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The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

jrepin writes "After nearly 9 years of seeding The Pirate Bay's oldest working torrent is still very much alive. Interestingly, the torrent is not a Hollywood classic nor is it an evergreen music album. The honor goes to a pirated copy of Revolution OS, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement."

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  1. It's a good documentary by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic. Oh, obligatory link in case you want something even easier than torrenting.

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    1. Re:It's a good documentary by Aaron+B+Lingwood · · Score: 4, Informative

      Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic.

      Thanks for the new word. First time in a while I had to head to the dictionary. A Wikipedia snippet for others that don't know this word:

      Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art. The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek word (didaktikos), "related to education and teaching", and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.

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  2. Re:still a crime by GPLHost-Thomas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not everyone lives in California. Downloading is legal in Switzerland for example (and there's other places where it is).

  3. Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    TPB _HAS_ older porn (and other stuff) than this movie.... The truth is just not as interesting as this story. And the movie is also not the truth but a spiced up political anti MS version of it. Linus wrote Linux because of the high price of the Unixes at the time (his own words at the time); Microsoft had nothing to do with it.

  4. Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by aNonnyMouseCowered · · Score: 4, Informative

    "TPB _HAS_ older porn (and other stuff) than this movie"

    Citation required. Please provide links so I may satisfy my academic curiosity.

    Seriously I can find porn several decades older than the said movie, but TFA is talking about the torrent file itself. You might upload your VHS rip of Deep Throat today but that won't make it older than the torrent of this movie.

  5. Swing and a miss by bythescruff · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was posted yesterday on Reddit, and refuted there as well; a couple of porn torrents are older.

    Link: After nearly 9 years of seeding...

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