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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 wantkitteh on Thursday February 12 2015, @06:22PM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Thursday February 12 2015, @06:22PM (#144253) Homepage Journal

    Prosecutors will trump any tiny thing they can into a Felony 37th class 2000-year sentence to intimidate you into a plea bargain. In those circumstances, a little procedural impropriety that'll never come to light in court means nothing - I can't find the link, but someone linked to a story in a comment here on SN where a guy was advised to plea bargain by his own lawyer, even though the arresting officers lied about the crime he supposedly committed and they had video evidence of him not committing the crime he was accused of. He stood up to the bullying US legal system and got an acquittal instead of taking the advice he paid for, accepting the plea bargain and ending up in prison.

    tl;dr - Aaron Schwartz

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