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The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org
kungfujesus writes "The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: "The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks", today it became clear that he was referring to the resurrection of Suprnova."
He (Andrej Preston) comments in the article:
"My deal with [The Pirate Bay] was that the role of SuprNova can't change much. It needs to be community orientated, but I hope they make some updates the SuprNova was sooo missing. But what they will do, it's not my thing to decide anymore. But I know they will do [well] and will try to keep the community spirit running." http://www.slyck.com/story1561_SuprNovaorg_Transf
It's not a tracker. It's an aggregation site. It just stores copies of .torrent files from public trackers, which would include TPB. Most of the special-purpose (TV, movies, games, whatever) torrent sites are aggregation sites as well.
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Why is the parent a troll?
I had software I was developing before in my part time and it was ripped off and pirated. It no longer became worth my time to work on it so it died a quick death.
It's illegal to download as well as upload "copywritten" materials since 1 july 2005. As for providing torrents, it's still unsure whether The Pirate Bay will be to court for it or not.
Add isohunt and eztv to your list of places to look.
Yeah they pull a lot of revenue. But they also have a lot of expenses, like bandwidth (100s of Mbit international) and servers. They also want to keep a good buffert so when the police raid again they can easily afford to replace all servers. They do not, afaik, make a personal gain. But even if they did, why is that so bad - they put in a lot of work and time on this site. Their motives are, and always have been, to fight the copyright system.
Remember, PirateBay was started and was running fine even when they did not make that much money off the site. Piratebay was started by guys from the "piratbyrån" - an organization in Sweden that is pro-piracy and is older than the piratebay. They hang around with guys that are very pro piracy, like Rasmus Fleicher - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Fleischer
If the guys behind piratebay is getting rich I do not think it is due to the piratebay, but their excelent colocation service PRQ - www.prq.se.
The claim that they pull that much revenue was probably started by a swedish newspaper, I read about it a while back. The newspaper journalist tried to order the most expensive ad on the site (like full-screen front-page theme-ad) and it would be something like 20k euro / day. Such an ad normally only runs a few days and they are very rare (I have seen it once on piratebay). So it is not a good way to calculate revenue and a really lousy way to calculate profit. Furtheron that was what the ad-broker wanted, not what the piratebay actually gets. The problem I think is that the guys that write newspapers are also intrested in showing the guys in bad light, so they use bad methods on purpose to trash piratebay.
A final thing to remember that the piratebay guys (which are very young btw, all born in the 80s) are knowingly putting themselves in risk of going to jail. IMO it is very heroic to stand up for your ideals and risk your life for what you believe. Just like in US when guys fed up with england fought for independence, etc.
In other words, they are exactly where they would be regardless of piracy. Whether their albums don't sell because they're not famous enough or because nobody wants to pay makes little difference to the fact that they need to keep their day jobs. You think piracy is preventing a recording contract from falling out of the sky? Or is it your opinion that people who didn't mind downloading some songs for free equates to people who would have paid money for them, enough to set your brother up for retirement with a few months of work producing the songs?
Nobody said that making it as a musician was easy. That was true before the internet and piracy changes nothing.
There might also be a wrinkle that it's okay to download copywritten materials, but not to distribute it
No, that's illegal too now per EU directives, although made illegal more recently.
But again, that's not TPB's method operation, but the BBS case you cite. The parent is wrong though in that it's legal to distribute the actual files.
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That's not flamebait, it's a fair point.
There are many private torrent sites, and they tend to have one advantage over public ones: Fewer leechers. People on a private tracker get their download/upload exposed, and can be kicked out if they don't upload enough, so there is incentive to upload, which makes everyone's downloads go faster.
Remember, in bittorrent, total download rate = total upload rate, so the fewer people that only download and don't upload, the faster everyon else's downloads go.
Just use Torrents.to , best torrent site I've ever used.
Most people aren't thought about after they're gone. "I wonder where Rob got the plutonium" is better than most get.
Just use http://torrentz.com/ it searches all the big sites at the same time.
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Isohunt is now complying with the MPAA/RIAA. Don't use it.
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Did you consider, you know, waiting a while. Every private site I have been a member of has a grace period where if you have downloaded less than a certain amount (say 5gb) you aren't subject to ratio requirements. You can sit there for weeks to build up your ratio. Or you could just download at full speed and wonder why you got banned in a week or so.
Note that the above link title is misleading BTW - MPAA haven't "bought" uTorrent. Rather BitTorrent Inc have bough uTorrent and BitTorrent Inc have a commercial relationship with the MPAA.
I recall reading about a link between uTorrent/BT Inc and TorrentSpy too. At minimum, TorrentSpy.com is apparently planning to filter MPAA content soon:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Bye_Bye_TorrentSpy_and_I SOHunt_Both_to_Filter_Copyrighted_Content/all
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