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IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay

Posted by Soulskill on from the they're-spartacus dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Torrent site isoHunt appears to have unofficially resurrected The Pirate Bay at oldpiratebay.org. At first glance, The Old Pirate Bay seems to be just a commemorative site for The Pirate Bay, which went down this week after police raided its data center in Sweden. Upon further inspection, however, it turns out the site is serving new content. This is much more than just a working archive of The Pirate Bay; it has a functioning search engine, all the old listings, and working magnet links.

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  1. Well DUH, You can't stop piracy. by metrix007 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is impossible to stop piracy. It's a waste of effort to even try.

    This is going to evolve into a completely decentralized, encrypted tool going over common ports that will be easy to use. It can never be stopped.

    I know it's cliche to bring up the whole information wants to be free argument, but it applies in this case. People want to share, the last 20 years have shown that, and since that need is far more frequent than the content owners need to greedily restrict their content, it will be dominant.

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    If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
    1. Re:Well DUH, You can't stop piracy. by Shados · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm not saying I agree or not with piracy, but this is a ridiculous arguments. "You can't completely stop X, therefore you shouldn't even try to do anything about it".

      That can be said about -ANY- crime/undesirable behavior.

      "You can't ever completely stop home invasions. Its a waste of effort to put lock on doors".

      Some people will do whatever, all the way down to the extreme, no matter what you try to do about it. Efforts to stop "X" is generally to stop as much as you can.

      The question is purely: "is it beneficial to society to spend X amount of resources to stop Y amount of piracy (or to try at all). Yes/No.

      People feel pretty strongly on both sides of the fence as if it was an obvious question with an obvious answer to either of the sides. It is not that simple.