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Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay?
I'm interested in what it would take to do something like pirate bay - frowned upon - perhaps. But im interested in an entirely different market.
Where and how would you start a project like this?
- mrtron 19y agoAsk YC? Ask rms! /funny because we laugh, funny because it is true
- rms 19y agoHost it at the PRQ and move to a country that won't extradite you to the USA. :)
- mrtron 19y agoI would also hire a team of ninjas to protect you! Move to Canada, and steal wireless from another igloo so you cannot be tracked. However, a serious drawback is that it will be dark 24 hours a day soon, and fishing is tough until the ice breaks in the spring.
- nickb 19y agoDemonoid was taken down by Canadian version of RIAA so I doubt you'd find any safety in Canada.
- OSM 19y agoeh, whats rms
- DanielBMarkham 19y agoYou a big fan of herbal teas? (Just kidding!) Inside joke. RMS is another poster on the board.
- weber 19y agoits like, as opposed to pmpo, the real thing
- idea 19y agoBut Richard Stallman has a katana. Or is he a Ninja Pirate?
- nailer 19y agoAnyone else get excited the first time they saw a post from someone called 'rms' on a site based around hacking?
- joeguilmette 19y agothere are a variety of open source bittorrent trackers out there that are easy to set up an administer. it's similar to many other sites, easy to set up, hard to get people to use it. the software is the easy part, the community is not.
- rms 19y agoApparently the open-source bittorrent trackers scale horribly. Oink used a custom bitorrent tracker, and waffles.fm and what.cd had bumpy starts because the free trackers they were using couldn't handle the traffic.
- joeguilmette 19y agoall three of those us the same base - torrentbits. torrentbits is an awful tracker. you ever wonder why oink spent like $30k/mo in server fees. why do you want to use bittorrent to distribute files?
- rms 19y agoWhat do you recommend for distributing files?
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- joeguilmette 19y agowell, unless you want to share linux distributions, there aren't many legal. reasons to run bittorrent. most large files that need to be sent are already sufficiently monetized that distribution isn't an issue.
- rms 19y agogotcha, I misunderstood your post above. It's said that 40% of internet traffic is bittorrent and surely 90% is illegal. Piracy is definitely one of the killer apps of the internet.