The Pirate Bay is counting down • Hacker News Board

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by digitalpacman » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:17 AM UTC

zo1 wrote: post #20

eps wrote: post #4

... and it immediately opened a popup with some sleazy ad. Same old, repackaged. So exciting.

I didn't see any ads.

I did.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by bad_user » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:19 AM UTC

yummybear wrote: post #2

I wonder what's been taking so long. The architecture was supposedly raid-proof as I understood.

Alternatives exist anyway, including this one - https://oldpiratebay.org/

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by siteshwar » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:20 AM UTC

zo1 wrote: post #20

eps wrote: post #4

... and it immediately opened a popup with some sleazy ad. Same old, repackaged. So exciting.

I didn't see any ads.

I see an ad if I click on the page.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by TheAcen » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:22 AM UTC

cultavix wrote: post #3

They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.

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Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by dtech » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:29 AM UTC

yummybear wrote: post #2

I wonder what's been taking so long. The architecture was supposedly raid-proof as I understood.

Apparently the raid hit the last (?) SPOF, the load-balancer that forwarded the request to the actual content servers.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by expose » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

siteshwar wrote: post #23

zo1 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't see any ads.

I see an ad if I click on the page.

Get with the times: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh...

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by laumars » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:38 AM UTC

glyphobet wrote: post #6

cultavix wrote: post #3

They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.

It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?

Not sure if that was a joke or not, but this problem has already been solved in CSS (@font-face). Though the downside to that would be that they'd then have the issue of hosting copyrighted content (ie the typeface).

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by hanspeter » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:39 AM UTC

zo1 wrote: post #20

eps wrote: post #4

... and it immediately opened a popup with some sleazy ad. Same old, repackaged. So exciting.

I didn't see any ads.

Neither did I. But I did see a message that my computer has won the lottery! Oh my, and I never win anything! Woohoo!!

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by sasas » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:42 AM UTC

Automatically downloaded a file called MPlayerX.dmg when clicking the link.

Beware ?

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by sillysaurus3 » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:46 AM UTC

cultavix wrote: post #3

They should try putting the BTC address in a format which you can copy and paste.

I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it.

There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing. Rich people will give large donations regardless of the format. It wasn't because of BTC, but rather because they wanted to donate.

Some of the donation addresses received huge amounts of BTC. These obviously weren't from donations. Probably from the account holder shuffling their own money around.

I wouldn't be surprised if BTC donations were far less frequent than, say, "likes" on YouTube videos. For the average video with half a million views, ~20,000 likes isn't uncommon. And people only do that because it's free. So if, for any given "thing that half a million people look at," only about 200 of them actually donate, you can see how pitiful the returns are compared to ads. But putting up ads to profit from copyright infringement is blatantly illegal, whereas BTC donations aren't. Yet nobody will take BTC donations seriously for the same reason no one considers panhandling a sustainable living.

It probably sounds like I'm bashing Bitcoin, but I'm only trying to point out a surprising phenomenon. BTC donations seemed to have a lot of potential, yet fizzled. The reasons why are important to study.