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

Buzzwords, because thinking is hard

[Virak]

This is cloud computing like buying another pair of pants is cloud clothing.

Re:Buzzwords, because thinking is hard

[Anonymous Coward]

I tried to refocus and consolidate my thinking to be more in line with your criticism but was unable to complete the paradigm shift. Perhaps you could resize your critique's footprint to fit my home office's plans.

Re:Buzzwords, because thinking is hard

[natehoy]

No, you're thinking inside the box. This isn't rocket science. Take a look at a 50,000 foot view to rightsize your comprehension. This is synergy between alternative downstream partners because the alpha dog just got eaten by the wolves.

At the end of the day, what we have here is a classic case of vertical integration. Due to a disconnect between law and TPB's established best practices, a way needed to be found to realign the conflicting priorities. In an attempt to realign the siloed legal conflict, TPB is ghostsourced and found involuntary closure as their exit strategy. Their former customers see a need and fill a need by taking it to the next level of self-enabling their own Torrent service, thereby eating their own dog food, while leveraging a market gap and filling it with customer-centric organic growth. Each new value-added Torrent site utilizes the existing low-hanging fruit of recycled TPB torrents, gains a lot of eyeballs in their attempt to win mindshare from a market that's really co-opetition. If they touch base and act open kimono with each other, it's a new new economy win-win scenario.

Re:Buzzwords, because thinking is hard

[megamerican]

"No officer, I'm not naked. I'm a trend setter in cloud clothing. That man over there is wearing pants for me. Honest."

Re:In other news

[rant64]

He's trying to ask if you have any aspirin.

Re:War on Drugs

[megamerican]

I didn't know the CIA was behind bittorrent.

Re:Eh Sonny?

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves]

"Strike me down and i will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"

Re:Yep

[Anonymous Coward]

And nothing of value was lost, etc.

Re:Eh Sonny?

[Sumbius]

Commander, tear this ship apart until you have found those torrents, and bring me the seeders! I want them alive!

Re:War on Drugs

[BenBoy]

Kinda like having a war on dandelions by goin' out and kicking them every spring. "Hey, what are those floaty things?"

i've studied history

[circletimessquare]

i found out that the printing press made thousands of monk scribes impoverished, no longer able to support their abbeys with book copying by hand

furthermore, without the monks around to copy books, books themselves disappeared from the historical record, and likewise the written word

new technology, the printing press, destroyed all of human written culture. without the archaic scribbling monk, i mean er, god-ordained media distribution technology that was around for centuries and was never intended to change or go away, books as you know them ceased to to exist

Re:Eh Sonny?

[Captain Splendid]

Yah, this sort of behavior should be called the Tarkin Effect, not the streisandeffect as currently tagged.

I think the Catholic church might claim prior art.

Re:Sigh...

[PylonHead]

Don't worry, you can still be president:

Clinton:

Many character issues were raised during the campaign, including allegations that Clinton had dodged the draft during the Vietnam War, and had used marijuana, which Clinton claimed he had pretended to smoke, but "didn't inhale."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1992

Bush:

A conversation between Bush and an old friend, author Doug Wead, touched on the subject of use of illegal drugs. In the taped recording of the conversation, Bush explained his refusal to answer questions about whether he had used marijuana at some time in his past. “I wouldn’t answer the dope questions,” Bush says. “You know why? Because I don’t want some little kid doing what I tried.”[15] When Wead reminded Bush of his earlier public denial of using cocaine, Bush replied, "I haven't denied anything."[16]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy

Barack:

'For one thing, he said, "When I was a kid, I inhaled."
"That was the point," Obama told an audience of magazine editors.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/world/americas/24iht-dems.3272493.html

Re:And Slashdot cheers on the pirates

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, everyone likes pirates. Yaargh!