Pirate Bay may finally be sunk after EU copyright ruling

Let us toast to this great victory of the content-industry, with table-water (599 Spotify Downloads a glass). When i look around today, i see a lot of smiling faces. Those smiles, that bliss of total unawareness, that the state may have a interest in subsidied cheap bread and games, is what really keeps the game and movie industrie going. Im proud to be here, and im proud to get paid this well to speak here. Here is to you, great Pyrrhic, may we have many partys like this more.

And yet the Library Genesis mirrors are alive and well.

What's the difference? Is it simply the size of the downloads? (Ebooks are only a few megabytes, so a single hobbyist can easily mirror the whole library these days.)

It seems more like the market is winning rather than the law. I pirate way way less now that netflix and hbonow are available. And when somebody creates a service for $15/mo that lets me stream live sports, I'll stop pirating those too.

Warrant canaries are valuable even if they don't have a legal basis. A canary might not fail, and if it does fail it invites a massive media storm about being forced to directly lie.

Best i can tell, it is not about getting an end verdict. It is about having the site taken down while being investigated.

For many, the mere threat for legal wrangling is enough to scuttle them as they can't afford the outage.

There have been at least one instance of someone getting their blog domain seized by the FBI because they were using .com, even though what they were hosting were MP3s the artists themselves had asked to be distributed, and neither the server nor the author were US based. RIAA had basically raised a stink and one day the domain was redirected to a FBI warning page.

While you might be right in normal circumstances, once the legal system tries to make humanly-intuitive decisions about the mathematical processes inside real "dumb machines", that legal system really should trigger exceptions or result in undefined behaviour.

Already, legal notions like jurisdiction are being pushed to their limits thanks to technology like the internet (look at the extradition case of Kim Dotcom), and things get even murkier with questions of copyright.

What is the difference between a forum (such as Reddit) where people can discuss magnet links/hashes (to news articles, and public domain works, and copyrighted works) and a forum called The Pirate Bay? If it's just the word "Pirate" in the title (as opposed to "The irate Bay", for example), then it seems that the law is very sensitive to single byte changes on a website, and the job of humans to classify these things into buckets rapidly becomes intractable.

We're back to "What Colour are your bits?" again: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

That would not be wise since it would not be true. The law is written by dumb people and executed by autocratic bureaucrats with a career wish. Ironically, it's not just pirates applying "clever hacks" - in fact, it's mostly anti-piracy outfits who do but when they do it we call it legal engineering. Both legal engineering and clever hacks eventually result in updated or new legislation. On both occasions, law is effectively written by the willing and not so much by democratic entities and the rule of law in general.

Ethereum will eventually be about more money, power and influence than Hollywood thus impossible to take down.

I think revicon was getting at using a decentralized system to track magnet URIs.