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Hey Adnan, might not be a good idea to tie your porn habbits quite so publicly with all your linkedIn and social media info so clearly visible. Just a heads up from a fellow developer who's done plenty of dumb shit :-)
Are you suggesting that there's anything wrong with an adult viewing filmed consensual sex acts between other adults?
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> I do wonder why a more decentralised approach hasn't taken off. In a way, it has! Compared to what it was when it launched 10 years ago, or even what its predecessors (e.g. Napster, Limewire) were, the current TPB is almost completely decentralized, with only one exception. It stopped running its own tracker years ago, relying on other trackers that don't allow for searching (thus absolving themselves of some of th…
Reputation? For my use case, I evaluate a torrent based on the number of seeders. You mentioned that anybody can post a magnet link on any forum. Yes. But where do they get that magnet link from in the first place? I mean, obviously the person who creates the torrent has it. Is that the only way? You mention DHT. My torrent client does that. Hm, is there a client that I can use to "search" DHT? Failing that, is there…
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> I do wonder why a more decentralised approach hasn't taken off. In a way, it has! Compared to what it was when it launched 10 years ago, or even what its predecessors (e.g. Napster, Limewire) were, the current TPB is almost completely decentralized, with only one exception. It stopped running its own tracker years ago, relying on other trackers that don't allow for searching (thus absolving themselves of some of th…
Reputation? For my use case, I evaluate a torrent based on the number of seeders. You mentioned that anybody can post a magnet link on any forum. Yes. But where do they get that magnet link from in the first place? I mean, obviously the person who creates the torrent has it. Is that the only way? You mention DHT. My torrent client does that. Hm, is there a client that I can use to "search" DHT? Failing that, is there…
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Decentralized with quality control would be a hard but interesting problem. You could do upvotes/downvotes using cryptographic signatures use a little web-based authority to let people know whose signatures are reputable.
Maybe a vote weighting that gradually gets heavier, the more honest your account is measured - you are observed upvoting good content, and flagging spam or viruses (imagine if the top HN commenters votes counted more than regular commenters...)? And rapid banning for those who upvote spam. Maybe you unlock additional feaures (like HNs downvote ability as you level up with karma). It might create a "race to the top" i…
So if you want to take the Pirate Bay approach of providing a small authoritative list of "trusted moderators" through the web and have all the users use that filter, you have to keep it simple so that it can be easily replicated if the web-component gets taken down.
Complicating the web/authority component means mirroring it and resurrecting it becomes hard.
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Almost all the money went towards purchasing equipment and legal fees. I don't think anyone in particular (except maybe the lawyers) got rich off the site.
Keep believing the sob stories. One of the most frequently visited websites is "barely paying for the servers", yeah right. Wish Wikileaks would publish real numbers and profit they make.
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Decentralized with quality control would be a hard but interesting problem. You could do upvotes/downvotes using cryptographic signatures use a little web-based authority to let people know whose signatures are reputable.
It's not entirely implausible that authorities might attack the certificate provider. It's a single point of failure... the MPAA decides to fuck with it, gets them shut down, and suddenly no one can filter comments anymore?
Ok I searched a few porn movies to verify whether they have it completely or not. Glad to tell you that it's really the 'Pirate Bay'
Some functionality is missing. E.g. no users, thus no way to see what else that user has uploaded. On PB some uploaders maintained rather interesting personal collections.
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Decentralized with quality control would be a hard but interesting problem. You could do upvotes/downvotes using cryptographic signatures use a little web-based authority to let people know whose signatures are reputable.
Maybe a vote weighting that gradually gets heavier, the more honest your account is measured - you are observed upvoting good content, and flagging spam or viruses (imagine if the top HN commenters votes counted more than regular commenters...)? And rapid banning for those who upvote spam. Maybe you unlock additional feaures (like HNs downvote ability as you level up with karma). It might create a "race to the top" i…
I think there are only two long term solutions:
- Introducing some kind of proof of work -- e.g. you do work to downvote/upvote;
- Some very "localized" reputation -- e.g. you trust the friends of your friends more.
Those ideas are behind the Bitcoin protocol and the Web of Trust, respectively.
In this case each would have it's problems: proof of work is inefficient by design and needs a good hash function not to be exploited; local reputation by design makes it hard to find new/unrelated content.
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Hey Adnan, might not be a good idea to tie your porn habbits quite so publicly with all your linkedIn and social media info so clearly visible. Just a heads up from a fellow developer who's done plenty of dumb shit :-)
Are you suggesting that there's anything wrong with an adult viewing filmed consensual sex acts between other adults?
i wouldn't put it past someone somewhere out there in the politically correct machine to fire/not hire someone because they admit that they watch porn