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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 12 2015, @08:31PM
The *AAs do not want that. They want you to watch and enjoy carefully licenced media, provided by them at a reasonable cost (per viewing).
They create these shows for us so that we may view them. They know exactly how much money they should make from each show, and each episode, which is how they know exactly how many people are illegally viewing their own hard work.
Meanwhile, the content producer I work for has this week stolen 105 minutes of pay from me. Next week, I'm expecting another 60 minutes, and the week after, another 180 minutes. All because I didn't work hard enough to deserve that pay, though. No, it's not redirection of public funding from the person it was meant to pay, into running the business. It's because I don't deserve it.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday February 12 2015, @10:45PM
If you are in the US, and an employee, that's wage theft [wikipedia.org], and it's illegal. If you're a contractor of some kind, it's a breach of contract. Either way, it might be a good idea to contact an attorney who specializes in labor law, and make sure you keep good records of these extra hours as evidence of a pattern. Also, consider talking to your co-workers about that, since they're probably experiencing the same thing, which turns an individual case into a class action.
None of which justifies breaching copyright. The correct solution to that problem is to not play their game - you don't need anything they're peddling, so don't bother taking it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.