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    Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail

    Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download

    Pirate Bay Bought Out, Suddenly Respects Copyrights

    If You Publicly Proclaim You're Going to Pirate a Movie, You Will Get Free Tickets to It

    Pirate Bay Trial Watch: Day One, In Brief

    Thanko Magnetic Earring-Clip Earphones Can Make You Look like a Pirate

    Microsoft Developing Copyright Filter for Zune, Will Block Pirated Content

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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    08/21/09

    In reply to Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
    Do we have any idea if this 'new' PB actually has the bandwidth/servers to make good on their claims?
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    Image of slibuntu slibuntu
    08/21/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: I don't know, the site is dog slow anyway, not sure if this is a serious attempt to keep things going or just a finger to the RIAA
     Reply
    Margatron promoted this comment slibuntu was starred slibuntu was unstarred
    Image of Margatron Margatron
    08/21/09

    @slibuntu: Either way, it's only a matter of time until someone with the bandwidth oomph picks up the massive archive and makes it into a viable mirror.

    Or perhaps he does have the bandwidth and for some reason hasn't implemented/upgraded it yet.
     Reply
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    Image of craig_16 craig_16
    08/21/09

    In reply to Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
    Maybe this will get the point across to the litigious bastards who fight to get sites like the pirate bay shut down... you can never win. The only way you can effectively combat piracy is to change your business model to make it so that getting things legally is more convenient than getting things illegally, for example, how iTunes handle music.
     Reply
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    Image of sneakypoo sneakypoo
    08/21/09

    @craig_16: C'mon now, do you really believe what you're preaching? It's not exactly hard to use torrents in the first place so for the legal way to compete it would have to be through some kind of personal delivery system by Playboy models, for free.
     Reply
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    Image of craig_16 craig_16
    08/21/09

    @sneakypoo: No, it's not hard to use torrents, but if I could have a program on my computer that lets me stream all the TV shows I watch, in HD, within a couple of hours of them being aired and notifies me when new episodes are available, then I'd probably use that instead of torrents/rapidshare, which can be hit and miss with fakes and nuked torrents. Of course, the number of ads and the price of the subscription would be a large factor, but If they got the balance right then it could really work and I'd be able to support the TV shows that I love. I don't want the going off air after all. It seems like I'm asking a lot, but the content providers need to innovate if they want to keep up.
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    szrimaging promoted this comment craig_16 was starred craig_16 was unstarred
    Image of szrimaging szrimaging
    08/21/09

    @craig_16: Ummm....a service that allows you to have a show within a couple of hours, in full HD, for you to watch....

    Gee, seems like this is out there....

    Oh wait, its called a Tivo! (or DVR for all you brand name haters)

    Sure, you actually have to get the channel you are talking about, but if you aren't paying HBO (by proxy) to make the next season of Entourage, why should you be able to watch it?
     Reply
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    Image of craig_16 craig_16
    08/21/09

    @szrimaging: I don't live in America and don't have a TV, I have a laptop and a 22" monitor. I move one or two times a year for work, sometimes to different countries, so I try to avoid bulky things and long term contracts (such as those from cable providers). The only consistent way for me to get the TV shows that I have been watching for years before the international DVD release is to download them. So Tivo is out of the question to say the least.

    Also, with what I proposed up above, I figured it was clear that a portion of the subscription fees and ad revenues that I mentioned would go to the content providers, such as HBO. I guess I should have been more specific.
     Reply
    Edited by craig_16 at 08/21/09 11:27 AM craig_16 was starred craig_16 was unstarred
    Image of Overheal Overheal
    08/21/09

    In reply to Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail

    Full of Win
     Reply
    Hiphopopotamus promoted this comment Overheal was starred Overheal was unstarred
    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    08/21/09

    In reply to Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
    Ahhh, not reporting the archive as like 23GB anymore?

    Yeah, best stay away from those confusing numbers and technical terms.
     Reply
    Edited by strider_mt2k at 08/21/09 6:56 AM strider_mt2k was starred strider_mt2k was unstarred
    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    08/21/09

    @strider_mt2k: WTF? From the torrent nfo: "Size: 21.3 GiB (22870996846 Bytes)." It's an index of torrent files, not the content itself.
     Reply
    Danny Allen was starred Danny Allen was unstarred
    Image of ReconToaster misses garnett :( ReconToaster misses garnett :(
    08/21/09

    In reply to Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
    I wonder how those guys are feeling about purchasing it for millions....
     Reply
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    Image of JCWhitless JCWhitless
    08/21/09

    In reply to Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
    Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
    We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot.
    Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
    We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
    Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

    /I loves teh interwebs
     Reply
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    08/17/09

    In reply to Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download
    so basically it's a giant "phone book" for downloading everything TBP torrent-related currently has.

    that's a lotta URL's
     Reply
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    08/17/09

    In reply to Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download
    Wait, The Pirate Bay is shutting down? I better grab my copy of The Love Guru quick then.
     Reply
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    Image of SoaringDisbelief SoaringDisbelief
    08/17/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_DOESHookUp: You should be banned from movies.
     Reply
    GitEmSteveDave_DOESHookUp promoted this comment Edited by SoaringDisbelief at 08/17/09 9:21 AM SoaringDisbelief was starred SoaringDisbelief was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    08/17/09

    @SoaringDisbelief: @Septhinox: [gizmodo.com]
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    Image of Odin Odin
    08/17/09

    In reply to Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download
    Surely this is useless without the tracker?
     Reply
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    08/17/09

    In reply to Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download
    everyone making comments about the size, please look at the text in BOLD in the article.
     Reply
    GitEmSteveDave_IsTheStig promoted this comment Dallifornia was starred Dallifornia was unstarred
    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    08/17/09

    In reply to Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download
    Seems like it would be bigger than that...
     Reply
    strider_mt2k was starred strider_mt2k was unstarred
    Image of Deunan Deunan
    08/17/09

    @strider_mt2k: I think 20 some gigs of .torrent files is about right.
     Reply
    nutbastard promoted this comment Deunan was starred Deunan was unstarred
    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    08/17/09

    @strider_mt2k: Remember: this is a torrent file index, not the petabytes of data they link to.
     Reply
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/30/09

    In reply to Pirate Bay Bought Out, Suddenly Respects Copyrights
    Anyone remember Audiogalaxy when it was free and not the Rhapsody pay site?


    Best free music/"book on MP3" site ever, even better then Napster. Second they with paysite, down the tubes.


    This stuff happens all the time. The good thing is, there is always something else that surfaces to fill the void.

     Reply
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    04/14/09

    In reply to If You Publicly Proclaim You're Going to Pirate a Movie, You Will Get Free Tickets to It
    Dear Fort Knox.......
     Reply
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    In reply to If You Publicly Proclaim You're Going to Pirate a Movie, You Will Get Free Tickets to It
    Dear Dita Von Tease, I am going to steal you because you're too expensive and good looking for me. I'd make a copy of you, but there are a few problems with that, including getting close enough to get a DNA sample.


    So, uh, feel free to give yourself to me instead.


    Sincerely, Lite.

     Reply
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/13/09

    In reply to If You Publicly Proclaim You're Going to Pirate a Movie, You Will Get Free Tickets to It
    And yet when I proposed a similar resolution for dealing with the Somali Pirates, everyone said I was crazy.
     Reply
    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of Ozymandias Ozymandias
    04/13/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Free tix to adventureland!?!

    What pirate wouldn't want that!
     Reply
    Ozymandias was starred Ozymandias was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/13/09

    @Ozymandias: I think it might have been the way I put adventureland in air quotes.
     Reply
    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: G-I-T-M-O that spells Adventureland.
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