The Pirate Bay comes back weeks after a police raid

[4now]

We're starting to wonder if it's nigh-on impossible to keep The Pirate Bay down. Just weeks after Swedish police raided the bootleg file site and knocked it offline, it's back -- TorrentFreak reports that almost everything is up and running once again, complete with a phoenix graphic (above) to taunt authorities. With that said, it's not quite the same experience that many veteran users would remember. While the pre-raid content remains intact, many of the original staffers are locked out of this version. They're planning to create their own version of the Bay that supposedly restores the community spirit of the original. It's not clear if that'll work, but it sounds like cops and copyright holders may have created more problems for themselves in trying to take down one of the best-known pirate havens.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/31/pirate-bay-comes-back/



Here we go again.

[randome]

1. I download stuff all the time.

But there is nothing to admire about sites that deal in anarchy. To say that copyright holders created this problem by trying to defend their copyrights is ludicrous in the extreme.
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[FLPanhandle]

2. Copyright holders do contribute to the problem though.

One of the earliest and best reduction in illegal downloads of music was simply Apple launching iTunes.

Consumers had a quick and easy way to get their music and it was priced at a point most people thought fair. The illegal download rates for songs easily and cheaply available dropped. Music that wasn't available was still downloads at previous levels.

With Music streaming apps like Pandora and Spotify, illegal downloads dropped across the board.

The movie/TV show industry still is struggling with the concept of getting their product out in a simple, timely, and affordable manner to consumers that want their product. The copyright holders need to realize that maybe a reduced price point and faster release dates will do more to stop illegal downloads than all the police raids and lawsuits combined.

[randome]

3. Oh, they exacerbated the problem, no doubt.

But that doesn't excuse people like me who simply want stuff for free.

I would never have expanded my music tastes to include classical music, old time radio shows, electro/trance/dance/club/house mixes. etc. if I needed to expend tens of thousands of dollars over half a century to do so.

It's the digital age and there is no way to go back, despite what Spotify, Pandora, et al manage to do.
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