Posted on 06/05/2006 3:32:25 AM PDT by prisoner6
Reports of its demise greatly exaggerated
By Nick Farrell: Sunday 04 June 2006, 23:09
THE P2P site ThePirateBay is back from the dead, despite claims from various anti-piracy groups that it had been sunk.
The site went back online on Saturday at 6:07PM Eastern Standard Time, and already seems to be a bit busy, probably because it is not running at full capacity again.
It is not clear if any of the smaller businesses that were also using the same ISP are back online. The last email we received from GameSwitch, that outfit was still offline, probably because Inspector Knacker of the Swedish yard had confiscated most of its hardware.
The shut-down is getting considerable press attention in Sweden after one of the research news shows 'Rapport' has indicated that the shut down appeared to have had the involvement of the White House.
The story was corroborated by Svenska Dagbladet which is one of the most cautious and careful of the Swedish dailies.
This led 500 people taking to the streets in a demonstration here.
As I understand it - I could be very wrong - Swedish law says you can't restrict the exchange of information. The people who run ThePiratesBay claimed the police wouldn't find anything on their server farm, and apparently they didn't.
I hope DL.TV (Patrick Norton from TechTV's old "The Screensavers") covers this in their webcast tomorrow.
Not that I use ThePiratesBay...Really, I don't. I don't even know how to use Bittorrent stuff. Seems too complicated for relatively little reward. In the heady days I did use filesharing/swappng programs to find old/unique/little known songs, but that's justabout all done now...but then there's the - virus run rampant - usenet.
prisoner6
The RIAA should have known better. The PiratesBay management's press release hinted at their future efforts, distributed seeding in globally distributed mirroring hosts with distributed tracking. Along with the newer packet encryption programs being developed soon to be integrated into BT.
The RIAA just launched Skynet against themselves. Technologists have been warning the RIAA lawyers against playing this cat and mouse game since the majority of home users were on 28.8k dialup.
The future will be amazing when the RIAA starts disabling hundreds of thousands of DRM entertainment system models at a time in retribution against their customer base cracking the DRM for each model.
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