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The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud?
eldavojohn writes "After announcing the sale of The Pirate Bay to Global Gaming Factory X, it was unknown what would become of TPB. Details of the future plans have been released. 'According to Rosso, GGF plans to build a massive "storage cloud" on top of TPB that would use individual users as storage system's nodes. Apparently users can opt out for being part of the decentralized storage system, but then they'd have to pay a monthly fee for the service. More resources the user is willing to commit for the service, the cheaper the monthly subscription fee will be ... GGF's plan is to harness the resources users are willing to allocate to the cloud service and sell that computing power and bandwidth to 3rd party companies, essentially creating a service that could be used as a content delivery network (system that most large sites — including ours — use to deliver static content, such as images, software downloads and stylesheets, faster to the end user) or even as a web hosting cloud. As the service would use P2P technology, it could bring massive savings to ISPs, as the delivery of content to an end user would be provided from the closest possible "node," most likely from an user within the same ISP network.'"
Running a tracker is hardly special or unique. If you put up a paywall, we will simply go elsewhere.
We're happy to share bandwidth with each other, but we're not going to let you resell it.
I thought that the news was that they had stopped being one...Now that they're legit, they're just another torrent tracker for free/unencumbered IP that isn't hard to find a torrent for anyway.
Is their slow descent into irrelevance really deserving of multiple articles a day? They just posted the first satellite images of the Apollo sites, isn't that a bit more worthwhile?
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Yeah, I really want to be part of something where I am hosting other people's content and have no real control over it, for free! Especially when some of that content may be illegal (in the criminal sense) in the jurisdiction that I live (child pornography, etc.) or violate civil acts (such as health data, copyrighted material, etc.).
Would they pay you what it's worth? That's the real question. I mean, you'll have to keep your gear on, and be okay with them maxing your bandwidth, you'll have to buy new drives when they thrash yours to bits, and chances are, they'll pay you pennies.
It's one thing to do something like Folding@Home where all they're doing is swiping cycles and some ram space...That's just a bit of electricity, little extra heat in your house. Actual magnetic storage is a whole different world.
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this is megafail. Ultrafail. Failure to the 3rd degree.
So it's either let us use your computer to store other people's crap on it, or opt out and pay us?
You hear that noise? It's the sound of a company becoming irrelevant at the speed of the internet.
(sounds kinda like a drunk Mel Gibson screaming about Jews, doesn't it?)
Sent from your iPad.
Oooo! Oooo! I got this one!
Q: What makes this different from a Russian botnet?
A: It's in Sweden.
Q: What makes this different from a Russian botnet?
A: In Soviet Russia, botnet installs you! In Sweden, you have to install it yourself.
Q: What makes this different from a Russian botnet?
A: When your machine is a part of a Russian botnet, it's taking money from the RIAA. When it's part of the new "pirate" bay botnet, it's making money for the RIAA.
Does anyone still care? Seriously? It was a good torrent tracker, now it's gone. End of story. They have no reasonable path to legitimacy, the trial judgment will sap the vast majority of their assets, and their userbase will vanish when they stop carrying illegal stuff.
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But greed has, almost overnight.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Coda, and before that, AFS. Oh, and Lustre.
It's not a new idea. The only real difference here is that it's associated with BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay, and is designed to handle a whole set of problems you won't have, like untrusted machines communicating over the Internet, and how to compensate people for using their hard drive to store your stuff.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I don't care if legally or not I'm in the clear, I don't want police getting a warrant and stomping through my house, seizing my computers and generally making my life a pain in the a** if there's no benefit to me (no upside) and just a whole lot of potential risk (i.e. a huge downside). Now if I knew I was hosting content similar to what wikileaks hosts that would be a different story (doing something that has social benefit), but providing storage for free to a commercial company where I take on an unknown set of risks would be insane.