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Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized
SmugJerk writes "Authorities are continuing to apply pressure on Sweden's filesharing community amid the trial of several principals of The Pirate Bay filesharing site. Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies."
The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
BTW. Despite the word association games the article plays, there is no comparison between a server containing 65TB of files and Pirate Bay, as Pirate Bay doesn't contain any copyrighted information that isn't supposed to be there.
The filesharing server is giving out the content. The Pirate Bay does not.
...and just assuming the summary isn't stupid, I'd say this was a good thing. 65 TB of files is... fucking huge.
THIS is what I understand when someone talks about piracy; a few individuals who move about large quantities of media content.
Now the big question would be whether they made money that way, which I assume they did. After all, how do you pay for a 65TB server with corresponding bandwidth?
There wasn't 16k movies, nor 65tb of files. The media exaggerates everything, the only thing they know is that the serverS (note the s) had a combined storage space of 65tb.
If 65 terabytes of porn has just been removed from the net it could very well be the largest tragedy that the internets have ever encountered. Just thinking of such a tragedy brings a tear to my eye.
Backup server, anyone?
Gee, I guess that's why the one seeder of the torrent file I was downloading went offline. Strange, I shuddered with pain when it happened, like 65 terabytes crying out in astonishement as the server died.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
According to the related article on TorrentFreak the server was a topsite used by numerous scene groups and Peter Sunde (aka Brokep of the The Pirate Bay) has said that "it is possible that it's a major source" for The Pirate Bay.
Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies
65 terabytes of files? Storage space of that magnitude is unfathomable! How many full length movies would that be? 16000 you say? That is still too large for me to process. If I wrote down all the files in 1s and 0s, how many football fields would that occupy?
Every slashdot user can divide 65 TB by the size of a DVD. Unfortunately, full-length movies are NOT a standard measure of storage space. Least of all on slashdot in the context of file-sharing.
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That's very amazing. Movie technology has existed how long now? If we're very generous and round it up to 100 years, then the world must have produced 160 movies per year, or nearly one every two days, for there to be that many.
Gosh, the box office has been busy, hasn't it.
What a well-organized network that must be to have such unmistakably identifiable persons (some even being computers!) among its membership under this absolutely new and unique trademark name. ;-)
Now where are the ships and home port of their evil "pirate" fleet?
How do I mod the entire article -1: Stupid?
This was most likely a dump site, so this probably means quite a lot of old stuff has gone off the grid now (they make the comparison in movies, but it is more than likely mostly TV shows).
New releases will find a new hub to distribute through, but it will take some time - also often with these raids the "scene" will go a bit underground, disconnect etc. until they are back to a comfortable level where everyone knows each other.
65 terabytes? Shirley you don't need a full install of Vista just for a file server?
Come on... the "Libraries of Congress" gag has been done so it only left me with the "in Soviet Russia" line, "...profit" or generic Microsoft bashing. ;^P
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one of these home file servers:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/313/1051313/ibm-steps-home-media-servers
thegodmovie.com - watch it
Jeez, does anyone ever check their sources? MSNBC of all things? You know what the MS stands for do you?
Other than that:
There was not ONE server with 65TB but a "ring" of servers with "suspected" 65TB overall data. Police took down exactly one single server. All the other servers were shut down by the people running them so they could not be traced further.
[ENG] http://torrentfreak.com/large-pirate-topsite-raided-in-sweden-090306/
[SWE] http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article4582094.ab
[ENG] http://www.thelocal.se/18050/20090306/
Just the fact that they dub that "the biggest raid ever" is such a hilarious demonstration of how much they don't know.
"Ponten said the server ring had collapsed as a direct result of the raid." hahahaha
Did you mean, was redirected and pulled out of your sight? And even if it "collapsed" these are Gigabit sites, backup is easy and there is, well let me understate, definitely more than one of these.
Mmm hmm... and they all belonged to a network called "The Scene".. probably made with a "series of tubes"..
This is vapor reporting from the Anti-Piracy Bureau. It seems that one server out of a ring of many, which might have had a total capacity of 65TB, is claimed to have been seized.
The streets of Sweden are now again safe for copyright lawyers and trolls, movie studio heads and...um, well that's a start.
I hate the way this summary seems to conflate somebody with a big server who may or may not have movies on it with The Pirate Bay, who you may know, does not share movies from their computers.
If you are someone who believes that this crackdown on filesharing is a good thing, please put together your best argument, write it on a piece of A4 stationary, fold it in quarters and stick it as far up your ass as you can.
That made me feel better.
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The pirates' naming convention was itself, pirated, from Monty Python's "The Piranha Brothers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirahna_Brothers):
The server was associated with a pirate scene, which they called, "The Scene." They formed a gang, which they called "The Gang." They ran operations, known as "The Operation, The Other Operation, and The Other Other Operation."
After becoming bored with Monty Python, they pirated the name of their network ring from "Buffy", calling it "Sunnydale."
Definitely a pattern of pirate behaviour.
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As always, xkcd got there first.
No what am I going to do? I've got every mp3 in existance! I've got all color movies ever released, and then some. But now what? And don't say I'm stealing because I'd never buy any of this shit anyway.
It's like that philosophy riddle: If a movie is copied in the woods and nobody watches it, was it copied?
Atlas Shrugged?
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Please do tell us how you come to this conclusion with regard to Swedish copyright law. Nothing you described is a legal analysis, let alone a legal analysis that takes into account Swedish copyright law. Also, nothing you said accounts for another seizure that occurred before the conclusion of TPB's trial.
As for the analysis you did give, you don't account for how we would simply have different art. Even if we have "No Star Wars, No Star Trek, No Family Guy, No Indiana Jones, No DailyShow, No SNL" and so on, we would have other art to enjoy. Perhaps we'd have other things to do that can be exploited commercially. The question is whether Star Wars, Star Trek, Family Guy, and other shows are worth an increasingly oppressive copyright regime and remarkably uneven commercial benefit even for those that participate in that system.
In any forseeable future commercial art can still exist but the particular commercial exploitative systems we have today might not exist (perhaps replaced by others no more ethical than what we have now, perhaps replaced by others which are far more reasonable like Magnatune). In other words, arguing that the current art goes away is not a serious argument for the status quo.
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I wondered what the hell was causing today's havoc. I work at the local multiplex and it was just crazy all shift, queues right round the block. People were coming in saying "Tickets for _anything_, hurry,hurry! Keep the change!" and throwing handfuls of money at the till. We had to call for a security van to take the sacks of money away before they filled the whole office.
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