Jan 15, 2007 10:50 am Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the music and movies you wanted?
The lengths people go to in order to get away with something is just unbelievable sometimes.
Arrr, piracy issues got you down? Buy an island
Posted on Jan 15, 2007 10:49 am
BeerHunter
www.TheLondonProject.ca
Member Since: Feb 07, 2005
Check it out. Pirate Bay is trying to buy an island to try and circumvent copyright laws.
www.thelocal.se/6076/20070112/
PS - this post is not condone piracy but rather to show what lengths they will go to.
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Jan 15, 2007 10:50 am Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the music and movies you wanted?
The lengths people go to in order to get away with something is just unbelievable sometimes.
Jan 15, 2007 11:11 am ...and they seem to be 100% serious. Let's just step back a couple of hundred years and let the Jack Sparrow's of the world be the thorn in the side of people trying to make an honest living. Do you think they really have the money to do such a thing? How in the world did they accomplish that without being shut down?
Jan 15, 2007 11:12 am Weren't they just bought, or invested in heavily by some big name...
Jan 15, 2007 11:22 am ...wow, seriously. They were bought out. That in itself seems morally wrong. How can someone sell a business based on illegal activities? Well, I really don't see this happening but from the article, they do seem determined. If they succeed the world will turn into an ecomomic disaster IMO (as far as the internet goes anyways). What if spammers decide to do something similar. God help us all.
Jan 15, 2007 11:37 am Spammers already do, they don't buy islands, but they use servers in countries that don't care...you will find many warez and spammer sites/services are on russian servers and such places that just simply don't care that much about enforcing this stuff.
Jan 15, 2007 12:43 pm I wonder of these people realize that "no laws" also applies to people coming to kill them...
Jan 15, 2007 06:45 pm Quote: "I wonder of these people realize that "no laws" also applies to people coming to kill them..."
Right! They're not under the protection of any other nation. They fought tooth and nail to not be part of Britain. Soooo...A well placed EMP device. No casualties, just a f***ed server, and no international incident.
Since they are pirates, they should expect this kind of justice.
Jan 15, 2007 08:34 pm I'm rather educated when it comes to this stuff.
In Sweden, where they are based AND their servers, what they are doing is currently LEGAL. The swedish copyright laws allow for this type of activity, and it is very complicated. The current issue is, the Swedish government is trying to change that. They are attempting to bring down the owner of TPB to their equivalent of the USA supreme court. The owner has been running, and has lived off of others for the last few months, and they are looking now for alternative methods to keeping this project alive.
I know all of this because I have a friend who moderates for TPB.
Jan 15, 2007 09:49 pm Indeed neo has some good info there.
I use Bit Torrent, but for creating and using other legal type files. The Pirate Bay just happens to be the worlds largest Bit Torrent tracker site. That alone makes them worth investing in. From what I understand if the money is truly invested they do intend to have a legal portion of that site. Although I don't think they will ever stop the illegal portion of it from happening. Bit Torrent is growing ever so slowly, but that is in part due to place's such as Pirate Bay running illegal download links. I have used their tracker more then once as it is the fastest and most efficient tracker site out there. Although several are coming closer they are not quite there yet. But as I said, the public views Bit Torrent in a bad light because of the place's such as Pirate Bay. They don't even get to see the legal sites that promote Bit Torrent and Bit Torrent trackers for good things.
Good example of the good things that Bit Torrent offers. My youngest son was in need a a Text book the school could not provide. If I were to have ordered a copy sent here it would have cost me around $75.00. The school however hooked me up with a site that has the book available legally for download. A rather large book mind you for even my high speed pipe. It was however a Bit Torrent which was easily downloaded in a matter of a few minutes as a Bit Torrent. So it does have its good side as well. Pity the bad guys always end up abusing great technology.
Jan 15, 2007 09:54 pm Quote:
The school however hooked me up with a site that has the book available legally for download.
I am guessing the publisher might not be too keen on that "legal" site...
Jan 15, 2007 10:08 pm BitTorrent trackers have the ability to restrict connections, so if other people got a hold of the .torrent, it doesn't matter; different IP, no go. Theres other uses, also. Its saved my websites bandwidth a LOT, probably about 5mbit worth.
Take a look at NASA, they have their satellite imagery available for download in .raw format. Its 26gigabytes. I downloaded it, and it was a torrent. Best satellite imagery of my house ever :P
Jan 15, 2007 10:36 pm ... and I would hate to site though a slackware download without a torrent... even with the torret it took like 20 hours...
so I do have some torrents going... mostly linux distros and large apps...
Jan 15, 2007 10:48 pm It was the publisher that gave the school the link as it was an older book. Most of the peers that came up on the tracker during download were college and .edu server sights. I would assume the book was out of print from the price that they wanted for a new one. They have what appears to be a library of out of print school type books and such available as .torrent files.
There is a sight as well that does nothing but public domain movies. All old school stuff, black and white silent movies and some with sound. I think if I remember correctly they had the entire Abbott and Costello series and their movies as well.
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