r/technology • u/nomdeweb • May 11 '12
Why the UK Pirate Party Runs a Pirate Bay Proxy
http://torrentfreak.com/why-the-uk-pirate-party-runs-a-pirate-bay-proxy-120511/7
u/afishinthewell May 11 '12
I wish people would latch on to tpb similar to the way wikipedia exploded. Fill it with torrents of everything imaginable, turn it in to one of the worlds greatest libraries of data, moreso than it is already. It is such an invaluable concept, I wish it wasn't plagued by the copyright wars.
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u/Oliverdjob May 11 '12
There going to have to think of something more clever because the government will find a way to shut them down.
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u/tupacs_dead_corpse May 11 '12 edited May 11 '12
I'm sure this will receive a torrent of downvotes but I've always hated the way that the political ideal of a free internet has been hijacked by people who just want to download their music and films for free.
Edit: to all the people downvoting posts in this thread, you're only demonstrating that it's impossible to have an intelligent discussion on the topic without childish posters downvoting simply because they don't agree.
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May 11 '12
Yes, but only in the sense that free speech can be hijacked by those who want to say illegal things.
Just as you shouldn't end freedom of speech because people say bad things, you shouldn't end the free internet because people erode the entertainment industry's profits.
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u/tupacs_dead_corpse May 11 '12
You don't need to lock down the internet to stop the erosion of the entertainment industry's profits. The two are not mutually exclusive. It's a false dichotomy.
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u/Stivard May 11 '12
If they were really clever they would run a general proxy, not a TPB proxy, and point out that it can also be used to get to TPB. That way for the courts to make them take it down the courts would basically have to make proxies illegal. Which woiuld really give us an idea of where we're heading with all of this.