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New web proxy up

I have just created a new proxy site, which can be found HERE. Enjoy. It was made from the base called something like PHPproxy beta, I don’t really remember.

Enjoy

Tags: Programming, proxy

Pirate Bay.org - Torrent Tracker

This article talks about “The Pirate Bay”, a large Swedish torrent tracker, and about the supposed problems it brings to the phonographic industry. The site was already shut down once, but only for 3 days, as national protests emerged saying that the United States forced the Swedish parliament to undertake action against the activities of “The Pirate Bay”, which were and still are legal under the current Swedish law.

The information system here is the networked servers of “The Pirate Bay” and the complex programming structure that makes it tick. A user that wants to download the newest television show episode will go their website, and input their query which will result in the site indexing all the torrent files it could find, along with vital info such as seed/leech ratio. The programmer in The Pirate Bay team is as of now coding a new and improved p2p program that would enhance the security of the users using it. Also, “The Pirate Bay’s” servers don’t actually host any content; they merely index it, which as of now is legal in Sweden.
The main ethical issue that The Pirate Bay brings up is intellectual property, as the files that this tracker indexes are mostly programs, music and films which are all copyrighted. A representative of the phonographic industry is arguing that if people download music for free, it reduces the revenue, which leads to the companies not being able to pay the artists, which sounds rather like a joke. Founders of The Pirate Bay are arguing that they still go to cinema, they still go to concerts, and they tell their friends to, so in fact they are contributing to the profits of the music industry. They also say that when technology advances, the process can’t be reverted and that the industry just has to accept downloadable music as a reality. The Pirate Bay team brings up a great comparison - “Nobody is crying that people who used to go around selling ice to people do not have a job anymore because of the fridge”. They are also saying that if, by any chance, the Swedish law changes and makes it illegal to host a torrent indexer, they’ll just move to another country that doesn’t have a problem with it.

The area of impact of The Pirate Bay is most definitely Arts, Entertainment and Leisure, as it allows people to download gigabytes of copyrighted music/video content which both serve entertainment purposes. One of the stakeholders, the phonographic industry, explains that this kind of activity totally destroys the Entertainment industry, while the users, also stakeholders, don’t give a damn and download what they want; a number is quoted that 1-2 million people in Sweden download content using torrents. The government is as of now not doing anything as they think there is no plausible solution, and The Pirate Bay team is enjoying themselves from the money they get from the on-site advertisements.

Original Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7120845.stm

Tags: piratebay, torrents

Flixey.com - Programming Community

Flixey.com is my friend’s website. Has some good programming tutorials.

Visit it

Cyriak’s animation mix

This has got to be the weirdest animation/video I’ve ever seen…. This guy has to have a lot of imagination.

Tags: animation, cyriak, weird