We all know the American government with the recording industry, movie industry, and anti-piracy movements, have been targeting P2P for years.
Cases such as the Pirate Bay, have gone international. Pirate Bay moved all over Europe to keep their servers online, dodging the government and Police as they went. Last thing I heard, they were held up in Switzerland, and are confined to that country by law.
Recently, TorrentSpy (after filing for bankruptcy with no assets to be claimed) was smacked with a $111 Million court order.
First, this is fucked. Second, a few people running a torrent site are not responsible for the trackers, files, or user base. They are not even traffickers. Torrent sites simply supply a search engine for what is currently being seeded across trackers using the torrent protocol. There are over 30 torrent sites where you can search various trackers for whatever you want. Trackers are not made by TorrentSpy, PirateBay, etc. It’s whomever chooses to run it. Could be you, could be your next door neighbor, could be that multi million dollar company down town.
The fact that lawyers are too stupid to understand this, really makes me feel for the TorrentSpy team. What supreme courts are doing is trying to tag these people with providing illegal information to others, when it is the trackers who are supplying people by linking seeders together across their tracker.
If you can get that through your head, TorrentSpy should be court ordered to shut down due to at MOST, being a middle man, and that’s it. They should be after the trackers.
Late last year Demonoid (a MEGA trackers from the US, supply thousands of terabytes of linked seeders) was shutdown by the FBI with a signed court order. Pretty sure they didn’t even go to court, straight shut down. Fines unknown.
It really chaps my ass that stuff like this is going on. People are too quick to point a finger. And yes, I have thought about who it hurts (the software engineers who make programs and games, the singers, artists and band members, and thousands of jobs for movie production) - However, movies are STILL breaking records to this day. They are crushing old records with literally hundreds of millions of dollars upon release. I still go to the theater simply for the giant screen, movie style popcorn, and sound so loud it would make your land lord wet himself.
So, don’t tell me some noob with a cam corder is taking your career. Because it simply isn’t true.
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