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Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by yownie » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 12:48 PM UTC

frabcus wrote: post #56

yownie wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very frictionless to spend it, effectively it acts digitally analogous to cash. > in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details. Best way to find out is to try! Generate and post an address here in the next 15-20 and I'd be happy to prove this wrong. (at least from the senders end)

There's lots of friction on spending if it's in an offline wallet.

yes, so don't?

we're talking micro tipping level amounts here, 100 Euros or less stored on any modern smartphone or laptop.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by psykovsky » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 12:50 PM UTC

cultavix wrote: post #3

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

You should only talk about things you understand. For the rest, use questions. That's not a Bitcoin address, it's an AES key for bittorrent sync.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by binaryanomaly » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

jarnix wrote: post #57

binaryanomaly wrote: post #54

What is actually "JyO7wNzc8xht47QKWohfDVj6Sc2qH+X5tBCT+uetocIJcjQnp/2f1ViEBR+tyOCz"? In the html source the file it is named aes.png Is it an aes key for something? Does anybody know?

It's the key to add in BitTorrent Sync. In this software, click settings, "enter a key" and then you will have some torrents that people share, but to my experience it was sh*t and not organized in folders etc. Maybe now it's better.

Thanks that seems to be correct.

From a first glance it seems to be a bunch of random torrents, pdfs, mp4s I'd rather not have on my hd ;)

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by pizzeys » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 1:19 PM UTC

jarnix wrote: post #57

binaryanomaly wrote: post #54

What is actually "JyO7wNzc8xht47QKWohfDVj6Sc2qH+X5tBCT+uetocIJcjQnp/2f1ViEBR+tyOCz"? In the html source the file it is named aes.png Is it an aes key for something? Does anybody know?

It's the key to add in BitTorrent Sync. In this software, click settings, "enter a key" and then you will have some torrents that people share, but to my experience it was sh*t and not organized in folders etc. Maybe now it's better.

Is that actually what it was, or did people just start using it after a guess that it was that? As far as I can tell, BitTorrent Sync basically accepts any arbitrary string of decent length as a key.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by comboy » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 1:40 PM UTC

hk__2 wrote: post #43

tpbtpb wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your console, enter: $ traceroute thepiratebay.se Wait until it's done, then compare the last IP with one given here.

Or just: $ dig +short thepiratebay.se 178.175.135.122

or just:

    $ host thepiratebay.se

(dig requires bind-tools I guess)

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by leke » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

mike-cardwell wrote: post #5

Where is the proof that this random IP has anything to do with The Pirate Bay?

It's a trap!

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by nathanb » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 1:44 PM UTC

purzlbaum wrote: post #50

aktau wrote: post #44

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I can heartily recommend µBlock as well, it's low on resource usage (much lower than abp) and blocks nearly everything. I do tend to combine it with ghostery/disconnect to be extra sure (not that ghostery is developed by an ads firm, though they say their opt-out options is legit).

Don't use abp. You should read this trough Google Translate maybe: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-...

Is there any evidence that they're doing anything sleazy? This seems like a crackpot conspiracy theory, not actual news.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by glyphobet » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 1:57 PM UTC

laumars wrote: post #27

glyphobet wrote: post #6

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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).

Yep, that was a joke. Should have had tags around it.

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by netrus » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

tpbtpb wrote: post #34

eps wrote: post #4

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

The solution exists for years: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

I don't eat meat and I don't use adblockers - both habits make me feel morally superior ;)

Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down

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Post by clarry » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

laumars wrote: post #27

glyphobet wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Not all browsers allow or support custom typefaces.