for Davveywank being a completely autistic wankery little turd –
A Time Team spin-off – ABSOLUTELY of interest to TT fans, but not allowed by DW on ‘his’ thebox.bz.
NO thinking there, only rulez.
I quote from the shite itself:
Forums > Denied permission to Upload > Ned Kelly Uncovered with Tony Robinson
Not a UK production, but hosted by Tony Robinson from Time Team and made in the same style as Time Team by an Australian company. Would be of interest to many TT fans
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200907/programs/DO0808V0...
#2 by Davveywolf (Moderator) at 2009-08-02 09:29:18 (1 day ago) – (New) – [Quote]
Bobulon wrote:
Not a UK production
There’s your answer
Sorry but answer has to be No as this is not UK produced so it is not allowed.
WHAT A STUPID LITTLE CUNT YOU ARE DW.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Based on that you have just shown how stupid and how little understanding you have their rules. It is a UK TV and Radio site and that show is not a UK production it is an Australian production (ABC = Australian Broadcasting Corporation) that uses a UK actor to front it. So by your warped logic House is OK because Hugh Laurie is in it.
Just because it is uses the same style as a UK show does not make it a UK show does it. By your logic any show with a UK actor could be uploaded.
I suggest before you go slagging off any member of staff who are asked to work with their rules you go and read the bloody rules again.
In fact because you seem incapable of doing it here is a quote from their rules
Only upload British TV shows or shows that are PRODUCED IN THE UK! They must be at least 66% UK produced. Anything you are not sure of or is under the 66% rule, please post in the Can I Upload This? forum. If you have any questions as to whether or not a particular show should be allowed, please make a post in Request to Upload.
And that forum is where Davveywolf checks and give OK or not based on those rules. He or she does not work to some half baked idea like you seem to do that if a UK actor is in it it must be OK or because it is based on a UK shows format it is OK
Personally I am sick of hearing your one sided hate mission against the staff on that site and especially when you do not seem to have grasped what the site is about. When you started you rants and raves some of it seemed logical and sensible about what was and was not allowed. Now I am sorry to say you seem to have lost the plot completely
PS The above are mythoughts from a happy and sensible TheBox member who has read and understood their rules
August 14th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Rules be shat on.
That program – and some others – are of interest to TheBox.bz members, especially Time Team fans, and they are getting deleted because of “the rules”.
FYI I know what the rules are.
Now you and Davveywank might have full-time Asperger’s, but some of the rest of us think it’d be a piece of piss to bend the rules when it is sensible to do so.
End of.
And if you don’t like my rants, fuck off and don’t read them.
August 15th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Still don’t get it do you. If you want to download Australian or USA produced shows then you join the sites that have those shows. TheBox is a UK TV and Radio site not an almost UK TV coz I saw it on Channel 5 and it had a UK actor in it.
If you don’t seem capable of understanding what that site is about I suggest you go download from public sites that allow all shows from all countries. If you want UK produced show use thebox and shut up about shows which are clearly not UK produced.
You are trying to imply the site has a problem but from what I can see here is is you that have a problem reading and understanding simple rules. I use the site quite often to get UK produced shows and guess what I use Diwana to get my Australian shows and surprise surprise I manage to get most of my USA shows from eztv. I don’t expect or look for non UK shows on thebox because it is a site for UK produced shows.
Different sites have different specialities and I cannot see why you cannot seem to grasp that. Bending the rules is easy but what does it achieve as you just end up with a site full of torrents that are not UK shows. Oh yes that is called Piratebay or Mininova isn’t it
So for pity sake grow up and give it a rest as ranting here won’t change anything will it expect make you look silly
August 15th, 2009 at 11:11 am
jeezz louise!! what a load of tosh..
Dusty you really need to get out more hun, if i wanted Criminal Minds sweety id download it from eztv or Mininova, not demand and stomp around like a toddler honey because its not on a british website simply because its not british…
Im also on diawana (not the box) and ive asked if theyre covering for you Dusty, honey you must relax and stop this nastiness slagging people off here and GreedyTorrents when its not needed isnt exactly nice.
Chill out, have a spliff, have sex, get out more honey.
Dusty, read the sites rules, if its Diawana its only Australian TV, TheBox/UKNova British TV, EZTV ..err everything (should be US TV)
These are niche sites, not an “everything” site hun, so they do what they do.
Go outside, theres a life out there Dusty, go enjoy the summer while you can
August 27th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Thanks for all the helpful advice, though I will point out that this summer in UK is rain rain rain.
So, from what you are saying, if I want Australian show Neighbours I have to go to TheBox.bz and if I want a UK co-production with Australian TV I go to Diawana?
You can see my confusion, I think.
Now, to state it again: when it comes to the rulez on co-productions when the show is obviously BRITISH, TheBox is an asshole.
@FuckedUpAndFarFromHome
Never argue with an idiot, someone watching might not be able to tell the difference.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Well this seems to be the place to vent frustration; glad I’m not the only one.
I had a week of intermittent connection from BT Broadband, it got repaired and I went back on The Box only to find I’m disabled.
Brilliant – something has gone wrong and I go to IRC to try and iron it out.
I won’t say they were rude to me, just intransigent – the machine reports that I was cheating and that is that.
What can I do about it? Nothing.
Bollocks.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I don’t know your circumstances Dashanna, or which of the little wankstains you were IRCing with, but as we all know – compootors *never* make mistakes.
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Unlike those assfukkers on “The Box” staff…
Not only do they make mistakes all the bloody time, but they, in their turn, were mistakes their parents had – and failed abortions at that.
This means you Davveywank – you were a coin toss between incubator and plastic sack.
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Give it up Dashanna, get a new IP, go again. You can do it, Duffy.
There are even ways of cheating them – apparently
Soon ALL IPs will be banned… what with those mistakes that never happen, and IPs getting reallocated all the time, and who will those shitsuckers lord it over then..?
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And, by the way, did you ever notice how inconsistent they can be on thebox.bz about co-productions and British TV?
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I’m just off to smoke a spliff, do the neighbor’s bored housewife, and come back to watch something I have cheated sorry I mean ‘downloaded’ from The Box.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Thanks (I think)
But cheating would be doing exactly what they accused me of.
It bloody annoying, though!
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hi Dashanna
how can i help?
Hello Erizo – thanks for answering.
Could I discuss my just disabled BZ accounts please?
I’m Dashanna on TB and Zerotwo on TO.
I’ve had about a week of faulty DSL from BT Broadband, which was finally repaired yesterday.
Could this have messed with my IP allocation and be a reason for disabling my accounts?
If so could I ask for some understanding and be re-enabled, please?
Chris
I’ve found your account and it was disabled for cheating.
* erizo quotes rules
Never use a modified client or any other method to cheat on your stats. This will get your account disabled immediately.
Thanks, but I don’t understand that at all.
I’ve been fine with ratio. Haven’t even downloaded for a while due to the BT line dropping, and now I come back and am disabled.
I’m obviously going to plead my cause – but this line fault has to have been misreporting somehow.
The system detected cheating and disabled the account so now you are locked out.
I hear that, Erizo – I can only plead that I have not been cheating, but I have had a week of intermittant DSl which coincides with me being banned. Is there not something that can be done here?
I’m afraid not. Your account will not be re-enabled.
I’m very sad about that.
You shouldn’t have cheated then.
As I said, I have not cheated. It’s taken me an hour just to work the IRC, let alone have any idea about how to cheat a site. The machine reports me wrongly.
It is very accurate so I’m afraid you will not be getting your account back.
From my point of view, it has to be wrong. Are there never any mistakes then? Beacsue this is one of them.
There is no mistake.
Great – so how did it happen then?
1. You cheated. 2. You got caught. 3. You got disabled.
lol
1 I did NOT cheat
2 I have been accused of something I did not do.
3 Yep – unfairly and wrongly .
LOL – yep – it’s only a torrentz site.
Your account will not be re-enabled so please leave the channel.
I hear you; you are not hearing me.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
dear dear stormcat – err dashanna
http://forum.greedytorrent.com/about800.html
[quote=greedytorrent]stormcat Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14
PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: GT and TheBox.bz on P2PVine Reply with quote
This discussion on P2PVine [blog.p2pvine.com] got round to discussing GT. That site has now disappeared, but here is the full text: [/quote]
[quote=greedytorrent]Dusty Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2
PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
[b]GREAT![/b]
I wondered where this had got to…[/quote]
you two are very sad embittered individuals who think that “oh my BT line has been playing up” bullshit wont hide you nor will it not hide your cheating on GT – aww shucks – nuffin to say? or do u want sponges for that steam coming out of your heads?
face it, you got caught.
I caught you.
So much for keeping a low profile like you tell people eh?
August 28th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Fair cop
August 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Fair cop you found me
August 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
LOL!
Back to impersonating your betters again?
I’m not quite sure what your point is. Probably, you are pointless.
Truth is, and I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m fine and still on The Box.
You guys seem to have pissed off a few more people than just me.
Dusty Bin – The Real Win.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Honestly – I’m so clever all I have to do is say I caught some chetare, and everywon will think I have cought them and then stop bashing the Box.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Great WOrk smpjc08!
I got a special treat for you next time we meet up!
DW
August 28th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
It’s Spiney Norman!!!!
August 28th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Rolling on the floor
Laughing out loud
Cheating on The Box
Even though it’s not allowed!
August 28th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Go on. Keep laughing.
Just keep on laughing.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Mmmm, thank you, I think I will.
Seriously though, smpjc08, well done on using Google, and finding out I’m on GT along with a few other people you private trackers have pissed off.
You make one fallacious link, but you simply do not have a clue.
Dusty
- the real Dusty. Honest. I can prove it. No really.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
[quote http://www.sb-innovation.de/f210/thebox-bz-10655/index2.html
3) Don’t believe anything smpjc08 tells you. He can say he has so many cappers, but seriously, he’s losing cappers, because he’s treating them like crap. The guy couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
smpjc08 on WhatPulse:
smpjc08 is in 32785th place.
This user is in team TheBox and is ranked 6th in that team.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
[Quote GT]
All about smpjc08
Joined: 28 Aug 2009
Total posts: 1
ONE POST!!!! WHAT A N00B!!!!
August 28th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
oh dear want me to pick your toys up boys & girls? finished now?
what pulse i stopped using hmm 9+months ago
and ive got 30+ cappers who delve in quite happily ive lost 2 in the past 6 months due to real life issues (ie no broadband & illness)
So we’re doing fine without you guys.. now pick up those toys plse
August 28th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Yes. Pick up my toys biatch, and get the fuck outta here.
August 28th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Does it actually occur to you, you stupid little idiot, that because of YOUR cheating you might have got someone else banned??
August 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Well – I didn’t like to mention it – but yes, it has occured to me.
But if TheBox.bz is cavalier enough to disable the wrong people… what can I do about it??
I have to cheat because you Box tossers make it necessary.
You are pirating commercial enterprise, and then you set me some stoopid ‘rulez’ about who can benefit! Honestly!!
Smpjc08 comes on here bragging he’s caught a ‘cheater’, you come on here again (despite being sick of the sledging) in defence of TheBox, and then some poor sap complains about getting banned coz BT have screwed up and misreported his download.
I quite enjoy an evenings trolling, but what do you twats get out of it?
August 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Dashanna
I’m really sorry – I seem to have stumbled into your private argument.
I had hoped for a bit of sympathy really, but not to be called a liar again.
For what it is worth – my case was true, a week of buggered BT and then disabled from The Box. Whatever.
Really, though, I think you can all keep it.
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Email to chrisdashanna@googlemail.com
Thank you for your e-mail dated 24th August ‘09. It has been logged under the reference number VOLO11-21968345683.
As I gather from the e-mail that you have been facing an issue with the connection. I apologise for the inconvenience caused. I will put my best effort to help you with the issue.
I would like to inform you that the issue is with the specialist team so we need to have an interactive session. Please contact us with a convenient date/time so that a callback could be arranged to investigate the matter and deal with it appropriately, at the earliest.
Thank you for using BT Total Broadband Support.
D.P.Sarkar
BT Total Broadband Support
August 30th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Sorry mate, but will you just stop bleating – and get on with the cheating!
OK, if you didn’t cheat, you might as well have done.
They’re wankers, you don’t owe them nothing.
TheBox thieves off broadcasters – not just ‘timeshifted’ transmissions, but for-sale DVDs, and we thieve off TheBox.
It’s OK somehow
It just get’s mildly annoying when you come up against one of the young autistics running the site, as you obviously have. (Though 39 isn’t really young, is it, smpjc08?)
Plenty of info on the net dear boy – search, and do it.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
sigh – i thought we could actually act & behave like mature adults
obviously not.
When you guys are ready to act like mature adults… i’ll re-start this…
yet again my faith in your behaviour astounds me and dismays me
Locking this topic as enough is enough as u cant play together nicely.
Topic Locked by blog.p2pvine
Reason: People being idots & immature children.
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September 4th, 2009 at 4:00 am
stfu admin
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
No – you fucking shut the fucking fuck up you fucking fuck.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 pm
yea admin stfu, party pooper lol
November 11th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Hang on…
…we’re still posting!
November 30th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I was up until a weekago Fri useing Box.bz all the time for eastenders.. I took my puter in for repairs and since then have not been able to connect back up. I even got upgraded too my emails for password recovery are never returned.. Whats going on… how do I get back in ,., I didnt to anything but disconnect and reconnect after.. have no clue wtf is up… need help
December 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Not sure if anyone still reads this list, but here’s my run in with those rude bastards at The Box.
I worked hard at uploading a torrent of a certain TV Movie spinoff… and it promptly got banned, got me my uploading rights stopped, and got me a rude reply from SMPJCO8 when I question it… it wasn’t “british” enough, and if I don’t shut up I’LL be banned.
Lo and behold, a few weeks later, someone else uploads the SAME thing, but it doesn’t get banned, it stays on, and seems to have been OKed by Daveywolf.
I am so pissed off by the double standards.
So here I am with no ability to upload and contribute the site, and with a very bad taste in my mouth from the way the staff behave.
December 6th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Hello! I have 3 TheBox-invites to give out.. so if you want an invite, just post your email and I will invite you..
December 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Don’t do it CupCake. This meber is like to get banned and take you with him.
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:51 pm
@ Box is Basterds.
Yeah, I feel for you.
Davveywolf is a little shit.
Overweight, alone, and on the dole, Davveywolf finds meaning and power in his life by…
errr…
being admin on a torrentz site, deleting torrentz he knows fuck-all about, on the ignorant basis that they aren’t relevent to the site, even when they are, and even though he knows fuck all about it! Damn it, that twat is barely even literate!.
Inconsitency, ignorance, stupidity, pettiness all terms for his wanky little reign at .bz.
Tell him to fuck off for being a wanker.
Then get another account. I do. Every time.
January 4th, 2010 at 10:37 am
you shouldve see that know-nothing dogfucker davveywolf at work on theoccult.bz when i was on it… sure – a tv torrent site i can understand him administrating – he probably watches a lot of tv.
but an occult tracker!! – you do know that you have to at least be able to READ and THINK to study that subject!
so, obviously, right there, you’ll get dw interfering with torrents he knows fuck-all about, & formats he knows fuck-all about (like books LOL): worst thing, really, is that the people in charge at TO.bz have given that little durex puppy any power there at all!!
the files are mosprobably just flagged up on his PC… and he picks some to delete and irritate people with at random.
it serves him as a masturbatory experience.
January 5th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
LOL!
Dont know which haughty little wanker it was on TO who was deleting the Hypnosis torrents because he said they were nothing to do with the Occult!!!
Know your subject before bossing other people around, boyo.
[or should I say.... 'Imagine forward to a world where you can now change your consciousness at will, whenever you will, and in so doing, enter a ritual frame of mind, evoke spirits, remotely view the world around you.... that's right...']
January 9th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Davveys not alone – he lives with his mother LOL!!
January 18th, 2010 at 10:55 am
When you say Davveywolf “lives with his mother” do you mean he regularly tips her over the kitchen table and fucks her in the ass?
Thought so.
I wouldn’t mind if that’s what he did all day, but he also goes to his PC and does stupid stuff at TheBox.bz and that’s why it sucks.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Newdick, go back to your undercover government work
January 21st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Thanks, Old Dick – with such a powerless statement I have to oblige you.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:41 pm
I can tell all you arseholes right now that you’d regret it if TBZ went down.
Support them and stop the stupid sledging.
February 2nd, 2010 at 7:29 pm
It’ll go down right under its own steam when its loses the supporters that it treats like shite.
A site that even bans people who donate is either very confident, or very arrogant.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:10 am
i use alot of different trackers and out of all those thebox.bz is the only one who seem to have a problem with me using the latest version of uTorrent..for whatever reason i do not know but they really need to fix this, as mine and im sure alot of other ppls client updates automatically. also i don’t want to downgrade as alot of the other trackers i use allow only the most-recent stable release and running a seperate client just for one tracker seems like a bit of a fuss.
say what u want about uknova but at least i don’t have this hassle and the staff there at least seem to know what they’re doing.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
They got rules as to which clients are allowed – it says so when you signed up. So just follow the freaking rules.
Whats the problem with doing that?
February 15th, 2010 at 4:20 am
no sh1t they have rules..too many if u ask me. and i already explained the problem ppl don’t wanna have to install extra clients just to use that tracker. uTorrent 2.0 isn’t allowed client and the other sites/trackers i use forbid outdated software (such as the one thebox recommends).
March 10th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Cheating… or not cheating:
quote Lazergazer:
The site will flag (and disable) you as a cheat, and the irc support may straight-up call you a liar! so, if you don’t want all the hassle and anxiety of trying to explain yourself for a half an hour whilst continually being called a liar and a cheat then; Don’t use dtunes for iphone/ipod touch!
I want to make sure .bz knows that I really appreciate the hard work of the support team, and am not saying anything ill-willed towards anyone. It’s understandable for a person to trust the “cheater” label given by the server before trusting the human who’s trying to explain he’s not a cheater.
I assume if you participate in this site; you are probably NOT a liar or a cheat. You are more then likely a person attuned to the more subtle energies, therefore beyond all that BS…
So… if you’d like to avoid all this its simple; Use one of the well-known clients on your home computer and don’t try any new ones without first making sure you know the possible consequences. because as they say ignorance is not an excuse. I’m lucky I found a support Mod nice enough to consider my problem with logic and allow me back, but you may not be so lucky (especially considering you’ve now been warned)
I love this tracker! keep up all the good work everyone!
quote Davveywolf:
Yep always used an allowed client. It is safer and we know the allowed versions report “good” stats to the site and connect to the tracker with no problems.
If or when the system spots a potential cheater it will disable you and staff also check the announces to confirm the catch. We recently had an update to Transmision which had a coding bug in it and resulted in any user using that version losing there account and it happened across all four of our sites. On TheBox which is our biggest site over 2,000 accounts were disabled. Luckily the developers realised their error after talking to the sysops here and put out a new version with the bug fixed. We then had to go across all four sites and reset all those accounts because we knew it was a genuine mistake.
quote Lazergazer:
All that already being known; I feel support mods in the chat should be properly notified of the high probability of a false “cheater flag” as to prevent another innocent person from being accused of Lying. trust me, It was no easy task convincing them otherwise. It didn’t look like they were going to re-activate me at first (i was seriously bummed-out)
Now that I’ve read this it’s got me thinking; “why was I given such a flogging if it’s well documented that innocent people get disabled all the time?”
Please don’t get me wrong, I’m still very grateful to the mod who eventually did find it in his heart to allow me to continue-on here.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:45 am
“why was I given such a flogging if it’s well documented that innocent people get disabled all the time?”