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Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission

31 points by Libertatea 14y ago

runn1ng 14y ago
my original submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5244196 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5244196
- t0 14y ago
  Thank you for doing this.
  - runn1ng 14y ago
    it's more for fun than anything
    - simias 14y ago
      It's not very useful given that there are no comments on your "original submission".
      - nitrogen 14y ago
        Look at his profile; he's the creator of the original submission.
        simias 14y ago
        Ooooh, I missed that. He should have linked his blog directly then, not the empty comment section. But point taken.
felipebueno 14y ago
It would be very cool (and useful) if they put that in some kind of version conrol (git, svn, etc).
- islon 14y ago
  I second that. This way if pirate bay got down everyone will have the last version of the site, not the 3/4/5 months ago version.
  - johansch 14y ago
    I think it will only go down if the people keeping it running stop bothering. They have stable network access covered via the Swedish pirate party. This party (which have two of Sweden's twenty seats in the European Parliament) have by doing solid work won a lot of legitimacy in media over the past two years or so, I think.
  - felipebueno 14y ago
    Yeah, think of the hundreds or even thousands of up-to-date mirrors we could have if they did something like that.
glogla 14y ago
Great work! I have some questions if you don't mind. I kind of wonder why you chose XML, and the page doesn't really elaborate on that much. Wouldn't CSV be much smaller (XML is pretty noisy format, though the 7z can probably take care of that) while at the same time more searchble? You can search CSV with just grep, with XML it gets little more difficult, and CSV is also more simple to load to a database in case someone wanted to make TPB web mirror or something. EDIT: sorry if I seem annoying :) but I had something like this on todo-list for a while, and you did my work for me, so I kind of wonder why you made different decisions.
- runn1ng 14y ago
  Well, it could be in CSV, yes, but - I was saving the comments, too, so right now, a torrent element has comment elements as sub-elements; in CSV would probably need to be two tables/files instead of one, which would get a little more complicated - I didn't want to think so much about escaping newlines (that are in the comments and infos) and the delimiters, right now I was only escaping < to < and > to >. - It was easier to check whether the script is working correctly or not (probably the top reason :) ). - I thought parsing XML would be easier than parsing some other format, since there are tools already available for that. But well, if somebody will really want CSV version he can easily transfer that from XML... ad edit: no problem.
  - jerf 14y ago
    "I didn't want to think so much about escaping newlines (that are in the comments and infos) and the delimiters, right now I was only escaping < to < and > to >." Then at the very least you need & -> & too. Alternatively, wrap the whole comment in CDATA, though don't forget to replace ]]> with ]]>]]<<!CDATA[ or something like that so you don't get spurious CDATA closures. (There may not be any in there now, but there will be once people hear about you doing this...)
    - runn1ng 14y ago
      Oh. Thanks for pointing that out, I think I didn't escape & -> &. I hope it won't make trouble to someone.

31 points by Libertatea 14y ago

runn1ng 14y ago

my original submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5244196 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5244196

t0 14y ago
Thank you for doing this.
- runn1ng 14y ago
  it's more for fun than anything
  - simias 14y ago
    It's not very useful given that there are no comments on your "original submission".
    - nitrogen 14y ago
      Look at his profile; he's the creator of the original submission.
      - simias 14y ago
        Ooooh, I missed that. He should have linked his blog directly then, not the empty comment section. But point taken.

felipebueno 14y ago

It would be very cool (and useful) if they put that in some kind of version conrol (git, svn, etc).

islon 14y ago
I second that. This way if pirate bay got down everyone will have the last version of the site, not the 3/4/5 months ago version.
- johansch 14y ago
  I think it will only go down if the people keeping it running stop bothering. They have stable network access covered via the Swedish pirate party. This party (which have two of Sweden's twenty seats in the European Parliament) have by doing solid work won a lot of legitimacy in media over the past two years or so, I think.
- felipebueno 14y ago
  Yeah, think of the hundreds or even thousands of up-to-date mirrors we could have if they did something like that.

glogla 14y ago

Great work! I have some questions if you don't mind. I kind of wonder why you chose XML, and the page doesn't really elaborate on that much. Wouldn't CSV be much smaller (XML is pretty noisy format, though the 7z can probably take care of that) while at the same time more searchble? You can search CSV with just grep, with XML it gets little more difficult, and CSV is also more simple to load to a database in case someone wanted to make TPB web mirror or something. EDIT: sorry if I seem annoying :) but I had something like this on todo-list for a while, and you did my work for me, so I kind of wonder why you made different decisions.

runn1ng 14y ago
Well, it could be in CSV, yes, but - I was saving the comments, too, so right now, a torrent element has comment elements as sub-elements; in CSV would probably need to be two tables/files instead of one, which would get a little more complicated - I didn't want to think so much about escaping newlines (that are in the comments and infos) and the delimiters, right now I was only escaping < to < and > to >. - It was easier to check whether the script is working correctly or not (probably the top reason :) ). - I thought parsing XML would be easier than parsing some other format, since there are tools already available for that. But well, if somebody will really want CSV version he can easily transfer that from XML... ad edit: no problem.
- jerf 14y ago
  "I didn't want to think so much about escaping newlines (that are in the comments and infos) and the delimiters, right now I was only escaping < to < and > to >." Then at the very least you need & -> & too. Alternatively, wrap the whole comment in CDATA, though don't forget to replace ]]> with ]]>]]<<!CDATA[ or something like that so you don't get spurious CDATA closures. (There may not be any in there now, but there will be once people hear about you doing this...)
  - runn1ng 14y ago
    Oh. Thanks for pointing that out, I think I didn't escape & -> &. I hope it won't make trouble to someone.