This weekend filled Swedish founded The Pirate Bay ten years. Despite strenuous efforts over the years, the film industry failed to extinguish the site, which remains one of the most important hubs for the illegal distribution of films in the world.
But several of the founders think enough is enough now.
site TorrentFreak has interviewed several of the Swedes in the organization Piratbyrån which was co-founded The Pirate Bay in 2003 – however, none of those who were later convicted of aiding copyright infringement. None of those interviewed are particularly pleased with what pirate site has become today.
– Except that it still serves as an infrastructure for file sharing, most of the ideas and ideals of the early Pirate Bay lost. I had hoped that the internet community at this location had replaced the pirate bay with something new and more innovative rather than being stuck in some kind of passive mode where it is difficult to detect any development, says Marcin.
Who runs The Pirate Bay today is unclear. After the Court of Appeal’s judgment in 2010 against four of the people behind the site, then went into the Swedish Pirate Party and stood for internet access – not running – until February of this year.
– If I could determine, the site would be shut down altogether. It should never belong to anyone or anything other than himself, and I do not want it to belong to the wrong people, says Sara Sajjad, one of the early members of the Pirate Bureau.
Another of them, Rasmus Fleischer, says that the aim was never to The Pirate Bay would be the big file-sharing site. Rather, the idea was that it would give rise to more sites and act as a hydra, that an immortal monster that gets two new heads for every head chopped off.
– The Pirate bay is slowly decaying, as has been evident in the last three years. The fundamental error was that it became such an icon that people began to pay tribute to the pirate bay rather than copying it, even though the real goal was to be copied, says Rasmus Fleischer to Dry Freak.
He notes The Pirate bay Hollywood inflicted economic damage, which he believes is “excellent.” The pirate site probably also been a driving force in the industry’s development of new business models, he states that he does not is the least proud of.
Even Peter Sunde, one of those who were convicted of aiding copyright infringement in the high profile Pirate Bay-trials in 2009 and 2010, would rather have seen a funeral than a birthday party for the site.
– It’s time to replace @ tpbdotorg (The Pirate Bays official Twitter account, editor’s note) with a less centralized system, with fewer or no ads. It will not happen before the pirate bay is gone. It has become its own worst enemy, he writes on Twitter.
READ ALSO The Pirate Bay continues to grow.
Test yourself in the past weeks news quiz
No comments:
Post a Comment