[espadrine]

There is no western legal system. As absurd as it sounds, what went down with TPB shows how laws perspire beyond a country's boundaries.

As for what actually happened to PT, it isn't as clear-cut as it seems.

I can tell you one thing as food for thought, though. I contributed a minor patch to two forks. I was granted a small amount of dogecoins (about $.10) for one of those contributions. The notion that there would be a remuneration model behind that rather unique type of open-source project tells a lot about how lacking we are. We miss economic models for the free capabilities we build. Things like Gittip only just emerge, but the way they solve the problem of having multiple people be granted a fair share of buying power based on their contributions don't actually rely on a robust mathematical model, and are very probably flawed at scale. That is true of Gittip, it is true of Flattr (notably irrelevant when dealing with a team), it is even true of the Bitcoin ecosystem, given the absence of a proof for the convergence of its volatility.

Those challenges raised by the amazing prospect of a truly decentralized economy are greater than building an app on top of a peer-to-peer network of video distribution. They wouldn't be the first to direct their efforts there, either; a famous TPB member created Flattr after putting his TPB past behind.

PS: on the issue of the struggle for equitable remuneration, here is an outstanding blog post by someone working in a cooperative called Igalia; he did contractor work on V8 and Firefox for Bloomberg: http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/06/25/time-for-money

[Joeboy]

I was thinking about approximately this just yesterday. I have a banal coding problem that's in the way of what I actually want to do, and would be prepared to pay somebody maybe a hundred bucks to make it go away. Probably there exists a person with the skills and experience to make that happen easily, and for whom that would constitute a non-insulting payment, but I don't know how to find them. There are open source bounty sites, but I doubt I'm going to find the specialist I need on any of them. So instead I'm going to have to spend hours or maybe days learning stuff I would rather not know about.

Edit: If anybody can make this python call to lilv's swig bindings not segfault, I will give them a hundred bucks:

https://github.com/Joeboy/joeboy-lv2-plugins/blob/master/lv2...

[defen]

I tried running that code and for me it segfaulted at line 26 (plugin.get_num_ports() call)

Also, not sure if it's relevant but http://lv2plug.in/plugins/eg-amp returns a 404 for me...

[Joeboy]

Interesting. That line wfm with the latest version of lilv.

And no, that's just a plugin id, the fact there's no web page at that address is a red herring.

Edit: If you're interested in pursuing this further, please get in touch via my website, which is on my profile. Cheers!

[havaze]

Seems to me that the link is wrong and the application doesn't do any checking and thus segfaults.

[Joeboy]

Do you mean http://lv2plug.in/plugins/eg-amp? That's just an identifier for the plugin, not a link as such.

[havaze]

Thats a strange syntax for an identifier, anyway running it with sudo makes the segfault go away for me so I guess it's some permission problem.

[Joeboy]

Sudo doesn't help for me. It looks like it's getting into to the wrapped C function, then it segfaults when trying to read from the input buffer.

Edit: If you're interested in pursuing this further, please get in touch via my website, which is on my profile. Cheers!

[havaze]

I contracted you over the website.