"I'm feeling lucky"? Pffft. They'd better be, trying to make a name in this space against Excite and Lycos and Yahoo.
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Edit: 2005. https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-and-mpaa-join-forces/
That's all you needed.
2. Because there are some fundamental issues - slowly getting cleared - on issues of search, procedure, etc
3. Because the legal system can take a bloody long time to achieve anything
A few initial thoughts: 1. It took 2-3 hours to add in the whole KAT db. No problems in parsing the data from what I could tell, but a long time to do it. Maybe that's my machine but it's not ridiculously slow. I'm not going to be adding in the bitsnoop db of 24m+ torrents at this rate.
2. Pulling up 'browse' takes 45-50s just with the KAT stuff indexed and it takes that long every time I click on browse. Could you add some kind of caching to that page?
3. There's no paging. It loads a page of results and no more.
4. Search is very very fast. Would be nice to be able to specific the category when searching.
The main thing it's missing that makes other sites good is all the ratings, seed/leech data, comments, meta data. I wondered, maybe you could do a large scrape of KAT every now and again that grabs all of that and provide it to people as a kick-start to their database....? Then they only need grab updated files every day or something.
So if I installed this, I would (for the moment) currently need to grab the dump from KAT or Demonoid or wherever, extract it, and add it to the database...? How does it deal with duplicates from the same site - or the same infohash found on different sites?
Ummm. What? Is there some secret Valleywag of which I'm not aware other than the one that is just a gossip site aimed at silicon valley types?
"Technical" refers to industry, machines, science. Sticking "ology" on the end means the study of that. There is no value judgement about it implying better or worse.
There's a pretty awful explanation here that references the same 'better' phrase (http://becocapital.tumblr.com/post/64275006972/did-you-know-...):
The word technology comes from two Greek words, transliterated techne and logos. Techne means art, skill, craft, or the way, manner, or means by which a thing is gained. Logos means word, the utterance by which inward thought is expressed, a saying, or an expression. So, literally, technology means words or discourse about the way things are gained.
... but again, no implication at all that craft or skill implies better. I think there is a fundamental confusion somewhere along the way between 'technology' and 'innovation' which does imply better or improved. Google for Horowitz and the 'better way of doing things' and you find he's using it on a regular basis. Maybe it makes him feel better about things?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="a%20better%20way%20of%20d...
Surely most people reading this will know the quote linked without having to even click it.
This isn't right. The Digital Economy Act said 'Ofcom can go think about whether site blocking would work'. Ofcom took forever and ever and still hasn't reported back. In the meantime, the music industry took action under the existing copyright act (from 1997) to try and block some sites. The ISPs opposed the action. The court granted it. After a few of these, the government said 'great! you don't need the DEA to block sites then so we'll abandon that'. There was no secret lobbying to get sites blocked - the legislation was already there and in place.
Just signed up for a trial. Really looking forward to it. A couple of things: 1. The sign up process is SO EASY. Fantastic - wish other sites would make it so simple. Choose your level of service, pay, done. Fast and quick.
2. Email newsletter signup? Didn't notice one. Would be a great way to keep people who pay for gift subscriptions in the loop.
3. Provide a custom email for people who have bought a gift subscription. At the moment, it's just the link. If you provided a page or sample email that was like 'Hey, I've bought you a subscription to Candy Japan!!!! Here's what happens... etc etc' - I think it would make the impact of the gift greater.