Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know
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#2> And last week a French court ordered ISPs in that country to block access to Pirate Bay, as well as any of its mirror sites, from within French territory.
This is scary. I really wonder if it isn't just a matter before people are convinced torrents = piracy and ban all torrent traffic.
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#3It is mostly a nonsense. There will always be contraflow to decentralized systems. The pirate bay situation is classic stick it to the man storytime. When are LEAs in these regions going to reason that TPB is a hydra - cut off one head, and countless others sprout from it? An absolute nonsense
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#4> And last week a French court ordered ISPs in that country to block access to Pirate Bay, as well as any of its mirror sites, from within French territory. This is scary. I really wonder if it isn't just a matter before people are convinced torrents = piracy and ban all torrent traffic.
Why does blocking Pirate Bay lead to banning all torrent traffic? If anything, they've made exactly the distiction you're afraid they wont.
Anyways, I doubt PirateBay will be down for long, in France or otherwise.
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#5> And last week a French court ordered ISPs in that country to block access to Pirate Bay, as well as any of its mirror sites, from within French territory. This is scary. I really wonder if it isn't just a matter before people are convinced torrents = piracy and ban all torrent traffic.
It has been blocked before in different countries, the blocks were not very effective for any length of time (measured in hours or days)
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#6The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scares me. It's 2014 and a company like Sony can get a swat and forensics team to take down a website hosted in a completely different country. Just trying to get your local police department to find a stolen car or help you recover a stolen phone can be struggle enough. But heaven forbid, people are sharing magnet links on The Pirate Bay, we must send in the big guns.
I know that Wired is speculating that this is because of the Sony hack, but there have been numerous cases where companies have had incredible global overreach like in the instance of Megaupload.
Seems Sweden has become a US lapdog, this isn't the first time Sweden has bowed down to copyright infringement enforcement requests from the USA and it won't be the last. They've been trying to take down The Pirate Bay for years now, it will never die. It goes down, it comes back within a day or two, why won't they just give up already?
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#7The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scares me. It's 2014 and a company like Sony can get a swat and forensics team to take down a website hosted in a completely different country. Just trying to get your local police department to find a stolen car or help you recover a stolen phone can be struggle…
It's worth noting that the Sony Corporation itself is based in Japan, while the subsidiary that was hacked, Sony Pictures Entertainment, is American. Also, there's no proof that they're behind this, only speculation from Wired.
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#8I recall, and this article also mentions, that TBP's operators were bragging about moving to the cloud a couple years ago, and supposedly had become raid-proof[1]. Assuming such is true, I'm curious what law-enforcement did to defeat TPB's anti-raid measures.
1. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-become...
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#9The overreach that companies with big pockets like Sony Pictures Entertainment have when it comes to enforcing their ownership rights over content they own scares me. It's 2014 and a company like Sony can get a swat and forensics team to take down a website hosted in a completely different country. Just trying to get your local police department to find a stolen car or help you recover a stolen phone can be struggle…
It's worth noting that the Sony Corporation itself is based in Japan, while the subsidiary that was hacked, Sony Pictures Entertainment, is American. Also, there's no proof that they're behind this, only speculation from Wired.
I have updated my comment reflecting the appropriate name of the subsidiary of Sony and fact that Wired are speculating. Thank you for commenting and pointing that out.
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#10It's back online at http://piratebay.cr/, but I heard it's having trouble handling the surge of traffic from the news.