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Re: Year of the storm

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Post by redthrowaway »

VonLipwig wrote: post #54
toyg wrote: post #43

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A site which is 95% dedicated to sharing copyrighted content [citation needed] The Pirate Bay exists to make money for its founders. This is why it has so many intrusive ad's constantly popping up. The Pirate Bay exists to make it possible for people to share content, but bandwidth and infrastructure is not free. The pirate bay is such a target because the people who run it humiliate and insult people with very deep…

"""[citation needed]""" Sure, however I doubt I am far off. The site is called The PIRATE Bay. Shall we play a game of spot the legitimate content? http://thepiratebay.se/top/300 """The Pirate Bay exists to make it possible for people to share content, but bandwidth and infrastructure is not free.""" Of course it isn't however the owners are making no attempt to remove infringing content. They know their business is…

>What has the Pirate Bay done of value over the last decade?

All sorts of things get submitted to tpb. When Wikileaks looked like it could be raided and shutdown at any moment, they put their encrypted archives up for anyone to download, for one.

Also, as an aside, I hate python's comment syntax enough when coding. It's even more annoying when on a forum.

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by Andrew_Quentin »

VMG wrote: post #50
absentbird wrote: post #46

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Well Wikileaks didn't have copyright infringement claims against it and it has suffered massive blows to funding and traffic. TPB exists because people care about it. People care about it because it provides something relevant to them.

Then why does TPB mention Syria and North Korea at all? Why not be honest? "We exist because people want Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 for free and we can help them"

Did you wonder why people from Syria and North Korea might actually want to visit that website?

I found the figure mentioned of 100 visitors from North Korea daily pretty amazing to be honest. I checked my own site stats and though there are visitors from 183 countries not one is from North Korea.

Pirate bay is not just movies. You can download plenty of books from it for free, university textbooks, philosophy, whatever.

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by funkah »

the-cakeboss wrote: post #58
idiocracyreigns wrote: post #57

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Can you honestly say that the pirate bay isn't dedicated, and almost exclusively used for the distribution of material protected by copyright? No, but I can't say that about the Internet at-large, either. Practically everything is protected by copyright, including the beloved Linux source.

Fair enough. Perhaps I should clarify, and say "the illegal distribution of material protected by copyright". Its incredible how obtuse people become when discussing this issue.

> Its incredible how obtuse people become when discussing this issue.

You said it, cake boss.

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by jrockway »

pyre wrote: post #87
jrockway wrote: post #75

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It's interesting how every other article on HN is "Google is evil, I hate them" but apparently using their free DNS is OK.

HN cannot be taken as a whole. You're attempting to say that because a lot of people on HN say "Google is evil" that when someone else suggests their free DNS server, this is some sort of hypocrisy. I guess it's understandable to be frustrated at the anti-Google sentiment if you are a Google employee and don't see anything bad happening internally, but don't turn this into some "HN vs. Google" men-in-costumes-wrestli…

Yeah, I know. I just wanted to make people aware of that contrast in a snarky manner. I think I succeeded :) :)

I'm not really frustrated with the anti-Google sentiment. Everyone hates everything, and I can accept that. It does bother me when people start hating things without really knowing why. (Evil, by the way, has very little to do with changing a privacy policy to be more readable or adding experimental features to products you like. Those are more unusual than anything else, and people react poorly to things that are unusual. Remember how the iPhone wasn't going to have any apps? It was the end of the world. Then Apple's experiment yielded results that said, "holy fuck, we need apps" and then everyone was happy again. The world evolves incrementally, and to move forward, sometimes you have to move backwards.)

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by nitrogen »

icebraining wrote: post #14
dhimes wrote: post #13

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try this http://browsertunnel.com/

There's also: http://www.megaproxy.com/ http://www.proxywebsite.org/ http://hidemyass.com/ And hundreds more by searching "web proxy".

It's probably worth noting that the third one you listed, HMA, was recently cooperative with a US investigation into Anonymous. You should check the log retention and other policies of whatever VPN you choose to make sure they are suitable for your activities. For example, if you are traveling in a country with restricted Internet access and accessing confidential information from your employer's network, you probably don't want to be using a VPN service that cooperates with requests that may be harmful to your employer.

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by leif »

jrockway wrote: post #75
tomjen3 wrote: post #66

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Replace your DNS server with 8.8.8.8. Death to lying DNS servers (well, at least we won't talk to them).

It's interesting how every other article on HN is "Google is evil, I hate them" but apparently using their free DNS is OK.

208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220

memorize these 64 bits

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by forcefsck »

microtonal wrote: post #9

It is sad, but I cannot read this blog post. The Dutch equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA, named Brein, sued two of the major Dutch ISPs for not blocking access to The Pirate Bay. Brein won the court case, and the judge required these ISPs to block The Pirate Bay starting yesterday. Now I am met with this when visiting thepiratebay.se: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/838/blokkade.png/ Internet censorship is now real in…

A simple workaround to view the text, is to copy/paste the link in http://viewtext.org

Re: Year of the storm

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Post by mahcuz »

redthrowaway wrote: post #91
VonLipwig wrote: post #54

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"""[citation needed]""" Sure, however I doubt I am far off. The site is called The PIRATE Bay. Shall we play a game of spot the legitimate content? http://thepiratebay.se/top/300 """The Pirate Bay exists to make it possible for people to share content, but bandwidth and infrastructure is not free.""" Of course it isn't however the owners are making no attempt to remove infringing content. They know their business is…

>What has the Pirate Bay done of value over the last decade? All sorts of things get submitted to tpb. When Wikileaks looked like it could be raided and shutdown at any moment, they put their encrypted archives up for anyone to download, for one. Also, as an aside, I hate python's comment syntax enough when coding. It's even more annoying when on a forum.

Off-topic: tell me about it! We get it... you're a pythonista. Now quote like a normal person.
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