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Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized
SmugJerk writes "Authorities are continuing to apply pressure on Sweden's filesharing community amid the trial of several principals of The Pirate Bay filesharing site. Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies."
If 65 terabytes of porn has just been removed from the net it could very well be the largest tragedy that the internets have ever encountered. Just thinking of such a tragedy brings a tear to my eye.
Backup server, anyone?
Gee, I guess that's why the one seeder of the torrent file I was downloading went offline. Strange, I shuddered with pain when it happened, like 65 terabytes crying out in astonishement as the server died.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
That's very amazing. Movie technology has existed how long now? If we're very generous and round it up to 100 years, then the world must have produced 160 movies per year, or nearly one every two days, for there to be that many.
Gosh, the box office has been busy, hasn't it.
What a well-organized network that must be to have such unmistakably identifiable persons (some even being computers!) among its membership under this absolutely new and unique trademark name. ;-)
Now where are the ships and home port of their evil "pirate" fleet?
If I wrote down all the files in 1s and 0s, how many football fields would that occupy?
Depends on the font size.
My pics.
Bah, 65TB? Wait till they discover what's in /dev/rand! I wish the cryptanalysts good luck!
node-def: a tactical hacking sim. Now in open beta.
For UK readers 65TB of files is the equivalent to an area half the size of Wales, 10 Wembleys, 3 Home Office Detention Centres or 12 double decker buses!!!
The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
"Mister Threepwood, it is MY experience that there are only two kinds of pirates: Those who are committing acts of wanton savagery, and those PLANNING to commit acts of wanton savagery!"
- Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M'Benga Chang Nehru O'Hara Casaba the Third, Monkey Island 4.
You're right. Internet discussion boards are rarely improved by the injection of factual evidence.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
65 terabytes? Shirley you don't need a full install of Vista just for a file server?
Come on... the "Libraries of Congress" gag has been done so it only left me with the "in Soviet Russia" line, "...profit" or generic Microsoft bashing. ;^P
Regards, Phil
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I'm going to internet meme hell for this comment aren't I?
No what am I going to do? I've got every mp3 in existance! I've got all color movies ever released, and then some. But now what? And don't say I'm stealing because I'd never buy any of this shit anyway.
Mmm hmm... and they all belonged to a network called "The Scene".. probably made with a "series of tubes"..
Soon you'll be wearing my sword like a shish kebab!
You're nothing; like me.
...major crackdown... ...one of the biggest pirate server confiscations ever ... ...international pirate network...
After removing this major source of piracy, the media industry will now post their biggest profits ever in next quarter as millions of consumers flock to buy the 16,000 movies they are now unable to download for free.
1. Bust pirates
2. Sell DVDs
3. Profit!
100 million consumers x 16,000 movies x 20 dollars per DVD = a shitload of money
Buy stocks while they're cheap.
Yes,
"The street value of the movies seized in this raid was estimated at 800 trillion dollars. According to the RIAA, for every movie shared on The Pirate Bay, seven film studio executives commit suicide, and twenty-three copyright lawyers buy Jaguars."
Can we get pictures of the brave Swedish Authorities who conducted this dangerous pre-dawn raid?
You are welcome on my lawn.
The pirates' naming convention was itself, pirated, from Monty Python's "The Piranha Brothers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirahna_Brothers):
The server was associated with a pirate scene, which they called, "The Scene." They formed a gang, which they called "The Gang." They ran operations, known as "The Operation, The Other Operation, and The Other Other Operation."
After becoming bored with Monty Python, they pirated the name of their network ring from "Buffy", calling it "Sunnydale."
Definitely a pattern of pirate behaviour.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
As always, xkcd got there first.
Atlas Shrugged?
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Sure. I tend to buy the 200g value pack. Maybe that's why I get it a little cheaper?
i have been smoking for 20 years and manage to keep my job, keep my family in going at a very decent standard
Although, apparently, the tar has leaked into your keyboard and broken your shift key.
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But is it cheaper than printer ink?
Interesting. Is that what Wall Street economists do as well?
Speaking of, if you're buying cocaine, please, for the sake of our economy, buy US-made stuff. Doing Mexican cocaine is unpatriotic.
"Unless you're Mexican, you insensitive clod"?
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
I wondered what the hell was causing today's havoc. I work at the local multiplex and it was just crazy all shift, queues right round the block. People were coming in saying "Tickets for _anything_, hurry,hurry! Keep the change!" and throwing handfuls of money at the till. We had to call for a security van to take the sacks of money away before they filled the whole office.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
And apparently TheRaven64, You are so desperate for some way to discredit the fact that potheads can lead normal happy productive lives that you will grasp at any straw to do so.
Sad really.
I didn't realise toking was so bad for your sense of humor!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Not quite. According to Wikipedia 1 liter of ink is about $3000, 30 kg is 30 L of water so 30 L would be about $60000 if ink has the same density than water. Of course quoted cocaine prices are for the US. 1M of coke in other parts of the world gives you much more substance. 1 kilo of coke can cost $1800 in Colombia (wholesale) but cost over $30000 in NYC. So by those standards coke CAN be cheaper than ink (don't sniff the paper)
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