With Torrent Sites Facing the Heat, Pirates Get Creative With Google Drive

"Burden of proof is on us all the way"

And so it should be. With organisations able to send thousands of DMCA takedown notices and incur no penalties if many are clearly lies, the amount of proof required should increase.

> ... the (Youtube) videos are simply uploaded as unlisted, so they don't turn up in search results. The links to these videos are then shared as Google Drive links through discussion forums and other channels so it's difficult for the content owners to find the videos and get them taken down.

Why not share the Youtube links directly then? I see no need to use Drive.

If you allow encrypted content and an easy to use, internet accessible storage service, how is this not your inevitable future?

Now commercial software cracks are just password protected .rar files stored in the google drive and nicely explained how-to-install in random forum/blogs. Google can't scan the cracks because it's password protected. Sometimes passwords are even shown as pictures. Just amazing to realize, technology always has dual use.

Im actually still wondering, why pirates dont use source control hosting for file distribution. After all you need is a repository of binary.files and a plausible reason for popularity.

One thing I've also seen recently is pirated content being hosted on .blogspot.com urls.