The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS

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."

Comments

Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[gubon13]

You just blew my mind...

Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft had nothing to do with it.

Apart from spending decades trying to kill it.

Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm more impressed by the torrent of the whole geocities webpages (600GB+) with only one seeder.

Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[aNonnyMouseCowered]

"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.

Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[bedouin]

I'm tempted to download just the torrent file and see if I can find a friend's page from '97 or so, then leech that part of it.

Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn?

[kenh]

I was under the impression that Linus was inspired to "scratch his own itch" by creating Linux not because of "relaxed social safety" but because he had just gotten a new i386 computer and he wanted an OS that would take full advantage of all the features in the chip, and his then-current OS (MINIX) wouldn't do that, so he set about to implement a 80386 version of MINIX.

Wikipedia supports this idea, and it is curious to note that he made his famous announcement on comp.os.minix, not, comp.os.look.at.what.i.can.do.because.of.our.relaxed.social.safety newsgroup...

It's a good documentary

[Stormwatch]

Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic.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

Re:It's a good documentary

[Aaron B Lingwood]

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.

Re:It's a good documentary

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

Re:It's a good documentary

[crutchy]

well fuck me drunk over a bar stool sideways

Re:It's a good documentary

[Aaron B Lingwood]

Unless English isn't your first language, you're a fucking retard.

Oh, my very own troll. Can I keep it?

Re:It's a good documentary

[Lumpy]

You wont want to, they smell bad and have no imagination at all. They tend to repeat the same thing over and over like a broken furby.

Re:It's a good documentary

[mrclisdue]

You promised to never share our secrets in public.

It's over.

Re:It's a good documentary

[Larryish]

YYEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

(insert cheesy glam-rock music here)

(cut to shots of places you'll never go and boats you can't afford crewed by women you can't have)

Re:It's a good documentary

[cbiltcliffe]

Quite sure.
Mostly because, in America, anything to do with thinking is somewhat frowned upon....

Tautology Club

[pushing-robot]

The Pirate Bay's oldest working torrent is still very much alive

In other news, the oldest living man is still alive, and the oldest standing structure hasn't yet fallen down!

Re:Tautology Club

[cheesecake23]

The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club!

Re:Tautology Club

[toygeek]

"What is Tautology?" is a rhetorical question.

Re:Tautology Club

[Fluffeh]

Oh lordy, welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department.

Re:still a crime

[GPLHost-Thomas]

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

Re:still a crime

[Anonymous Coward]

Not everyone lives in California.

Okay, see, right there? You just lost 90% of Slashdot, either to blowing their minds out of their ears or to complete stodgy disbelief that the world ISN'T split into exactly four areas: California, Flyover Country, Japan, and Miscellaneous.

Pirated copy?

[Spy Handler]

Why would you need to pirate it? Shouldn't a documentary about free open source movement be.... free?

Re:Pirated copy?

[nedlohs]

Just a documentary about the moon landing should land on the moon?

Re:still a crime

[crutchy]

you forgot unimatrix zero and endor... this is slashdot after all

Re:still a crime

[thegarbz]

You just misspelt USA, USA, USA and USA.

Swing and a miss

[bythescruff]

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...

[QUOTE] The Great Philosopher

[purpleidea]

"Think of Richard Stallman as the great philosopher and think of me as the engineer." -- Linus Torvalds

No the real irony is...

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

it's in a patent encumbered, non-open format! Even worse, it's inside of an AVI container. :)

Re:still a crime

[Graydyn Young]

Ugh, Americans. I bet you couldn't even point out Miscellaneous on a map.

Re:still a crime

[GPLHost-Thomas]

Do you think it's moral that so many actors from Hollywood are millionaires? Do you think these studios care about morality? Do you think they care about morality when the RIAA attacks a mother, and try to make her pay 100k USD for 12 songs? Do you think that they don't do enough money maybe? Do you think it's normal that there is a copyright for 70 years, and that they never stop extending it? What do you think of the Mikey mouse Liberation Front, and Disney making money out of stories currently in the public domain, but fighting for their copyrights?

Do you think it is moral to disconnect someone from the Internet, even if needs it for work? Do you think it's moral that private company are becoming judges?

Trying to fool anyone with this concept of moral is useless, we all know it's not on the side of Hollywood and the RIAA, and even less on the side of the ISPs.