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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. Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by gubon13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You just blew my mind...

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    3. 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.

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

      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...

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  2. 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:It's a good documentary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

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

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

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    4. Re:It's a good documentary by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

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    5. Re:It's a good documentary by mrclisdue · · Score: 3, Funny

      You promised to never share our secrets in public.

      It's over.

    6. Re:It's a good documentary by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

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  3. Tautology Club by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Tautology Club by cheesecake23 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  4. 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).

  5. Re:still a crime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:still a crime by crutchy · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  7. Re:still a crime by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Funny

    You just misspelt USA, USA, USA and USA.

  8. 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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  9. No the real irony is... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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  10. Re:Pirated copy? by nedlohs · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  11. Re:still a crime by Graydyn+Young · · Score: 5, Funny

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