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Because it's the law?

They haven't imposed DNS filtering - or at least, as implemented by almost all UK ISPs, the DNS lookup performs as normal.

The user looks up the IP address of the site they want to visit via a DNS lookup and is provided with the correct IP addres. However, if it's for kickass.so (on the blocklist), the ISP detects traffic to the IP of that site as it attempts to pass out of the ISP's network and blocks it.

Also, most of the work to get sites blocked via court order in the UK (not by some secret lobbying deal, but through the courts) has been done by the music industry, not the MPAA.

There's a wonderful article[1] in London Review of Books in which Andrew O'Hagan, hired to be Assange's ghost writer, gradually becomes convinced - from a position of admiration - that Assange is a confused and vainglorious narcissist who has little interest in spreading information and far more in spreading the cult of Assange. It's long but utterly engrossing.

[1] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

And a company pushing users searching for a music track to YouTube as a first result.

I went with what I have to type into National Rail Enquries where it's London Kings Cross and London Liverpool Street and etc etc. Knowing it took the data from NationalRail, this seemed the obvious approach.

"No stations match 'london kings cross'"

Can you try and persuade me that TPB wasn't making substantial revenue when you have millions of daily visitors and a hell of a lot of ads? It seems a pretty simple assumption to make. What factors were in place that stopped that revenue flow?

Seems to be dead already. No code commits since early August, /r/bit451 has tumbleweeds...

The site had 50m uniques a month. At least 2-3 ads on every page. Even at a terrible CPM rate or CPC conversion rate, they'd have to be ansolute morons not to be making oodles of cash from that setup.

That's not a pirate bay domain in the sense that they own it. It's just a proxy and so as the main site is down, that is too.

Off topic but for anyone that might have some of it, is the Minecraft lego worth what appears to be an exhorbitant price, even compared to the other themed sets? Youngest daughter is desperate for some but when Lego is about a close a real-world representation of Minecraft as possible, I don't want to shell out just to get the theme...

> When people refer to VK being a clone of Facebook

The 'clone' label comes mainly from the fact that the site was originally a copy of FB right down to the colour scheme. The two sites have diverged significantly since then, of course, but if you'd removed the logos and presented the two sites to someone in the first couple of years, they would have been hard pressed to pick them apart.

VK is also remarkably popular in Russia, etc, because of the massive amounts of copyrighted music and film material stored on the site that Durov steadfastly refused to remove. It helps with your popularity when one of those 'many features which FB does not have' is an unlimited stock of pirated content accessible for free....

He did. He called her (though she has no idea how he got her number) and asked to speak off the record.

No, really. He did. "Hey Sarah, I realise there's this massive story blowing where I threatened to wage war on you and your family and I know you're a high profile journalist in this area but can we just have a quick friendly chat off the record?"

Scroll to the bottom of her article: http://pando.com/2014/11/17/the-moment-i-learned-just-how-fa...

Ditto.

Bram Cohen has been working on some p2p video client for years and I don't think he's ever even released an alpha. Given that (i) typical residential broadband speeds have increased dramatically over the last few years and (ii) bittorrent or some form of it has become the accepted means for cheap live video streaming by clients the world over (qvod, pps, popcorntime, etc etc), I don't see what issues he might be facing.

Does that matter? The joker.org server is doing the p2p download bit and streaming the content to the browser.

It's likely that it's caching material for torrents. I tried Guardians of the Galaxy and could skip almost all the way to the end of the film when it had only just begun.

Tried an mkv from NYAA: no go, format not supported (loads to 100% but then gives the error)

Different mkv from Kickass: format not supported (without loading, apparently, though I wonder if it's cached given that it was Guardians of the Galaxy)

TV episode of Gotham: same as for previous

Something is happening because it says e.g. 'Gotham' in the top and retrieves a nice faded background of the cast but I keep getting 'format not supported'

EDIT: seems to be my browser or connection; trying a different machine on a different IP and it works very nicely and quickly indeed.

Can you share the script on a pastebin or something? Sounds like an excellent solution.

I understand the possible use of 'seen' in the headline but in this context it would be taken by most readers as 'observed'. Sloppy sub-editing at best.

"Seen" making? I think they mean "imagined" or "might make" or "in the wild imaginations of someone looking for funding".

Video here: http://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2014/oct/15/serbia...

Greenwald didn't mention this supposed email once. He talked about the mass surveillance of NZ citizens only, evidence for which is pretty substantial. That is something he would have validated. No one, as far as I can tell, has said that Dotcom's email came from Snowden or Greenwald or anyone connected to them.

A main question for me is how dotcom got hold of his email. There is no mention that it came from Snowden's leaks or similar, though it appears that this is what Dotcom is wanted everyone to believe: host an event highlighting mass surveilliance of NZ citizens, publicise an email hours beforehand, hope everyone conflates the issues and thinks that the legitimacy that Greenwald and Snowden lend to the surveillance event is passed onto the email.

Personally, I doubt the CEO of a major company like WB would send an email outlining this kind of agreement, especially when he says that Key told him 'in private' that such and such would happen. I'm not saying it didn't happen but would the CEO of a major movie studio be careless enough to put this in the clear in an email? Half the employees of a place like WB are lawyers...

I am surprised that Greenwald and Snowden are choosing to reveal all this at an event that seems to have been orchestrated by Dotcom and prefaced by his typical self-publicising exaggerated rhetoric.

Me too. It gives the first two letters of a pw that I have used in the past but as far as I'm aware, not on that account. This raises all kinds of questions...

Edit: it does the same on a much older account that I rarely use, too. Not the current password but the first two letters of what is likely a much older pw.

The benefits of a registered taxi in London are obviously a lot more significant than getting to Parliament from the station four minutes quicker than Uber. I'm sure you understand this and you're just commenting on the speed of passenger delivery.

Safe is the word but BitTorrent Inc have a habit of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. They've released so many little products over the years. Sync is one of the few examples that has gained some traction. I'd have expected some kind of live streaming beta if there was a decent example around. But from what I've read, he seems to want to market it to legit networks and distributors and they are not going to do business with BitTorrent Inc.

China is so far ahead of the west in real-time (and live) peer to peer streaming. Look at video systems like QVOD (now dying after state intervention), Xigua, JJVod: they all have a central tracker and use swarms of users to supply realtime video streaming. PopcornTime was a decent example of this but China's been doing it for years - it was live television streaming over p2p first with PPLive, PPS, Sopcast, etc and this then morphed into streaming of films and television. All use a slightly modified version of bittorrent. Most use bittorrent hashes to mark content.

I still can't understand why this has been Bram Cohen's main focus for the last few years and he still doesn't have a working prototype.

The first thing I looked for was the shoulder strap and it's a relatively thin piece of leather with a slightly wider piece of leather that adjusts. No padding, so far as I could see. Much of the weight of the bag will be placed where that strap goes over the shoulder. I ride with a Chrome bag [1] which has superb padding for the shoulder; further, the way it attaches to the bag means that the bag sits in the centre of the bag remarkably comfortably. I used this daily for years when I worked as a bike messenger. Sure it gets heavy and your shoulder will show some redness but that thing could carry incredible loads. I don't think your bag is really aiming at the same thing, lovely though it looks, but I'd be wary of packing yours full of large laptop plus camera plus a book plus etc etc.

[1] http://www.chromeindustries.com/media/catalog/product/cache/...

I think the point is 'works like clockwork'. And as the other user said, I'm not prepared to test out your service if you require a registration and sign in before I can see anything about it.