If I could legally download content from TPB in exchange for letting them use my computer during its idle time (like Folding@Home), I would be all over that.
PirateBay was my favorite site followed by Mininova and ISOhunt. The best piratebay feature was the Top 100 feature which I will dearly miss because neither Mininova nor ISOhunt have anything close.
TPB, i hate to see you go. But we both know it's over. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to move on, it’s just so devastating, sometimes I – holy shit look at her! She’s hot! What’s your name baby? Mininova? Well, Mini, let’s get to fuckin’! What? Who, TPB? Nah, I was never really that into her. Come on. Just touch it.
So is "The Pirate Bay" (or whatever they end up calling themselves) going to then rent out this distributed computing power to other companies, thus making the money to pay the licensing fees? Are they going to tell users who is using their computer at the time? I'm all for it if its used for cancer research or cracking the human genome. If it just turns the whole thing into a SPAM botnet, not so much.
@tande04 mile island in the sun: Odds are it will all be used for a giant spam botnet, yes. I'm disappointed in TPB. They really are taking it up the ass, and they're trying to pass it off as a good thing.
@shoelessone: I hope this whole thing tanks, and any money they have invested goes into a hard-hitting lesson about the implications of trying to control things like this. Charging fees for something that is user-based and used to be FREE is going to go over poorly. It's like if they tried to charge for facebook or myspace. Some suckers would pay it, but most people will just find something else that works the same.
I personally never got to use TPB, but my roommate was a huge fan of it.
So if I understand correctly the only items that will be listed for downloading are provided by the "content providers?" So you can kiss mainstream music and movies goodbye? Sounds like Napster 2.0, 2.0.
@mikeness: Right, it's never just about giving the RIAA/MPAA types their share of the money. They also want control. They want to say who can obtain what, and in which format. At what time. Etc. That is one reason "piracy" is popular - there is no real gatekeeper.
Yes, years after they applied for it, it was recently accepted. The dock is a Mac thing, and that's patent infringement. Should be interesting to see if Apple defends it's patent.
07/20/09
So, what's the largest non-sold out torrent service nowadays?
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Top Torrent Sites
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I don’t know if you noticed, by my comment wasn’t exactly intended to be straight out of Encyclopedia Britannica.
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:'(
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don't take it personally, i'm a snarky ass to EVERYONE.
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So is "The Pirate Bay" (or whatever they end up calling themselves) going to then rent out this distributed computing power to other companies, thus making the money to pay the licensing fees? Are they going to tell users who is using their computer at the time? I'm all for it if its used for cancer research or cracking the human genome. If it just turns the whole thing into a SPAM botnet, not so much.
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I personally never got to use TPB, but my roommate was a huge fan of it.
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Sigh...
This new "Nanny Bay" is almost as bad as Michael Bay.
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12/30/08
"I can't afford to do my homework". little bastard should have made it his first tab instead of the second
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Yes, years after they applied for it, it was recently accepted. The dock is a Mac thing, and that's patent infringement. Should be interesting to see if Apple defends it's patent.
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