cool story.
the site is still up, what's your problem?

i still have no goddamn idea why people used it in the first place

Not for long.

OP here. I don't actually use the site, but it's kind of a symbol.

I always used mininova, but I guess they're being called to court now too.

>>4126732
>oh noez my human right to take something that belongs to someone else without permission or compensation is being v-v-v-violllatteeeddd! waaaaah . I should move to China, where they pirate everything! China is such a great country, they understand how the economy works

>>4126791
Why would we have to movie to China? They already own the United States you twit.

>China owns the US
stop the stupid, i want to get off

As far as I know, they still have several appeals open, so they're not going to jail just now.

Still, now would be a good time to look for alternatives to TPB.

previous threads still up, please keep it to one thread

>>4126479
>>4126273

>>4126791
The way I see it, Piracy is the 'balancing effect'. It is a natural response to price gouging by companies, and will exist in one form or another till the companies decide to play fair.

>>4126791
>take something
You're not taking anything, you're copying it. it's an entirely different crime.

Communism never wins.

Welcome the darknets.

>>4126820

It is a civil matter in most jurisdictions not a crime.

>Welcome the darknets.
it's gonna be fun watching you idiots try to hide

wtf just morons use torrent

http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009epicwinanyhow.php

fucking sweden, go and die The majority of people want to fileshare, let them fucking do it.

>>4126928
No need to hide in the dark when you can hide in plain sight. TPB alone has something like 200 million regular users (with over 20 million online at any time). There simply is no way you can prosecute so many people.
The content industry prides itself with having prosecuted 50,000 people over the last 10 years. But what is 50,000 among 200,000,000?
Well, 1 in 4000 of course, or 0.025%.

So, the chance of getting caught even if you run your torrent client right in the open are 0.025%?
Well, that's about the same as the chance that you get killed in a storm, die by accidental firearms discharge or choke to death on your own food.
In fact the chance that a significant medical procedure (surgery, etc.) ends in death is ten times as high!

I think I'll just take my chances.

ITT:KIDS

GO AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK

Your nation is being invaded by Muslim savages, and you want to move over a bittorrent site?

goodnight, sweet prince

2003-2009

I told you fucking morons to stop using torrents long ago. WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO REASON?

I swear, when we first started downloading illegal shit, if what we used got found out by the copyright owners, WE MOVED ON AND USED SOMETHING ELSE. We weren't fucking stupid like you goddamn kids are. But nooooooooooooooo, you got into the internets just when torrents were becoming popular and now you just can't let go.

Goddamn stupidass kids.

>>4127925
>I told you fucking morons to stop using torrents long ago. WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO REASON?

You do realize that the copyright industry sues people over torrents just because torrents are popular, right? If everyone moves to, say, IRC downloads, they'll start tracking down and suing people who run xdcc bots (or worse, set up fake bots themselves and sue everyone who tries to download).

>>4128129

oldfag status: told

http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009epicwinanyhow.php

>>4128129
then why don't we use an open source encrypted p2p? we all know they exist but we use a shitty p2p instead. WE DESERVE IT

>>4128348
Examples and proof would be nice.

use those algerian trackers then

>>4128348
Encryption was built into BitTorrent years ago. It doesn't help since IP addresses in packets can't be encrypted; the only known solution so far is to use a protocol with multiple interim nodes (like Tor), but that greatly decreases efficiency.

>>4128547
>but that greatly decreases efficiency.
Which is why most people will continue to use Bittorent.

Somebody please backup all the loli models torrents in their pictures section

>>4128547
IPSEC

>>4128129
Companies sue pirates WHEREVER THEY GO. That is why you have to stay one step ahead of the companies. Use something else, use it until they crack down, MOVE THE FUCK ON.

You're not very good at this piracy stuff, are you? You'd better just go buy things legitimately with your mom's credit card.

The site's staying up right, and that lengthy appeals process is going to happen so...what was the point of all this?

>>4127925
Because torrents are one of the best innovations we've had in the past decade you twat. Shared bandwidth. Go live in a rock

>>4128622
>Companies sue pirates WHEREVER THEY GO. That is why you have to stay one step ahead of the companies.
Or you stay with the herd. Anonymity is only possible in a group, after all.
Filesharing on a global scale has long reached critical mass - The point where wide-spread legal action is no longer an option. Hell, even the RIAA has stopped suing except for "extreme cases" (Whatever that means). As >>4127389 pointed out, if you stay with the herd the chance of being singled out is incredibly low, even if they launch tens of thousands of lawsuits.

>>4128622
But why give up on it so easily? It's not they're suing you bro.

>>4128633
Well it doesn't bode well, but yes as it has been explained over and over, the fight is long from over.

I would think the point is this judge is talking about his ass since I find most of my torrents through Google and no one is suing them.

>>4126791

LULZ

thanks anon, you made my day. i bet that you are one of the kids who plagiated most of his homework from the internet instead of working hard and actually learning something. now you're talking like you know ANYTHING about copyright, economics or countries like china. you know what you should do? exactly. go die in a fire.
/g/ is so fucking pathetic sometimes that it just makes me laugh.

>The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures.

The Pirate Bay's first server is now a museum exhibit in Stockholm