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I love Pirate Bay for pushing the envelope with everything they do.

They have a lot of big lofty ideas but they often are unable to execute on them or they flop right after they get out the gate. Remember the time they were going to buy an island? Or when the bought the IFPI domain? The Suprnova relaunch? BOiNK? SlopsBox? ShareReactor? Baywords? ViO? The Video Bay? Also, and I can't find any info on this, but I'm pretty sure awhile back they claimed they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing.

I'm guessing this won't ever get off the ground, so to speak. It seems wildly impractical.

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That's just the point....Edison didn't invent the bulb on the first try. Apple went bankrupt (or close to it). Google hasn't found the next best thing, but they are not afraid to try. That's the point eh?

There is one thing people can't accuse TPB of, it is giving it all they have and being innovative. Look at all the things you listed. I haven't heard of half of them, which just proves my point even more.

Also, how is it that they are even still around? Didn't the supreme court of Sweden lock them down some time ago? I am CONSTANTLY surprised how these manage to keep going despite the opposition and keep coming up with new things.

It inspires me actually.

This is HN. We're regularly talking about startups, where most ideas fail.

I consider them resourceful in terms of producing new and interesting ideas and just about good enough in terms of execution. They're at least still around.

(yeah, it sounds impractical to me too)

they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing

I don't remember they planned to roll their own. I do know that they advocate Tribler, maybe that's what you heard about. It makes tracker sites such as TPB redundant as the whole database is stored in decentralized form.

This is exactly the kind of endless stream of intellectually stimulating but mostly infeasible ideas that manifest in the mind of an intelligent person who consumes a certain amount of cannabinoids.

( I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing. )

Hey, crappy infeasible ideas are not exclusive to people who consume cannabinoids :) , I have those too.

Now, if only my useless brain would come up with a non-infeasible and decent idea to turn into a startup... :)

Edit: non-flamebait, do the people behind TPB consume cannabinoids? I haven't read their bios.

Edit2: obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/553/

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