So woke up this morning and tried to visit the tehparadox.com OST thread to find that the entire website has been shut down due to a copyright violation. This is very concerning. Could the FF Shrine receive the same fate?

I just noticed that! I guess private torrent trackers are the best choice now. Tehparadox admins probably weren't quick enough in moving the site to a pirate friendly country (piratebay moved and stayed on line).

Haha.

It's not concerning, at all. It's how piracy works.

You get caught, you get taken down, you move on.
thepiratebay is constantly changing hosts all the time.
I'm sure TP will resurface, but under a new domain. tehparadox.gov, for example.

And, yes, Shrine can receive the same fate. There are no exceptions and no one plays favorites.
To think we are invincible is just pure folly.

One morning, you'll wake to see Shrine gone.
The next morning, you'll wake up to see the whole world gone.

Do not mistake concern for inevitability.

sorry if not the right place but its gone

This site has been shut down for violation of our Terms of Service.

please tell me its gonna come back

It was only a matter of time. EDIT: They've been asking for donations for a while, in order to keep all the servers working... I don't think it's going to return soon, if ever.

I am sure it will be back with a new host or under a new domain name.

FFshrine is better then tehparadox.com sorry to say that but it s true .Maybe will come back one day.

Most of the film score stuff that ended up there started from here.

I love FFShrine, but tehparadox.com is good too... so... i think there are a risk of shutdown for FFSHRINE too :-(

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it's true

Another highly popular site also went down a few days ago, a warez site. But that's somewhat unrelated. It was a hack job and the admin was revealed to be a child rapist and other stuff.

The internet is fucked up right now. If this site goes down, all hell is going to break loose.

To my knowledge Tephradox had financial issues thats why it has gone.

EDIT: They've been asking for donations for a while, in order to keep all the servers working... I don't think it's going to return soon, if ever.
FFShrine takes $1800 in donations to make GH run every other month. And they FORCE users to pay before the forums are turned back on. I think that's worse than anything that TP ever did. Just sayin'.

i am gonna miss the trailer thread

FFShrine takes $1800 in donations to make GH run every other month. And they FORCE users to pay before the forums are turned back on. I think that's worse than anything that TP ever did. Just sayin'.
Worse? In all honesty, I think it's legit to close forums: they do get a lot of traffic basically for the same reason Galbadia Hotel does [I'm referring to Downloads]. I'd dare to say that, mainly thanks to Galbadia Hotel and Download Links forums, the ffshrine.org domain has to provide much more bandwidth to its userbase, just look at the amount of digital data it is hosting, I don't think servers capable of handling this kind of "stress" come for cheap. Also, but this is just a personal experience, TehParadox suffered from a lot of Server Timeout/Bad request(s). To me it was offline more often than the Shrine.
I do agree that this place requires a lot of money to run, there's no denying that, but let's not forget that it is also hosting a lot of stuff on its servers... And it's been doing so for years.

This forum is amazing and I hope that he will stay turn on forever haha. I do agree that this place requires a lot of money but I agree with Leon Scott Kennedy that TehParadox suffered from a lot of Server Timeout.
He was offline some many times then Shrine. I will always donate for this forum if I need.

FFShrine takes $1800 in donations to make GH run every other month. And they FORCE users to pay before the forums are turned back on. I think that's worse than anything that TP ever did. Just sayin'.

tehParadox had a much larger community, with more than a few willing to donate. I saw one thread where an unemployed dude wanted to donate pennies to tP.

Do you really think there'd be an FFShrine if those 'you have to donate if you want the site to turn back on' messages hadn't been there?

What I think is silly is that obviously 98% of the bandwidth FFshrine consumes is down to GH, and yet the entire site closes when the bills need paying, holding forum citizens to ransom - they stump up because they're left with little choice.

I haven't touched GH since 2007, but I find the forums valuable, and I respect the time and money Sarah puts in - so I donate... but I am painfully aware that my donations subsidise GH users who don't pay ANYTHING, whilst myself and other forum users who donate - folk who are consuming a comparatively negligible percentage of bandwidth - essentially put up 100% of the shortfall.

I'm not saying I have a better option... only that the present system strikes me as somewhat unbalanced...

i am gonna miss the trailer thread

Yeah, that's the only reason I went there; trailer music that wasn't available to the public.

FFShrine takes $1800 in donations to make GH run every other month. And they FORCE users to pay before the forums are turned back on. I think that's worse than anything that TP ever did. Just sayin'.

I think they're doing right by closing the forums. If they kept the forums open, nobody would care about donations. If they didn't do that, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

there's a thread in the GD section. typical.


I like tehparadox. The only worthy section in the music section is the trailer thread with actual lossless music.

The movies/tv threads are duplicates of other forums so no big loss there.
It was just easier to navigate than other forums.

C'est la vie.

i hope they relocate somewhere

I miss the huge trailer music thread on paradox. Where shall be the new place for trailer music sharing?

I cannot believe this is happening....That was the only forum i frequent, and i mean all hours of the day. Both discussion and resources. I know Cardman uploads on another forum but i cannot remember the name of it.

I feel sick, this has literally ruined my weekend.
I wish i knew if their was another place most of the users went....but i doubt it. I had a lot of friends on there. FFS now what do i do with my time???

This is insane i never thought this would happen to tehPARADOX :(

Man, this blows. Hope they find a new host. Too bad they hardly update their facebook page, hope they start updating us on there.

Sad to see it go. They had some interesting eBook sharing going on there, but otherwise I stuck to this site for most soundtracks.

I wish i knew if their was another place most of the users went....but i doubt it. I had a lot of friends on there. FFS now what do i do with my time???

Step outside?


This is insane i never thought this would happen to tehPARADOX :(

lol. Mortal fool.

Step outside?



lol. Mortal fool.

I go outside all the time...i work outdoors and i go to the gym everyday. However, most of my friends resided on that site.

I keep hitting the TP bookmark out of forced habit and am greeted by those god damn words every time :(

There was a lot of good people on that forum. I really hope you are right about it resurfacing, and hopefully soon. In the meantime, i will familiarize myself with this site. I am sure there are great people here too :)


Man, this blows. Hope they find a new host. Too bad they hardly update their facebook page, hope they start updating us on there.
'They'? It is only tehPARADOX who owns the site...there are moderators like Gandolph13 and Shin and a handful of others, but the facebook page is only updated by tehPARADOX himself, as far as i know.
I too, am hoping there will be a news update soon.

'They'? It is only tehPARADOX who owns the site

I do believe she/he meant the royal "they" as though we have a royal "we".
...Like I just used when I said "we have".

And to omit using "she/he", I could have easily just as used "they".
Or just outright called the member a "He" and not cared whether or not the body has a penis or not.

I could also have used "it", for all we know, it's an advanced bot with sophisticated Human-Relations Protocol AI. :noonecares:

edit: they're back

but the facebook page is only updated by tehPARADOX himself, as far as i know.
I too, am hoping there will be a news update soon.

tehPARADOX doesn't run the Facebook page. Just a couple of other moderators.

I miss the huge trailer music thread on paradox. Where shall be the new place for trailer music sharing?

Yes that Thread was one of my reasons for living LOL so many epic songs now gone Life is over ..

well at least i still have forums.ffshrine.org

the film score stuff that ended up there started from here.

FTFY

i feel the same way it's my everyday site man. i hope it comes up again.

No... the film score stuff there did NOT come from HERE. A great deal of the rare recordings that I have offered HERE I collected from THERE before major download sites shut down maybe 3 years ago. Flac recordings. But Paradox has been suffering from neglect for some time, other than trailer music. Where do you think all my TSFH came from?

And if this site doesn't start cleaning up its act... as noticed by others than myself... it being a sharing site yet only a handful of people share while the majority just worm out of the woodwork, grab, and run... well, I'm content that my threads/links die and I'm not bothering to RE UP anything.

cardman, I will miss your HD uploads :(

Is there any page in FFshrine with a film & series daily update like that of Cardman in TP?

so sad and shocked its gone. i hope it comes back

cardman, I will miss your HD uploads :(

1) They're the same as other uploads. Just different hosts.
2) He's not here.


well at least i still have forums.ffshrine.org
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Don't jinx it. :notgood:

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Is there any page in FFshrine with a film & series daily update like that of Cardman in TP?

No. Never.
Only anime is here.


EVERYONE FROM TEHPARADOX GO TO ANOTHER FORUM.
THIS IS NOT A WAREZ SITE TO GET CARDMAN TV OR MOVIES.


Seriously, people. Use your god-given brain or give it back.
:smrt:

This is a bit of a shame.

FFS is my first stop for d/ls, but TP was my second stop followed by Bolt.

Hope TP regularly backed up their files and manage to find a new server.

I think the mods should make it so that all new registering members have to read and "agree" to a page that tells them Cardman is not here and there will never be a download section for TV and movies and Cardman.

So many losers signing up today just to cry over nothing.

If any of you were at all fans of Cardman, then you would know what other forum he goes to and bugger off there.

Serves them right! They have been our enemies

And fans of Jerry Goldsmith. TP had the biggest, all flac, collection of ANYTHING done by Goldsmith and was regularly updated. Hence all these posts by Yannis at FF have actually been redundant if you knew where to look. Allllll gone now.

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Serves them right! They have been our enemies

Moron.

Losers seems like a rather out of place word over this matter, isn't it?

Misguided ones might be more accurate. I follow several forums where links are published and also followed TP several years.

It was quite tiresome following what was new and available in TV series, and this guy did provide a very helpful service to many people. Soon there were some others that started a daily updated page, so I do hope that trend becomes popular on other forums.

You're not welcome here. We have no TV series.

An how do you know I am only interested in TV series?

In any case I do not care if you welcome me or not. There are probably others who will.

i feel the same way it's my everyday site man. i hope it comes up again.

Wingomeza :)
good to see a familiar....well, name. I figured some people from TP would show up in this thread since it is a top result when searching for the site.

I may be overreacting today a little about all this, but TP was like my second home :(

If you hear any news, please let me know.

Cheers.

No good. Can't hear you. (http://youtu.be/OwAmUdY8n54?t=8s)

Calm down visual .........it's most unbecoming of a TP member especially an OT regular!! lol

Don't think it's a proper shutdown looks more like a hack or a problem with server hoster spoke to two members of staff and neither knows anything for sure yet so just sit tight

Thanks to this site for our squatting for a while ........hopefully we will be out of your hair soon and you can go back to.........well whatever it is you do here I suppose

Now, Sparktank has the best avatar ever.

And not a moment too soon!

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I just checked the site and it's up so...

GET OUT!
WE WILL MISS YOU BUT FOR THE LOVE OF PIRATES GET OUT!

Chill out sparktank ..........I'm sure the site can stand a thread about something other than Dr Who Theme tunes and which key the opening bars to Ravel's Bolero are in

We're all in roughly the same game no need to obsess and get into a pissing competition about who's sites better

It reflects my poor sleeping schedule. It's so hard to get a regular 8 hours but since the season changed, I'm finding it easy to oversleep.


PS:
I just checked the site and it's up so...












































































GET OUT! EVERYONE GO BACK TO TEHPARADOX!
WE WILL MISS YOU BUT FOR THE LOVE OF PIRATES GET OUT!

So they're back! Great

Calm down visual .........it's most unbecoming of a TP member especially an OT regular!! lol

Don't think it's a proper shutdown looks more like a hack or a problem with server hoster spoke to two members of staff and neither knows anything for sure yet so just sit tight

Thanks to this site for our squatting for a while ........hopefully we will be out of your hair soon and you can go back to.........well whatever it is you do here I suppose

lol ya i may have overreacted slightly, my apologies ano (and everyone else here on this wonderful site) :)
A hack? You think that could be it?
Well do you remember that idiot WitchDoctor? fairly new member but a genuine moron. I was in contact with him for whatever stupid reason and he mentioned he was in the middle of writing a script to attack the site. He said he didn't know what he was going to do, but that he wanted to 'practice' on TP. I thought he was full of himself but now i am wishing i had of said something. It was two days before TP went down.

I wasn't arguing which site is better.
I was arguing your existence.

Nice to see some friendly faces here :)

I cannot believe this is happening....That was the only forum i frequent, and i mean all hours of the day. Both discussion and resources. I know Cardman uploads on another forum but i cannot remember the name of it.

I feel sick, this has literally ruined my weekend.
I wish i knew if their was another place most of the users went....but i doubt it. I had a lot of friends on there. FFS now what do i do with my time???

This is insane i never thought this would happen to tehPARADOX :(

Visual_Paradox I was in shock at this this DMCA takedown of our beloved tehParadox. :-( Cardman also posts on x264-BB -
http://www.x264-bb.com/index.php

I cannot believe this is happening....That was the only forum i frequent, and i mean all hours of the day. My sentiments exactly! I felt like I had friends on TP.
Hopefully it will be back up shortly. TP mentioned that if this happened they will keep us informed on Twitter. A few months ago TP posted a list of alternate domain names.

I'm not that friendly. I only had 2/3 cups of coffee today and IT WAS ORGANIC COFFEE!

I kept telling everyone my brother was going insane. I warned them!
He calls himself a coffee drinker. :notgood:

So they're back! Great

Good God Yes -_-

Well will leave you to it sparktank sorry for the inconvenience .............and will leave you with this

I know you were a member of TP and did the walk of shame ..........no need for the antagonism just over a bruised ego buddy

Thanks to the site and staff though ..........and anytime you need any warez help then please visit we won't bite

Haha, you know nothing about this site. ;)

I never got banned. Your long memory was good for nothing.

And not a moment too soon!

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I just checked the site and it's up so...

GET OUT!
WE WILL MISS YOU BUT FOR THE LOVE OF PIRATES GET OUT!

'We' still would like to thank you all for your hospitality.
You guys are awesome and I think I will continue to frequent this site and see what I have to contribute :)

i hope tp comes back soon i'm freaking out here. anyone knows where to find cardman's posts, i'm just being lazy here.
it's great to see some friends from tehparadox and if there's gonna be an alternate url please let me know... peace :)

Greetings!
As of 0100 eastern today (Oct. 13, 2013), tehparadox is back up and running.

Nice looking forum here! :)

And fans of Jerry Goldsmith. TP had the biggest, all flac, collection of ANYTHING done by Goldsmith and was regularly updated. Hence all these posts by Yannis at FF have actually been redundant if you knew where to look. Allllll gone now.

Phideas ( not 1 ) you must be the most stupid person of this forum...I had my collection of Jerry for years ( from a Source that it's closed now ), and the ones that I did not have...I get them from my Bro Petros ( who has them ALL, ALL, ALL !!! )
You are one of the "reason" that I stop to share...and you know why !!!

If "ingratitude" could be a Human...it will be YOU !!!

I have D/L one and only OST of Jerry there ( a version of Bad Girls that I did not had if I remember - not sure - !!! )

But as I stop to share, it's not important...anyway !!!

And I stop to collect too...I need Space for something more important to me...

PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO ME...I'M SOMEBODY WHO IS CRAZY ENOUGH TO GET THE FIRST "FLIGHT" AND COME TO KICK YOUR ( certainly dirty ) BOTTOM !!!


AND TO SHOW "THE INTEREST" THAT I HAVE ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY....LOOK....
It's Long time that I have "closed" my PM Box Here...I have read all Messages before close it ( normal )...but look...the only one that I even NOT OPEN...

yay it has returned!!!

Interesting that the other site that went down also miraculously returned at the same time. Not suspect at all. Warez sites... I swear, they're all probably run by the same small band of fuckers somewhere in Europe.

Serves them right! They have been our enemies
You're a dick. :)