Lost Hacking Documentary Surfaces on Pirate Bay

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19 points·jordanmessina··5 comments

I love how Wired post a direct link to the pirate bay just in case someone who reads wired can't navigate to TPB and find it themselves :-)

Problem is if they didn't know how to navigate and find it from TPB chances are they won't know what the hell a torrent is...

My point was that the typical Wired reader wouldn't need ah, help with finding the torrent in question. Plus the fact that Wired seems to be encouraging piracy - although in this case you can see their point.

Personally, I like it when news media posts a direct link.

My local paper does exactly the opposite all the time -- For example, they'll say how there was a huge uproar over some local police man kicking a thug the other night and it was caught on youtube. Guess what they never post the link so now I need to search youtube, arg.. just makes scene to post direct links!

Hacker News would be fun if we didn't post direct link ;) haha

Happens all the time with science reporting too. They'll have a story about a new scientific paper, and you're lucky if they give you enough details to look it up yourself, let alone an actual link to the paper online somewhere. I'm usually happy if they at least include the full title so I can google it, and they often don't even do that.

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