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2008-07-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

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2008-07-20T18:24:00.000-07:00

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2008-07-19T18:23:00.000-07:00

Here is a Full List of Pages on itsfun.phoolish.org

2008-07-18T18:22:00.000-07:00

Top Ten Bone Breaks

2007-05-28T11:23:00.000-07:00

this is painful to watch, enjoy! more videos

lindsay lohan stripping video

2007-05-28T11:17:00.000-07:00

lindsay lohan, slut to end all sluts, plays a stripper in her new movie "i know who killed me". boy that's a stretch. that'll take some real acting skills. more videos

white girl and indian girl dancing

2007-05-23T18:42:00.002-07:00

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As Good As Sex

2007-05-23T18:42:00.001-07:00

As Good As Sex. more videos

Japanese Massage Parlor

2007-05-23T18:42:00.000-07:00

Japanese Massage Parlor. more videos

Macrovision Tries to Plug the Analog Hole

2007-03-29T22:56:00.009-07:00

Macrovision said Monday that it will license its Analog Copy Protection technology to several online video providers, in an attempt to close the "analog hole."

Netflix, BitTorrent.com, Movielink, and Instant Media will all use the Macrovision ACP to prevent customers from copying the downloaded media via an analog recording. Historically, the most famous "analog hole" was the VCR, which could record even digital movies played on a DVD player, if Macrovision or some other technology hadn't been employed. (To be honest, I don't know what a recorded Macrovision movie would look like—static?)

What's interesting is that these services typically use Microsoft's Windows Media DRM schemes to protect their content. However, even high-definition content can be watched on a digital television via a digital signal that's been converted back into analog, which uses the YPbPr analog (or "component" cables—the red, blue, and green cables that plug into the back of a TV). But until the video services lock the content via HDCP-encrypted HDMI, that analog hole will still be present—which is what the Macrovision technology blocks.

Fun fact: according to an industry research report issued by Parks Associates in December 2006, Internet video revenue will exceed $7 billion by 2010, with services for renting and downloading TV shows and movies accounting for nearly 40 percent of that total revenue.

With that said, it's odd to see the business models becoming more and more divergent; sites like Veoh and Guba encourage users to download (by placing a "download" link, natch) while sites carrying copyrighted content, such as Movielink, lock down the content. YouTube, of course, splits the difference: view all you want, but no downloads for you! It will be interesting to see what BitTorrent.com does when it decides to allow its YouTube-like user content providers to charge for their content.

BitTorrent, Joost To Create Competing TV Net Sites

2007-03-29T22:56:00.008-07:00

Wayne Friedman writes:

BitTorrent says it wants to join the race to create an ad-supported TV program Internet site. ...

... BitTorrent is a massive peer-to-peer technology company. Some 135 million people worldwide have downloaded files using BitTorrent, some one-third of all P2P traffic on the Internet. Last month, BitTorrent launched BitTorrent Entertainment Network, a new service that has compiled the rights to more than 3,000 movies, 1,000 games and 1,000 music videos from 34 participating content providers. The network has deals with Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and MGM. ...
... Recently, Joost announced it had a deal with Viacom. As part of the agreement, the big media company would provide Joost with hundreds of TV shows. Joost is in beta test right now, and will launch later this year. ...

BitTorrent launches BitTorrent Entertainment Network

2007-03-29T22:56:00.007-07:00

BitTorrent today announced the launch of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network at BitTorrent.com. The new network features the most comprehensive library of downloadable digital entertainment ever amassed on the Web, including content from 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and BitTorrent’s newest partner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (MGM). The BitTorrent community will have the flexibility to rent movies, purchase television shows and music videos, and even publish and share their own high-quality content to be displayed alongside titles from the world’s largest studios.

“The BitTorrent Entertainment Network is created by and for the BitTorrent Generation, which has a vast appetite for high-quality, on-demand entertainment,” said Ashwin Navin, President and Co-founder of BitTorrent.

“As a leading entertainment content supplier across all media platforms, MGM is pleased to have such a significant role in launching BitTorrent’s groundbreaking and valuable online consumer destination,” said Rick Sands, COO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. “MGM’s library, the world’s largest modern library of high quality film and television entertainment programming, appeals to a wide range of consumers and should drive significant traffic to the new BitTorrent Entertainment Network.”

BitTorrent to offer movies legally, using Microsoft's DRM

2007-03-29T22:56:00.006-07:00

BitTorrent will launch a download service offering movies, music, TV programmes and games tomorrow (Monday), according to the New York Times.

The programming comes from studios, including Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Brothers, that previously announced their intention to work with BitTorrent. There is also a new partner: the 83-year-old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which will take part by making 100 films available on the site from its 4,000-movie library.

The story says:

The BitTorrent store will work slightly differently than rival digital media offerings like the iTunes Store of Apple and the Xbox Live service of Microsoft. BitTorrent will commingle free downloads of users' own video uploads with sales of professional fare. And while it will sell digital copies of shows like "24" and "Bones" for $1.99 an episode, it will only rent movies. Once the films are on the PC, they expire within 30 days of their purchase or 24 hours after the buyer begins to watch them.

New releases like "Superman Returns" cost $3.99, while classics like "Reservoir Dogs" cost $2.99. The studio's content plays in Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11. It is secured by Microsoft's antipiracy software, which blocks users from watching rented movies on more than one PC or sending them to others over the Internet.

So now you'll be able to use the same system to download a movie for free and keep it forever, or download it for $3.99 and have it expire a day later. Yeah, that'll fly....

How to send spammers “Copyright violation” DMCA notices for BitTorrent piracy

2007-03-29T22:56:00.005-07:00

My ISP have gotten quite a lot of spam lately from lawfirms about supposed BitTorrent piracy of movies and television shows I’ve never heard of - which is annoying. I also see quite a lot of crawling done by web spiders who do not obey robots.txt. These spiders look for e-mail addresses and spam them - which is also annoying. Can these annoying things be combined? Yes, they can.
“Copies of the Warner Brothers Movie “300″ are being torrented from your server identified herein”

..said one of the letters my ISP got from Marc Brandon, Vice-President, Anti-Piracy Internet Operations, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc a few weeks ago. The problem with their story is that the movie 300 was not being torrented from the server in question, the references file had never been on the server, and I had never even heard of the movie “300″ until I got this notice.

And more spam with claims of “Copyright violation” of other movies and TV-shows I’d never heard of - nor had on my server - ticked in at my ISP the following weeks.
How BitTorrent works

BitTorrent works like this: You download a torrent file which contains a HASH for a file and a tracker IP and port. Your BitTorrent then connects to the tracker, gets a list of other peers and then connects to these peers to get parts of the file(s) the torrent has hashes for.

It seems clear from the supposed “copyright violation” claims that the DMCA notice spamming corporations such as Warner Bros. hire corporations who just go to trackers, download the list of IPs listed there and then claim every IP listed on that tracker is somehow hosting a copy of their file.

However, trackers are just URL resources, just like other resources on the Internet - and look like this:

http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
?info_hash=%09%15%2A%5F%90%5Bh%80%84%EA%40p%3Fh%83%27%CE%2F%8C%F4
&peer_id=CeceshdyTiWhakceof
&port=7882
&uploaded=292230758
&downloaded=0
&left=1461153792
&event=started
&numwant=100
&compact=1

If you visit that URL then you’re supposedly sharing the file, according to Anti-Piracy Internet Operations at Warner Bros. It is also interesting to note that tracker URLs can be inserted in HTML image tags () on websites - which means that anyone who visits this sites (including web crawlers) gets their IP listed on the tracker - without sharing - or even having heard of - the file the trackers tracking.

But why are they spamming me?

Why are they spamming me with DMCA notices about files I’m not distributing and never heard of? Short answer: I don’t know.

Maby they just don’t like that I run The TorrentChannel, a legal BitTorrent site which documents Warner Bros. involvement with mass murderer and crimes against humanity and therefore make up that IPs used to seed legal torrents who are available at that site are somehow being used to distribute torrents who are not distributed from that site’s seed servers. They can’t just tell my ISP “This website presents information which goes against our propaganda, please shut it down”, but they can claim “copyright violation” of some random file.

It may also be that they actually visited a load of trackers, pulled down their list of IPs and spammed everyone listed in the trackers - including my servers IPs, if they were indeed on the trackers references in the DMCA-notice spams to my ISP. This could happen for a number of reasons:

1 . Some trackers are now adding random valid IPs among the trackers list of peer IPs. This may sound like a good idea at first blush, but if my ISP is getting spammed with DMCA notices because trackers are mixing in IPs of computers used to seed legal torrents among the tracker results of copyrighted content then those doing this should realize that the movie industry just spams any IP on a tracker, which means that the effect is that random people get spam from MPAA members because of it.

2. Computers used to seed legal torrents for The TorrentChannel are also web crawling for the search engine YacySearch.com. If this web crawler goes through a bittorrent website then it’s suddenly supposedly “violating the copyright” of a whole range of Hollywood propaganda producers. This is how I got the idea on how to make the movie industry send their spam to traditional spammers.

3. I support the Tor anonymity network by running Tor-servers. This helps people in tyrannical regimes like Norway and China use the Internet without fear of being tortured by their government for reading the wrong thing. It is possible to exit from the Tor-network and scrape a tracker. It is also possible to exit to BitTorrent clients from some Tor-servers - and this is covered by DMCA safe harbor. However, Tor exits can set their own exit policy. I want to support people who want to browse the web without fear of being tortured, but don’t see the point in supporting BitTorrent over Tor - so I block the typical BitTorrent ports at my exits. This means that if someone exited from my Tor exit to a tracker then that would be the only thing they were doing from my exit. It is not be possible to connect to other BitTorrent peers using the my exits, and nobody would be able to connect to the user who exited to a tracker through my exit-node.

So in summary: The only one of the above possible reasons for the numerous spam messages my ISP have recieved over the last few weeks about “DMCA Copyright Violation” which could even remotely have something to do with my servers would be that someone exited from the Tor-network and scraped a tracker.

Someone exiting from the Tor-network to scrape a BitTorrent tracker is not even remotely the same as “distributing content” - and that’s only one of the many possible reasons why the movie industry are spamming my ISP.

None of the claimed “pirated” files mentioned in movie industry spam my ISP has recieved the last few weeks were ever on my server. I had actually never even heard of the movie “300″ or HBO’s TV-show “Rome” before I got “copyright violation” spam which said I was “distributing” that content.

This clearly shows that the movie industry have no idea if those they send “copyrigth violation” spam to are actually distributing their content, and it seems perfectly clear that they don’t try to connect to any of the IPs they claim are distributing their content to see if they are actually running a BitTorrent client which is seeding the file in question, and so on. I use the term spam here because that’s how I view these claims now: It’s redicilous how many I’ve gotten the last two weeks and again: NONE of these claims were valid.

Now for the “gold”:
How to make DMCA notice spammers spam traditional spammers

A web crawler is a program which crawls the web and indexes websites content. Most crawlers are run by search-engines in order to make interesting pages appear among their search-results. The first thing a legitimate web crawler does when it visits a site is to download a copy of the Robots Exclution Standard instruction file robots.txt.

There are also quite a few web crawlers who are run by spammers. These crawlers look e-mail addresses listed in web pages and produce a list which is later used to mass-mail junk like viagra advertisements. Such crawlers generally do not obey robots.txt, most of them don’t even read it.

The trick that can be used to expose such crawlers is to make a hidden link to /trap/ in a web page and deny /trap/ in robots.txt. Human visitors don’t see the link and well-behaved web crawlers ignore the link because it’s disallowed. Nothing but misbehaved web crawlers, most of which are used by spammers, will attempt to access your /trap/.

What you should put inside /trap/ is a plain .html file with a bunch of links to popular BitTorrent tracker’s announce.php? URLs. This will make spam-harvesting web-crawlers visit your /trap/, find learn the links and then add themselves to various BitTorrent trackers when they attempt to harvest e-mail addresses using those links. “Piracy”-hunters for the movie industry will then see the spam-harvesting crawlers as BitTorrent users and then pass their IPs on to the movie industry’s various law firms - who will then spam the spammers with DMCA “copyright violation” notices!
One last thing…

Just a little note on piracy: Television shows like 24 are pure propaganda designed to promote the lie that the completely fake “war on terror” is real, that “Al-Qaida” is more than a myth and that torture is alright. Most Hollywood-produced movies and TV-shows are nothing but fascist propaganda. If you download copyrighted material produced by the mostly complicit-in-mass-murderer and highly criminal movie industry then you are indirectly supporting it. They can say “Oh, look, people are pirating our shows!” and claim that is why they spam those legally distributing content which goes against everything they would have people believe.

If everybody, including you, would just boycott the church of Hollywood and nobody viewed or downloaded their propaganda then they’d have to admit that their distribution model is a farse and that their lack of paying customers is due to their own stupidity. Suing the person who made it possible for me to view DVDs I bought and paid for on my own Linux-based computer?? DRM “protected” content, which you can’t even use on Linux?? Come on! The movie and music industries have loosing customers because they made it so hard to legally buy and use their products that it doesn’t seem to be worth it even if you really want to purchase their products, not because people are foolishly helping them spread their propaganda on the Internet using P2P software such as BitTorrent.. “Piracy” does provide a way to explain away their own mistakes, reasons to force new tyrannical laws upon the people and it even serves as a means to claim a higher number of viewers when negotiating “product placement” deals. Be aware that you are supporting the evil movie industry if you pirate their crappy propaganda content, even though the industry itself don’t realize - or won’t admit - that this is the case. Also, as explained above: If you’re supporting the movie industry then you’re supporting spammers.

KillerNIC Software Offloads BitTorrent

2007-03-29T22:56:00.004-07:00

A beta software download on the KillerNIC Web site allows users to download files via the BitTorrent network and offload them to a USB drive, without touching the main PC.

The concept of the KillerNIC PC card has been a tough sell, since the technology -- essentially a network interface card that has been tuned to eliminate network lag -- competes with the "free" NIC that has built into every desktop PC sold today. ExtremeTech gave it a favorable review but not a recommendation, as the value for money just wasn't there.

Now, however, there's an additional value proposition: an authorized beta application, Killer Bit Torrent FNA, which allows the independent downloading of BitTorrent files without the need for the CPU. On one hand, this sounds like a good deal: Because the KillerNIC is handling the download independently, the PC doesn't need to be bogged down while managing the file. On the other hand, dual-core CPUs and the relatively small footprint of a clinet like uTorrent, for example, sort of marginalizes the advantages.

Oddly enough, I think the most compelling advantage here is not that this functionality frees your CPU -- it's that it frees your I/O; specifically, your hard drive. Downloading torrented game demos and other large files can thrash your hard drive something awful. Since the downloaded torrent isn't touching your system drive, that means it's pretty close to an "independent" download. The kicker is that you still have to have your PC powered up.

The Human BitTorrent Swarm

2007-03-29T22:56:00.003-07:00

Following the forced closure of some of Bulgaria’s most loved BitTorrent trackers, the file-sharing peers of Bulgaria have done the thing they do best : they organized a human BitTorrent swarm in Sophia - and hundreds joined it to protest against the government.

After the Bulgarian government blocked access to some of Bulgaria’s most-loved BitTorrent trackers, the file-sharing community weren’t just going to sit back and take it. They decided to hold a demonstration and on March 15th the organizers applied to the Sophia Municipality for permission. It was granted and the protest - which was coordinated on internet forums - took place on Sunday, ending in the South Park.

And as you can see from this photograph, the Bulgarians are very passionate about this issue, turning up in their hundreds to offer support.

Mark Cuban: BitTorrent is Doomed

2007-03-29T22:56:00.002-07:00

The self-acclaimed guru of IPTV, Mark Cuban claims that P2P, and more specifically, BitTorrent is doomed. Apparently, “conflicting clients”, lack of knowledge, limited Internet plans, and “bandwidth premiums” are going to be jointly responsible for the death of BitTorrent.

So, here’s Cuban’s argument. He believes that from the business standpoint, BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer technologies are great. They save massive amounts of bandwidth and help efficiently distribute large media files, possibly even speeding up transfers. We agree with everything up ’til here.

But now he goes on to say that although content creators can profit from BitTorrent, users are getting screwed. Why? Here are his reasons.

# Conflicting Clients
# End Users don’t understand how P2P works
# The P2P model of seeding is a HUGE problem for those […] with bandwidth constraints or per bit or per minute costs
# There is a misconception that there is bandwidth savings for the end user

On conflicting clients he says, “When multiple clients are installed on a PC, not only does that create confusion among users, its a ‘last installed, first in charge’ approach. THat approach and lack of respect for other clients will lead to user configuration problems.”

Okay, number one, if you’re referring to file associations, ie. the most recently installed app is associated with the file type, then this “problem” is not limited to BitTorrent clients. Everything from graphic editors (Photoshop, Gimp) to music management applications (iTunes, WinAmp) do this. Secondly, if this causes confusion among users, then how do millions of people manage to get their music into iTunes and sync it to their iPods without accidentally having their mp3s added to the Windows Media Player library? This “lack of respect” isn’t so much about BitTorrent client developers trying to steal users from their competitors, as it is about how operating systems function today.

Onto point two. “End Users dont understand how P2P works, and once they do, they get concerned about giving up bandwidth.”

I hear BitTorrent transfers make up about one third of all traffic on the Internet these days. It seems rather likely that end users do in fact understand how P2P works. And unless their other online activities are hindered by BitTorrent or P2P, I don’t see users really having a problem with the uploads. Most don’t even bother uploading once their file has been download, and since the majority of users download torrents from public trackers, they aren’t forced to either.

Mark’s third point, “The P2P model of seeding is a HUGE problem for those using wireless broadband with bandwidth constraints or per bit or per minute costs. People are going to wake up and find that they owe Verizon, Sprint, whoever a lot more than they ever thought possible because they installed a client on their Laptops. That could lead to these networks blocking the protocol.”

Point three actually makes sense. The real problem here is miscommunication. In developing countries like India, ISPs milk customers for money by charging them for every MB downloaded, and in some cases, for every minute spent online. Some ISPs (Sify, for one) even lie about unlimited plans and have per-day limits (eg. 200 MB), which, if exceeded, cause the number of days the plan is valid for (usually a month) to be reduced every time the download limit is excedded. Someone I know actually ran up a bill of several hundred dollars because he thought he was on an unlimited plan, whereas in reality his ISP hadn’t processed his request to change plans. But as BitTorrent and P2P grow in popularity, users are quickly starting to demand ‘unlimited’ plans. If you look at the trend, ISPs are more likely to cash in on the P2P phenomenon and offer unlimited plans for a premium than start blocking protocols. And although per-bit and per-minute plans are widespread in developing countries, I don’t know how much of a problem they are to European, Australian and North American users.

Cuban’s last point is, “There is a misconception that there is bandwidth savings for the end user. If you want to download a 1gb size file, 1gb of data will be delivered to your PC. There is no savings of bandwidth on the client side. In fact, the client is charged a bandwidth premium because after they have received the entire file, they are asked to particpate in the peering by delivering parts of the file to other users.”

Guess what, the end user doesn’t care if he’s uploading bits while downloading. Unlike hosting providers, the user incurs no cost from constantly uploading data. It doesn’t matter, as long as he can go about his other activities. And unless he’s on a per-bit or per-minute plan, no “bandwidth premiums” are going to be charged to him. Also, no one is asking the user to “participate in the peering” (or simply, seed) once his download is complete. That is only a requirement of select private trackers.

When it comes to utilising BitTorrent in business, as part of a content store, I think Cuban’s looking at it the wrong way. When the various BitTorrent stores (BitTorrent.com, Zudeo.com) are up and running, content creators are not going to be getting a free ride. Users are not going to pay the same price they do at conventional stores like the iTunes Store and Amazon Unbox. Why should they? They’re acting as servers for content creators and are distributing content for no charge at all. But since money isn’t being deducted from their bank accounts, and seeding a torrent is not really affecting their web browsing, users are okay with uploading.
Keep in mind, this business model will only work if the rates at BitTorrent-powered content stores are significantly lower than conventional ones. In other words, users aren’t just going to let themselves be ripped off. If they feel they’re getting a raw deal, they’ll head straight to “illegal” torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Isohunt. In fact, that’s what users are doing right now!

I’m open to the possibility that I’m dead wrong. I don’t know, maybe Cuban is right. Maybe BitTorrent is in fact doomed, and the video streaming technologies he pioneered with Broadcast.com in the 90s will make a major comeback. I mean, who uses BitTorrent these days? Just a bunch of pirates, soon to be exiled to metal platform in the middle of the North Sea. Right? Right.

What do you think? Are the days of P2P over? Is the the balkanisation of BitTorrent imminent?

Everybody Loves BitTorrent

2007-03-29T22:56:00.001-07:00

The traditional method of distributing large files is to put them on a central server. Each client then downloads the file directly from the server. It's a gratifyingly simple approach, but it doesn't scale. For every download, the server consumes bandwidth equal to the size of the file. You probably don't have enough bandwidth to serve a large file to a large audience, and even if you did, your bandwidth bill would go through the roof. The larger the file, the larger the audience, the worse your bandwidth problem gets. It's a popularity tax.

With BitTorrent, you also start by placing your large file on a central server. But once the downloading begins, something magical happens: as clients download the file, they share whatever parts of the file they have with each other. Clients can opportunistically connect with any other client to obtain multiple parts of the file at once. And it scales perfectly: as file size and audience size increases, the bandwidth of the BitTorrent distribution network also increases. Your server does less and less work with each connected client. It's an elegant, egalitarian way of sharing large files with large audiences.

BitTorrent radically shifts the economics of distribution. It's one of the most miraculous ideas ever conceived on the internet. As far as I'm concerned, there should be a Nobel prize for computing, and the inventor of BitTorrent should be its first recipient.

There's a great Processing visualization of BitTorrent in action which explains it far better than I can. The original visualization is not only down semi-permanently, but also written for an ancient version of Processing. I grabbed a cached copy of the code and updated it for the latest version of Processing.

This meager little animated GIF doesn't do the highly dynamic, real-time nature of the visualization justice. I highly recommend downloading Processing and downloading the updated bittorrent visualization code, so you can see the process from start to finish on your own machine. It's beautiful.

But as as wonderful and clever as BitTorrent is, it isn't perfect. As an avid BitTorrent user, I've noticed the following problems:

1. BitTorrent is a terrible Long Tail client.

The efficiency of BitTorrent is predicated on popularity. The more people downloading, the larger the distribution network gets. But if what you want is obscure or unpopular-- part of the long tail-- BitTorrent is painfully, brutally slow. With only a handful of clients sharing the workload, you're better off using traditional distribution methods.

2. BitTorrent, although distributed, is still centralized.

Download work is shared by the clients, but how do the clients locate each other? Traditionally this is done through a centralized server "tracker", or list of peers. This means BitTorrent is vulnerable to attacks on the centralized server. Once the server is out of commission, the clients have no way of locating each other, and the whole distribution network grinds to a halt. There are alternatives which allow clients to share the list of peers amongst themselves, such as distributed hash tables, but centralized tracking is more efficient.

Also, in order to even begin a BitTorrent download, you must first know where to obtain a .torrent file. It's a chicken-and-egg problem which also implies the existence of a centralized server out there somewhere.

3. BitTorrent is unsuitable for small files, even if they are extremely popular.

The BitTorrent distribution network is predicated on clients sharing pieces of the file during the download period. But if the download period is small, the opportunity window for sharing is also small; at any given time only a few users will be downloading. This is another scenario where you're unlikely to find any peers, so you're better off with traditional distribution methods.

4. BitTorrent relies on client altruism.

There's no rule that says clients must share bandwidth while they're downloading. Although most BitTorrent clients default to uploading the maximum amount a user's upstream connection allows, it's possible to dial the upload rate down to nothing if you're greedy. And some users may have their firewalls configured in such a way that they can't upload data, even if they wanted to. There's no way to punish bad peers for not sharing, or reward good peers for sharing more.

Furthermore, every torrent needs a "seed"-- a peer with 100% of the file downloaded-- connected at all times. If there is no seed, no matter how many peers you have, none of the peers will never be able to download the entire file. It's considered a courtesy to stay connected if you have 100% of the file downloaded and no other seeds are available. But again, this is a convention, not a requirement. It's entirely possible for a torrent to "die" when there are no seeds available.

The BitTorrent model is innovative, but it isn't suitable for every distribution task. The centralized server model is superior in most cases. But centralized distribution is a tool for the rich. Only highly profitable organizations can afford massive amounts of bandwidth. BitTorrent, in comparison, is highly democratic. BitTorrent gives the people whatever they want, whenever they want it-- by collectively leveraging the tiny trickle of upstream bandwidth doled out by most internet service providers.

But just because it's democratic doesn't mean BitTorrent has to be synonymous with intellectual piracy. BitTorrent has legitimate uses, such as distributing World of Warcraft patches. And Amazon's S3 directly supports the torrent protocol.

BitTorrent, in short, puts distribution choices back in the hands of the people. And that's why everybody loves BitTorrent. Everyone, that is, except the MPAA and RIAA.

Pirate Bay gives diploma to King of Sweden

2007-03-29T22:56:00.000-07:00

Never shy of making the headlines, Bittorrent indexing site ThePirateBay.org announced in a blog that it has awarded a diploma to the King of Sweden. The site state that it is a "congratulatory diploma" regarding its "joint efforts in making Sweden famous globally when it comes to technology and culture".

The blog continues, "In these progressive days we've spread more files than ever. We've made history. We now have the honour to report that The Pirate Bay now archives 200 000, by the citizens donated, documents of culture and we're tracking more then 500 000 cultural treasures globally. This is a new world record." Has TPB decided to go cultural?

The Pirate Bay is notorious throughout the tech world for poking fun at major corporations and catching the attention of the masses. The fact that the site was raided by U.S.-backed Swedish Police raid in May of last year only appeared to boost the site's popularity. In fact, within a few days, it had bounced back with a larger following and a cheeky new logo (pictured).

Even more recently, The Pirate Bay came up with the idea of possibly creating its own country -- free from any governing body -- a place where digital content could be freely shared in peace. Whether or not the idea will materialize remains to be seen, however keen followers have already coughed up over USD 20,000 towards the idea.

The diploma to the King of Sweden is serious and legitimate, however, judging by the way the statement is written and taking into account TPB's history for mocking large organizations and authorities, one suspects this may be another headline-seeking tactic.

"We hope the King will appreciate our efforts and we have asked for an audience with the King or preferably the princess Madeleine," finishes the blog.

It's Fun!

Here is a Full List of Pages on itsfun.phoolish.org - Part 4

Here is a Full List of Pages on itsfun.phoolish.org - Part 3

Here is a Full List of Pages on itsfun.phoolish.org - Part 2

Here is a Full List of Pages on itsfun.phoolish.org

Top Ten Bone Breaks

lindsay lohan stripping video

white girl and indian girl dancing

As Good As Sex

Japanese Massage Parlor

Macrovision Tries to Plug the Analog Hole

BitTorrent, Joost To Create Competing TV Net Sites

BitTorrent launches BitTorrent Entertainment Network

BitTorrent to offer movies legally, using Microsoft's DRM

How to send spammers “Copyright violation” DMCA notices for BitTorrent piracy

KillerNIC Software Offloads BitTorrent

The Human BitTorrent Swarm

Mark Cuban: BitTorrent is Doomed

Everybody Loves BitTorrent

Pirate Bay gives diploma to King of Sweden

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