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]

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?

[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Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic.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Very outdated, but still incredibly interesting and didactic.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

[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

[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: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.

Re:still a crime

[thegarbz]

You just misspelt USA, USA, USA and USA.

Re:Pirated copy?

[nedlohs]

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

Re:still a crime

[Graydyn Young]

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