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Pirates of the Amazon
Yet another brilliant firefox extension:
Pirates of the Amazon Add-on
“How can you compete with free? You cant!” – Lawrence Lessig
The Firefox add-on “Pirates of the Amazon” inserts a “download 4 free” button on Amazon, which links to corresponding Piratebay BitTorrents. The add-on lowers the technical barrier to enable anyone to choose between “add to shopping cart” or “download 4 free”. Are you a pirate?
What’s this all about?
This add-on provides a simple interface to torrent files, combining a torrent search engine with the information features offered by amazon. It also shows that there is an alternative to buying overpriced media-products from companies relying on outdated distribution techniques.
“Pirates of the Amazon” offers to be a counterpart to the current models of media distribution. “Redistribute the wealth” by bringing together one of the world’s biggest e-commerce platforms with the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker.
Established media distributors claim that peer-to-peer networks are the death for entertainment media itself. These claims sound quite similar to the ones about the printing press or the invention of VCRs or CDR-Drives. The truth is that the possibility of information sharing inspires people to start creating, remixing and enriching the media landscape.
“Lets build a world we are proud of, not just a profitable world for a few very large media companies. ” (Brewster Kahle, founder of the internet archive )
For more information on piracy and the BitTorrent protocol follow these links:
- “After the crash, or how we stopped worrying and learned to love P2P” by Jamie King
- Piratology by Armin Medosch
- Peer-to-Peer on Wikipedia
- The Pirate Bay on Wikipedia
Source: http://pirates-of-the-amazon.com/
Note: If you download content through a torrent link, provided by the Piratebay, you might violate current copyright laws.
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