El Reg reports:
The Pirate Bay has poked Big Content's sore spot again, by erecting a site for mobile devices at themobilebay.org. [blocked in some countries]
The new site doesn't do much beyond features offered by The Pirate Bay's other ventures. The site's overseers told Torrent Freak that "The normal version of the site renders like crap on mobile devices", an experience the small-screen version seems designed to improve.
BitTorrent clients exist for Android, iOS devices (after jailbreak), and BlackBerry, so the existence of a mobile site does make it possible more torrents will land in mobile devices.
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Dutch movie director Martin Koolhoven sent out an unusual request on Twitter a few days ago.
While many filmmakers fear The Pirate Bay, Koolhoven asked his followers to upload a copy of his 1999 film "Suzy Q" to the site.
The filmmaker had become fed up with the fact that copyright issues made his work completely unavailable through legal channels. "Can someone just upload Suzy Q to The Pirate Bay?" Koolhoven asked. To his surprise, pirates were quick to deliver.
RT reports that:
The incarcerated co-founder of torrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has found a new way to be a thorn in the back of Swedish authorities holding him. He demands that his religious needs are met with a visit from a Kopimist priest.
Earlier Sunde complained that the Västervik Norra prison, where he is serving a term for assisting in copyright infringement, can't accommodate his vegetarian diet choice, a problem that has already resulted in him losing 5 kg in weight.
The Church of Kopimism (wikipedia) is a peculiar phenomenon. Founded by a group of self-styled internet pirates four years ago, it holds sacred the copying of information and people's right to do it without restrictions. It even declared keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste commands Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V as its holy symbols.
In December 2011, at its third attempt it was officially recognized as a religion in Sweden and now enjoys all the legal protection that goes with the status.
So, is this a case of religious oppression?
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @12:01AM
Damn you! It's not mobile if it's not hosted on a pirate ship at sea, you misleading sack of fucking shit.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Monday July 28 2014, @12:36AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @01:49AM
thousands
At least.
You just need the right perspective
I figure about 67k. [google.com]
Maybe someone else knows the distance to the center of the galaxy and that orbital period and can recalculate from that.
...then there's The Local Group...
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @01:59AM
The universe is expanding so fast that we are being separated from distant galaxies much faster due to the spacial expansion separating us. At least the red shift tells us so.
Speed is just a relative property anyways. No matter how fast you're going as long as you are traveling (sufficiently?) slower than the speed of light then light will always appear to be traveling at the speed of light relative to you. Speed is just a relative property of any two objects. So relative to an imaginary object traveling faster than the speed of light we are traveling faster than the speed of light as well.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Monday July 28 2014, @02:30AM
Just wait until this is combined with NFC, IR, and WiFi mesh networking.. ISP be damned.. (and their masters)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @09:47AM
Would if I could
Pity my router doesn't support mesh nicely
When we have $25 mesh routers with trivial configuration (net limit 20k via tor etc by default, auto mesh management, etc) then isps can GTH except for when high speed or high bandwidth is needed.
Napster, DC, BT, gnutella will rise again
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 29 2014, @02:06AM
Perhaps some magic stones with transceivers and storage will be popular. Thanks to a certain European island to come up with that idea ;-)
(Score: 1) by richtopia on Monday July 28 2014, @04:43PM
It has been a few months since I last looked, but I was surprised by the lack of options as far as a BT client for Android. An old Android device seems to be a decent miniserver, given it has networking and a build in battery backup with low power draw, but I haven't seen much in the way of apps to take advantage of it.
Does anyone have experience with the BT apps that are on the market, and if any are worth a damn?
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday July 28 2014, @05:01PM
This seems kinda useless. I use TPB from my phone all the time; I've never had any problems using it. It certainly does NOT "render like crap" -- it renders exactly the same as on the desktop! Makes it a *bit* weird since it's designed for landscape and the phone is portrait, but that's not really a significant issue. At most all it needed was an alternate stylesheet...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @05:35PM