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posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 22 2019, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the free-is-always-in-demand dept.

A decade ago this week, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström were all found guilty of 'assisting in making copyright content available' via their site, The Pirate Bay. Each was sentenced to a year in jail and their fines totaled over $3 million. Now ten years on, the site has a life of its own without those four. It has been the target of a many takedown notices and has even been blocked multiple times.

Ten years ago this week, four men were found guilty and sentenced to prison for running The Pirate Bay. At the time, Peter Sunde said that the site would continue, no matter what. A decade on he has been proven absolutely right and that in itself is utterly remarkable.

Earlier on SN:
The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old (2018)
How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success (2018)
The Man from Earth Sequel "Pirated" on The Pirate Bay - By Its Creators (2018)
How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay (2017)
What's a Digital Copy Worth? Not Much, Says Peter Sunde's New Machine (2015)


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by RamiK on Monday April 22 2019, @10:19AM (4 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Monday April 22 2019, @10:19AM (#833330)

    Back in the golden age of Chinese knockoffs you could get a brand name ware of any kind if you looked hard enough. And if you know some Chinese and your way around taobao I understand this hasn't really changed.

    So, here's a thought: If you're a state actor that hates seeing money getting sent to the US, wouldn't you run/fund a film, music and literature piracy operation? The risks are non-existent. The American lawyers aren't looking too deep as long as they can keep issuing take-down requests that keep them under retainers. Your own population enjoys a lot of free entertainment and ends up spending their money on local goods instead...

    Good business all around. No?

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday April 22 2019, @12:46PM (2 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday April 22 2019, @12:46PM (#833357) Journal

    Run a clandestine pirate site, so the state has plausible deniability that they're in any way involved? I dunno, might be tricky. What is the state to do when the copyright cartels bring to bear all their power to force the state to crack down on piracy? Unfortunately, they still have teeth, and can get the lax state sanctioned in various ways if they don't do something real. If they have a lot of Pirate Party politicians in power, that makes it all the harder to play that game convincingly.

    It might ultimately be better to run the piracy operation openly, and call the MAFIAA out on their copyright extremism. I keep hoping a few nations will try it. Like, maybe Egypt will pump some serious resources and effort into their dream of recreating the idea of the Library of Alexandria, online, with modern material.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 22 2019, @04:59PM

      by Freeman (732) on Monday April 22 2019, @04:59PM (#833450) Journal

      You assume, that they are in any way interested in providing free access to information. As opposed to just wanting a sizable cut of the pie.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 22 2019, @10:57PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 22 2019, @10:57PM (#833581) Journal

      Like, maybe Egypt will pump some serious resources and effort into their dream of recreating the idea of the Library of Alexandria, online, with modern material.

      First entry [youtube.com] to go into the library.
      (point: TPB/entertainment may be a bad starting point for the idea of a library. Maybe scihub, tho?)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @02:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @02:38PM (#833393)

    Entertainment is different from watches or phones, as they present the culture and values of the producing nation.

    Far too many criminals outside of USA ask for their "miranda rights" thanks to one to many cop shows and such being imported from the states.