The operator of the KickassTorrents torrent site was arrested in Poland on an extradition request from Hollywood, and the seized domains. This action, while unfortunate, shows that the copyright industry is still fifty years behind the reality in his mind: there is no central bottlenecks that you can control the Internet, and the net reacts to censorship like this with antifragility - hardening and decentralizing the damaged part.
old industry Copyright monopolized thinking in terms of central bottlenecks, as the Catholic Church was there 500 years trying to crush the printing press and its users. But just as the printing press, the Internet is decentralized, so it is easy to circumvent bottlenecks -. And it was predictable long
In 06, when a large part of the common culture was still music in the form of mp3 files, activists theorized that it would be ten years before a typical mobile phone would be able to carry an amount of data which, for all practical purposes, was any music in existence at the time. Ten years later, we can see that it has become reality (again, for all purposes). It can also be observed that it is trivial to construct an anonymous sharing network based phone app mesh file that works on some light chain as Bluetooth - you would share swarms forming spontaneously in every subway car, in every cafe, in each crowd, each sharer completely identifiable individual. Therefore, anyone with a mobile phone access to culture for everyone, even if they do not know when and where they acquired it. How can you possibly go about stopping an invisible phenomenon decentralized as if you were trying to protect a centralized monopoly ruined
The only reason these mesh networks are already in the process of widespread use is that it is slightly - slightly - more convenient to use a torrent site as saying an application of what you need and what you share everything you wear around your entire phone the day anyway. But just as the closure of Napster has stimulated a wave of development of more decentralized participation, the developer community today would respond even if there was ever an existential threat to torrenting. If built today, the sharing of knowledge and culture happen untraceably, anonymously, uncensorably and decentralized - using an additional fifteen years of freedom and free speech technologies that did not exist when a torrenting was developed in 01, fifteen years ago. That was before Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone!
Claiming that it is useful to close a torrent site to prevent people from sharing, even a large site like KickassTorrents, is slightly vain that controls the king Knut the tide of the sea do more enter. The world just keeps turning obsolete because the monopolized industry wants.
This does not take into account that the sharing of culture and knowledge for altruistic purposes without profit between individuals is currently illegal. This column is not going into the question of ethics, but simply cause and effect. Moreover, the law is generally a bad measure of ethics. Most of the worst mass murders of history have been legal at the time.
This ignores the fact that any torrent engine is, or can be used to distribute speech protected as independent works. Most indie music pushy distribute their works through various torrent engines such as The Pirate Bay. I am also personally used to distribute political material. Such a discourse, which has a very high level of protection is collateral damage in an attempt to protect the bottom line for anyone here.
privacy and freedom of expression are your own responsibility.
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