The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is “Revolution OS”

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March 17, 2013
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After nearly 9 years of seeding The Pirate Bay’s oldest working torrent is still very much alive. Interestingly, the torrent is not a Hollywood classic nor is it an evergreen music album. The honor goes to a pirated copy of “Revolution OS”, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement.

revol-os Later this year The Pirate Bay will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Quite an achievement for a site that has been dragged into lawsuits for the better half of its existence.

Looking ahead we wanted to discover the oldest active torrent to have survived all of these troubles.

After digging around for a while we found that the honor goes to a pirated copy of the documentary “Revolution OS.” The torrent in question was uploaded March 31, 2004.

At the time there were only a few hundred torrent files stored on The Pirate Bay, compared to more than 2 million today. Over the years just 15 people left a comment on the torrent and at the time of writing it has 27 seeders.

There is some irony in the fact that a “pirated” copy of a movie about Linux, GNU and the free software movement is the longest seeded torrent. Richard Stallman, one of the key figures in the documentary, will be proud.

Revolution OS director J.T.S. Moore has mixed feelings about the achievement.

“It’s definitely a problem, but I guess there’s some satisfaction in knowing that REVOLUTION OS still has appeal for some people twelve years later,” Moore told TorrentFreak.

Revolution OS

revolution-os

But is Revolution OS also the oldest active torrent overall?

No, that honor goes to another non-mainstream product. The torrent file that has been around for the longest time according to our knowledge is The Matrix ASCII.

We already crowned this one the oldest torrent back in 2005, and as of today it is still active with a few downloaders and seeders. The torrent file in question was created in December 2003 when The Pirate Bay was only a few months old and when Facebook and YouTube didn’t yet exist. Thus far, this torrent has survived a mind-boggling 3,333 days.

Since we’re talking about records we should also mention the largest and smallest torrents on The Pirate Bay. The largest active torrent is an archive of the late Geocities.com, that was shut down by Yahoo in 2010. small-torrent The 641.32 GB torrent is currently battling for its survival with just one seeder.

The smallest torrent, just over 3 kb, points to an Adobe Photoshop “crack”. In this case the torrent file itself takes up more disk space than the download itself. With more than 1,000 seeders this one is expected to be around for a while.

Next year the Revolution OS torrent is set to turn 10 years old, and we have a feeling that it will still be around to celebrate its birthday.

Update: The information on the oldest “active” torrent was provided to us by The Pirate Bay, with the criteria that it should have at least one seeder and one leecher. A commenter (vetyu) rightfully points out that there is a torrent that’s a few days older with 1 seeder and no leechers.

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- Guest007
  
  Actually, the oldest seeded torrent is this: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3211594/High.Chaparall.S02E02.PDTV.XViD.SWEDiSH-HuBBaTiX
  - xnadax
    
    “Seeders: 0″
    - WDoubleYouW
      
      Uh…, it has 2 seeders, not zero…
  - No News today?
    
    Yes, and there are other torrents which have seeders
    and were uploaded before this so called “older torrent”,
    even in the category of porn.
    
    “the torrent is not a Hollywood classic”
    Heh, TF is always biased for Hollywood movies.
Guest321

I expected the largest torrent on TPB to be a little bit bigger. I have seen torrents which are almost 1TB on some private trackers and still got a fair amount of seeders.
- djnforce9
  
  ~700MB Seems to be the size of a full length movie so that does seem about right. However, what’s surprising is how something like this has held people’s interest for so long (hence it’s still being seeded even today).
- GuessWho?
  
  was going to say the same thing
- eee
  
  bc most private trackers require u seed to keep a good ratio, and that the uploader seed their file for as long as possible, even some requiring that if ur file goes to 0 seeds, u must seed ur file u uploaded or get booted off
http://twitter.com/qwertyoruiop qwertyoruiop

I had that 700GB torrent on my seedbox. Used to seed it at 1Gbps :).
Hope someone can start seeding that one again!
- boral
  
  Keep it up.
- Mr_Joseph
  
  O_O 1Gbps seed ? do you live in other planet or something :/ 700KB/s max my eyes saw in utorrent :/
  - MrStonedOne
    
    1gbps == bits, not bytes, and its not hard with OVH or other eu based dedicated hosting co
  - Guest321
    
    Ever heard of servers? They are rented out by many data centers around the world. I have used 1GBPS VPS in the past but its not fun if the server’s hard disk can’t keep up with speed of download. uTorrent would keep showing “disk overloaded 100%” and the download speed goes down the drain. Servers on the low end of the budget probably use crap hard drives because at home my desktop HDDs can handle the 1GBPS speed of the home network with ease.
- eee
  
  why not seed urself and help out?
  - http://twitter.com/qwertyoruiop qwertyoruiop
    
    That seedbox died due to a billing disagreement with my ISP.
http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle

i often seed but delete from the client early as i need space. when i want to seed those again, i just put the file back from my pen drive or external drive and find the torrent file and load the trackers to it. sometimes the torrent is dead and i find 4-6 connections waiting with zero per cent downloaded, i get quite a kick to see them all working again, but too many hit and run, anyway , i think i have done my bit even if i don’t always go 1/1 or more. torrents will live for as long as we seed, and human nature is to share so it is going to be a long time until they all die, or is it toasted? don’t really know
- Boring Phil
  
  Humanity is clearly the problem here. As soon as that nasty little infection is expunged, everything can run smoothly, efficiently and securely, and copyright infringement will be a thing of the past.
  - Kenton
    
    Yep, now how to program the first alpha of Skynet…?
    - dumbGovBeatYouToItLol
      
      The US/UK military drone command &control network is ironically called SkyNet, and was officially said to be insecure and hacker control of drones was possible.
    - Kenton
      
      Shit.
king

Oldest… not largest
Evropi

Funny how the TorrentFreak editor uses a freedom-hating Operating System such as Microsoft Windows. ;)

Good article though, nicely dug that info up.
- Guest321
  
  Eh what?
  - Evropi
    
    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
    
    Linux is a free as in freedom operating system kernel.
- The_Strawbear
  
  It’s funnier that there’s 7 tracking cookies on the site.
- eee
  
  well sorry to nut in your cheerios but perhaps its a pirated version….. ;-)
TPB fan

Happy Torrents Day!!
- boral
  
  I think there should be a day with this name ….. or like Pirate’s Day…. in that case TPB’s birthday will be fine.
  - TPB Fan
    
    There is a day with this name and all torrent sites are celebrating this year on the 30th of March
- JordanKratz
  
  Happy Torrents Day to you to and it sounds awesome ! The Internet should all Vote on a Day to have a yearly Torrents Day ! I will google the Mar.30th day to see what I find per TPBFAN’s reply.
  
  And Fuck The MAFIAA Day ! A Yearly Event that goes on every day of the year !
Snake_Plissken

I’ll save you the trouble of watching the documentary – here’s the abridged version:

One student makes a semi decent clone of an OS invented by real software developers

Then cue 20 years of bickering and infighting about irrelevant bullshit like the pronunciation of ‘GNU’ and what window manager is better (even though they all suck), while the OS never gains more than 1% market share — all because neckbeards don’t get that you shouldn’t have to jump through hoops for every little use of your computer.

Meanwhile Windows and Mac OS advance in leaps and bounds in both functionality and usability — much to the dismay of the neckbeards.

The neckbeards continue to live in denial until this very day, shitting on the efforts of Microsoft and Apple, oblivious to the fact that they are living in the past and are about to go extinct.

The End.
- Brandon Hope
  
  Linux is a kernel not an OS, Linux was a Minux Clone which ended up being superior to majority of OS kernel at the time which helped it take off
  - Nillerz
    
    Right, but Richard Stallman is an annoying git, so I call any system running the Linux kernel “Linux”.
  - Austin Williamson
    
    Not Minux, UNIX.
- drkennethnoisewater
  
  So what about every high-dollar proprietary unix that has withered and/or died in its wake? Ask an HFT architect which OS he runs on his clusters.
- Guest
  
  linus is number #1 today because.. servers baby! that’s why
  - dsf89sdhf9
    
    And things like Android.
  - sss
    
    strange how internet worldwide stats show a much different picture…, it seems as if u wish it were true….
    - Jorge_C
      
      Better actually back that up with links to those statistics since the ones I’m finding show linux as a dominating force in the server market although not much more than windows servers.
- RIAAtarded
  
  It is an interesting film although your assessment is in the vein of someone who runs windows, knows little about other OS and assumes it is the best because that is what you see in all the big box stores for sale. you fail to realize that GNU is open source and free and that is the priority of it so how best to do that was a matter of a lot of debate. Also being open source you can create whatever you like out of it which has lead to a lot diversity, product development, innovation etc. Things that are actively stifled in closed source systems like MAC and Windows. Reality is a lot of stuff that ends up in both those OSes have origins in the linux world. Just stupid things like snap windows which was flaunted in a MS tv commercial as being a unique innovation in that release I’d been using for years. Still waiting on you to catch up with security and work spaces but you’ll figure them out eventually.
  
  It should also be pointed out that being the market leader in desktops is only a small part of the marketplace. One which is being eroded by the tablet market rather quickly. Reality is most users only need a tablet the majority of users surf, email, social network, the odd game which tablets address in a form factor that is very user friendly. In that area android has it in spades, open source allows for hacks and it to be more diverse and relevant longer. Hell I have the xoom which is the original google experience device and after 2 years am still able to run the latest OS that is only possible because it is open source. My ipad on the other hand was shelved as it is no longer supported and hasn’t been since May 2012. Just in my home my laptop is linux but so is the phone, tablet router, and TV. Server environments, well lets be realistic they are linux / unix, if you got a product you can’t change and one you can customize to your every whim it only makes sense to go with the free one you can do anything to as opposed to the one with annual licence fees you can’t.
  - Snake_Plissken
    
    Incorrect, although I knew someone would reply with this tired response. I actually have a RHCE certification and worked for years with CentOS, Fedora, Debian, among others. I have trudged through the forums, read the configs, and had many a sleepless night because of the lack of straightforwardness in these systems. People who know a little Linux like to swing their e-peen about as if they were really intelligent just because they deciphered the Da-Vinci-codesque landscape of the OS — really they just wasted their time on another redundant software package that will be replaced within a matter of months or updated to something beyond recognition.
    
    tl;dr: It’s a huge fucking mess.
    - Snake_Plissken
      
      Also there is plenty of decent open source and free software on Windows – MPC for example. GNU is not the be-all and end-all of open source.
    - The_Strawbear
      
      I’ve never bought separate software, other than the with-PC Windows OS. You can find free versions of everything you need these days.
    - LeJoker
      
      Just because you are personally incapable of dealing with open distros does not make them bad, it makes you bad. Certifications mean almost nothing, they’re in place to show non-IT based employers a general overview of your abilities without needing to know every technical word on your resume, so quoting those as a source of authority means nothing. I also find that people who use the term “among others” or similar actually have a distinct inability to list any others, and want to make their list sound bigger.
      
      tl;dr: Just because you can’t handle various distros does not mean they’re bad. It means you suck.
    - RIAAtarded
      
      what gets tiresome is the myopic viewpoint that there is one solution that rules them all or one is better or worse because you’ve failed to spend enough time with it to learn it or watch it mature. I’m an IT consultant and deal in all OSes on a daily basis. I started coding in basic and into OSX environments, Windows, then to linux and unix. As such I have an appreciation for what each can do and the value and limitations of each platform. Personally I prefer less limitation not more as it makes what I pay my hard earned money for more functional. Especially considering how quickly the technology becomes obsolete then mainstream support gets drops. Linux helps retask those products and pick up where the manufacture left off. In a lot of cases adding more into it making the product more appealing to a larger market for a longer period of time.
      
      Long and the short of it is everything has it’s place. Most users learn certain platforms because that is what they are introduced to not because it is the best solution. Then once you learn it many are resistant to shifting off of it to learn a totally new system. Generally that only happens if they become totally frustrated with ones shortcomings or need functionality their current system doesn’t provide.
      
      The movie is well worth seeing even if you don’t know linux or think it is to ‘hard’ which is a myth by the way. It is about freedom, the exchange of ideals, and allowing the user to decide what they want from it rather then being told what they got. I think with the popularity of android in the mainstream a lot of folks might appreciate it’s roots.
    - Roger B
      
      Glad you replied to that because his reply pissed me off. I concur completely in the original assessment. Except one point: KDE 3.x didn’t “suck” as a window manager. But yeah, infighting SEVERELY hampered the OS, and as for running servers, it sure does well on web servers. As for the enterprise? Microsoft developed Active Directory while Linux only had a sh*tty LDAP until Samba came along. Why is that? (Rhetorical.) It’s for the reasons Snake_Plissken cites, folks. Apple and MS lead the way and Linux’ developer community copies and follows. They make rock solid work, sure, but neckbeards’ burning hatred of simplified usability holds everything back.
    - Evropi
      
      Who needs LDAP when you have NFS? There are implementations for Windows too, but predictable, they are not very good.
    - RIAAtarded
      
      Well there are hundreds of linux distros so exactly which one has this infighting that makes it lag behind MAC and Windows? All of them? As to Active Directory it’s built on LDAP and kereros which is what you’re claiming is sh**ty. As to “the linux follows and copies” that is an obtuse statement. Apple or Microsoft would have sued them into oblivion long ago if that was the case and as pointed out earlier aspects of their market campaign, “this is my windows” wasn’t theirs at all as I’d strangely been using those features in another OS since 05 but MS invented them in 09 so the following along is out. Unless linux is lapping you?
      
      Usability? Simplicity? A linux install my last one at any rate took less then 20 minutes start to finish. Fully tweaked and updated. I can’t make that claim about any windows OS I ever had. Simple… hell ubuntu no a days anyone could run. Not a unity fan myself but searches are a breeze, apps in a bar to launch, need something? software, movie, book, all searchable.
    - Austin Williamson
      
      Downvoted @74d8c1d638090c37516ae9f17db96058:disqus .
      
      Innovation is not limited to MSFT or APPL. Case in point is the Cinnamon GNOME 3 Desktop. It’s clean, simple, extremely intuitive, and it came long before Windows 8 and hotcorners.
      
      Bam.
    - Dillon
      
      Wow, for a moment then, I thought I was reading a post atleast 5 years old. Just go check out something like ElementaryOS, that’s so easy even my mother likes it.
    - Austin Williamson
      
      I have my parents using Linux Mint. The traditional desktop, of course! Grandpa seems to like it too. Myself, I like the Cinnamon desktop more.
    - Ken D’Ambrosio
      
      Yeah… you’re a nincompoop. I mean, seriously. It’s not fragmentation so much as survival of the fittest. For example, that bit about Android: do you know just how many more Android handsets there are out there, vs. iPhone? The answer is “lots” — go check it out for yourself. Likewise, embedded systems. Corporate infrastructure is rapidly heading in this direction as well — the last two Fortune 500 companies I’ve worked at (including my current job) have wholeheartedly embraced Linux, and, indeed, my current employer is changing its entire back-end infrastructure to it because it’s just so much easier to manage and automate than Windows. (Example: we have several thousand WIndows servers that we’ve automated the Hell out of, and still need ~45 admins to cover. We have a similar number of Linux servers, and have *4* admims. If it weren’t for advances in continually pushing new vendor features, and dead hard drives, it could probably be even fewer.)
    - Jorge_C
      
      You must have some pretty harsh mental deficiencies if you still find Linux a “huge fucking mess” after getting red hat certified and using various linux systems. I’ve been administrating windows and linux server for about 13 years now and while I sympathize with newcomers who have trouble figuring everything out you sir should be way past this stage. The only huge mess is likely the one you created for yourself. I’ve had linux systems that ran smooth as butter with little intervention after setup and I’ve had to fix others that were messed to hell and back because of user impatience (not inexperience). You seem like this type of person im sorry to say. That’s perfectly fine though you are entitled to your own opinion and should stick with what you know. But your incompetence is what is the problem, not linux. If it was as horrible as you paint it to be no business in their right mind would use it. They would just end up paying people like me to fix it more than its actually being used for work, and this situation is simply not happening in the real world.
      
      In conclusion: Linux/Unix is here to stay as is evident by its own history. Its use is only increasing as small embedded linux controllers are used in damn near everything from cars and trains to rockets and phones and the attractiveness of low-cost servers starts to appeal more to small business and DIY server operators. As a consumer desktop OS however it still lacks in its general usability although this isn’t necessarily true for every distribution, some are quite well adapted to the new user experience. Complications with proprietary drivers and lack of a clear support structure are some hurdles still needing to be resolved but these are not serious issues for the majority of experienced linux users. Windows isn’t going anywhere either and its extremely effective as a server and consumer platform.
      
      tl;dr
      you are either lying about your actual experience with linux or you are just not the type of person to be working on such an OS (the type of person who finds it hard to learn in general as that’s all it takes).
      
      So what was so hard about reading the documentation and not messing with something you know nothing about? Linux doesn’t break itself, the user is always involved in one way or another.
    - LockedUp
      
      Thank you for this response. I laughed hard after reading he/she was certified but couldn’t find the power button. I’m just a hobbyist and I’ll admit it took a year with Linux as my main OS to begin to wrap my head around it (MAN pages are boring but useful and breaking my system annoying but a great learning experience). I now dual boot both Win and Linux and love each for different reasons. In all honesty when compared to Windows Registry, Linux actually makes sense (provided there’s adequate documentation). I do worry about Gnome 3/Unity/Mir/Wayland and Metro but we’ll see what comes of it. The beauty of Linux is I will still be able to run Openbox and X despite what corporate interests want but my Windows 7 days are numbered.
- codpieceyoke
  
  The neckbeards, as you call them, are more of a minority nowadays, albeit a vocal minority. They get a fairly large amount of coverage in documentaries because it’s a good way of covering the history and ideology of Linux in one go.
  
  The aim of Linux has never been “world domination” because, unlike Microsoft and Apple, Linux isn’t developed so it can be sold. The point of Linux has always been making a good operating system.
  
  Many users wish for a wider adoption of Linux-based OS’s because Linux is still superior in many ways. And more Linux users would mean more pressure for hardware makers and software developers to support their products on Linux. So that the “neckbeards” and other hobbyists wouldn’t have to do everything themselves.
  - Evropi
    
    Most hardware manufacturers do support Linux very well.
    
    It’s a shame so few people realise that over 90% of the code in the Linux kernel has been written by paid developers and over 75% of committers to the master repository per month are paid developers.
    
    So yeah, sorry to throw your romantic ‘neckbeard in the basement’ ideals out of the window.
    - RIAAtarded
      
      yup Dell and IBM both have linux PC / Laptop for sale now and I’m glad to see the shift. I’ve almost bought on a few occasion just to support the market even though I don’t technically need another machine.
    - Evropi
      
      Actually, I wasn’t referring to that, I was referring to components, where support is essentially flawless. :(
      
      The only reason that Windows is still so dominant in the consumer market, I believe, is because OEMs won’t take a risk and ship with a Linux distribution preinstalled instead of Windows. That way, the vast majority of customers don’t see beyond the Windows and Mac Operating Systems. A real shame.
    - RIAAtarded
      
      well i have a new ivy bridge setup with optimus graphics no issues and as i said i can currently build and ship from both with either windows or ubuntu as an OS choice. The ubuntu laptop although nothing special spec wise has been on a few times this spring for 299$. Great entry price IMO.
  - UraPhake
    
    “Neckbeard the Pirate” is a notable exception.
- The_Strawbear
  
  If MS keep with this stupid Win8 style OS then their market share might suddenly get shattered and spread around.
  
  I know unless MS alters for 9, then Win7 will be the last MS OS I ever have.
  - eee
    
    yeah pirate windows 7 with trojan removed (was a rat in there) works great…
- Ben
  
  I know your trolling, but….
  
  It doesnt sell much because nobody markets it to the masses. Fine by me.
  
  There are enterprise linuxs and companies like redhat do quite well for the commercial side of things. For the smaller business there is Centos and the like (which is the same thing, but free sans support which many dont need).
  
  Im sitting here at work on linux (proprietry software dev), and the other people in the room are all linux too. Home is a mix of linux, windows and a mac. People visit and use my linux machine on the TV no problems, its not even relevant what OS it is.
  
  The best thing about linux is that the money doesnt matter. If you want it, go for it. Download it, torrent, dont worry about getting raided.
  
  If it doesnt work for your purpose or you dont want to use it – no problem use something else. It’ll stay around.
- Anon
  
  1% of the desktop. If you’re using anything other than Linux when it comes to servers, you’re failing.
- Austin Williamson
  
  Beautiful satire. It was so beautiful I cried!
  
  In all seriousness, though, Linux has come a looooong way in 20 years. From a server-level kernel to a universal kernel, with dozens of window managers, thousands of distros, it’s a constantly evolving entity that just won’t die.
vetyu

The oldest torrent on TPB is actually High.Chaparall.S02E02, uploaded on 25th of march 2004. 6 days before revolution os.
- boral
  
  Is it ? Then torrentfreak should be reported about this .
  - vetyu
    
    I really was, you can go have a look for yourself.
    http://thepiratebay.se/browse/200/0/4
    - boral
      
      You are absolutely right . Good observation . There are 4 to 5 torrents which precedes Revolution OS.
- masau fuku
  
  It’s not active though (1 seed, no peers), unlike Revolution OS, which had 27 seeders and 4 peers at the time of the screenshot (it now has over a hundred of each…).
  - vetyu
    
    Active or not it’s still the oldest torrent on TPB i can find.
    If you want an active torrent which is also older than Revolution OS you can download all of Gyllene Tider’s hits, they’re an awesome Swedish pop group. Enjoy :D
    http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3211623/Gyllene_Tider-Samtliga_Hits-SE-2004-WLM
    - Mr_Joseph
      
      sorry don’t understand swedish yet :D TPB made in sweden is enough for me ;)
      Ah demonoid, never could have an account >< though ;(
    - Boring Phil
      
      Seeda tack!
      
      Considering how masterful Swedes are in English in various artforms, and pop in particular, one sometimes forgets they might sometimes like using their own language.
      *downloads* Skål!
- Guest
  
  <3 your profile pic
- ErnestoTF
  
  You’re right.
  
  We asked TPB find the oldest torrent in theri database with at least one seeder and one leecher. We should have made this clear :)
  
  Updated the article
  - vetyu
    
    Cheers for making that clear and quoting my username in the update instead of that guy on Reddit stealing my karma :P
    
    Keep up the good work, i always enjoy reading your articles.
boral

The Pirate Bay – The galaxy’s most resilient BitTorrent site ….. the description is very much justified as days went on.

Copyright holders, look how your creations can survive years after years through tpb…. so stop suing tpb and start to understand it’s importance .

Ordinarily, as days went on, old things ( movies , music etc. ) are gradually being forgotten. But through torrents they remain alive forever.
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http://www.facebook.com/terrence.a.davis1 Terrence Andrew Davis

Linux is for atheists. They are like the bad guys in Karate Kid. TempleOS is for good people. http://www.templeos.org
- bhwe
  
  Linux is for nerds only.
  
  Get a life use windows.
- http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle
  
  roads are for cars. windows are for looking through to the internet, doors are for listening to and and the web is for not getting caught in doing not what you are supposed to. bt gnome on the other hand is for out and out attacks on eveyrone and anything you can attack
- youlysses
  
  GNU/Linux has no religious affiliation one way or another. Terry, I don’t care if you want to showcase your work and if it is aptly tied to such things, but don’t make a false equivalence.
RIAAtarded

No matter which is oldest here I think the important thing to take away from it all is retention. I’m glad to see torrents staying alive this long and the fact one of them is about open source is a huge statement when you consider who the target group on this is.
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Mr_Joseph

O_O incredible history !
Just uploaded my 1st torrent this week in TPB :)
http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater

“Later this year The Pirate Bay will celebrate its 10th anniversary. Quite an achievement for a site that has been dragged into lawsuits for the better half of its existence.”

They’ve also achieved getting prison sentences and being in debt for the rest of their lives. Most likely they’ll be convicted also for running the business against court orders and for committing continued crimes since the raid in 2006. Quite a criminal achievement.
- craig
  
  Go away troll
- http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle
  
  sarky shister, bet you’ve never broken the law? i thought so,
- Liam JH
  
  Bob’s day off?
  Fuck off Nej
- icec0ld
  
  As if continued convictions have stopped them today. Doubt it’s going to stop them if more pour in.
- Fredrika
  
  > “They’ve also achieved getting prison..”
  
  You seem to confuse a couple of the previous operators, with the site in itself, which this celebration is about? Do you consider Apple to be dead, because one of it’s founders past away?
  
  > “..sentences..”
  
  From a trial where every single involved judge was biased according to both the European and Swedish constitution. A fact that you for months have been desperately afraid of even commenting on, because as the lying coward you are you can’t acknowledge that you celebrate unconstitutional trials and sentences. Lack of integrity and honesty is a trait you share with people celebrating dictatorships and fascist regimes.
  
  > “..and the and being in debt for the
  rest of their lives.”
  
  How little you know of economics for Swedish citizens. Ever heard of debt restructuring(läs: skuldsanering)?
  
  But then again, they really don’t care about that irrelevant circumstance, now do they. =)
  
  > “Most likely they’ll be convicted also for running
  the business against court orders..”
  
  You still haven’t figured out how non-penal judgements and injunctions work, what they do or mean? Damn you are slow. Any such judgements are completely uninteresting for the previous operators.
  
  > “..and for committing continued crimes
  since the raid in 2006.”
  
  Crimes? According to what judicial system and jurisdiction? Do you remember that you were warned about spreading lies, performing libel and calling people criminals? You just can’t learn?
  
  > “Quite a criminal achievement.”
  
  Still hung up on the unconstitutional trial? Being sentenced in a rigged unconstitutional trial is not a criminal achievement.
  - Guest321
    
    Nice to see you back Fredrika!
    - Odd Times
      
      Eh? she never left this place,
      she was always there,
      awaiting for a post of his beloved friend, Nejtillpirater.
      At least, that’s the way it looks.
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JordanKratz

TPB Is Awesome ! Keep up the good work !
random4020

I never seed, I would though if I was living in Switzerland or something. Sorry guys if torrents are dead because of me.
- http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle
  
  bastard, what’s your ip? out of interest
- Violated0
  
  It is always advisable to hit the 1:1 ratio when that creates a nice pass-on effect but many do seed higher to make up for the lame leaches who don’t seed.
  - eee
    
    yeah I seeded a 16.9gb file about 126:1 and when I left there were only 3-4 seeders lame asses, wish more would seed…
    Only other explanation would be I was seeding to mafiaa and they just delete file and redownload what I think could be the possibility
- boral
  
  You should seed… otherwise how can others download torrents. Please seed from now on.
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lolol

Isnt every android phone based on linux? Dont think it will be going anywhere.
tkw

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3211594/High.Chaparall.S02E02.PDTV.XViD.SWEDiSH-HuBBaTiX
- Craig
  
  So this whole story is wrong :P
  - UraPhake
    
    I think Ernesto was being lazy and knew that the people here would do the actual research to find the correct torrent.
    
    It’s a story that “updates” itself.
    - Drum
      
      The plan probably was to talk about
      an old torrent and mentioning a documentary
      about an OS, it’s better than mentioning other videos.
      
      BTW, what you said, sounds quite ironic,
      if you haven’t noticed.
      
      A filler news for this day, nothing else
      and it’s also yellow journalism.
    - ErnestoTF
      
      Not exactly, but I like the theory
    - 7th_Guest
      
      You can’t disprove it :p!
- Violated0
  
  Those being TPB blocked by their ISP can see it here…
  http://tpb.piraten.lu/torrent/3211594/High.Chaparall.S02E02.PDTV.XViD.SWEDiSH-HuBBaTiX
http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle

can i get a pirate bay wallpaper? only my lounge is a boring yellow lime colour right now, and i would like to remind all visitors that there is more to life than decorating ones walls in shite colours from some tv programme about house improvement and keeping up with the next door people. also a pirate lamp shade and curtains would match rather nicely, that way i can decorate it as one does when it is the queens jubilee year, etc etc. pirate bay hat, socks blaa bla. nail tattoo’s scarves the end
- eee
  
  ever heard of print screen then paste into image viewer or screenshot capture?
- Jorge_C
  
  This man couldn’t google to save his own life.
Zinkqink

Gotta love the Pirate Bay, they are jsut cool liek that.

Goto-Anon.tk
klyde

don’t download. my anti virus trial version finds 3 viruses and 2 trojans. also it made my computer crash and could not be played by my happygofuntime media player. the format also looks weird, and i can’t read the subtitles on my Nintendo DS
- Kenton
  
  If your a troll, then your either (A) Retarded or (B) an Idiot.
  Also, Your an Idiot independent of all that is above.
  - Jorge_C
    
    Did the part “happygofuntime media player” not ring any bells in your head? I’ll give you a hint, there is no such thing as the happygofuntime media player. You might also just be an idiot independent of all that is above.
NotSo

Oldest seeded torrent on Pirate Bay? Not so. This Italian porn Video is a whole day older! https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3211687

Not to mention that the oldest seeded torrent on the Pirate Bay being https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3211594
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yh

“The oldest living torrent in history is Revolution OS”
Theres a prothetic statement if ive ever heard one
The_Strawbear

You don’t know what irony is.
- themerryreaper
  
  If something is a bit like iron, it’s irony.
Kenton

The actual smallest torrent is http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7763923/Windows_8_Activator
eee

will seed/dl thanks for the /r to seed/get
The largest active torrent is an archive of the late Geocities.com, that was shut down by Yahoo in 2010. The 641.32 GB torrent is currently battling for its survival with just one seeder
more_or_less

This Torrentfreak post helped the Revolution OS torrent to get more than 400 seeders now. TF, please start PromoFreak to breath life into dying torrents.
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http://twitter.com/despens Dragan Espenschied

The Geocities torrent doesn’t really need seeders anymore, as it can be simply downloaded from the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities
Nillerz

Richard Stallman is annoying. All I hear when he talks is “Me me me me me me me I’m important look at me”.

When Linus talks about how he isn’t cashing in on billions of dollars around his kernel, he comes off as not giving a shit.
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http://twitter.com/Sentreh Sentry

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3211639/Top_Secret_Recipes_E-books Hmm?
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http://www.facebook.com/t360uk.smiley Timothy Andrew Bowers

The geocities torrent is seeded by archive.org, it won’t be going anywhere anytime soon :)
Blackbang

The torrent file and crack will actually take up the same amount of disk space due to the minimum writable block size on most computers.
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A great movie into the birth of Linux.
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