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Sweden set to sink the Pirate Bay

• imsteve 19y ago
  On one hand, it's nice to see traditional media being given a lesson in what people really want, eg. being able to lightly sample huge amounts of content at a low price. On the other hand, the success of bittorrent has directly killed all development on the many great systems that were beginning to make big advances in security and improving lives. These systems would allow for goals greater than simple piracy to be reached. Goals such as freeing regions from censorship, preventing unlawful wire-tapping and curbing some types of unjust lawsuits. So if bittorrent dies, thanks for all the free stuff! but I'm happy to see you go.
  • dag 19y ago
    the success of bittorrent has directly killed all development on the many great systems Examples please.
  • wmf 19y ago
    I guess you're referring to Freenet and similar projects. I doubt it's BitTorrent's fault that most people don't care about Freenet.
• rms 19y ago
  Charging the founders of the Pirate Bay will stop nothing. It won't even stop The Pirate Bay.
• dawnerd 19y ago
  Will this stop them just like their raid did? Oh noes! I recall someone from TPB saying that they have locations setup up all around the world that the site would switch to if this actually has a negative effect.