Earlier quoted context omitted.
where does the version control repo live?
Excellent point. I'll continue to think on this!
You might be looking for this: https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Updateable_Subspace_Key
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
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Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#72The organisation that reported Thepiratebay and therefore is the reason for this raid is called Rättighetsalliansen (The Alliance of Rights). The Alliance of Rights is the same organisation as The Anti Pirate Bureau but with a new name. This is what they say on their website (roughly translated): "The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind…
Technicalities aside. They're still making money by helping people "pirate" stuff. Assuming ads on their site do actually generate revenue, and that revenue gets forwarded to them. Though I kinda expect the average piratebay user to have adblock installed.
Whether they are making money doesn't matter. Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit. Otherwise the only murderers in jail would be professional assassins.
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#73Honestly, I think the pirate bay getting busted would be a good thing, as it would probably lead to the creation of more distributed, robust filesharing platforms. The actual bulk data distribution is already quite P2P; the only remaining centralized part is the part that distributes the magnet hashes.
Could a way around the centralisation be to encode the magnet hash database (like btdigg) as metadata in the distributed hash table? Then we just need a seed to get at this somehow, which could be spread around forums. Offload searching of the database onto clients. Talking in vague terms because I'm stretching beyond my knowledge here. btdigg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTDigg
Haven't read the technical details, but http://www.tribler.org/ already offers decentralized torrent search.
Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#74Here's a statement from Peter Sunde:
http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-foreve...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8726110
Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#75I scouted some sites and found out that TPB will be backup soon and they also say that it had happened before. Ttuely I hope the best
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Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#76The organisation that reported Thepiratebay and therefore is the reason for this raid is called Rättighetsalliansen (The Alliance of Rights). The Alliance of Rights is the same organisation as The Anti Pirate Bureau but with a new name. This is what they say on their website (roughly translated): "The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind…
Technicalities aside. They're still making money by helping people "pirate" stuff. Assuming ads on their site do actually generate revenue, and that revenue gets forwarded to them. Though I kinda expect the average piratebay user to have adblock installed.
Exactly. They may or may not have actually broken the law, but they are certainly in spirit a service that makes money through the unauthorized monetization of other peoples' works against the wishes of those works' creators. Even if it doesn't make them criminals, it certainly makes them assholes.
It's already hard enough to make a living as an artist, musician, etc. without being kneecapped by opportunists. We've gone from the old pre-Internet system, which screwed artists most of the time, to a new system that screws artists all the time.
I don't understand why there's so much sympathy for industrial-scale piracy -- especially for-profit industrial-scale piracy -- among people who make a living from creative work (programmers, entrepreneurs, engineers). I guess only certain castes of people and professions deserve compensation and respect, and everyone else can suck it...?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a common mistake by techies to think that technical details make a difference in (Swedish) court. They don't. Technical details are rarely important in Swedish court, where the court is free to consider all evidence, even if it's obtained illegally or just is weird. So called "technical evidence" is rarely "technical" for techies. It's often just HTTP logfile print-outs or a screen shot of a file sharing program…
now explain how that is different from anywhere in the world...
It's not different, and I believe that was the point. There is a weird stereotype that I've encountered about Sweden that I wasn't aware of until the first time I lived outside of our country...whenever something like this comes along, there's a notion that some people think "Oh it's Sweden, they'll do the right thing," as if our laws or courts are somehow "more right" or "more just" than others. I think what the preceding comment was trying to point out is that that is not always true.
Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#78I thought file sharing was recognized as a religion in Sweden.
Why would that even matter?
Re: Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
#79In an internet-ubiquitous world, the idea of restricting the flow of data -- any data -- is basically a magical fantasy of those who understand neither the technology nor its sociology. The Pirate Bay will be back in a day or two tops.
I wonder how much longer people will keep trying to put the information genie back in the bottle?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, not really. The somewhat associated Pirate Party used to be a big thing here, but then the party was hijacked by a new leader who mostly seemed to care about LGBT issues. Said leader just resigned last week, and the Swedish Pirate Party is now in a reboot phase.
SJWs infiltrating every single group on earth instead of voicing their opinions in groups related to their cause.
...what?