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Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by darkmighty » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 8:45 PM UTC

Pxtl wrote: post #86

darkmighty wrote: post #78

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The problem with those is always going to be sybil attacks: anyone can create tons of accounts and upvote themselves. Even cross-verification can be defeated: you just make a small network that upvotes each other in some obfuscated manner. 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 trus…

I don't think "proof of work" works here because upvoting/downvoting content needs to be cheap... how do you make it expensive for a dedicated malicious force but cheap for legitimate ratings? Proof-of-work as a sort of "sign-on" to enable propagating a new "account"? That is, you need to have 1 Ghz-hour of wasted computation in order to introduce a new cryptographic hash into the network as a sort of "payment to cre…

The user wouldn't have to pay anything to create an account, just to vote. Sure, spammers can farm large amounts of reputation through botnets, but that's really expensive: you're putting a cost on it. The returns are already not so high for disseminating this kind of spam.

Having no reputation wouldn't mean you can't do anything -- just that what you do is less trusted and has lower priority.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by SalimoS » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC

Robby2023 wrote: post #83

Aldo_MX wrote: post #80

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Or alien.

Or cat.

Or me.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by cmelbye » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #2

That's a very old dump of the database, I'm afraid.

It has an episode I searched for that came out two days ago (after the raid, actually), so it can't be that old.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by pmalynin » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 9:47 PM UTC

So I'm still not sure why people just don't go to say Kickass Torrents and forget about TPB.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by EarthLaunch » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 10:22 PM UTC

philh wrote: post #90

leke wrote: post #35

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Never trust a man who says he doesn't watch porn.

Are you worried that they might be lying, or that they might be asexual?

He's worried they might not be the same as him.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by grrowl » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 10:41 PM UTC

pknerd wrote: post #77

Mikhail_Edoshin wrote: post #60

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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.

They are using ASP Classic and MsAccess so give them a break

Surely they would see significant performance/licensing/sysops gains by moving to something simpler, like PHP + (MySQL or Flatfile)? I would find it amusing if the original TPB was inadvertently paying licensing fees to Microsoft

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by bigbugbag » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 10:48 PM UTC

leke wrote: post #37

maurobaraldi wrote: post #29

It is better, because there is no ads!

The whole internet doesn't have any ads. Oh wait, I have ABP.

You mean ABP + disabled whitelist + fanboy/easylist. ABP on its own is pretty useless.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Fri, Dec 12, 2014, 11:35 PM UTC

TPB was/is blocked at ISP level in our country (UK). These sorts of mirrors of course aren't. So there's some Streisand Effect going on here in that more mirrors are being publicised because of the take down basically making it easier for people in the UK to find TPB content than it was last week.

Personally I don't use the site however.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by fwn » Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 12:29 AM UTC

bigbugbag wrote: post #97

leke wrote: post #37

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The whole internet doesn't have any ads. Oh wait, I have ABP.

You mean ABP + disabled whitelist + fanboy/easylist. ABP on its own is pretty useless.

Don't forget all those web adresses. Browsers alone are pretty useless.

Re: The Old Pirate Bay

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Post by DonHopkins » Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 7:25 AM UTC

wwwwwwwwww wrote: post #79

CalRobert wrote: post #42

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Are you suggesting that there's anything wrong with an adult viewing filmed consensual sex acts between other adults?

recently, people have been fired from their jobs when their political affiliations/donations have been made public 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

I hope you're not referring to Brendan Eich, because he was not fired: he left Mozilla of his own free will, in spite of the board's request that he stay.

It was his non-apology apology and his stubborn refusal to transparently and honestly explain and justify his actions, which did the most damage to Mozilla and his own reputation.

He decided on his own to leave Mozilla, because he didn't believe he owed anyone an explanation of why he paid to destroy other people's marriages, and that wasn't compatible with leading an organization dedicated to openness and inclusiveness. That's not getting fired.

I think you should be more worried about the politically incorrect right wing religious zealot hate machine firing people for watching porn, not the "politically correct machine" that you wouldn't put it past.