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We have something in America called "being an accessory" to the crime. This means that you stood by without attempting to stop the crime, even though you learned that it was about to happen.

Say that you're riding in the car with a friend when he suddenly pulls over. He looks at you and says, "I'm going to rob that bank over there." If you do nothing to stop him you become an accessory to that crime—and can be convicted by the judge for it.

What is claimed in the discussion here is that TPB is an accessory. They had knowledge but did nothing about it, and cannot be held accountable for their users, right? Arguably, since TPB created a site to share torrents on and had no piracy policy (but taunted everyone that complained) they become accomplices! They help the end-pirate find where to get his contraband.

We aren't talking about MegaUpload. At least with MegaUpload they can argue that there is no description of the file, and no way for them to inspect the data. No, we're talking about a site where it FLAT OUT SAYS that "this torrent has the cracked version of ..." or of a movie that hasn't been released yet.

Did you ever see a warning banner for piracy? Or a "warning, you must be 18+ to pirate these files?" So TPB can't be an accessory, and they can't be uninvolved. Just like you'd be held accountable if you handed a bully a baseball bat.

Oh, yeah, but that's US law. And US pressure on a foreign power. I agree with the anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA and anti-Hollywood sentiments expressed ... but when it comes down to a foreign country harboring pirates and saying, "Sorry, we can't do anything about it: it's legal here." Do you think that ANY world power would just drop it? Of course the US pressured Sweden to prosecute a group harming its economy/trade interests.

I can't believe how many here are defending TPB.
Only Storm and the designer would be able to answer those questions about the court case.

But in my experience doing web work for Storm over the past five years, I have never had any payment disputes. We also have an ongoing relationship because he does post-sound work for my films. It's a shame to see him smeared in a public forum because I don't think he deserves it.
This just gave me the motivation to write my own dev logs every day. Thanks!!
I agree with you 100% here Jamie. Any non-developer I have shown the bootstap styling to just says it looks very professional, even if it is the 'vanilla bootstrap site'. Admittedly, I do agree that it some customizing should be done since it is very simple, but I wouldn't say changing the button colors is world-changing.

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It just looks like you chimed in to show the negative side, but didn't even check out the new code.

Thank you to anyone who worked on the project, 2.0 is awesome. Responsive design is nailed down, adding and removing components is even easier than before and the docs are awesome. Good stuff here.
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There's also:

http://www.megaproxy.com/

http://www.proxywebsite.org/

http://hidemyass.com/

And hundreds more by searching "web proxy".
It's not just the trial.

This is the accumulation of decades of US interference in Sweden's sovereignty, resulting in laws and institutions that are in no way serving the Swedish people, nor any particular political ideology. And it is the same all over Europe. Our laws are not our laws. They've been bought and paid for (although not necessarily in cash).

Even if the trial itself was squeaky clean (it most definitely wasn't), and the verdict was a fair interpretation of the current law (highly debatable, but IANAL), the fact remains that these Swedish citizens are convicted for something that would never have been a crime in the first place had the US government and the US entertainment industry not thoroughly corrupted Sweden's legislative process.
(Of course) the data won't be free. They don't get it for free--"tape" fees are a major source of exchange revenue.

(Although it's possible some delayed feeds may be available, etc.)
Is that because of the technical achievements that Carmack has done (Carmack's Reverse, Fast inverse sqrt, etc.)?

You still have to give it to Notch for showing that you can make an extremely entertaining game while not pushing any hardcore boundaries, such as graphics. Perhaps this will inspire more people to get into software development.
Sorry, but that was an old post, it just felt appropriate :|
Often the filtering happens through your ISP's domain server rather than at a IP level.

The server might have e.g. *.thepiratebay.se forced to return an IP address then showing the blocking page.

The workaround is to use a DNS server outside of your ISP -- e.g. Google's 8.8.8.8 nameserver, or alternatively adding the known IPs to /etc/hosts (which might take precedence over a nameserver response depending on your configuration).
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I'm at work at the TU Delft right now, which lets me access thepiratebay.se, but I might test this with my Internet connection at home to see whether it is blocked.

If it's censored at the DNS level, you can get around it by using an open DNS server rather than your internet server. If it is censored at an HTTP level, then you can get around it by using HTTPS. (Although I just tried this and thepiratebay.se uses thepiratebay.org's security certificate.)

But if it's censored by IP address, then the problem is much more pressing and you'll have to use a proxy. One project that I will shamelessly plug makes your traffic indistinguishable from HTTPS connections, but it gets to be a bit slow (read: use it for twitter and text websites and metadata files, but not for downloading gigabytes of stuff), it is at https://www.torproject.org/ .

Open question for other Nederlanders: Is there any political activity focused on dismantling Brein's censorship that I can join? Is there a Dutch-centric EFF?
Only related in the sense that they reflect US government priorities for white collar prosecution. Their state department has been leaning on Sweden for some time to clean up The Pirate Bay [1]. And there's, of course, the recent MegaUpload news. Copyright enforcement is a critical issue for them, corporate malfeasance is not.

[1] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09STOCKHOLM141.html#par12
Yeah I think in retrospect this comment was sort of silly. We all read this post hoping that they were giving away a real time free financial data API (that would be huge), but really that's how they make money.

They just want to change their model a bit and have everyone able to access it easily by becoming a data API customer. It's probably a good move for them but I don't like the way they and the press covering this aren't mentioning that all it is is access to the same API as before without having to purchase the terminal now. (this is conjecture as I still haven't heard back)

Edit ... their response that confirms it:

Hello Travis,
Thank you for your inquiry.

The Open BLPAPI initiative is meant to present the API as a free-use technology,
but the Bloomberg content and data services from Bloomberg
are still licensed products.
Our goal is to give you the freedom to develop applications using the API,
and once subscribed to a licensed data
service from Bloomberg you would be able to access the content.

Regards,
Bloomberg Open Market Data Initiative
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It is always a good idea to keep ownership until final payment. This also increases the chance that you'll see money when a client goes bankrupt and is sold or undergoes a restructuring ("doorstart").

(nb: all based on NL law)
Or some users assume that by clicking the "unsubscribe" link you are actually confirming the email is read and might get even more spam.
Note that ths is just an API - to use it you still need to be a subscriber, and nothing they offer is cheap. In the tradition of their Excel APIs, this doesn't even come close to giving automated access to their entire database.

This API seems like a marketing tool designed to get people to build algorithmic applications around expensive real time feeds from Bloomberg.
At the time, I didn't bother to take screenshots of the tweets that were later deleted or the blog posts that were removed (since I didn't care enough and the designer had a relatively small audience).

In my heart of hearts, I was hoping the designer was just blowing off steam. I've been in the same situation before, where I think I'm right about a payment and the client disagrees, and it sucks, and I learned from the experience. I certainly didn't expect the designer to still be sore over it six months later, even after he claims he won the court case.
As far as Yahoo's search API (BOSS) is concerned, their product management has been helpful and straightforward to communicate with. They allowed us to bend the TOS our way and approved a special use case.
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> But a sound card is a complex thing that can be configured in umpteen different ways; what if the file has a different sample rate than the card is currently running at?

That's what ioctl does: http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/ioctl/
Feels like it needs a conclusion - if the method of designing websites doesn't work well for architecture, then what happens when you try and design a house like a website: what works surprisingly well, what leads to a less-than-optimal house or one that just feels wrong, etc? Does this demonstrate the author's original theory of the architecture flow of work being better, or does the beautiful house designed at the end of the article suggest that different workflows can still lead to a good product?
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I wasn't suggesting that all users require it, merely that a non-trivial number do; more for watching video with multichannel soundtracks than listening to music.
This is not an independent study or a "white paper". This is marketing for Identified. The study may be right or it may be wrong. But one thing is for sure: Identified has a vested interest to attract hackers to become members of Identified. So they publish headlines like this to make their way on to places like HN in the hopes it gets attention, and results in a membership bump. And by the 180+ upvotes I see as I type this, it's working.

You can trust that had the study resulted in MBAs being more likely to build and run companies, that this study would never have seen the light of day on its blog.
They are different. In months past I have been mashing up components of bootstrap with skeleton (as well as 2 excellent others, golden grid system and frameless by @jonikorpi) in order to have sensible css defaults that work responsively. GGS made some things possible without modification that were very tough to implement in skeleton (like the footer at the bottom of goldengridsystem.com)
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I always find it pretty sad that while everybody speaks about the integrated environments of Smalltalk and Plan 9, Niklaus Wirth's Oberon is almost left forgotten…
We have something outside America called "sovereignty". This means foreign powers are not supposed to dictate what we consider a crime or not.
So many sci-fi ideas to explore..

While scientist can't read "real thoughts" instead of audio signal, spies would be taught to think in a secret language, preferably each spy in a different one, and only translate it, when they need to speak with someone.

Maybe that's how Babel Tower happened :)

I also wonder, if "real thoughts" are universally identifiable between people. I guess not, so reading them will require calibration of thought-reader. So it (the reader) could be tricked by interrogated person, by thinking about different things/ideas in calibration phase, than interrogators want you to think about.

This allows for full blown fantasy style mind wars. Scary, but also cool.
That depends on your location. In NL the truth can get you in a lot of trouble.

Also not that the TOS tries to make the submitter liable for all damages _and_ cost : http://iwasntpaid.com/terms_of_submission
> They don't get it for free--"tape" fees are a major source of exchange revenue.

This is the truth. It's pretty outrageous the prices the exchanges charge for real time data.

Though to be fair they are pretty good about letting you pay for what you want.

Most offer:
- 15 minute delayed quotes,
- real time top of book,
- depth of book and the
- raw fast data feed with not additions.

Pick what you want.
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The press release, http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/bloomberg-open-pr.pdf, clarifies this. There's a footnote at the end.

"Bloomberg is offering its programming interface (BLPAPI) under a free-use agreement. This
does not apply to any content."
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So, what's the difference between this and the current (previous?) access model where you use their already existing API to interact with their systems?
The only difference seems that they have published the API and you dont need to have a real bloomberg machine in order to build your code around them.. am i wrong?
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Hi trebor,

The interesting detail is that downloading a torrent isn't illegal in some jurisdictions. Charging someone for aiding to a legal behaviour is a stretch that doesn't belong to criminal law.
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So the Pirate Bay is now a bastion of freedom that lets users in Syria and North Korea download the latest episode of Glee? (The current most popular torrent there). I'm a little confused about what their greater noble political purpose is.

To me it sounds like a place where you can get your TV shows in a more convenient way than waiting until they appear on channels you have, or download that movie you can't be bothered to pay $10-$20 to see.

How about real civil disobedience? Have TBP require to put in your full name and picture and the reason why are you downloading the full Microsoft Office package. Put that full list on the front page on TBP, let the government see the tens thousands of people who refuse to follow the unjust copyright laws and are ready to go to prison for breaking them. Now you're making a statement.

Or alternatively, produce your own independent content. Supposedly with today's technology it's easy and cheap. Wouldn't it be an amazing blow against this evil "MAFIAA" to one year from now go to TBP home page and see how the most downloaded file is not the latest Hollywood $250 million movie, but an independently produced short? If every user who tweeted against SOPA/ACTA would now tweet about that cool CC-licensed book/game/movie they just saw?
What am I supposed to do with a free programming interface if I have no access to the data? Maybe they want to "force" other market data providers to define a common standard for this kind of API? Or maybe they hope it will bring more third-party partners interfacing with their systems? I dont understand if they have also "test feed" that you can use to develop without an expensive agreement (afaik a bloomberg machine+service costs around 20k$/year)

EDIT: from one of their docs: "Bloomberg customers, non-Bloomberg users, vendors and third-party application developers can now adopt the interface for their
own use." and "Furthermore, Bloomberg is evolving its interfaces into candidates for an open standard. Under this initiative, an independent committee would be formed to manage the future development of BLPAPI, while ensuring its stability and openness"
http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/bbg-eps-open-market-data.pdf

sorry for not reading it before
Thanks for the link. (irrelevant: I like how he used wOOd to represent OO programming)
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I'm no expert in it but it sure reminds me of the offshore radio stations.

Offshore pirate radio stations were wildly popular in the 60s, they were considered illegal because they didn't have permission to broadcast the content.
They couldn't get a license so they went offshore.
What made the content illegal wasn't clear, it was somewhat of a legal grey area that allowed for the governments to do whatever they wanted.

The governments wanted control so they were fighting it with legislation, they jammed the broadcasts, they made it illegal to receive the content and they raided the artificial islands.
I'm not sure whether the government raided the ships as well.
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