Could Someone Just Recreate The Pirate Bay?
from the bet-on-it-happening dept
As plenty of people have been pointing out, if The Pirate Bay goes away/changes/shuts down/whatever, there are a ton of sites ready and eagerly waiting to take it's place. But JJ King makes an even bigger point: the whole of The Pirate Bay is not a lot of data, such that it would be rather easy to just copy the entire site and recreate it. In fact, it seems likely that others are probably making use of this fact already, and there may be multiple "copies" of The Pirate Bay quickly being set up. So, even if the site goes away, all it will really do is further splinter the sites that upset the entertainment industry -- but it will hardly stop them or even slow them down.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Thank you for brightening my Monday morning. :D
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It's all about the content!
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Hey, why doesn't anyone look at the list of Sony/ATV Artists that signed up with Sony/ATV because they trusted Michael Jackson as owner or part owner, and now can't control the music they created?
You want piracy? How about Artists that can't control their previous works, re-publish music, or even have Beetles Music on iTunes because someone has a personal vendetta against Apple or maybe even Steve Jobs?
Artist Piracy. That's the piracy I want to learn more about.
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The funny thing is
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As for "much better sites", those are generally private registered trackers that you can't get access to unless you know someone who has access already. Kind of hard for the masses to access.
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There is room for improvement, if only the rest of TPB was as well indexed as the TV section.
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Idiot.
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I remember when supernova was THE torrent site. When it got shut down, I think it took a week until 10 more sites popped to the forefront.
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I remember when supernova was THE torrent site. When it got shut down, I think it took a week until 10 more sites popped to the forefront.
OMG! A whole WEEK?! How did you survive?
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Once again, I will point out that it is the IRREFUTABLY LARGEST TORRENT TRACKER.
Another idiot.
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http://www.mininova.org/
IT'S STILL THERE. Why do you speak of it as though it were already gone?
Idiot.
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About time!
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Anyone remember the Napster lawsuit?
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Piracy?
The problem is they don't know what music we play because we don't send them a list JUST THE PAYMENT. They don't have a clue who is being played.
I also compose music and I copyrighted my CD (paid the US federal government for protection), started a legal publishing company and pressed the CD myself. I did indie and it felt good. I then contacted ASCAP to be my representative and they refused me!! They said I wasn't a publishing company and so I can't get my work's fees collected because they discriminate.
Of course we can take them to court and sue them. If we only had the time and resources?
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Still No One's Figured It Out
What TPB did was technically brilliant. It's going to fragment and decentralize the P2P infrastructure so much that it will be impossible to pursue any one part because that one part plays such a generic role (web portal, hosting service, search engine w/o hosting, etc.).
Unfortunately, the announcement of the change was an unmitigated PR nightmare. Announcing the change in conjunction with a commercial, for-profit company that then went on and made a comment regarding adequately compensating content creators (keywords that all TPB supporters have learned to associate with RIAA/MPAA) was tantamount to ideological suicide.
We can't really blame the TPB guys for having awful PR skills, but I expected more from the media, particularly TorrentFreak or even here at Techdirt. I guess no one can be bothered to really investigate when the kneejerk reaction's so much easier.
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Stealing is stealing, no matter how much you wrap it in a technical stew.
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It's not the site...
And advertising? Just what are you going to advertise to a bunch of pirates who expect to get everything for free?
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Hardware, for some reason those who expect content to be free have no problem building a $2000 computer to make it happen.
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Naw. They're probably working part time at Best Buy so they can avail themselves of the employee five-fingered discount.
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