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Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

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Post by gambiting »

6nf wrote: post #111
joering2 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any good examples of when this works the other way around? A US citizen being extradited to another country for non-violent crimes? Something in tune of computer hacking or hosting a website? Other than drugs and murders, I have a hard time believing US govt to give out its citizens to third parties...

The USA will not extradite someone for a crime that is not also a crime in the USA itself.

Does USA ever extradite its own citizens anywhere? Has this ever happened?

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Post by Shivetya »

99127912 wrote: post #221
CaptSpify wrote: post #3

As an American, I wish we would stop doing this. It isn't effective, and it's a waste of time/resources that could be better spent elsewhere. I'd even argue that its counter-effective to progress. Instead of punishing people for making more efficient systems, we should reward them, and try to integrate.

Indeed, we should. Comrade Page, comrade Brin, I'd like to have the Google software stack. IP rights are an outdated concept and the collective has decided that Google's stack belongs to the people. Besides, everything is just bits! If you represent the whole monorepo as a single integer, denying people access to it would be akin to patenting a natural number!

you could say that from the actions that occur in France if not the EU that is how they view it across the ocean. Become the best search engine only to be told you cannot favor your own services, if that is not an indirect declaration you are now a public service I am not sure what would be

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Post by samuellb »

ekianjo wrote: post #121
thatcat wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia is designed to be easily downloaded and distributed in other ways

Easily, only when you have fast connections. The smallest archives are in the 20 GB kind of range for the English language, and that's without pictures. And good luck finding updated mirrors for the content, or even recent dumps.

I've used a re-compressed version in the past, with reduced xml markup, and with the most rarely visited articles removed. It was around 1GB when I downloaded it, and it used the proprietary MDX/MDict format. You can find downloads here (from 2010):

http://sh0dan.blogspot.com/

Or you could just download the Wikipedia CD. It contains 5500 articles from 2007:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_CD_Selecti...

Neither of those two are very up to date of course, but it shows that it can be done.

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Post by chongli »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #195
chongli wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contracts with regional exclusivity give the content producers something a subscription model never will: a lump sum of risk free, up-front cash. People calling for global Netflix kumba ya with all content available are simply asking for producers to take a haircut.

I am honestly not aware of what Netflix contracts look like. I'd have thought they also pay lump sums to get the streaming rights per territory. Also I am proposing the subscription increases to get access, possibly per territory you want access to.

These contracts are seldom made public.

For one example of what we do know: House of Cards is not available on Netflix in Europe [1]. I'm sure Netflix is not happy with the situation but we can only guess as to what it would have cost them for the rights.

[1] http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-subscribers-eu...

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Post by zouhair »

CaptSpify wrote: post #3

As an American, I wish we would stop doing this. It isn't effective, and it's a waste of time/resources that could be better spent elsewhere. I'd even argue that its counter-effective to progress. Instead of punishing people for making more efficient systems, we should reward them, and try to integrate.

Effectiveness has nothing to do with it. America is now just a simple goon to its corporations.

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Post by zouhair »

biot wrote: post #134
CaptSpify wrote: post #3

As an American, I wish we would stop doing this. It isn't effective, and it's a waste of time/resources that could be better spent elsewhere. I'd even argue that its counter-effective to progress. Instead of punishing people for making more efficient systems, we should reward them, and try to integrate.

A person in the US who, for example, wants to watch all but the latest season of Game of Thrones can go to iTunes and, within seconds, purchase and start watching. And it will be in better quality than the torrent which was ripped off some TV broadcast and re-compressed. iTunes is available for both Windows and Mac (plus various iOS) and is super simple to use. And the one purchase lets you either stream or download…

Much of humanity has no access to what you are talking about. Without torrents and sharing most of humanity will have no experience of Game Of Thrones.

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Post by zouhair »

derefr wrote: post #19

It seems like a lot of the most well-known pseudo-legal BitTorrent "groups" (PopcornTime, YIFY, ISOHunt, now Kat) turn out to be one-man shops, and as such, just completely dissolve as soon as their owner crosses paths with law enforcement. In some cases, these services are integral enough to the "scene" to be brought back by others. But other times, everything just stops for a while. This seems like a bus-factor pro…

PopcornTime is alive and kicking. Actually 2 of them popped up after the demise of the first one.
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