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Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by bad_user »

laichzeit0 wrote: post #80
bad_user wrote: post #61

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I never understood ad blockers or the people promoting ad blockers. People complain about ads, yet they are unwilling to pay for content, with the popularity of something like ThePirateBay being testament to that. And then, I can understand that many websites are showing distasteful ads, but if you don't like it, then don't use those websites. This gives a chance to competing websites, being practically like voting w…

> I never understood ad blockers or the people promoting ad blockers. I block ads because they annoy me. Maybe I'm completely selfish but I don't give a shit that whoever I'm "freeloading" from isn't receiving any compensation. I also download books, music and software because if I can get something for free, I'm not going to pay for it (don't care about the content creator, this is purely selfish). I also download m…

M'kay, thanks for proving my point. I can't help but feel annoyed because it is exactly this attitude that brought us DRM, Trusted Computing and that helped build the monopolies that we are seeing.

It's also not selflessness, because one can be both selfish and recognize that it would be in his best interest to not use ad blockers and to not pirate. This is shortsightedness and it is a pity that it's so prevalent.

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by darsham »

meesterdude wrote: post #7
sysk wrote: post #6

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The fact that it's hosting torrents in flat files or in database rows seems like a minor technical difference to me. Apart from that, the same broken UI doesn't seem to have changed much in the past 8 years. I didn't know that TPB was open source... surprised that the community didn't try to improve the UX a bit.

Actually, there is a difference between hosting the files and just linking to them, and is by no means a "minor technical difference". Although to be fair I think it was done not only to increase portability but also to decrease legal targeting, the latter of which seems like it didn't pan out in the end though may have thwarted some legal efforts along the way.

I think you misunderstand. They never hosted any content, they only linked to it. What we're saying is that the torrent database was upgraded from plain old filesystem storage of .torrent files to a more efficient/specialized database.

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by s_dev »

I reckon the next big torrent site will be KickAss torrents @ kat.ph. Shame to see the guys behind TPB disenfranchised - they've earned it I guess from all the stress they've endured.

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

code_duck wrote: post #39
Stormcaller wrote: post #25

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Btw, can someone explain to me how they can have ads? I mean, if US is willing to go far enough that they seem to have obvious influence on other countries and these countries punish these individuals, when normally they don't(or so I think), surely they very interested in taking down TPB or finding out who runs it? And they had ads when there were no bitcoin etc. So what I'm wondering is that, if I were interested i…

The NSA doesn't police copyright issues. Their involvement would be arranging for FBI/police in Europe to get the info they desire to do that.

How is that not police-ing?

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by jarek »

FeepingCreature wrote: post #55
brute wrote: post #51

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What Colour are your bits? [1] This rather poular article really opened my eyes. Basically the same bits can be both, illegal and legal, at the same time, depending on the method you used to derive them. I still think it's stupid but it gave me a better understanding of the reasoning behind certain court decisions. [1] http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

This is the color of my bits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Free-speech-flag.svg Note: picture is illegal.

Picture is only illegal if you display it and say "I support freedom" with a wink. Don't wink and there'll be no intent. Obvs.

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by soneca »

Kequc wrote: post #4

In the last 8 years the pirate bay hasn't changed? It went open source and embraced magnet links entirely. Making it so that almost nothing was being hosted on the server itself. You can download the entire pirate bay in 90MB to put one up of your own. There are hundreds of pirate bays all over the world running on almost nothing allowing everyone to download the same things at the same speeds. [edit: It didn't go op…

trivia about flying on helium balloons:

"In 1982, Larry Walters flew across Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by weather balloons, eventually reaching several miles in altitude. After passing through LAX airspace, he descended by shooting some of the balloons with a pellet gun."

In Brazil, a priest doing a gimmick to raise some funds to his church went on flying with helium balloons. He was drifted to the ocean by the wind and didn't know how to return. He did took a phone and a GPS device. But he didn't know how to use the GPS he took to tell people his location. He died.

EDIT: source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelir_Ant%C3%B4nio_de_Carli

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by redacted »

caractacus wrote: post #86
cdevfr wrote: post #45

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How does that help your point. You still haven't provided any information that would back your claims.

Can you try and persuade me that TPB wasn't making substantial revenue when you have millions of daily visitors and a hell of a lot of ads? It seems a pretty simple assumption to make. What factors were in place that stopped that revenue flow?

Users of TPB go on the site to avoid paying for things?

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by dagw »

edpichler wrote: post #97

What is so special in TPB? I can't figure out. I have seen a dozen of better services. Any hidden feature I don't know?

What is so special in TPB?

Everybody's heard of it, you didn't have to dig through obscure sites to find it, it was always there and always worked.

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