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Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices:
After several weeks of absence, The Pirate Bay became accessible again through its main .org domain last weekend.
At first sight the site looked more or less the same but there are some significant changes, both under the hood and in appearance.
Many users immediately noticed that the site doesn't work well with several ad blockers. Whether this is a bug or a feature is the question, but it was both frustrating and annoying for some.
[...] With the new Pirate Bay design also comes a new URL structure. Instead of the old torrent pages that were accessible through thepiratebay.org/torrent/12345, the format has now changed to thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=12345.
Other URLs, including categories, the top lists, and user pages, all updated as well. To give another example, the 100 most-active torrents on the site can now be accessed from thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=top100:all, instead of the old thepiratebay.org/top/all.
For users, this isn't a problem. All old links simply redirect to new ones. However, for copyright holders, it's an outright disaster as it means that they will have to resend all their takedown notices.
[...] Looking at Google's transparency report we see that copyright holders have asked the search engine to remove more than five million URLs. Pretty much all of these notices have been rendered useless.
For example, this 2012 takedown notice from Paramount Pictures removed the link to The Pirate Bay's top 100 video torrents. However, after the update, the same page reappeared under a new URL. Another consideration is that Google is just one search engine, so the same applies to other search engines too.
Previously:
(2020-04-11) Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole'
(2020-04-09) Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates
(2020-04-07) Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony
(2020-03-26) Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations
(2020-03-23) The Invisible Man, Emma, and The Hunt Hit Pirate Sites after Rushed Video on Demand Releases
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Monday April 20 2020, @02:25PM (5 children)
They hardly care about people
The law is there to protect interests
And you know priorities won't change until people stop reelecting their rubber stamp congress.
So we're pretty much stuck with the regular cat and mouse game, half the population battling the other half. Serves well to keep the power structure in place with little resistance.
By ancient Net Masters dogma, should not Internets consider all kind of censorship a damage and route around it, rendering the censorship futile?
How do you route around your only ISP?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday April 20 2020, @03:28PM (3 children)
Buy a server on another continent and use it for tunneling.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday April 20 2020, @03:42PM (2 children)
:-) Ah, really. What could be more trivial?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday April 20 2020, @04:10PM
You could always pay somebody else to run the server for you. [duckduckgo.com]
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 21 2020, @02:39PM
The Boring Company might have more effective techniques for tunneling.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 20 2020, @11:17PM
Important things like this have nothing to do with the voters.