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The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly
New submitter cbiltcliffe writes: About a month ago, we discussed news that the Pirate Bay domain name was back online. This story mentioned a timer, which supposedly showed the time since the police raid. I didn't notice at the time, but a more recent check showed this counter was counting down, not up, with a time set to reach zero at the end of January. Sometime around a week ago, the waving pirate flag video changed to a graphic of an orange phoenix, and a disabled search box showed up. I've been watching the site since, and now, about 12 hours before the timer was to reach zero, the site is back up, complete with searches.
It seems they have problems with the staff though.
More info here
But like to share a recent event
I got my first Notice of Copyright Infringement not one but 8, one file which consist of 8 episodes.
Hell it's even on youtube.
On behalf of Vobile as an agent for Discovery Communications, LLC
2880 Lakeside Drive, Suite 360
Santa Clara, CA 95054
agent@discovery.copyright-notice.com
Evidentiary Information:
Protocol: BitTorrent
Infringed Work: How the Universe Works
Infringing FileName: How.The.Universe.Works.Season.1[Complete][2010]HDTV-up=
endi
Infringing FileSize: 352 MB
Infringer's IP Address: nope
Infringer's Port: not that it matters
Every person involved was already paid. The Grip and such got paid cash on the day they worked. Stealing it after hurts nobody who "worked" on it.
To this, I offer the following parable:
There once was a man who wanted to open a series of restaurants. He hired an architect, interior designers, and a team of construction contractors to build the first restaurant. After a year of planning and building, the restaurant was finished.
The man went on Slashdot and then did read posts by AK Marc and martin-boundary and others, who told him that "every person involved was already paid."
So the man decided not to open his restaurant. Burglars came and stole the food. Squatters came and took up residence in the building. But the man was unconcerned, since "every person involved was already paid."
At the end of the year, the man went to his accountant. Lo, his accountant was not pleased. "Why didst thou spend thy money upon this restaurant?" saith the accountant.
The man saith unto his accountant, "'Every person involved was already paid.' AK Marc and martin-boundary hath told me so. Thus I decided customers were not necessary and figured the project was finished."
But the account then pointed out that the man had not been paid. And lo, the man was sore aggrieved. Thenceforth, he built no more restaurants, and construction business dried up in town. His architect and his designers and his construction workers lost their jobs and never were paid again.
But, as the Slashdot posters had said:
Stealing it after hurts nobody who "worked" on it.
But the workers were quite confused, since they lost their jobs.
Here endeth the lesson.
(P.S. In case this is too unclear to the dense posters and mods who rated such comments highly -- yes, for a particular movie project, the people who "worked" on it were already paid. But the corporations and investors who paid all of them were depending on future profits to make back their initial capital outlay. If they don't receive enough profits, they will stop funding future projects, and "the grip and such" will likely not get as much work. You may or may not think this is a bad idea -- and I'm NOT defending the current copyright system by any means -- but pretending that "every person involved was already paid" and there will be no future impact on their lives is just ridiculous.)