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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?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 12 2015, @06:39PM
Yes, Americans have been in deep denial, but more and more people on all ends of the ideological spectrum have begun talking about how the only way out is revolution. The BBC just posted a radio interview with Alan Greenspan [bbc.co.uk] wherein he said he thinks the United States is headed for a "political crisis." Alan Greenspan is a famous master of understatement, so I read that as his term for "revolution."
As more people talk about it, there will be people who start working on doing something about it. Thanks to the now universal knowledge of universal NSA/government spying, anyone who would be in that group would be keeping their cards close to their vest. There aren't going to be any Bolsheviks or Sons of Liberty this time, because those are too easily discovered and infiltrated. This one will erupt everywhere in a million directions. When it kicks off, there will be some clever boys who have tracked down all the NSA spooks and bankers and start working on their personal "Most Wanted" lists.
All the PR fluff the Powers-that-Be are pumping into the media now about how "there's robust job growth!!! No, really!!!" and how great the economy is makes me laugh. I file it under, "Don't Piss on My Head and Tell Me It's Raining."
You would think that with chatter mounting the way it is, that somebody in government would be *strongly* recommending they do something to address income inequality and all the other entrenched problems that have been burning down the middle class for 30 years, and do it NOW. But they won't. People in power are all smart, handsome, crafty, deft leaders--everyone around them always tells them so. They're doing everything right, and always do. To all the rest under them and around them, the only thing I could recommend is run, run fast, run far, dig deep. Hide.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @08:23PM
You just made the list.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @09:42PM
Revolution need, even if the whole world comes with.