I'm surprised at this - doesn't the Swedish Pirate Party have some ties to the Pirate Bay, and some political power?
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#12I can't help but think that adding ads to their website led to their downfall. How can they claim they aren't profiting off stolen content if they are riddled with ads?
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#13The 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…
Sweden with their fear of Russia, jets incidents? Yeah, they will eventually give back favour. Favour for favour they say.
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#14It would kind of be nice if piracy could be temporarily paused, just so we could actually see the economic impact. I imagine theater revenues would not magically increase and the movie execs would go to war on their next imaginary enemy. Unlicensed HDCP strippers or something.
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#15I can't help but think that adding ads to their website led to their downfall. How can they claim they aren't profiting off stolen content if they are riddled with ads?
What stolen content can you find on their servers?
Google can be accused of the same thing, by the way.
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#16So the front end is just a proxy that apparently stores the IP addresses of the backend servers in memory. Here's what I'm wondering: why do they run a site on the public internet at all? Why not run the proxying front end on Tor? Or maybe they do already?
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#17I can't help but think that adding ads to their website led to their downfall. How can they claim they aren't profiting off stolen content if they are riddled with ads?
I suppose they could claim that they are not profitable, if that's true.
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#18It's back online at http://piratebay.cr/ , but I heard it's having trouble handling the surge of traffic from the news.
Well, good job copyright mafia, you just drove a ton more traffic to share your stuff without your permission.
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#19So the front end is just a proxy that apparently stores the IP addresses of the backend servers in memory. Here's what I'm wondering: why do they run a site on the public internet at all? Why not run the proxying front end on Tor? Or maybe they do already?
>why do they run a site on the public internet at all?
I think they must actually care about being provocative.
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#20Sometimes I just think that the world is perfectly balanced in this regard. Corporate greed and DRM cuffs are offset by people's desire to be freed from them.
Until they start combating piracy by offering better service, they will still be subject to piracy treatment - the most effective and appropriate treatment for megacorps that have too much power in their hands ('overreach', quoting the other poster).
Seeing how fast it went back up makes my heart warm. Long live TPB.