Pirates of the Amazon - Fixed Version
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- Applications > Other OS
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- pirates of the amazon amazon the pirate bay tpb pirate firefox add-on extension javascript
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- +15 / -0 (+15)
- Uploaded:
- Dec 8, 2008
- By:
- hac.
This is a fixed up version of the Firefox extension Pirates of the Amazon, which gives you direct links to torrents on The Pirate Bay while you are looking at the corresponding product page on Amazon.com. It has been modified from version 0.6.1, originally written by Enrique B. and John S. It fixes the issue of the image links not displaying, and addresses some privacy concerns. Modifications: - The download button image and loading image have been made internal to the extension, (stored on your computer) and error messages have been made text (which is much less intrusive when you're actually using Amazon). Before this was implemented each of these displayed as a broken image. Thhis was because the original developers made the extension dependant on downloading them from their site, which now does not return the images. This also eliminates the possibility that the devs at pirates-of-the-amazon.com could collect information about you as you load the images. There are new images because I don't have access to the old ones. - Your user agent is no longer modified, making it so that websites can not identifiy that you are using this extension. Instructions: - Open the file with Firefox. (Drag and drop, or Ctr-O) - Browse Amazon.com. Underneath the titles of product pages, you will see either a message saying that no torrent was found, (I.E., if you are buying a Tuba (most everything else is on TPB (Long live TPB!))) or will display a large link to the correct .torrent file. The developers of Pirates of the Amazon complied with Amazon.com's order to take it down, and no longer distribute it: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/pirates-of-the-amazon-abandon-ship/ It is a dying program. You can read the original product information from the developers below. hac. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions Prepare your ship in 4 steps: 1. To be able to download BitTorrent you have to have a BitTorrent software installed. Good ones are uTorrent for Windows and Transmission for Mac and Linux. 2. Click the "Download Now" button, click "allow", confirm install. 3. Confirm Firefox restart to activate the add-on. 4. Go to amazon and enjoy having the choice between "add to shopping cart" and "download 4 free". Background 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 ) Background Information There have been similar browser modifications on the internet for quite a while such as the IMDB popular torrent search Firefox Greasemonkey script that adds links to torrent search results on the IMDB website. The OU Library Amazon Greasemonkey Script uses Amazon as an interface to find books at public libraries. (Rent 4 free) The project Amazon Noir by the net artists ubermorgen.com allowed users to download free books from amazon by overusing the amazon "search inside" function. We are not affiliated with the Piratebay, and do not host or even link to any illegal content. This artistic project addresses the topic of current media distribution models vs. current culture and technical possibilities. When you choose to install the add-on, you modify the local behaviour of your webbrowser. If you download content through a torrent link, provided by the Piratebay, you might violate current copyright laws.
This fix works great, thanks!
Requires slightly more brain power when the download picture only says "The Pirate Bay" instead of the original "Download 4 free". But hey, life aint simple...
@hac
I've got the four original pics sitting here on my desktop if you'd like them.
@hac
I've got the four original pics sitting here on my desktop if you'd like them.
@legaliamnot
Thanks for the advice on the button. True, the original buttons were much clearer. If you want to send me the images (hactheplanet at gmail dot com) I can very quickly remake it. Do you want me to make yet another torrent? How about renaming it and distributing it on the web again? If I remember correctly, Amazon could only complain before because the extension contained their name.
Thanks for the advice on the button. True, the original buttons were much clearer. If you want to send me the images (hactheplanet at gmail dot com) I can very quickly remake it. Do you want me to make yet another torrent? How about renaming it and distributing it on the web again? If I remember correctly, Amazon could only complain before because the extension contained their name.
I've been pondering the pros and cons regarding this and come to the conclusion that "all is fine" with the way things are. Making yet another version without functional enhancements would be a bit pointless. But I'll send the pics anyhow so you can have a peek at the original design.
Main problem is that people still are seeding the bad-old-version :-0
Main problem is that people still are seeding the bad-old-version :-0
I agree with legaliamnot that seeding another version is probably pointless, although I do like the original design better than my own rushed one. I can still seed the version with the original images however if wanted. Thanks to legaliamnot for sending me the pics.
One note I should add about adding client side images: Pirates of the Amazon loads images (through Javascript) from your computer after the page has already loaded. This means that any website can, theoretically, load one of the images that I put into it. A website could, if it knew the chrome:// url of an image in the extension, use Javascript to check for the image, and thus know that you have the extension installed. I believe that that could have been a reason that the developers had for not including the original images with the extension, and loading them from the internet.
One note I should add about adding client side images: Pirates of the Amazon loads images (through Javascript) from your computer after the page has already loaded. This means that any website can, theoretically, load one of the images that I put into it. A website could, if it knew the chrome:// url of an image in the extension, use Javascript to check for the image, and thus know that you have the extension installed. I believe that that could have been a reason that the developers had for not including the original images with the extension, and loading them from the internet.
Ah, I certainly didn't know about that. Scary peeping. All the more reason to use the Firefox extension "NoScript" ;-) But if they had worries about detection why on earth change the User Agent. I'm more inclined to believe that they wanted to monitor the usage themselves through the external pic loading.
That's definitely a possibility as well. Of course, if you were really worried about that anyways you could just rename the files to something random.
Damn you! I just spent all morning learning about XUL to do this myself!
It now appears that multiple people are improving this software, yet there is no easy way for them to collaborate. What if I were to set up a Git repository? I don't think that there would be anything wrong with that (as far as Amazon would care) as long as the name was changed. Any thoughts?
wow! this works good! tanx man!
it says to (click to start dragging...) but when i do click it nothing appears. does this mean i have to drag it to the file i want or is it that im doing something wrong?
@hac.: A git repository would be really nice. I was going to try working on it myself but all the source code torrents are dead
Thanks for this. I for one appreciate that both the original and modified versions are available for the curious to examine.
@905deals
You have to open the extension with Firefox. One way to do this is to drag the extension onto the Firefox icon. Another way is to double-click the extension icon.
You have to open the extension with Firefox. One way to do this is to drag the extension onto the Firefox icon. Another way is to double-click the extension icon.
@1337sh33p
Firefox .xpi extensions are not compiled, they are zipped. You can rename one to end with .zip or decompress it like any zip file.
The source code (with the original images provided by legaliamnot) is here: http://github.com/hac/piratesoftheamazon/
Firefox .xpi extensions are not compiled, they are zipped. You can rename one to end with .zip or decompress it like any zip file.
The source code (with the original images provided by legaliamnot) is here: http://github.com/hac/piratesoftheamazon/
Is this software still in function ?? or is there any you guys can recommend me to ???
Thanks in advance :)
Thanks in advance :)
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