Pirate bay court case
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That sucks for them.
As mentioned earlier in the thread though, surely they should be going after the release groups, not the torrent sites surely?
Removing the source is surely the best option if they are serious which I highly doubt.
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That's close to impossible.
Usenet is next...
Now that I cannot wait to see, would love the MPAA try to take down that monster.
Why do you think theyve not touched it soo far? Because they know it is going to be a long battle they may not win.
Probably. In which case rather than taking people to court they need to think of other means.
Exactly, they wouldn't win it, there's just no point.
People have been racking their brains for years to think of other means. No-one's come up with an answer. Taking down The Pirate Bay was just taking down four easily-traceable criminals who had a large impact on illegal downloading. It won't make any difference to sharing overall from now on, people will just go elsewhere.
The only way to stop downloading is for ISPs to force 28k on all connections. But that'll never happen.
Exactly, Napster got shutdown and that was the end of all piracy as we knew it................................. Oh wait...
going after piratebay is just working backwards..
its the suppliers who upload illegal content that should be targeted
if piratebay go, then someone else will take their place
reminds me of the law on drugs.. just say NO.. (doesnt work)
its the suppliers who upload illegal content that should be targeted
if piratebay go, then someone else will take their place
reminds me of the law on drugs.. just say NO.. (doesnt work)
What this does is send out a message that if you host a torrentsite you can get a prison sentence and a big fine, that should stop some sites from starting or continuing, just look at Torrentspy stopping because of the threat of court action.
Usenet is next...
Excuse my stupidness, Usenet is newsgroups isn't it?
I remember when Sharereactor came online.
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Yeah.
Gah I hope not. One thing that surprises me about 'traditional' P2P (as opposed to BitTorrent) is that it never really improved after Napster and indeed seemed to get worse. I suppose it's because people moved on to Usenet and torrents, but I'm still surprised it never really got going after that initial burst.
What we really need is something like Freenet, but fast. A torrent site hosted on there isn't going to be taken down.
Exactly, I know a couple of sites - one which was a major - which were shut down because of this.
Not so sure about that since the raids. And they're starting to use monitoring software along the lines of LimeWire now. DC++ is another matter.
