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The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid
An anonymous reader writes The Pirate Bay's crew have remained awfully quiet on the recent raid in public, but today Mr 10100100000 breaks the silence in order to get a message out to the world. In a nutshell, he says that they couldn't care less, are going to remain on hiatus, and a comeback is possible. In recent days mirrors of The Pirate Bay appeared online and many of these have now started to add new content as well. According to TPB this is a positive development, but people should be wary of scams. Mr 10100100000 says that they would open source the engine of the site, if the code "wouldn't be so s****y". In any case, they recommend people keeping the Kopimi spirit alive, as TPB is much more than some hardware stored in a dusty datacenter.
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The problem is the Pirate Bay is both, and you have to take the bad with the good. I just kinda wish they'd chosen another name besides "The Pirate Bay", as it makes the site look like it was deliberately set up for piracy rather than general file sharing. (And it might well have been set up primarily for that purpose, but no need to be so obvious about it.)
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Regardless of the licensing, a lot of the content on the site is useful because its just unavailable otherwise.
I wonder this about Youtube. What if it was just shutdown? At this point you can laugh but it has historical value. Beyond the cat videos there are documentaries, content from laserdisc, obscure commercials, very useful user howtos and reviews etc. This list goes on and on. If all you search for on youtube is funny videos then you are missing out on a treasure trove of content that spans many decades.
At some point I think the site will have to become a public archive. Which it kind of already is, it just needs the legal status so that some greedy corporation can't just turn off the switch. Now if only we could cut down on the crap that is a result of everyone trying to monetize youtube. But I guess that's wishful thinking because without that Google might just shut down Youtube outright.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
and if the content creator wants to shun an entire region of their content rather than get paid, there is nothing stopping someone from downloading the content, that is not offered legally to them in other ways.
Content owners could have got paid if they didnt do that
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while legally you might be correct, but logically, its simply wrong.
If I can get something I want, and no one is offering it up to me at a nominal fee, I find nothing wrong with taking a free copy of said item. legally it might be wrong, morally, fuck them for not letting me access something I would gladly pay for if they would let me.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Working hard since 2003 to preserve your right to consume media without the annoyance of paying.
Working hard to enable people to download movies and music that will work on their streaming and mobile devices after they've paid for the original DRM encumbered media that forces them to watch adverts and FCC warnings every time they use the media.
There, fixed that for you.
Do you seriously think that a significant portion of Pirate Bay downloads are people who have purchased the content, and are just downloading a copy to get an unencumbered version? Honestly?
I'm surprised more people aren't using Tribler. It's an open source, cross-platform application which allows people to search for (and download/share) torrents in a peer-to-peer fashion. This removes the need for central torrent indexes like Pirate Bay or other big sites. http://tribler.org/
If more people were sharing torrents in a P2P style rather than relying on sites like TPB, users wouldn't be affected by website outages like this.
You make it sound like you have a fundamental right to content someone else produces. You don't.
Yes I do.
It's called culture. Humans have been producing it for thousands of years. Claiming it is some sort of property that can be owned is a legal fiction created only in the last few hundred. The vast majority of consumers of culture throughout history and pre-history did not pay for their consumption. If authors got paid at all, they got paid once, by their patron, and forever after the cost of spreading the media was the marginal cost of duplication, and the cost of consumption was zero.
Actually, two of our major futebol stadiums sit next to residential areas, and people make a chunk of profit renting them or allowing people on their verandas on major games. Last time I checked, no action was taken against them
Do you seriously think that a significant portion of Pirate Bay downloads are people who have purchased the content, and are just downloading a copy to get an unencumbered version? Honestly?
Yes. I myself and quite a few people I know download stuff that they either bought or could watch via free/subscription TV if they could be bothered to buy and program a DVR. It's easier just to use torrents though, as most DVRs don't let you stream to other televisions and make you manually skip adverts. It's just too much hassle, torrents are so much easier.
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