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Pirate Bay Receives Notice To Keep a Torrent

157 points by rpledge 16y ago

sandipagr 16y ago
simply awesome!
- sandipagr 16y ago
  I don't understand why I am downvoted for saying I liked the humor!
  - thehigherlife 16y ago
    not really adding to the discussion.
    - sandipagr 16y ago
      sure!
todayiamme 16y ago
Have you noticed something? They removed the torrent, but they refuse to do so under legal pressure from huge corporate empires. I think that this is an elegant proof that being genuinely nice to people works. Pirate bay is a site run by an organization for a political reason, but we tend to forget that it's made up of people too.
- jrockway 16y ago
  The message said they did a bad job cracking the software. Maybe they took it down, are doing a good job, and then they're going to put it back up. I feel that ego is a primary motivator for the piracy community. This does not feed it.
  - todayiamme 16y ago
    Look, the "piracy community" is made up of people with different motivations for why they do what they do. For some of them it's an ego satisfying game. For others, it's something else. So, I would rather look at them as decent human beings making a mistake. It just makes it so much easier to deal with anyone. Sometimes, being nice to people and holding them to a higher standard works. Irrespective of who they are, because genuine respect and decency combined with good humor is something so rare that it's a prized commodity.
    - kiba 16y ago
      They did not make an ethical mistake. Instead, they merely show what is inevitable. There are holes in the maps of hollywood that people ignored to their own perils. They could have launch business model experiment that doesn't risk much of anything. They could have adapted. They could find the truth as to what allow them to thrive. Even as a libertarian, I saw no wrong-doing in what pirates did. They copied, but did not steal. Even if they deprived somebody of their income, it is not sufficient to be a ethical violation of some sort. If it was, than whole disruptive business would be unethical. Chinese workers would be condemned for taking somebody's job.
      - jules 16y ago
        That's a ridiculous comparison. If the pirates were building the software instead of cracking it and selling it for cheaper that would be comparable. Pirates depend on a honest person doing the hard work for them. Chinese workers do not.
        indrax 16y ago
        Just because work you do benefits another does not entitle you to that value. Yes pirates cannot pirate what does not exist. That just means the market needs to find a way to pay content creation, instead of content copying.
        16y ago
- acabal 16y ago
  Well he wasn't exactly being "nice" to them, just mocking the skills of the crackers (which my mom wouldn't think is so nice). So maybe it's more of a testament to reverse psychology or the huge egos of the crackers than being nice.
- tzs 16y ago
  However, when they were asked politely by a family to remove a torrent of autopsy photos of the family's murdered children (just the photos--the family had no problem with the reports and other documentation on the murder case), TBP told the family, "That is one helluva gripe. No, No and again no." > Pirate bay is a site run by an organization for a political reason I was not aware that making money is a political reason. TBP is commercial. They are in it for cash and nothing else.
wwortiz 16y ago
The original reddit comment by the author here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d4z7q/when_you_find_your_software_as_a_cracked_download/c0xm28h http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d4z7q/when_you_... is actually rather interesting. If you delve deeper into the comments he actually gives someone a full license copy to someone that had trouble with the cracked version.
zeteo 16y ago
While this is probably unintentional, if it weren't then it'd make some pretty good guerrilla advertising for his software.
- DrJokepu 16y ago
  The cynicist within me thinks that it was intentional. These days almost everything viral has been designed to be viral.
  - dchest 16y ago
    I found the opposite to be true. Whenever I did something "guerilla marketing"-style, it never worked. Though, of course, the intentional part of this was that I took a screenshot to share with my friends and Twitter followers, but I never thought it would become that popular. (BTW, I took it and posted to Twitter in May, however it became hot when I used it as an illustration of my opinion in reddit comment.)
- deleted 16y ago
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acangiano 16y ago
I call this type of approach, Judo Marketing: where you use your opponent's strength to your benefit.
nandemo 16y ago
Dmitry Chestnykh is the guy who wrote "I Write Like": http://iwl.me/ http://iwl.me/

157 points by rpledge 16y ago

sandipagr 16y ago

simply awesome!

sandipagr 16y ago
I don't understand why I am downvoted for saying I liked the humor!
- thehigherlife 16y ago
  not really adding to the discussion.
  - sandipagr 16y ago
    sure!

todayiamme 16y ago

Have you noticed something? They removed the torrent, but they refuse to do so under legal pressure from huge corporate empires. I think that this is an elegant proof that being genuinely nice to people works. Pirate bay is a site run by an organization for a political reason, but we tend to forget that it's made up of people too.

jrockway 16y ago
The message said they did a bad job cracking the software. Maybe they took it down, are doing a good job, and then they're going to put it back up. I feel that ego is a primary motivator for the piracy community. This does not feed it.
- todayiamme 16y ago
  Look, the "piracy community" is made up of people with different motivations for why they do what they do. For some of them it's an ego satisfying game. For others, it's something else. So, I would rather look at them as decent human beings making a mistake. It just makes it so much easier to deal with anyone. Sometimes, being nice to people and holding them to a higher standard works. Irrespective of who they are, because genuine respect and decency combined with good humor is something so rare that it's a prized commodity.
  - kiba 16y ago
    They did not make an ethical mistake. Instead, they merely show what is inevitable. There are holes in the maps of hollywood that people ignored to their own perils. They could have launch business model experiment that doesn't risk much of anything. They could have adapted. They could find the truth as to what allow them to thrive. Even as a libertarian, I saw no wrong-doing in what pirates did. They copied, but did not steal. Even if they deprived somebody of their income, it is not sufficient to be a ethical violation of some sort. If it was, than whole disruptive business would be unethical. Chinese workers would be condemned for taking somebody's job.
    - jules 16y ago
      That's a ridiculous comparison. If the pirates were building the software instead of cracking it and selling it for cheaper that would be comparable. Pirates depend on a honest person doing the hard work for them. Chinese workers do not.
      - indrax 16y ago
        Just because work you do benefits another does not entitle you to that value. Yes pirates cannot pirate what does not exist. That just means the market needs to find a way to pay content creation, instead of content copying.
        16y ago
acabal 16y ago
Well he wasn't exactly being "nice" to them, just mocking the skills of the crackers (which my mom wouldn't think is so nice). So maybe it's more of a testament to reverse psychology or the huge egos of the crackers than being nice.
tzs 16y ago
However, when they were asked politely by a family to remove a torrent of autopsy photos of the family's murdered children (just the photos--the family had no problem with the reports and other documentation on the murder case), TBP told the family, "That is one helluva gripe. No, No and again no." > Pirate bay is a site run by an organization for a political reason I was not aware that making money is a political reason. TBP is commercial. They are in it for cash and nothing else.

wwortiz 16y ago

The original reddit comment by the author here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d4z7q/when_you_find_your_software_as_a_cracked_download/c0xm28h http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d4z7q/when_you_... is actually rather interesting. If you delve deeper into the comments he actually gives someone a full license copy to someone that had trouble with the cracked version.

zeteo 16y ago

While this is probably unintentional, if it weren't then it'd make some pretty good guerrilla advertising for his software.

DrJokepu 16y ago
The cynicist within me thinks that it was intentional. These days almost everything viral has been designed to be viral.
- dchest 16y ago
  I found the opposite to be true. Whenever I did something "guerilla marketing"-style, it never worked. Though, of course, the intentional part of this was that I took a screenshot to share with my friends and Twitter followers, but I never thought it would become that popular. (BTW, I took it and posted to Twitter in May, however it became hot when I used it as an illustration of my opinion in reddit comment.)
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acangiano 16y ago

I call this type of approach, Judo Marketing: where you use your opponent's strength to your benefit.

nandemo 16y ago

Dmitry Chestnykh is the guy who wrote "I Write Like": http://iwl.me/ http://iwl.me/