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How Much Can the Resurrected Pirate Bay be Trusted?

posted by janrinok on Thursday February 12 2015, @02:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-much-can-you-trust-anyone-online? dept.

sigma writes:

Several people have been warning users to avoid The Pirate Bay, due to CloudFlare integration and potential FBI IP bugs. There are even suggestions that the FBI has been involved in the site's somewhat mysterious rebirth.

Nobody knows who really runs The Pirate Bay, but the old moderation team were all removed as part of the relaunch. The Pirate Bay now allows people to 'report' malicious torrents instead of having a moderation team.

Some claim the FBI re-launched The Pirate Bay or had connections to the owners, implanting IP bugs on all torrent’s uploaded for investigation. The Pirate Bay has denied these accusations, claiming CloudFlare is only a temporary measure to help with the influx of traffic on the torrenting site.

CloudFlare is a cloud server provider, but is based in the US. Many privacy advocates claim CloudFlare is not a safe tool, due to the potential warrant-less searches from the FBI and other US agencies. On the topic of working with the FBI, The Pirate Bay has not responded, but TorrentFreak claims the accusations are "complete nonsense" but said that "general security concerns of using a US-based service are legitimate".

What does SoylentNews think? Is it wise to stay away?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Thursday February 12 2015, @04:33PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Thursday February 12 2015, @04:33PM (#144210) Journal

    Consider two cases. In one, an undercover FBI agent knows a person is having marital problems. The agent buddies up to the target at a bar and says "You know, a lot of your problems go away if your wife were to die unexpectedly. I know a guy who can help with that..." The guy initially says no, then thinks about it, then says "maybe you're right," and calls the hitman (who is also an undercover FBI agent). That's entrapment

    Change problem wife to terrorist target and you have exactly what the FBI has been doing recently when it "foils another terrorist plot". In some cases, the FBI has spent a couple of years and a lot of money pushing the target (sorry, the "suspected terrorist") to move forward with the plot (which the FBI has completely invented).

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  • (Score: 2) by MrGuy on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:35PM

    by MrGuy (1007) on Thursday February 12 2015, @05:35PM (#144234)

    Fortunately, those cases don't wind up in court anyways - you just call them an enemy combatant and have done with them. So you sidestep the legal issue.