"New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine 117
WebMink writes "Knowing that its explosive special edition on China this week will be blocked by censorship, UK political magazine 'New Statesmen' has taken the unusual step of posting its own torrents of the PDF of the Mandarin edition on the magazine. Looking at the content of the issue they are probably right to expect censorship — there's an article from the former newspaper editor Cheng Yizhong about media censorship, and Ai Weiwei interviews a member of the '50 cent party' — a commenter paid half a dollar every time he derails an online debate in China. 'Essentially, these people are paid internet trolls; their job is to stop any meaningful discussion online about the government.'" Specifically, the magazine has made available this issue as a PDF and also as a torrent (magnet link).
Re:Torrents != pirating (Score:4, Funny)
Jack Valenti
Re:Torrents != pirating (Score:5, Funny)
Thank god this was derailed quickly. Just imagine how horrible it would have been if people actually discussed something meaningful. After all, its obviously much more important to dissect a headline, of an aggregation site notorious for useless and incorrect headlines, than it is to actually discuss the content on which the article reports.
Here's a clue. This is not the time for THAT discussion.
You must be a blast at parties.
Re:Broken PDF link? (Score:4, Funny)
Can't seem to access the PDF link to read more into it
Perhaps you should pirate it from somewhere
Re:Hard times, coming your way (Score:4, Funny)
No. With global warming, the land bridge to Asia is closed for repairs.