Pirate Bay was taken down!

[Michael (alan1998)]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/file-sharing-site-the-pirate-bay-was-raided-by-swedish-polic

The Pirate Bay Server Hosting area, was raided by Swedish Police. Thoughts? What do you think Anonymous will do about that considering there stance on SOPA and PIPA? That will certainly grab their attention.

If I'm not mistaken, Anonymous took out a bunch of American Government websites because of the acts?

[Staticguy]

My thoughts about this is that because it can be used to transfer malware and it's transmitted from torrent.

I have used this site before to download musics and movies, but not anymore because sometimes malware gets into these downloaded files and causing havoc on the user's computer. I do download movies sometimes only from warezbb. This website has good reputation.

[Michael (alan1998)]

Maybe. I've never supported Torrenting itself rather the Freedom we should have not to be confined to what music we put on Video's. (So for example, you're playing BattleField 4, and you put some Epic Fight music is) then all of a sudden, video's being matched for a Copyrighted 3rd party music and you're video(s) are banned off of Youtube.

Is Youtube to MP3 considered torrenting?

But yes, I agree. With TPB down, we might see less cases of heavy torrenters. Now for the other sites (uTorrent, kickass Torrents etc etc). Hoepfully with the absence of TPB, some distant friends will stop torrenting (Long shot, but I can have hope!)

[abruptum]

The Pirate Bay will be up soon.It happened before.
I'm downloading torrents through Filestream.me and I download only the files I want,
so no malware and other crap.Also I am testing Torrent Tornado add-on for Firefox and so far
it is good (no sharing).

[Staticguy]

Maybe. I've never supported Torrenting itself rather the Freedom we should have not to be confined to what music we put on Video's. (So for example, you're playing BattleField 4, and you put some Epic Fight music is) then all of a sudden, video's being matched for a Copyrighted 3rd party music and you're video(s) are banned off of Youtube.

Is Youtube to MP3 considered torrenting?

But yes, I agree. With TPB down, we might see less cases of heavy torrenters. Now for the other sites (uTorrent, kickass Torrents etc etc). Hoepfully with the absence of TPB, some distant friends will stop torrenting (Long shot, but I can have hope!)

Youtube to MP3 considered torrenting? That I don't know. Any musics that i see in youtube and I want to download that. I use this website to convert from youtube to mp3 format via here http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

[Michael (alan1998)]

Youtube to MP3 considered torrenting? That I don't know. Any musics that i see in youtube and I want to download that. I use this website to convert from youtube to mp3 format via here http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

Yeah, same. Which, is very little music. Always curious though to what limit is what.

[Eddy]

I wish people stopped blaming torrent for the spreading of malware.
Torrent is just a protocol to transfer files through the internet, just like http, ftp and such.
There is nothing wrong with it and it is fully legal to use it.

The main problem is that governments think they own the internet in their country.
While in fact the internet belongs to no-one.
Governments are conducting illegal activities if they restrict things, no mather how well they mean it.

They should focus on catching the people who are stealing movies,
and put them online even before the movie can be seen in a cinema and/or on tv.

Here we are not allowed to download any material that has copyright on it,
but we are allowed to record it from radio/tv....

[Michael (alan1998)]

Eddy. While it is true, that Torrent Protocols don't inject malcode into them, rather the malware creator uploads the file to be torrented in an executable format...

BUT, that being said. Why can sites lie TPB, not implement a system like Avast!'s in which you can only upload Media file (MP3, MP4 etc). It'd save a lot of headaches here, and make streaming a million times safer. It's also well known P2P network(s) are quite insecure and data can be stolen. I wouldn't trust it either way./

[polonus]

@Michael,

We here in some countries in the  European Union have a general policy that it is forbidden to download from illegal sources
(copyrighted content). That is the law of the land, and sometimes the copyright on certain material  lasts 70 years.

In reality only (bulk)-uploaders are prosecuted so far, as for now no action is being taken against individual downloaders.

But as content industry does not like these practices to say the least, the download content can come intentionally riddled with malcode
to help discourage individual downloaders. That is through third party intervention throwing in manipulated torrent content.

I think a virut file infector would be enough nasty to remedy a torrenting habit in someone. 

So if you like to take part in that Russian roulette it is up to you, I will stay away.

But when there are losses of 50 million dollars on fraudulent ad clicks, no one stirs a finger because it does not hurt "big income".
I often see no action taken against blackhat SEO spammers and redirects.
So standards still stay a bit double.

@Eddy, only allowed to record from radio and tv at home, not at the barber shop, only when you pay Buma, Stemra.
Well free of rights when you play your own composition on the piano there.

I was in Poland in a barber shop where they asked customers in a message not to listen in on the radio,
as this was only meant for the proprietor and his staff to listen, so they did not have to pay copyright holders.

polonus

[polonus]

Hi folks,

Just stumbled on this link article. How can one then deny there is not a link somewhere between torrenting and cyvercrime.
Read: http://archive.news.softpedia.com/news/Pirated-Trojan-Infested-Windows-7-RC-Builds-Botnet-111445.shtml
Even with Softpedia I would keep an eye out for added unwanted goodies.

polonus

[digmor crusher]

Polonus, did they hand out earplugs at the a barbershop?

[polonus]

Hi Michael,

BitTorrent is working on a new P2P browser in order to arrive at a new Internet protected against a situation where only "Gatekeepers" will decide our future, those interested in "Project  Maelstrom" can react here: http://utorrent.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a3baea4e54ff8e8b235488c11&id=508b75f69b

Damian

[Left123]

What's even more  sad is that the co-founder of PB said that he was glad about this incident.Specifically he stated that PB had turned into an ad fest.(True if you ask me).

[bob3160]

The only pirate stuff I have anything to do with comes from Avast and it's a theme.
Pirate Bay and other torrents aren't anything I frequent. Been there, done that and had enough
infections because of it. My curiosity has long since been satisfies about what's available for "free"
from these sites.

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

Agree with you. I have never even ventured out there, so I cannot show you a T-shirt  or discuss it from live experience...
Always thought what it held could not be fully trusted, even the more so as the Gatekeepers themselves started to copy them with their bundling fests, and marketing ad & crap incorporated ruling the Interwebs now.
Hard enough to evade that line on the "normal" protocols now. This all caused by crumbling trust and ever enhancing greed!
Just like in the days of the  Wild  Wild West of old  round the year 1870 we could do with a good Online WWW Sheriff to keep those cybercriminals at bay.

polonus