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The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-with-90%-less-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The founders of The Pirate Bay, possibly the best-known BitTorrent tracking service in existence, are going legit with a new file-sharing site which they claim will adhere to all copyright rules and takedown requests. BayFiles, as the new service is named, isn't BitTorrent powered. Instead, the site borrows its method of operation from the likes of Megaupload and RapidShare: a user selects a file and uploads it to the site via their web browser, after which it becomes available for anyone to download, assuming they have the link."

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  1. Adhere to takedown requests by Baloroth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, basically, if the copyright holder complains, the file will be removed. But, if Rapidshare et al. are any instance, it'll promptly be reuploaded under a different name. Encrypted and password locked so the RIAA won't know it's there unless they manually go out and search all the sites linking to it. Or, in other words, it's just as "legitimate" (I honestly think it is legitimate) as TPB is, just with better ass-coverage, more work required on the part of the copyright cartels, and less chance of downloaders being traced. Perfectly legally, of course.

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    "None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
  2. Re:Huh... by TarMil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, that's the protocol. The method is GET.

  3. No torrent, no download by Taibhsear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which no one will use.

    People (legitimate uploads at least) put their files on Pirate Bay because it offloads the server work and increases their customer base. Almost like free advertising for their software. You go to TPB, see what files are popular and download them. You might download software you could never have heard of since you have no other contact with that company. Can't go download something from a website you never heard of. And since it was torrents, popular files you could get in no time vs going to the company's main website for a direct download which could take way longer if they didn't invest in their servers/connections. Going rapidshare style almost blows the whole point of going to TPB.

  4. Re:Hey, worked for Napster by isorox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nap... whatnow?

    Face it, no filesharing service survives "going legit".

    Napster was that company founded by Justin Timberlake

  5. BayFiles by The+Living+Fractal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then I shall have to make a webcrawler for it, and I shall have to call it BayWatch. Surely that name is available?

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