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The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us

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It would be interesting to see what technical measures are being taken to counter the legal measures. Everytime the industries that use copyright try to stop big name pirate sites/apps, there is a new revolution that gets around it.

It's like how War pushed advances in rocket technology. The more they attack file sharing sites/tech, the better it's going to get.

The latest are things like metadata exchange and PEX, where you can get everything you need including the torrent file and a list of peers directly from the BitTorrent DHT given only the SHA1 of the torrent file. This is the direction TPB has chosen, where they're only going to have those hashes and not host the torrent files at all. The entire TPB index will fit on a USB drive.

I've heard of brick and mortar activities protected with similar counters. There was a raid at a local venue where the police were stopped when they discovered that the back of the building had a different street number than the front, and so was not covered in the search warrant. Designer drugs were used to counter anti drug laws in this way.

Perhaps the comparison isn't pleasant, but there might be an instructive precedent.

Honestly after all I've seen, I'm convinced that even global thermonuclear war wouldn't stop The Pirate Bay...

If there were only 1000 electrons left in the world, someone would be using them to download the latest Justin Bieber abomination from TPB!

This legislation isn't about fairness, it is about a Congress that wants the option to erase data on the internet (leaked slimy deals/emails/corruption from congress, Wikileaks, CIA docs, spy id's, propaganda, theft and human rights violations).

Remember when Congress levied financial warfare against Wikileaks?(seizing credit card, bank and paypal transactions). SOPA is a future foreign country Wikileaks silencer). The "stealing", "fairness" and digital rights management talking points are red herrings. SOPA and the future bills like it are about control, specifically Congress losing it bacause they bankrupted this country and alienated everyone in it with a 11% and dropping approval rating.

Very good point, it's about Silencing Online Publishers.

If only it was about Stopping Online Piracy, which it isn't and which it can't (and arguably shouldn't anyhow.)

Silencing Online Publishers in America.

Online or rather Objectionable

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