> The ads were because of legal defence fees, which can be huge. Citation? The ads were making millions(1) to the people behind the TPB, and the legal cost is several orders of magnitude less. update: (1) http://www.thelocal.se/20100930/29334 "The Pirate Bay earned up to 35 million kronor ($5.2 million) in advertising revenue from the file sharing website" (2010, already)
Can anybody explain what's the fuzz regarding pirate bay? I mean, there are tons of good torrent sites and search engines everybody use every day... I don't even remember when I last time used TPB...
It's a symbol of resistance. The actual site doesn't really matter, as long as it's up.
The Pirate Bay earned up to 35 million kronor ($5.2 million) in advertising revenue from the file sharing website, >>>film companies maintained And literally the second paragraph in your link: The claims were dismissed by Jonas Nilsson, legal counsel for one of the defendants, Fredrik Neij. Nilsson argued that instead of being a profits earner most of the work to keep The Pirate Bay running had been undertaken on a v…
Well, you can say that "the prosecutor said this and the defendant counsel said this", but at the end of the day we know that the four operators of the site were convicted by Stockholm district court on 17 April 2009 and sentenced to one year in jail each and a total of 30 million Swedish kronor (approximately US$3.5 million, €2.7 million) in fines and damages. So I guess the court believed the prosecutor.
How does that help your point. You still haven't provided any information that would back your claims.
The blog title contain a question mark, I guess this HN topic should also have it...
Yes, this should be edited. It is very misleading. Rings of someone trying to get more people to click the link because instead of asking if it might be happening, it sounds like it definitely is going down forever. It needs to be changed.
Sorry. I was mistaken it didn't go open source, the proxybay was literally proxies to the main site and now all of them are down. You can in fact download a copy of every torrent and magnet link, then build your own site that searches through them. Magnet links are just a short string of text so one who does isn't hosting anything as far as I'm concerned. That isn't the law apparently.
> all of them are down If you mean all the 'thepiratebay' domains, I think you are mistaken. This one works for me: https://thepiratebay.cr/ haven't tried any else yet
That's not a pirate bay domain in the sense that they own it. It's just a proxy and so as the main site is down, that is too.
> The ads were because of legal defence fees, which can be huge. Citation? The ads were making millions(1) to the people behind the TPB, and the legal cost is several orders of magnitude less. update: (1) http://www.thelocal.se/20100930/29334 "The Pirate Bay earned up to 35 million kronor ($5.2 million) in advertising revenue from the file sharing website" (2010, already)
> The ads were making millions Citation?
The site had 50m uniques a month. At least 2-3 ads on every page. Even at a terrible CPM rate or CPC conversion rate, they'd have to be ansolute morons not to be making oodles of cash from that setup.
The thing is that to download a torrent, the absolute minimum amount of information you need is the torrent hash. The torrent hash is on the order of ~40 characters long, requiring no other information. All you have to do is paste that short sting into a torrent client to download a set of files. Are we really going to say that these 40 character strings are illegal to share? If I paste the hash for the latest blockb…
It's sad that I have to beat that tired old drum again, but in law, intent matters (yes I have a law degree but I think it's fair to say that one doesn't need one to know that). After 15 years I should have been desensitized by farcically naive 'reasoning' (or I should say, farcically naive sophistry, because let's face it, that's what it is) like 'they don't post torrents, the users do' and 'how can a small string b…
That's a terrible analogy. Try: "Yes, making meth is illegal. Yes, selling meth-lab kits is illegal. Okay, maybe publishing instructions for building a meth lab is illegal. Wait, linking to someone else's instructions is illegal? And now you're telling me that sharing a short hash that validates someone else's link to someone else's instructions is also illegal?" (Is it even illegal in the meth lab scenario?)