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- jrm125, on 10/19/2009, -2/+22Can't stop torrents.
Requisite: ***** the RIAA and MPAA! - dsmx, on 10/19/2009, -2/+20Why do I get a feeling that this case is going to drag on for years costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and in the end the result will be the pirate bay staying up because it is merely a search engine. Assuming of course they find a judge who isn't a member of the pro copyright lobby.
- carlonchox911, on 10/19/2009, -2/+121. ***** the RIAA and the MPAA
2.Long live The Piratebay
3.I NEED MY DEMONOID, DAMMIT. COME BACK! - Tddupre, on 10/19/2009, -2/+11AUDIT THE RIAA!
- Icupnimpn2, on 10/19/2009, -1/+8Rock on, due process!
- bobburn1, on 10/19/2009, -3/+8The inevitable delayed until Summer 2010.
- wikinerd, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3Yeah. They finally realized that the obvious corruption cannot be pulled over the public's eyes. FINALLY.
- Culyt, on 10/20/2009, -1/+2I think the end result could well be them being shut down by bribed judges. From what I have been reading just about every judge TPB get given has some kind of tie to a pro-copyright agency, strengthen ip laws group, yet no action is taken when they complain, the instant TPB got a judge the might have been sympathetic the the other team gets them taken off.
There was that cop that got employed by Warner Bros and thats just the one they where stupid enough to make it so obvious with.
The antipriacy group forged documents, TPB lost a trial by default they weren't even informed was occurring and so on.
The longer this drags out the better since it gets us more time to get replacements happening. For example that torrent that contained all the PirateBay .torrent files was an awesome idea. If the pirate bay gets shut down, 8 identical sites mirroring all the data should spring up. It also give politicians more time to realise that something like %40 of voters are 'pirates', and the fact that number will increase as more people grow up with the technology and the information about the use of it spreads virally.
It would be better to see the torrent index sites become P2P themselves, so any site can pull the PirateBays data to them (this happens with RSS but a proper protocol would be awesome, taking into account spam and so on). The trackers should similarly do the same, the main open ones proxying to each other so when a client request a torrent, they get the information from all major trackers. And ensuring they are disconnected from the index sites like opentracker and TPB.
Even better would be to make some kind of distributed hash table system with digital signatures. I can collect all the torrents that I download that are legit and mark them as 'good' and sign off on that. Then another person who aggregates collections from people can sign off on me. And people who collection the collection collectors. And so on.
You basically build a giant web of trust, you decide that I'm legitimate, so you add me to your trusted people list. You then get everyone I trust, and the ones those people trust. A spammer gets marked as bad, only other spammers would mark spammers as good. - branton87, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE DEE! BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT TO BE!
- mparker21311, on 10/20/2009, -3/+2I pirate everyday, but TPB isnt merely a search engine. ITS ***** PURE GOLDEN DELIGHT!
- kopiwrite, on 10/19/2009, -5/+4I don't think you need to assume anything. TPB has proven to operate outside the law. They're making a strong case for virtual worlds not having to adhere to earthly laws - no matter how much the politicians and judges want them to. Where there's a will, there's a way. TPB seems to be unsinkable.
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