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Pirate Bay Court Loss Won't Stop the Flow of Files

Posted by timothy on from the magic-eight-ball-seems-to-be-working dept.

Adrian Lopez writes "According to PC World, 'Hollywood may have won a battle, but the war against piracy is far from over. Unauthorized file sharing will continue (and likely intensify), if not through The Pirate Bay, then through dozens of other near identical swashbuckling Web sites. ... What Hollywood needs to remember is sites like The Pirate Bay are like weeds. When you try to kill one, they grow back even stronger. In this case, The Pirate Bay already moved most of its servers to the Netherlands, a move that could keep the site running even if The Pirate Bay loses its appeal.'"

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  1. Not safe in Netherlands by WarwickRyan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not sure that it was such a good idea moving the servers to Netherlands.

    The local RIAA (BREIN), have been pretty successful in having the law 'bent' to their will and having various torrent sites closed down.

    Even now they've announced that the want to block the Pirate Bay in Netherlands [link is in dutch]:

    http://tweakers.net/nieuws/59677/brein-wil-na-vonnis-the-pirate-bay-in-nederland-laten-blokkeren.html

    Rough translation: "Brein will use the guilty judgement against the Pirate Bay operators as a chance to try and convince the government to block Pirate Bay in Netherlands".

    The current parliment act as if they're in the pockets of Brein, so I'm not sure why TPB thought it safe to put the servers here.

    What we really need is some sort of decentralised torrent client.