My local small town newspaper, which until just recently was owned by the New York Times, is indeed fucked. I’m trying to start a community workshop of the hardware (woodworking/metal working etc) kind. Tool sharing in the physical world, so you can see how that relates to file sharing.

Well, my post in the classifieds got an email back “Your Classified Ad Has been Rejected!”, exclamation point and all, because it was not an item for sale, and my attempt to get a note in community announcements section has been totally ignored. They no longer serve the community, so it’s no wonder they are a dying breed.

As an aside, you probably have seen the MPAA ads that say “you wouldn’t download a car?” Well, there is an open source project for exactly that: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Car They have not gotten to the car yet, but they do have a working farm tractor. Their goal is to open source *all* the technology for a modern industrial civilization in downloadable form. Once you have the key machines that are used to make other machines, you can bootstrap almost everything else. OK, maybe not intel chip factories, but food, houses, cars, and all the other basics. Also, the basic machines are being designed to be programmable, so literally once you download a plan, you can hit “print” and some machines will start producing parts. That is part of why I’m working on a community shop. The full set of machines are a bit much to have in every home garage, but not beyond what a local community can support.

see this image.
they say that they dont even look inside the torrent.
if thats the thing, they should only take care of the extention, i.e., “anyname.torrent”

i just uploaded a blank txt file, named “New Text Document” and renamed the extension to “torrent” and i faced this.

Maybe, they arent clean as they claim or supposed to be.!

- Avineshwar

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