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    The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power

    Microsoft Proposes Obnoxiously Restrictive Pay-As-You-Go Computing System

    Good OS Launches A Cloud-centric Version of Their Linux OS called...Cloud

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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    07/20/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    Let's just forget about it like we did with Napster and just move on? It is dead deadetty dead you know?

    So, what's the largest non-sold out torrent service nowadays?
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    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.
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    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    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.
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    07/17/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I also used Torrentreactor before it's highjacking but never went back.

    Top Torrent Sites
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    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.
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    Image of Invisiblemoose Invisiblemoose
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: Mininova isn't a tracker -- it's only a search engine for torrents.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    @Invisiblemoose:

    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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    Image of Invisiblemoose Invisiblemoose
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard:

    :'(
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    Image of LEWD98 LEWD98
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: I literally LMAO. "Come on. Just touch it" "Encycopedia Britannica" LOL
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    @Invisiblemoose:

    don't take it personally, i'm a snarky ass to EVERYONE.
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: Zing!
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    Image of Whytookay - Pro Skub Whytookay - Pro Skub
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    And with that, isohunt is now my favourite torrenting website.
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    Image of ~/Desktop ~/Desktop
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    Ah well. Private trackers are the way to go anyhow.
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    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    I'd be willing to fold pirate proteins, but not store bought ones.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    Ok I'm going to say I don't get 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.
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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    07/17/09

    @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.
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    Image of shoelessone shoelessone
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    Wow, great, one fewer website I need to visit!
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment Edited by shoelessone at 07/17/09 12:59 PM shoelessone was starred shoelessone was unstarred
    Image of Isentropic_Storm Isentropic_Storm
    07/17/09

    @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.
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    nutbastard promoted this comment Edited by nutbastard at 07/17/09 2:32 PM Isentropic_Storm was starred Isentropic_Storm was unstarred
    Image of PaddyDugan PaddyDugan
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    Pirates becoming legitimate businesses - that's history in a nutshell.
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    Image of mikeness mikeness
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    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.
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment Edited by mikeness at 07/17/09 12:59 PM mikeness was starred mikeness was unstarred
    Image of Andyr2120 Andyr2120
    07/17/09

    @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.
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    This isn't piracy.

    Sigh...
    This new "Nanny Bay" is almost as bad as Michael Bay.
     Reply
    Edited by MrBangBam at 07/17/09 12:55 PM MrBangBam was starred MrBangBam was unstarred
    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/17/09

    @MrBangBam: Clap... clap....
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    12/30/08

    In reply to Microsoft Proposes Obnoxiously Restrictive Pay-As-You-Go Computing System
    Microsoft has finally provided the perfect excuse to give to teacher...


    "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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    Image of schrosa schrosa
    12/01/08

    In reply to Good OS Launches A Cloud-centric Version of Their Linux OS called...Cloud
    doesn't Apple have a patent on launching applications with an icon? or something.
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    Image of MacAttack7388 MacAttack7388
    12/01/08

    @schrosa:

    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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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/02/08

    @MacAttack7388: It doesn't, which is why programs like Object Dock and RocketDock are able to flourish.
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