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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!