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Pirates of the Caribbean: the Pirate Bay Moves To Island of Sint Maarten
New submitter coolnumbr12 writes "For the second time in a week, The Pirate Bay has found a new home for its popular torrent website. A complaint issued Tuesday by Swedish prosecutors threated the Icelandic domain, forcing the file-sharing pirates to take harbor in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new .sx domain name. 'Control of the island, which has just 78,000 residents, is split between France and the Netherlands. Around 41,000 live on the Dutch side and 37,000 on the French. ... Even if the court grants the prosecutor’s request it remains to be seen how effective any seizures will be. Time and again the BitTorrent site has responded by relocating to new domains.'"
It's the digital equivalent of seizing an empty PO box.
What's amusing is that it takes them months of meetings, requests, follow-ups, investigation, more meetings, some additional requests and some more meetings - all costing thousands and thousands and some more thousands.
TPB on the other hand fills in a few little details in a webform for the most part.
Dear Government, You're fucked, now fuck off. Sincerely, The Internet.
I would change that ever so slightly. Dead Big Business, the government is fucked here, stop bothering them already will you? At the end of the day, the governments want happy, content people who have all the access to entertainment they want - after all it makes them more complacent.
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
That revolves around stealing other people's stuff.
Governments?
No sig today...