The closest is the "Instant Bucket", which requires no password just like InstaWallet.
 - http://www.Btcbuckets.com

The official bitcoin.org client won't let you send without a fee if it thinks a fee will be necessary in order for it to get included in a block.  This is for the protection of the bitcoin network from spammy transactions.

Being open source, you can change it to do whatever you want.

Also, there are other clients [update: other than those from bitcoin.org] that do not have this behavior.  If this is something important to you (not paying the sub-cent fee), you probably have an edge case.  Counting on the ability to send transactions with no fee should not be a long-term strategy (heh, maybe 1 year out in the bitcoin world) for any bitcoin-related effort.

I think it was something like 0.0001 BTC per 1K of transaction size, minimum 0.0005 BTC.   The wiki article needs an update:
 - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees

[update: not sure which is the correct source]
 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/main.h#L550
 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/wallet.cpp#L1100

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story!  

I saw how BlockExplorers shows that a single address ( 1NRy8GbX56MymBhDYMyqsNKwW9VupqKVG7 ) shows twice as inputs in that transaction so was thinking this was some script-fu to cause the length to be 1337.  The client won't do that on its own though, right?
 - http://blockexplorer.com/tx/d9804de366aa4c2a01565c3a3c8aa2ea20baafc276dc875f80b9044841205333

That's not possible now.  If you withdraw BTCs to another exchange you can exchange them and withdraw to CNY there.  BTC China charges 0.3% for the exchange.  Not sure what withdrawal they offer for withdrawal method once you have CNYs.
 - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bit

Mt. Gox will exchange into CNY as well:
 - https://mtgox.com/press_release_20111028.html

Any many other exchange will do an international wire, though the fees can take a chunk out.
 - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Selling_bitcoins

You probably meant to write 0.0005 BTC? (which is a fraction of a penny, at the current exchange rate)


that is a pretty small amount being transferred (under a U.S. Dollar's worth of bitcoin) and is just a couple days old.  The client will consider that to be "spammy" and require the fee.

 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#How_much_will_the_transaction_fee_be.3F

Though the October 2011 jackpot was bigger in terms of BTCs (the lotto was 1.0 BTC per ticket back then)  there were fewer  tickets sold (140 of them).
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34007.msg558083#msg558083
[Update: Scratch that.  The switch to 0.25 BTC occurred prior to October 2011, so the Oct '11 jackpot had more tickets sold -- 560 (which remains the record high yet).]
 
This month at over 60 BTC where each ticket is 0.25 means there are over 240 tickets sold.  More than twice last month's total (of about 120 tickets).

The link for seeing the number of shares paid for is the project's page (once you've logged in):
 - http://www.piratemyfilm.com/projects/304

What might make sense as well is for PMF to allow donations to a project without requiring registration.  e.g., donate without acquiring any of the shares that the donations bought.  Perhaps the project founder could list a beneficiary that would own all shares donated  (e.g., some charity or trustee perhaps) even.

The reason for this request is that some people may want to support the project but they just don't want to have to mess with the time and hassle of registering.   Instead, you see a bitcoin address, copy pasta, hit send and boom -- you're done.  And you never get e-mail nor have to visit the site (and have to remember the username/password for it) ever again.

After a first sweep to consolidate stolen coins the thief's next movement was a transaction for 25,000 BTC.  The size for that transaction was 1337 bytes.    Someone with sufficient skill to create a transaction so that its size is specifically a certain number of bytes is going to know what steps are necessary to avoid detection.
 - http://blockchain.info/tx-index/2893660/d9804de366aa4c2a01565c3a3c8aa2ea20baafc276dc875f80b9044841205333
 - http://blockchain.info/tree/2893660

Older versions of the client had performance issues.  Are you using the latest version of the client?
 - http://www.bitcoin.org

There is another thread that describes problems and Strongcoin's operator responded about a week ago.  Might want to post your question there:
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64225.msg761242#msg761242

And possibly strengthened demand as well.  You cannot withdraw bitcoins from a wallet that doesn't have them, so perhaps Bitcoinica has been buying to support withdrawals.

There are multiple traders that are claiming to have gone short on this event.  That the price didn't drop further and that the volume was fairly moderate for this type of an event is quite interesting:
 - http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5zczsg2012-02-28zeg2012-03-04ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

There's nothing stopping an ebay merchant from putting their contact information up on their page, right?  So if they don't post that info, doesn't that kind of indicate they don't necessarily want to be contacted?

This peer-reviewed reputation system might help for this (down the road).  I think how it would work is for me to add an annotation stating that yes, I bought from the eBay with the seller profile "blahblah" and the invoice showed the following company name, address, phone, email, etc.   Think of linking an ebay seller id with a company profile on Jigsaw.com, for instance.
 - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hypothesis.php

Offers that are exclusive to those paying with bitcoin are useful to Bitcoin gaining traction.  It isn't that PMF is not accepting PayPal or other, it is that the project owner insisted on only accepting bitcoins for payment.

Was this restriction something any PirateMyFilm project can specify, or was it a customization for this project?  And, will there be a way with PMF to indicate that Bitcoin is the only payment method (other than including text in the title to indicate this)?

So it is.  That was odd though, I got a response, but just a blank page.  If it happens again I'll try to better record what I'm seeing.

About the closest is the "instant bucket" from:
 - http://www.Btcbuckets.com

Website issues again?

Looks like there's a bug in creating an asset and date.  

Though the field description says the date format shown is European date format (DD/MM/YYYY) when I put in a future date it just responded with a new, blank form.  I then flipped the order to U.S. date format (MM/DD/YYYY) and it took hold.    A second attempt using a date unambiguous (1/1/2012) or something like that just caused the blank form again.   So it appears the validation doesn't like dates older than now.  That's one problem.  The second problem is that is appears that the date format is really U.S. MM/DD/YYYY but the field text asks for European format DD/MM/YYYY.

I didn't test enough to confirm this is the exact behavior but these details should help you to diagnose the problem.

[Update: Totally didn't notice that the UI puts the error messages at the top (in red even) and I wasn't seeing them.    I was speculating on why the blank form was occurring and was way off.

Either way, can't the date format used be determined from my locale?  e.g., U.S.  MM/DD/YYYY]

Er, sorry.  Thanks for correcting me on that.  Not even the domain is exposed.

Here's more info on it:

"If you look in a network sniffer, like Network Monitor, at the same request you would just see the encrypted data going backwards and forwards. No URLs, headers or content is visible in the packet trace":
 - http://blog.httpwatch.com/2009/02/20/how-secure-are-query-strings-over-https/

Would you mind sharing at least some details though?  e.g., How long after the transaction was it before the dispute?   Did PayPal just place a hold (reverse transfer of funds) for the one transaction or did they put a freeze on your account?  Have you done these transactions before?  If so, how many good and how many bad?  And for those who live vicariously through others, how much did you lose?