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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.'"
The article makes it seem like a covert/mystical action, but really, anyone who has been reading TorrentFreak in the days since the TPB offer of sale and events surrounding the trial will know that people have been thinking about ways to mirror TPB for a while now, under the assumption that it will sink: http://torrentfreak.com/its-time-to-sink-the-pirate-bay-and-replace-it-090913/ , http://torrentfreak.com/torrented-pirate-bay-copy-comes-to-life-090820/ , etc...
Certainly does not look dead yet.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Yah, this sort of behavior should be called the Tarkin Effect, not the streisandeffect as currently tagged.
Why do they need the author's permission to copy it in the first place?
United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8. The Congress shall have power ...
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
The theory being that if authors did not have some control over their creative works, there would be fewer works created. Would the major studios fund movies if they knew 99% of sales would not generate revenue for them?
Sure, we would still have print/web-page/other-low-cost works, but not many people will spend tens of millions of dollars producing a movie without a decent chance of a big payoff at the end.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Yes but only one hardcore pirate needs to break the DRM. Then it's trivial for newbs to download.
I find being offended by me offensive.
Look at Slashdot cheering at the piracy. It's really sickening how much Slashdot LOVES piracy now and encourages it at every opportunity.
Slashot loves technology. It's the users that love and encourage piracy, and enjoy something for nothing. While I am at it, I would like to take the time to encourage you to go to PublicDomainTorrents and download some movies for free. Or maybe you can grab a torrent to "pirate" Linux and other GPL s0ftwarez. To the ISPs that throttle, all torrent traffic looks the same, so hopefully you don't have one of those ISPs.
Remember kids:
Drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and downloading music and movies makes you look cool, and girls really dig it!
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
"Piracy" essentially means armed robbery and murder on the high seas. The recent abuse of the term to refer to unauthorized duplication is idiotic.
This is not "recent'. The term goes back to 1603:
Even prior to the 1709 enactment of the Statute of Anne, generally recognized as the first copyright law, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labeled pirates as early as 1603.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
It may be desirable to change it around for other reasons, but misuse of the term certainly isn't one of them. A text from 1603 contains:
Banish these Word-pirates, (you sacred mistresses of learning) into the gulfe of Barbarisme: doome them euerlastingly to liue among dunces: let them not once lick their lips at the Thespian bowle, but onely be glad (and thanke Apollo for it too) if hereafter (as hitherto they haue alwayes) they may quench their poeticall thirst with small beere.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/yeare.html
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At moments like these I feel like I do, in fact, personally have a stake in the evolutionary game: I feel like I should make sure that my non-previewing genes go nowhere. Oh, well...I'm a slashdotter, so they're unlikely to be passed on anyway :)
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For each of us you IP ban, 10 more seeders will take his place
You want free videos:
http://www.tioti.com/
http://quicksilverscreen.com/
http://www.veoh.com/
http://www.hulu.com/
http://www.alluc.org/
http://www.sidereel.com/_home
http://alloftv.net/
http://www.4kidstv.com/
I haven't checked them all but most of them I checked were legal, and Quicksilverscreen and TIOTI are people that share their videos via the web site that may be grayware and not 100% legal but it is like them taping a VHS tape and sharing it with you.
here is a link to tens of thousands of free music links mostly by third party artists who don't have a distributor and share their music via the Internet.
If you are going to use BitTorrent why not find free and legal torrents to use with it and avoid the piracy.
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