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Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe
Stoobalou contributes a link to this story at Thinq.co.uk, from which he excerpts: "Torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay is currently unavailable as reports come in of co-ordinated police raids against file sharers across Europe. Police in up to 14 countries carried out raids against suspected file-sharing servers this morning. According to file-sharing news site TorrentFreak, the bulk of police action seems to have taken place in Sweden. Swedish Internet service provider ISP, which hosts both The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, earlier denied rumours of a police raid, saying that officers had visited them to ask questions over two suspect IP addresses, and that no computers or other goods had been seized."
thepiratebay.org is still available to me here in Sweden.
Slashdot Beta should die a painful death.
Far be it from me to say that a /. submitter would rush to publish--but, as of the time of this posting, TBP is not down or offline. I simply stuck the URL in my browser, perhaps too rudimentary a method for testing?
I know what you're thinking. Did I forward 65,535 packets or 65,536 packets?
Pirate Bay is up and works. It's slow, so either there's been some damage or it's slashdotted.
Was that really too hard to check, Slashditors?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated
Pirate Bay will not stay in the ashes for long. They will rise again, stronger and better than ever before. Make no mistake. This is not about file sharing as much as it is about politics. The corporations have had too much power for too long. Up the rebels!!!
Unfortunately, capitalists have learned that genuinely fixing problems is rarely the way to maximize their power. Far better to sell a more-or-less ineffective "solution" like the security-industrial complex's "War on Terror" or drug cocktails for AIDS or subsidized "food aid" for povery and hunger. Insert your corporation into one of those cash torrents and you will be in a position of power for decades to come.
....except there is this little thing called "competition" that drives capitalists towards producing a better product. If they don't, they run the risk of someone else displacing them. If they purposely hold back (for any reason) then they place their precious "power" at risk. Don't you get it? In a capitalist economy, the very power you speak of comes from providing the most value. And you provide the most value by continually innovating more than the other competitors in your field (and also doing lots of other things correctly).
I can't believe you went through all of that and then failed to point out the competitive influence angle. That's just one of many beauties found in capitalism - and you just pretend it isn't even there. As if there is some grand conspiracy amongst capitalists to produce sub-par items for the stupid, unsuspecting public......c'mon, get a grip. Companies produce what the market demands. Otherwise, they can't get that power you speak of.