The Pirate Bay Sails To a New Home

the monolith writes "Back in August, the company supplying bandwidth to The Pirate Bay was forced to disconnect them. Quoting TorrentFreak: '"It took just 20 minutes before the Hollywood companies telephoned the new host who took over operation of The Pirate Bay," commented Patrik from the ISP which had been indirectly supplying bandwidth to TPB. Despite initially putting on a brave face and standing strong, Patrik's company continued to feel the heat. It is not a large outfit and doesn't have the resources to fight the entertainment industry and its threats. Last night, Patrik could hold off no longer after receiving mounting threats from the entertainment industries, which culminated in threats of a court summons. Having come this far, there is little doubt that IFPI and the MPAA would litigate if necessary. ... On the heels of several rumors today, Patrik said he could confirm news of the move, saying that he believes The Pirate Bay is now hosted in Ukraine.'"

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Re:Google Purges Pirate Bay?

[Dudeman_Jones]

The article about Google purging the Pirate Bay from their search servers has been itself purged.

Re:host the servers in antigua

[FlyingGuy]

Once again your argument fails and this is why:

If I create a sculpture, a painting, a fine vase from rare porcelain it is, in point of fact, a one of a kind object. Anything else but the original is a copy, a knock off and if you claim it is the original it is a forgery and that has been established for centuries and forgery has been a crime in most all civilizations for centuries. If you try to sell it as the original, later bodies of law codified that as fraud, again a crime.

The very idea of the protection of copyright ( although it has been perverted, but that in and of itself does not give you the right to subvert it in a world where the vast majority of people have agreed that this protection is beneficial when applied for a limited amount of time to ensure that more creative works are created) is to ensure that creativity flourishes and your declaration is antithetical to that idea and will help to ensure that those with the ability and desire will think twice about doing it again if they cannot benefit from the labors of their thoughts and ideas.

I whole heartedly agree that the protection has been perverted and is serious need of reform, but your apparent actions and theories are intent upon removing all protections, in any form, and tha course will ensure that the production of creative works will once again be limited to those who can ingratiate themselves to those who can afford to but bread on the artists table and a roof over their head or those that are content living in a hovel. You have only but to remember the many very famous that died penniless and destitute or in an asylum.