Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion

Barence writes to share that the closure of The Pirate Bay seems to have done nothing to stem the flow of potentially copyrighted materials. In fact, there has been an estimated 300% increase in the number of sites providing access to copyright files, according to McAfee. "In August, Swedish courts ordered that all traffic be blocked from Pirate Bay, but any hope of scotching the piracy of music, software and films over the web vanished as copycat sites sprung up and the content took on a life of its own. 'This was a true "cloud computing" effort,' the company said in its Threats Report for the third quarter. 'The masses stepped up to make this database of torrents available to others.'"

Comments

Re:Sigh...

[smoker2]

of course you could always GO WITHOUT ! oh no that won't do, cant be seen to deny the public. Jesus, why should they provide all you want when you want on pain of you getting it anyway ? And to be honest, I don't care anyway, why should they get anything on pain of govt. punishment ? Fuck the lot of you. I'll pay if it's worth it and not before. You can spend hours and hours on the best shit you can come up with but unless it's worth having don't expect me to pay for it. It doesn't work like that. I pay for good stuff, not stuff you think is good.

Re:All a matter of who disadvantages whom, eh?

[brit74]

Guess who wrote the laws that determine what's illegal, though?

Exactly right! And exactly why the whole "shoplifting is illegal" crap is just corporate welfare!

Re:Dear Slashdot

[zaffir]

A pirated copy does not mean a lost sale. Perhaps your software just isn't worth the cost to people? Sitting back and blaming the fact that you aren't selling software because of BLOODTHIRSTY PIRATES ARRRRR is easy, and conveniently implies that your lack of sales aren't your fault. But crying to slashdot isn't going to get your software any more sales. A better product at a better price will.

Nobody hates you for wanting to be paid for your software (well, a few extremists aside). We would, however, hate you for lobbying the government in order to have laws restrictingl P2P technology passed. We would hate you for supporting legislation like the DMCA.