Pirate Party Ordered To Shut Down Pirate Bay Proxy

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Last week the Dutch Pirate Party refused to cave in to the demands of Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN, who ordered the political party to take their Pirate Bay proxy offline. As expected, BREIN didn’t let the case rest.The group obtained an injunction from the Court of The Hague which ordered the Pirates to shutter the proxy within 6 hours, or face a fine of 10,000 euros per day.

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[BonzaSheila]

11:38 AM on 04/16/2012

Pirates will always find a way.
Vive le Pirate Bay

[frank day]

10:09 AM on 04/16/2012

Good ol Chris Dodd doing more damage to our nation . Cha Ching.

[Pam Herman]

09:14 AM on 04/16/2012

I'm very much in the minority, but I don't think people should be able to download anything they want for free. Movies, books and music cost money to make. Why is there such vitriol against people and organizations who simply want to be paid for the things they create?

Please do not scream, yell and call me filthy names. Simply tell me why you think you should be allowed to download movies, TV shows and such without paying for them. And please do not use the argument "these people are already rich; they don't need more money."

[J0E1]

11:33 AM on 04/16/2012

Greed.   Greed drove people to these sites to download music, movies, ect.  Napster was so popular back in 2000-2002 not because the music was free, but because people wanted to listen to their favorite songs without being charged almost $20 for an entire CD.  Napster allowed people to make their own mix CD's.  Instead of trying to think of a way to bring these people back and step into the 21st century, the record companies simply decided to sue sue and sue some more to get these sites shut down.  If it wasn't for Apple and iTunes giving people what they wanted legally (an opportunity to buy individual songs from one source) the record industry would have crashed and burned.

What you see with TV shows and Movies is Napster 2.0, this time with the film industry and cable channels.  Netflix single handily slowed down pirating by allowing the viewing and rental of movies for a low monthly fee.   Netflix was the video industries version of iTunes.  However, instead of embracing the 21st century, they are going right back to the mistakes of the record industry and trying to put netflix, redbox, and the like out of business so they can try and force people to buy DVD's, pay upwards of $5 a rental on pay-per-view, charge $100/mo for cable and more than netflix per month just for one premium channel. All they are doing is driving more and more people to websites like pirate bay instead of listening to the people and adapting to the changing environment.

[Pam Herman]

12:35 PM on 04/16/2012

Thank you for your response. I appreciate the manner and tone in which you described your views.

But here's what still bothers me: Just because I want something, does that mean I deserve to have it? For instance, there are a lot of obscure movies I'd like to buy, but they're not available for sale anywhere. But I can easily find these movies on places like Pirate Bay. Whomever owns/distributes the movie obviously has reasons why they don't release it for sale (legal, greed, or any other reason). Don't I have to abide by their wishes? Just because I want the movie (and would pay for it if I could) doesn't mean I'm entitled to have it for free, does it?

I appreciate what iTunes and Netflix have done. We can buy the music/movies we want, and we can rent what we want, all by legal means. I do think you're right in that the buying environment has to change. But in the meantime, are we allowed to take what we want simply because we want it?

[StraferX]

06:22 AM on 04/16/2012

What a sad day for our rights when we allow our government bully us. I guess we will go back to the good ole FTP servers and keep it underground for a while.

[Hardy Blacklord]

06:26 AM on 04/16/2012

FTP Servers are so 1990's. Nowadays, One-Click-Filehoster and Torrents are the way to share.

[traveler291]

01:41 PM on 04/15/2012

the next bombshell is the photography associations going after pinterest.

[Hardy Blacklord]

03:51 PM on 04/15/2012

Yes, photographers are going totally bonkers over pinterest.

[JackTheSkipper]

05:57 PM on 04/15/2012

Thanks a lot for your avatar (profile photo). Now I broke my lent promise.