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February 11, 2012
Pirate Bay shields 100,000 users
Published: 8 Apr 09 07:16 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/18740/20090408/
The new Swedish anti-file sharing IPRED law allows copyright organisations to petition the courts to gain access to personal information about file sharers.
- Supreme Court denies Pirate Bay right to appeal (1 Feb 12)
- Dutch court orders ISPs to block Pirate Bay (12 Jan 12)
- '500,000 Swedes' risk jail time for filesharing (30 Dec 11)
“Right now, we have 113,000 who have joined the queue,” Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay spokesperson, told TT.
He estimates that around 80 percent are Swedes.
Since Pirate Bay doesn't save any login credentials, there is no information to share with public authorities. With the new service, users connect to the Internet via a virtual private network (VPN), which conceals their personal IP addresses.
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My friend is rather keen not have säpo kicking his door in at 3am in the morning and carting him off to jail (not very likey I know - we are talking about a couple of downloads a month here).
He connects to the bay using a proxy so I, er I mean, he assumes that the downloading of the torrent itself is hidden from the prying eyes of the law. However, when his torrent downloading application of choice (Vuze) pulls the the files across the net are they visible to all and sundry. I assume Vuze doesn't connect to the seeders using a proxy? Can you do this? Do you need to do this?
Please help, he has 2 children, they'll miss daddy if he gets 12 years hard labour in a Swedish prison..
UK launches massive, one-year program to archive every email
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/136610
Smells of the Patriot Act in the US...the single biggest injustice in American history...
Bless Sweden for being Sweden...maybe the US should take some notes
The tech on offer from TPB will route all your internet traffic via their anonymous VPN, thereby making you untraceable. (unless they keep logs themselves!).
Still it's a grand scheme for them to undertake and one must ask how they will be able to deliver the service when it'll be eating up so much bandwidth.
Still it's a grand scheme for them to undertake and one must ask how they will be able to deliver the service when it'll be eating up so much bandwidth.
One was obtained by ripping the broadcast shows from DVR, DVD, or on stream while the latter was obtained by espionage.
But both are wrong.
Personally, I have no problem with people ripping DVDs or CDs for their own personal use - i.e. for putting the media on a portable player (PSP, iPOD, ZUNE, etc...) or for making backups in case of damage (I lost part of a boxed set to a drunk buddy - never again). I also have no problem with letting a friend borrow the physical media for personal "borrowing" use - i.e. watching/listening to the media and returning to media to the owner.
What I do have a problem with is the "borrow/copy" or "rip/distribute" or "rip/offer up" culture. Just as I have had a problem with borrow/copy on tape many moons ago.
Another important point is, not all proxies are anonymous. You may connect through a proxy but your IP can still be visible to the end point, that is unless its an anonymous proxy. Google for anonymity check. Free anonymous proxies are rare, unstable and very slow.
http://www.ipredkoll.se/
The file sharing phenomenon has opened up a whole new world of music and culture by artists who care more about the art than the profit. Can anyone point out any sign that creativity and productivity in any area of the arts is being stifled, or that artists are not being paid?
If not, kindly håll käften.
Tack.
Music will be ok since its extremely cheap to produce, except marketing and branding and stuff that got nothing whatsoever to do with music.
Programs and games can sortof protect themselves.
About p2p filesharing. Only somewhat safe way to do it these days is by a vpn to a privacy service, such as ipredator. But make damn sure that they dont keep any records. Another nifty thing is that not only will your ip only lead to the anonymity service, it will also look like its not swedish, thus avoiding ipred armed hunters.
Other option for snatching media is by a news-group service, they both around the same price. Personally i just love the idea of p2p so the newsgroup services does not apeal to me.
Oh, and there is another scheme thats ok but very slow, called realswarm or somesuch. There you only connect to people you trust. and they in turn only connect to people they trust etcetera. So, if you are betrayed, its by one of your mates And if one of your mates is betrayed, only he is busted. Like, if you hunt ppl using realswarm you run start over from zero each layer you peal off. Clever idea but slow.
And yes, i think the regular joe should be worried, they will hunt every1 equally if they can cover their own expenses with the fines.