The Pirate Bay Returns After 2 Days Downtime

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by anons2011 • 14 years ago

51 45 14 years ago

rangibaby• 14 years ago

TPB's Facebook posts about this have been quite entertaining.

"Sorry for not fulfilling your pirate needs tonight. It's ok if you cheat on us with another site, just once. We know that you still love us, deep down in your cursed pirate heart. ♥"

http://www.facebook.com/ThePirateBayWarMachine

digitalengineer6• 14 years ago

I wonder how many people downloading torrents understand that there is a real-time tracking service logging all their downloads?

nitrogen2• 14 years ago

Are you referring to the BitTorrent tracker itself, or the fact that companies can and do scrape trackers to build their own databases for who knows what end?

digitalengineer6• 14 years ago

The companies scraping and tracking, including your ISP... There is no real use for the data right now (apart from a few countries with anti-download laws). In the not-so-far-away future I think this will change... Then they've got your (ip)number.

simias• 14 years ago

What service are you talking about? AFAIK tpb doesn't use trackers anymore, they rely on DHT.

htmltablesrules3• 14 years ago

Harvesting IPs from DHT is a very easy thing to do also.

wmf2• 14 years ago

http://www.dtecnet.com/

mikezupan• 14 years ago

never knew the MPAA executives were on HackerNews.

htmltablesrules3• 14 years ago

Because every single person who doesn't support file sharing could only be a payed employee of MPAA/RIAA!!

eli• 14 years ago

Yes, I think most people who download torrents are aware that their IP address can be tied to the download.

paganel• 14 years ago

> I wonder how many people downloading torrents understand that there is a real-time tracking service logging all their downloads?

So what are the downsides? Will we get sued or sent to jail? I'd rather risk that than being afraid.

joering2• 14 years ago

yes, I had my wifi router with no password opened, I live in large apartment complex with 150 families around and the judge sent me to jail for 25 years and fined $3,000,000,000 (that's billions!) just because my IP was linked to 20,000 downloads.

Good job, judge!

acabal• 14 years ago

Yes, but many IP's--residential in particular--are rotated frequently. That's why grandmas and dead people got sued by the media cartels.

Actually I think this fact is an even better justification for pirating stuff. Anyone, anywhere can get sued by the media cartels--all that has to happen is that their ISP has to at some point assign them the same IP as a past file sharer. So if I could get sued tomorrow even if I'm a saint, why not download today and at least reap the benefits?

jiggy20114• 14 years ago

They could sue you tomorrow, but it would seem unlikely that they would win.

ISPs must surely keep logs of IP addresses -> account holders and make a record of when these are changed. I also assume that content enforcement companies get a hold of these records before deciding to take something to court otherwise they risk looking very foolish.

Of course it is possible that the ISPs record keeping is wrong, and there is also the worry about "3 strikes" type laws which may or may not require any level of evidence beyong a complaint being made. However AFAIK you can't be made to pay damages unless they directly sue you.

gfosco• 14 years ago

Not enough, I'm sure.... Using a VPN service like privateinternetaccess.com is the best defense against any of that tracking nonsense.

The Pirate Bay Returns After 2 Days Downtime

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