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Swedish Police Set to Take Over Pirate Bay Domains

59 points by duramato 9y ago

cdancette 9y ago
It's amazing they don't get that they can't block the site by blocking the domain name, and that it will come back under a new domain each time.
- mr_spothawk 9y ago
  at some point, you'd hope that the enforcers would grow the Dignity to stop responding to the Boss's un-achievable orders.
  - craftyguy 9y ago
    On the other hand, it's great job security for them, knowing that what they've been asked to do is temporary and they'll be needed to do it again soon.
  - vkou 9y ago
    Criminals keep doing crime, we may as well stop all police efforts. I mean, say what you will about the morality of running a website dedicated to torrenting films and pornography, but policing will always be a game of whack-a-mole.
    - cdancette 9y ago
      Yeah but blocking domain names is just pointless. They should go after the guys who run the site, or other things. I'm sure they can find way more effective means to stop pirate sites
      - vkou 9y ago
        > They should go after the guys who run the site, or other things. They do. [1] [2] [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+arrests&oq=pirate+bay+arrests&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.1934j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+arrests&oq=pirate... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+raid&oq=pirate+bay+raid&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l5.1471j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+raid&oq=pirate+ba...
- jstarfish 9y ago
  It does take time and effort to find the new one though, and if that isn't enough to dissuade continued piracy, there are plenty of impostors that always arise serving fake files and real malware that act as a follow-on deterrent. Nothing's going to stop a teenager with no income and unlimited time from seeking out the new iteration, but when it's easy and obvious enough for my tech-illiterate and impatient mother-in-law to pirate movies, any action taken to rock the boat (domain seizures, C&Ds to subscribers, etc.) does have an impact.
  - Feniks 9y ago
    Any time my mom wants an eBook I pirate it for her. Takes me 5 minutes. Those of us who know how to computer need to help those who don't.
DaveFunkhouser 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the reason TPB switched back to thePirateBay.org last year?
534b44a 9y ago
All these years and the .org domain still works fine. What makes it so hard to block it, does the Internet Society has something to do with that?
gremlinsinc 9y ago
Law enforcement: Woohoo we just spent millions in tax-payer dollars and got these copyright infringing bastards' domain. That'll stop them. 30 minutes and $10 domain registration later: Pirate bay: We've migrated to our new domain, take this one and we'll buy another...
- kfriede 9y ago
  I'd imagine they bought as many as possible several years ago, and only release 3-4 at a time. At this point, I doubt there are very many TLD's left that don't have a TPB domain, whether bought by TPB or by a reseller.
vasco 9y ago
Good ol' US institutions pressuring foreign judicial systems.
pmontra 9y ago
Are they going to pay and renew those domains yearly, let them expire, sell them before expiration?
acd 9y ago
In the future there will be legal file sharing paid by crypto currencies. There will be a distributed movie Netflix like app running on p2p tech like ipfs where streams are paid on the block chain. If Hollywood resists then Chinese will debute the tech.
- canoebuilder 9y ago
  In future, blockchain will do everything we do today, but less efficient and more expensive. And people will rejoice, and say "How did we ever do without this?"
ketsa 9y ago
Evil Yankees at work.

59 points by duramato 9y ago

It's amazing they don't get that they can't block the site by blocking the domain name, and that it will come back under a new domain each time.

mr_spothawk 9y ago
at some point, you'd hope that the enforcers would grow the Dignity to stop responding to the Boss's un-achievable orders.
- craftyguy 9y ago
  On the other hand, it's great job security for them, knowing that what they've been asked to do is temporary and they'll be needed to do it again soon.
- vkou 9y ago
  Criminals keep doing crime, we may as well stop all police efforts. I mean, say what you will about the morality of running a website dedicated to torrenting films and pornography, but policing will always be a game of whack-a-mole.
  - cdancette 9y ago
    Yeah but blocking domain names is just pointless. They should go after the guys who run the site, or other things. I'm sure they can find way more effective means to stop pirate sites
    - vkou 9y ago
      > They should go after the guys who run the site, or other things. They do. [1] [2] [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+arrests&oq=pirate+bay+arrests&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.1934j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+arrests&oq=pirate... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+raid&oq=pirate+bay+raid&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l5.1471j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay+raid&oq=pirate+ba...
jstarfish 9y ago
It does take time and effort to find the new one though, and if that isn't enough to dissuade continued piracy, there are plenty of impostors that always arise serving fake files and real malware that act as a follow-on deterrent. Nothing's going to stop a teenager with no income and unlimited time from seeking out the new iteration, but when it's easy and obvious enough for my tech-illiterate and impatient mother-in-law to pirate movies, any action taken to rock the boat (domain seizures, C&Ds to subscribers, etc.) does have an impact.
- Feniks 9y ago
  Any time my mom wants an eBook I pirate it for her. Takes me 5 minutes. Those of us who know how to computer need to help those who don't.

DaveFunkhouser 9y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the reason TPB switched back to thePirateBay.org last year?

534b44a 9y ago

All these years and the .org domain still works fine. What makes it so hard to block it, does the Internet Society has something to do with that?

gremlinsinc 9y ago

Law enforcement: Woohoo we just spent millions in tax-payer dollars and got these copyright infringing bastards' domain. That'll stop them. 30 minutes and $10 domain registration later: Pirate bay: We've migrated to our new domain, take this one and we'll buy another...

kfriede 9y ago
I'd imagine they bought as many as possible several years ago, and only release 3-4 at a time. At this point, I doubt there are very many TLD's left that don't have a TPB domain, whether bought by TPB or by a reseller.

vasco 9y ago

Good ol' US institutions pressuring foreign judicial systems.

pmontra 9y ago

Are they going to pay and renew those domains yearly, let them expire, sell them before expiration?

acd 9y ago

In the future there will be legal file sharing paid by crypto currencies. There will be a distributed movie Netflix like app running on p2p tech like ipfs where streams are paid on the block chain. If Hollywood resists then Chinese will debute the tech.

canoebuilder 9y ago
In future, blockchain will do everything we do today, but less efficient and more expensive. And people will rejoice, and say "How did we ever do without this?"

ketsa 9y ago

Evil Yankees at work.