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Now Published: Study Showing Pirate Bay Blockade Has No Effect
First time accepted submitter Neelix21 writes "Last week a Dutch court decided that the blockade of the Pirate Bay website was ineffective and disproportionate. The academic study that measured this effect has now been published: 'This paper studies the effectiveness of this approach towards online copyright enforcement, using both a consumer survey and a newly developed non-infringing technology for BitTorrent monitoring. While a small group of respondents download less from illegal sources or claim to have stopped doing so, no impact is found on the percentage of the Dutch population downloading from illegal sources.' The torrent monitoring technique also shows that if you are downloading a public torrent, anyone can find out." Happily, the linked paper is not paywalled.
It's not theft, please stop.
It is a violation of copyright law. i.e. infringement.
Nothing was taken from anyone. You are buying into the PR of organization that are well known for abusing the law.
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There is no such thing as an "illegal download". Downloading files is perfectly legal. I have no idea what the term "illegal sources" in TFS means either. No law has been passed saying it is against the law to download from a particular site.
Whenever I see terms like these being bandied about I know someone is using deliberately vague and manipulative terms in an effort to con me.