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Thelosouvlakia

Thelosouvlakia

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The Pirate Bay (the original site!!!) is back! Well not exactly. The site has re-appeared online after almost a month since it's dissapearance due to a police raid the servers in sweden. As the screenshot shows, the site is "static" you can't actually search the database. But there's a timer up there, counting backwards. Clear proof that piracy cannot be killed with a police raid. Like a Lernean Hydra, piracy will always come back stronger.... A real pain in the bum for some people!


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I wouldn't call this "clear proof" that piracy cannot be killed with a police raid, because while the front page of the site is up, who knows about everything else...
 
MadShadow said:
I wouldn't call this "clear proof" that piracy cannot be killed with a police raid, because while the front page of the site is up, who knows about everything else...
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What do you think they'd have managed to get that they haven't been able to in the past? Its cloud based for starters so no seizing of servers will do anything. They've got the founders now, but again that doesn't really affect anything.
I'd call it pretty clear proof that you can't kill piracy through means such as police raids/arresting a couple of people.

Heck, if I wanted to I could host my own version of TPB. ISOhunt now lets anyone host it.
 
barnsley said:
What do you think they'd have managed to get that they haven't been able to in the past? Its cloud based for starters so no seizing of servers will do anything. They've got the founders now, but again that doesn't really affect anything.
I'd call it pretty clear proof that you can't kill piracy through means such as police raids/arresting a couple of people.

Heck, if I wanted to I could host my own version of TPB. ISOhunt now lets anyone host it.
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I totally agree with you, but the term "clear proof" is just saying a but too much in my opinion. It means Pirate Bay is probably going to be back up soon, but its not really clear proof of much
 
Remember one of the reasons's internet was created. Military use
Specifically the military wanted a network that wouldn't go down if one of the bases got destroyed, so the introduction of internet meant that while one hub could go completely down, the network would be still up and running.
With IsoHunt introducing the open bay project, they've invited every one to become a "hub" so taking the pirate bay network down would require storming all of the hubs around the world.
It can get even worse if BitTorrent's Maelstrom Project sees the light of day...
 
The only way piracy can be killed is if the music and movie industry open their eyes and see their products are over priced.

Example 1:
I'm into metalcore/post-hardcore a lot. This is mainly made by US bands. Their physical albums are released in the US for around $10 USD, converting back to around €8 (which is acceptable imo). However, if I want to buy it in the Netherlands, the mainstream shops don't even carry them and the webshops ask anywhere between €15-25, for albums up to 10 years old (!!).

Example 2:
GTA V costs around €50, but the main storyline will take you at least 20 ish hours, and then there's all the bonus content, online and even the storyline itself has a pretty big replay value cause you can make different decisions every time.
A Blu-Ray has nearly no replay value, the storyline is the same every time. It gives you around 2 hours of fun and there's no bonus content. Yet movies that have just been released are still easily €30?

Until there are alternatives that have fair pricing, people will be pirating. Even though it might already be a little late for that by now cause I know some people are so used to illegally downloading stuff that they check TPB before even looking how much the item costs...

And even with alternatives like Netflix it's not fixed yet. A lot of content is missing because of copyright issues and generally just being the movie/series industry thinking that putting their show on Netflix will be negative for their income. As if they don't already make millions, if not billions a year. They're just shooting themselves in the foot tbh.

PS: No, I do not encourage illegally downloading content but this needed to be said.
 
Feronix said:
Example 2:
GTA V costs around €50, but the main storyline will take you at least 20 ish hours, and then there's all the bonus content, online and even the storyline itself has a pretty big replay value cause you can make different decisions every time.
A Blu-Ray has nearly no replay value, the storyline is the same every time. It gives you around 2 hours of fun and there's no bonus content. Yet movies that have just been released are still easily €30?
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Or when the game maker is someone like Ubisoft or the game is crippled with bugs since first day of release.
I know a lot of people who actually WANTED to buy Far Cry 4 but when Ubi revealed it's true form and the games that came out seemed like the one was rippedd off from another and were full of bugs they downloaded the pirated copy of the game.
It's on the producer/distributor hands, indeed.
 
Thelosouvlakia said:
Or when the game maker is someone like Ubisoft or the game is crippled with bugs since first day of release.
I know a lot of people who actually WANTED to buy Far Cry 4 but when Ubi revealed it's true form and the games that came out seemed like the one was rippedd off from another and were full of bugs they downloaded the pirated copy of the game.
It's on the producer/distributor hands, indeed.
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I think a good solution for this is how Civilization: Beyond Earth (and probably a bunch of others) did some time ago. Making it free to play for a weekend. I have wanted to play that game since launch but everyone says it's a bad deal and say that you should wait for expansions and GOTY editions. But when it was free, I got to play it, bunch of fun, then later on I removed it since I thought that 30€ was too much for it. BUT, steam had CIV 5 on -75%. So I went ahead and bought that one instead. = Everyone's a winner, and I don't feel ripped off either.

Doing it this way totally eliminates the need for pirating games. Atleast for me.
 
The site is back up guys, now using a phoenix as it's logo. Symbolic use of course (because phoenixes rise up from their ashes)!
 
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