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Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains
The Pirate Bay will probably never be the darling of any government; we've seen various Pirate Bay domains cracked down on, and the arrests of site founders. An anonymous reader writes now with the news reported this morning by TorrentFreak that: the Stockholm District Court has ordered two key domains owned by The Pirate Bay to be seized. While the ruling means that the site will lose its famous ThePirateBay.se domain, don't expect the site to simply disappear. TPB informs TorrentFreak that they have plenty more domains left in store.
From the point of view of the down-crackers, It's a hard problem, particularly when it's easy for people to spin up their own instances of the site.
Well, this won't make any difference at all.
English is not my first language, so cut me some slack -: Om du kan lasa det har sa kan du Svenska
Bad move, Sweden. Now you're stepping on the USDOJ's winkie.
Looks like it's Popcorn Time!
Is it Tuesday already?
EZTV was taken over by scammers so careful what you download from there
http://torrentfreak.com/eztv-s...
is the next site to be litigated out of existence?
taking Pirate Bay down, just find a way to tax it....
The domains have not been seized from the Pirate Bay. The domains have been seized from Fredrik Neij because his property was forfeit after his earlier loss in court.
After two years the court refused to agree that the actions of the Pirate Bay should lead to the seizure of the domains, and instead a shortcut has been found to grab them by another means.
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Took them 2 years to get those 2 domains, and The Piratebay has got other domains.
It's just legal 'whack-a-mole' at taxpayers expense.
Somebody, register 73h_p1r8bay.com
2: ???
3:profit
I do understand, that darknet (i2p, TOR/onion) is still a science fiction for "Average Joe", whose interest is downloading his daily porn and series episodes.
Maybe this is the perfect time to put the 'bay on the deep web and just stop this domain BS. Average Joe will have to use tor2web or install a browser to get his fix. He will (might) also learn about alternatives to Gmail and Hotmail and just browsing in the wide open.
I am not suggesting that the torrent traffic would go through the darknet, just that the torrent sites move in there and this whole domain crap goes away.
I am not advocating piracy, or tell anyone to do anything illegal, I just don't get how something (deemed) illegal doesn't move to a domain-less medium where it belongs. That's all...
It's back up https://thepiratebay.vg/
It's been said before, but: when a law is essentially impossible to enforce, the problem is with the law. The ease with which digitized goods can be copied is an indication that copyright probably should not apply to them.
I actually believe (naively?) that this would not cost individual authors and musicians anything at all. I choose to by music and books from artists that I like, because I want them to continue creating.
Likely, it would affect the big companies, like Disney. They would have to find new ways to monetize their assets, and might have to create new mascots more often than every hundred years. The worlds tiniest violin...
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Newsflash!
Closing of ThePirateBay top level domains forces millions of users to search two minutes for an alternative bittorrent infosite.
Next up: Bag of rice falls over in China! Situation unclear!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
The only way to beat TPB is to offer something better. I'd gladly pay for quality copies of movies, for a fair price, as long as they don't come with strings attached (can only watch on this or that device) and I don't have to wait for two years to see a "new" movie. If I could use Netflix anonymously, download for offline viewing on whatever device and player I see fit, and not have to wait forever for new shit to appear, I'd stop using TPB for movies. If the games wasn't ridiculously overpriced I'd gladly buy them. Minecraft for instance has a very fair price, but 100 bucks for some low-budget movie-style game at 46GB that's mildly entertaining for 15 minutes? No thank you. Give me a decent alternative and I'll give you your money.
Illegal filesharing could conceivably nuke the entertainment industry - not completely, but enough to get their attention. They should consider an alternative to the adversarial approach - deploy their own fileshares and make it economically and technically desirable to use those sources. It would be like nuclear power for the entertainment industry. But no - they just seem interested in garbage like the TPP, torrent cache posioning, idiotic lawsuits, domain takedowns and other WMD technologies. Entertainment is becoming the North Korea of industries.
Shut one down and another takes it place.
You law enforcing people are soooo behind the times.
The problem with this idea is that as TPB migrates to additional domains, it leaves open a few possibilities. First, sites opposed to TPB will create malicious sites to try and spoof TPD to collect data, spread malware, and otherwise degrade the services that TPB offers. Second, while rapid DNS techniques are well implemented in malware like botnets, it's not a capability that the average Joe can keep track of, so without some form of front end that can track and change with the rotating DNS entries, people will get frustrated and stop using the service. And this is exactly what the opposition wants. It's time that many of these types of technologies go through redesign again. And they must be redesigned from the protocol level. TPB succeeded where Napster didn't because the content being traded was not hosted with TPB. But they are still centrally located for the purpose of search and front end to the users. Anytime a bellybutton can be poked, it will be. So the protocol must be designed to prevent ANY centralized management. Next, any protection mechanisms (trust models, etc) that are built into the protocols used must be extremely well thought out. When analyzing for protocol weakness, rules matter. If only certain nodes are allowed to be "trusted" ,then you can better bet that those wishing to exploit it will design a node to be trusted. Protocols must also be non-differential at all levels, from the handshake of the SSL layer down to the initial HELO to the transmission characteristics of how it sends data. If the protocol can be differentiated, it can be blocked, tracked, hacked, or otherwise interfered with. Simply wrapping it in Tor isn't going to work. There are ample talks out there on how Tor traffic can be characterized and interfered with.
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