BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade

MrSeb writes "In a twist that will surprise no one except the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, and other anti-piracy lobbies, the amount of BitTorrent traffic has stayed the same or increased in Europe following the blockade of The Pirate Bay in the UK, Netherlands, and other countries. This news comes from XS4All, one of the largest European ISPs, which has published a graph of the network traffic associated with the BitTorrent protocol — and sure enough, since the Dutch Pirate Bay blockade began in February 2012, traffic has stayed the same or increased slightly. There are probably a few reasons for this: a) The European blockades created a lot of publicity (and no publicity is bad publicity); b) TPB isn't the only torrent site out there, and many of its torrents are available elsewhere; and c) Internet denizens are a lot more savvy (proxies, VPNs, etc.) than the MPAA and co give them credit for."

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Re:CUZ MOTHERFUCKERS WILL STEAL NO MATTER WHAT !!

[TapeCutter]

There's nothing illegal about DOWNLOADING a copyrighted file, if there was then the intenet itself would be illegal since every html, video, audio, etc, file ever created is automatically copyrighted at the time of creation. How it wound up being avaiable for download on the internet is not the downloader's problem, legally or morally.

OTOH: From your id and the use of a combination car / broken window analogy, I suspect you already know this and are just another unimaginative troll.