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- zeromancer, on 11/04/2007, -15/+691I just want to take a moment to express my feelings about TPB. In this time of darkness and evil and corruption, they are a big shiny middle finger, aimed directly at the greedy corporate ***** that are destroying our new ways of life by trying to preserve the old.
I <3 TPB - amphet, on 11/04/2007, -5/+403TPB is becoming the underground Google
- drathian, on 11/04/2007, -7/+400If the people from the pirate bay are working on it, you know it's going to be the future of bit torrent. I've got high hopes for this. Long live the pirate bay!
- inactive, on 11/04/2007, -3/+218Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free.....
- bightchee, on 11/03/2007, -6/+208What's this about "bit torrent" I hear? I am still leeching anonymously off FTPs.
- mrfreeziexp, on 11/05/2007, -7/+181Thank you, Mr. Generic Man.
- billypw, on 11/03/2007, -4/+106Ohh what's that sound that I hear? Anyone else hear it? Sounded like an RIAA exec dropping on the floor because of a heart attack.
- Hikimbi, on 11/04/2007, -3/+93You are a pirate!
- Tyr7BE, on 11/03/2007, -4/+86Ok, so the guys at PB are pretty damned good at running a search engine, and avoiding the law. But how are they at protocol design? Something like this isn't just something you can waltz into. I would trust your average server admin about as far as I could throw them with the design of a new protocol, especially for something as widespread as what they're hoping for. So do they have actual engineers on board, or is this just a bunch of guys who all got high one night and decided 'we're gonna build a protocol, man!!'.
- hollyminkowski, on 11/03/2007, -0/+77What is really needed in a new p2p system is encryption...or at least
a good dash of plausible deniability. - sagat, on 11/03/2007, -2/+76Oh god please don't be another stinking eXeem.
- hhlim, on 11/03/2007, -2/+68I don't know about the name, but instead of .p2p it should be .arr.
- cnot3, on 11/03/2007, -5/+68did they buy their own pirate island yet?
- darkNiGHTS, on 10/31/2007, -0/+61Yes.
- bagelpirate, on 10/31/2007, -2/+57Ramen.
- Skooma714, on 11/02/2007, -0/+54Bittorrent? I'm still copying programs from my friend on 5.25 floppies.
- RetroRufio, on 10/31/2007, -5/+51So, the future of BitTorrent, is a future without BitTorrent?
- SPThom, on 11/03/2007, -2/+46They need a name... How about FileParrot or something? :P
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -4/+45"We at TorrentFreak are of course a bit concerned about these new developments since we owe our name to BitTorrent,"
the world is trembling with anticipation for this impending disaster. - natedouglas, on 11/03/2007, -5/+42As well as by people who remain unimpressed.
- Tetraca, on 11/03/2007, -2/+38Davey Jones's Bitlocker.
- TypeEE, on 11/03/2007, -2/+37You might be 1 out of 100
- sark666, on 11/03/2007, -0/+33You're taking up my slot!!!
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -2/+32Interesting new technologies to distribute files over the internet isn't inherently illegal activity. All similar technologies have wide ranging, legal applications.
- SillyDigger, on 11/03/2007, -4/+33Anyone remember exeem?
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -2/+31Unless it's anonymous or somehow changes the way ***** is distributed, it won't fix *****.
What we need is a service that keeps everyone anonymous, where you aren't positive that the computer sending you the file you requested is even one that's hosting it. (Kinda like tor.. but improved) - SniperXPX, on 10/31/2007, -8/+36Amen.
- terath, on 10/31/2007, -3/+31This is true, but you missed a couple points. First, being a law doesn't make it right. Usually a law needs to be broken on a mass scale for it to change. Second, yes, we need to pay for things. But the 'old' way was NOT for huge corporations to make billions from an artificially created environment.
In the 'old' way, there was physical resources that required much energy and time to produce or duplicate. The general trend of things, in the 'old' way, was for costs to come down as the price of duplication and production dropped. For example, the printing press reduced the cost of books so that everyone could buy them. Improvements in manufacturing allowed more people to afford cars.
However, at some point in the recent past, this trend stopped. While duplication costs dropped to an all time low for things like music and software, prices remain the same. The claim being that this is the price of 'production'. The problem comes when the producers are earing only a small share of the income. Where is the rest going? Into the coffers of the hugely rich who control the industry.
This is not the old way. This is a new way. And it's at odds with the new way that consumers want. Consumers want to see most of the money they spend going to the producers. And they want the price reductions that they never received from the cost of reproduction dropping.
As long as this divide between producers, consumers, and the rich monopolies remains, you'll see widespread protests against it. That includes piracy. You might as well get used to it. - richbradshaw, on 10/31/2007, -4/+31Why are pirates called pirates?
Because they ARRRRR! - TypeEE, on 11/03/2007, -1/+27That's not p2p, and the content is gone when it expires.
- dillibob, on 11/03/2007, -3/+28if anyone is going to do it, pirate bay will be the ones
- badenglishihave, on 10/31/2007, -3/+27I hesitate to make any sort of predictions about the future ( http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Top_87_Bad_Predic ... ). I too have high hopes, but let's not count our chickens before they're hatched.
- Dweller99, on 10/31/2007, -0/+24P2P goes back quite a bit farther than Bit Torrent does. Napster, Hotline, others I am likely forgetting all spawned the P2P era. Bit Torrent was a relative late-comer.
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -11/+32Dig him down all you want, but he's right... I'm a pirate too, but I'm not in denial like the rest of you convincing myself that $10 for a CD is actually too expensive and I somehow have a right to share files and "stick it to the man". Praise TPB, but don't act like they are standing up for any supposed "rights" you think you may have.
- fkr3, on 11/03/2007, -2/+23I think you may be overestimating them. Look past the rhetoric and you'll see there is really a significant difference between running a couple of websites, even coding those websites, verse creating whatever supercedes BitTorrent.
- objectcode, on 10/31/2007, -0/+20because new technology is never based on something that has already been created before
- whatsupimphil, on 10/31/2007, -0/+19Don't copy that floppy!
- Rotzooi, on 10/31/2007, -1/+20/dances around, pries out an eyeball and pisses in the socket
- wisam, on 11/03/2007, -3/+21As much as I would be happy to see this new protocol alive and see it outgrow bittorrent, let's not forget suprnova's exeem project which proved to be a total failure. Running the most popular bittorrent website doesn't mean you're successfully create a new protocol.
- heymeester, on 11/03/2007, -4/+21...and I see a future without The Pirate Bay. All the content providers need to do is give consumers a way of rapidly downloading high quality DRM free content for a reasonable price.
- azprofessional, on 11/03/2007, -1/+18Did cryogenic freezing hurt?
- etruscan, on 10/31/2007, -0/+17Except their search algorithm leaves something to be desired. Hopefully they'll fix that before deciding that the world needs BitTorrent 2.0.
- deviantsteve, on 10/31/2007, -3/+20The site is from an area where english isn't the only language, what did you expect?
- EndersGame, on 10/31/2007, -6/+22I'd hit it.
- BaronKarza, on 11/03/2007, -1/+16Your an idiot if you think bit torrent scans of comics are hurting the industry. As a comic lover I would never bother with a scan if I can buy the real thing, it just isn't the same. If sales of your comic works are going down, it's because you are a talentless hack whose only method of selling comics back in the 90's was via fad and speculation of future value. Now that the comic buying public has outgrown that faze and can see all those "Liefield drawn IMAGE books" in the quarter bin they aren't as willing to part with their hard earned money. In any case, Bit Torrent, TPB, and file sharing in general have nothing to do with a sales slump in ANY industry. Smart business people will learn to grow with the times, and use technologies like BT to PROMOTE their work instead of whining "why can't everything stay the same!?!?!?"
- coolian, on 11/02/2007, -0/+15ParrotBay
- thesauce, on 10/31/2007, -2/+17ThePirateBay is epic compared to suprnova.
- aqzman, on 10/31/2007, -2/+15Pretty much everything that the (great) guys at Pirate Bay touch is perfect. I can't wait to see what the pump out this time, I hope it eliminates the current problems with BT and becomes the new gold standard.
It's also great, and funny, to see some of the URLs that people are giving to them. Just because they know something great and/or funny will be done with it. - graemee, on 10/31/2007, -2/+15Yellowbeard
- ortucis, on 10/31/2007, -0/+13Even though I only use BitTorrent for downloading Linux over and over every day (yes, I download, delete and download it again, got a problem with that?) I have to digg this news up for the hilarious comments.
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