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The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Now 20 Years Old

lloydatkinson 3y ago
> A Harvard student had yet to start writing the first lines of code on a new idea, called “TheFacebook”. YouTube wasn’t around yet either, and the same was true for the smartphones that dominate people’s lives today. > At the time, all popular entertainment was consumed offline. People interested in watching a movie could use the Internet to buy a DVD at one of the early webshops, or sign up with Netflix, which shipped discs through the mail. However, on-demand access was simply not a thing. At least, not legally. Is there a word for this trend of dumb journalism? Where subject matters are explained in dumb and "relatable" terms, except it's totally unneeded on a website literally called torrentfreak, full of subject matter experts? That's like posting an article on the basics of boiling water in a culinary institute's newsletter for seasoned chefs. I guess it must be for the SEO word count?
- AdrianB1 3y ago
  Probably the article is written for people that will read it in 20 years. Sorry, 200 years.
- mnau 3y ago
  Is it? I would wager that many people who read torrent freak weren't even born back then. I personally have very limited knowledge what happened before i was born, other than what i learned in history class and it wasn't much. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- unethical_ban 3y ago
  >full of subject matter experts? There's your mistake. I don't think any of these blog/news sites cater to subject matter experts. And what's an expert? Knowing DHT protocol?
  - lloydatkinson 3y ago
    This is possibly the dumbest take
- AlwaysRock 3y ago
  I think its flavor rather than actual explanation. Setting. Tone. Let me take you back to a time when x was true... instead of just saying, "20 years ago x happened."
xtracto 3y ago
I still remember sites like SuprNova.org and later mininova sites that were some of the first public Bittorrent sites I discovered. Although before that I was a heavy Emule and Kazaa user, and I also remember WinMX fondly (the only place where I could find PDFs of Game Developers Magazine, in the early 2000s). While most of my friends where pirating MP3s, I was hungry for PDFs, books and the like.
- Rinzler89 3y ago
  >I was a heavy Emule and Kazaa user Hope you had a good antivirus
  - xtracto 3y ago
    Those were wild days indeed haha.
  - hulitu 3y ago
    I never had any problem. Maybe it was related to what you downloaded.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
  Oh glorious days then, glorious days now. Long live piracy! I so love the whole community.
  - xtracto 3y ago
    I think the current state of file sharing is not as good as before. Even on the gray areas of the internet such as sharing of copyrighted work, the "profiteering" of the "contemporary internet" has taken over the "sharing is caring" mentality if yesteryear. Now you have private torrent sites requiring stupid questionnaires and invites, iptv subscription based sites, and ad ridden sites... inmkss the simplicity of emule, soulseek, Napster and their ilk.
    - crtasm 3y ago
      Last I looked Soulseek was still going strong. Try the Nicotine+ client.
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kome 3y ago
I uploaded this in 2005 and you can still download it today: https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=3306963 https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=3306963 - enjoy some good mp3 music. And thanks the lonely seeder - I wonder who you are, but you are awesome, besides having impeccable taste in music. That's the Internet I love, sharing is caring.
- derkades 3y ago
  Can you share the magnet link here? I am unable to access pirate bay
  - ProllyInfamous 3y ago
    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6B8EA13DC39F31DC558102F8AC8BEC112746A281&dn=Hatfield%20And%20The%20North%20-%20The%20Rotters%5C'%20Club%20(UK%20Prog-Canterbury%20&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bittor.pw%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce
joak 3y ago
Oral history: First torrent was uploaded circa 2002 by Bram Cohen's brother. It was a video of his metal band playing live. But BitTorrent really took off when redhat played this dirty trick: their distro was free to distribute but you had to pay to download it. (free as in free speech, not as in free beer). Bram paid to download it and made it available with BitTorrent. The torrent of the iso kept running for more than a year with thousands of downloads. BitTorrent was alive. Soon BitTorrent represented 30% of all internet traffic and was the primary reason to get xDSL internet access. Before writing BitTorrent, Bram worked on a project named mojonation, when released it was slashdotted and didn't stand the load. Bram learned from this experiment and wrote BitTorrent in ~6 months. (source: I met Bram Cohen + p2phackers mailing list)
- hulitu 3y ago
  > But BitTorrent really took off when redhat played this dirty trick: I think it took off when Kazaa and DCC was crushed. It competed with eMule.

> A Harvard student had yet to start writing the first lines of code on a new idea, called “TheFacebook”. YouTube wasn’t around yet either, and the same was true for the smartphones that dominate people’s lives today. > At the time, all popular entertainment was consumed offline. People interested in watching a movie could use the Internet to buy a DVD at one of the early webshops, or sign up with Netflix, which shipped discs through the mail. However, on-demand access was simply not a thing. At least, not legally. Is there a word for this trend of dumb journalism? Where subject matters are explained in dumb and "relatable" terms, except it's totally unneeded on a website literally called torrentfreak, full of subject matter experts? That's like posting an article on the basics of boiling water in a culinary institute's newsletter for seasoned chefs. I guess it must be for the SEO word count?

AdrianB1 3y ago
Probably the article is written for people that will read it in 20 years. Sorry, 200 years.
mnau 3y ago
Is it? I would wager that many people who read torrent freak weren't even born back then. I personally have very limited knowledge what happened before i was born, other than what i learned in history class and it wasn't much. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
unethical_ban 3y ago
>full of subject matter experts? There's your mistake. I don't think any of these blog/news sites cater to subject matter experts. And what's an expert? Knowing DHT protocol?
- lloydatkinson 3y ago
  This is possibly the dumbest take
AlwaysRock 3y ago
I think its flavor rather than actual explanation. Setting. Tone. Let me take you back to a time when x was true... instead of just saying, "20 years ago x happened."

xtracto 3y ago

I still remember sites like SuprNova.org and later mininova sites that were some of the first public Bittorrent sites I discovered. Although before that I was a heavy Emule and Kazaa user, and I also remember WinMX fondly (the only place where I could find PDFs of Game Developers Magazine, in the early 2000s). While most of my friends where pirating MP3s, I was hungry for PDFs, books and the like.

Rinzler89 3y ago
>I was a heavy Emule and Kazaa user Hope you had a good antivirus
- xtracto 3y ago
  Those were wild days indeed haha.
- hulitu 3y ago
  I never had any problem. Maybe it was related to what you downloaded.
ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Oh glorious days then, glorious days now. Long live piracy! I so love the whole community.
- xtracto 3y ago
  I think the current state of file sharing is not as good as before. Even on the gray areas of the internet such as sharing of copyrighted work, the "profiteering" of the "contemporary internet" has taken over the "sharing is caring" mentality if yesteryear. Now you have private torrent sites requiring stupid questionnaires and invites, iptv subscription based sites, and ad ridden sites... inmkss the simplicity of emule, soulseek, Napster and their ilk.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    Last I looked Soulseek was still going strong. Try the Nicotine+ client.

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kome 3y ago

I uploaded this in 2005 and you can still download it today: https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=3306963 https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=3306963 - enjoy some good mp3 music. And thanks the lonely seeder - I wonder who you are, but you are awesome, besides having impeccable taste in music. That's the Internet I love, sharing is caring.

derkades 3y ago
Can you share the magnet link here? I am unable to access pirate bay
- ProllyInfamous 3y ago
  magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6B8EA13DC39F31DC558102F8AC8BEC112746A281&dn=Hatfield%20And%20The%20North%20-%20The%20Rotters%5C'%20Club%20(UK%20Prog-Canterbury%20&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bittor.pw%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce

joak 3y ago

Oral history: First torrent was uploaded circa 2002 by Bram Cohen's brother. It was a video of his metal band playing live. But BitTorrent really took off when redhat played this dirty trick: their distro was free to distribute but you had to pay to download it. (free as in free speech, not as in free beer). Bram paid to download it and made it available with BitTorrent. The torrent of the iso kept running for more than a year with thousands of downloads. BitTorrent was alive. Soon BitTorrent represented 30% of all internet traffic and was the primary reason to get xDSL internet access. Before writing BitTorrent, Bram worked on a project named mojonation, when released it was slashdotted and didn't stand the load. Bram learned from this experiment and wrote BitTorrent in ~6 months. (source: I met Bram Cohen + p2phackers mailing list)

hulitu 3y ago
> But BitTorrent really took off when redhat played this dirty trick: I think it took off when Kazaa and DCC was crushed. It competed with eMule.