Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay?

Posted by OSM on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @06:09PM
from the self-post dept.

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?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by mrtron on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @06:20PM (#82207)

Ask YC?

Ask rms!

/funny because we laugh, funny because it is true

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by rms on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @06:49PM (#82220)

Host it at the PRQ and move to a country that won't extradite you to the USA. :)

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by mrtron on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:10PM (#82268)

I 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.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by nickb on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:52PM (#82306)

Demonoid was taken down by Canadian version of RIAA so I doubt you'd find any safety in Canada.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by idea on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @07:15PM (#82239)

But Richard Stallman has a katana. Or is he a Ninja Pirate?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by nailer on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:09PM (#82266)

Anyone else get excited the first time they saw a post from someone called 'rms' on a site based around hacking?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by OSM on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @07:10PM (#82236)

eh,

whats rms

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @07:14PM (#82238)

You a big fan of herbal teas? (Just kidding!)

Inside joke. RMS is another poster on the board.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by weber on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:03PM (#82264)

its like, as opposed to pmpo, the real thing

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by joeguilmette on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @07:56PM (#82260)

there 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.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by rms on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @07:58PM (#82262)

Apparently 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.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by joeguilmette on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @08:37PM (#82278)

all 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?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by halo on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:21PM (#82297)

OiNK's tracker was rewritten in its entirety by one of the admins.

I seriously doubt they spent $30k/month on server fees (citation?), but it wouldn't surprise me if they spent a lot - do consider they needed to servers with an ISP that wouldn't shut them down, the sheer amount of requests (300,000+ users, each of their torrents announcing every 60 min, plus startup and shutdown).

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by rms on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:06PM (#82292)

What do you recommend for distributing files?

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by joeguilmette on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @12:56AM (#82368)

well, 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.

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Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay? by rms on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @12:59AM (#82369)

gotcha, 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.

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