"The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind the report against The Pirate Bay.
- Pirate Bay is an illegal commercial service that makes great sums of money by putting up other peoples movies and music on their site. The producers wont get payed for their work and the legal services growth gets prevented, says Henrik Pontén, lawyer at Rättighetsalliansen."
In other words they don't now what they are talking about. Thepiratebay is not putting up any files on thepiratebay.org, the users are (of course nothing is even uploaded, only seeded from user to user). I can recommend the documentary about The piratebay, TPB AFK where you will meet Henrik Pontén from the Anti Piracy Bureau among others.
Rättighetsalliansens website and article about this: http://rattighetsalliansen.se/nyhet/118
EDIT: I think their website crashed.
So called "technical evidence" is rarely "technical" for techies. It's often just HTTP logfile print-outs or a screen shot of a file sharing program. That's as technical as it gets. The judges don't know Excel from Word, and the prosecutor don't know HTTP from UDP. The defense have to work on the judges, not on the truth.
And in the end, they judges judge people based on emotion and political opinion anyway. After all, isn't a law but a formal moral opinion?
"We record the judges’ two daily food breaks, which result in segmenting the deliberations of the day into three distinct “decision sessions.” We find that the percentage of favorable rulings drops gradually from ≈65% to nearly zero within each decision session and returns abruptly to ≈65% after a break"
Or, you could say that it's a common mistake by courts to think that technical details shouldn't matter.
Gosh, it's like a fundamental obvious thought: don't make decisions about something you don't understand.
How to solve this is another story.
Though I kinda expect the average piratebay user to have adblock installed.
It's already hard enough to make a living as an artist, musician, etc. without being kneecapped by opportunists. We've gone from the old pre-Internet system, which screwed artists most of the time, to a new system that screws artists all the time.
I don't understand why there's so much sympathy for industrial-scale piracy -- especially for-profit industrial-scale piracy -- among people who make a living from creative work (programmers, entrepreneurs, engineers). I guess only certain castes of people and professions deserve compensation and respect, and everyone else can suck it...?
If someone were to say in conversation "Yeah, I downloaded Casablanca from Pirate Bay last night," would you immediately reply, "You don't know what you're talking about! You didn't download it from Pirate Bay, but from dozens of different peers, idiot!"
You must be fun at parties.
(And while we're nitpicking, torrents certainly do involve "uploads" and "downloads". Get your pedantry straight.)
Knowingly and willingly facilitating crime is usually a crime in itself. As a clear example, if you pay a hitman to kill someone, you didn't do the killing, but you facilitated the crime.
http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-foreve...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8726110
A .ac mirror should to be coming up. We'll see if this has the desired effect or is just another whack-a-mole effort.
However, there's a script where you could download the whole TPB, it's only 90 Mb. That's possible because now they're using only magnet links, so a torrent is pretty much just a URL.
http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-it...
So if someone have a recent copy, it would be easy to setup a mirror.
Or people could just use one of the dozen torrent site still up and let the whack-a-mole game continue.
etc, etc.
The only really tricky bit is "raid-proofing" secrets (Bitcoin/Namecoin private keys, DNS credentials), but Amazon and presumably other cloud providers are starting to offer HSMs. Or perhaps some combination of Shamir's Secret Sharing and multisig wallets + voting pools.
It's been too long since I've read it, so I forget what the actual point was.
The actual bulk data distribution is already quite P2P; the only remaining centralized part is the part that distributes the magnet hashes.
Talking in vague terms because I'm stretching beyond my knowledge here.
The fact is people don't want 100% decentralized P2P network; people want the fakes and the viruses removed and so on.
I wonder how much longer people will keep trying to put the information genie back in the bottle?
Ever hear of steam, MMO's, F2P? They've started with backend chaining of software, they are going to try to turn everything into "cloud based" bullshit to as much as they can do it.
Among my friends, almost everyone use Spotify for music, and the paid-for streaming-services for movies/shows. File-sharing is too much hassle.
I still think people care about internet-freedoms though (surveillance, monitoring, etc).
These days I don't know a single friend who download music (either illegally or legally), Spotify is so convenient.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:v346Sjm...
State.of.Affairs.S01E04.720p.HDTV.X264-DIMENSION
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