Pirate Bay Traffic has Doubled Post-ISP Blocks

CommanderFrank

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The attempts to stop the Pirate bay is a perfect example of overthinking a situation. All of the efforts of the governments of the world have done nothing but double the Internet traffic to Pirate Bay since efforts to shut down the file sharing site began.

And not every legal entity in Europe is convinced that the tactics are having much of an effect at all. Earlier this year, a Dutch court of appeal ruled that ISPs should not block The Pirate Bay at an IP and DNS level because those measures are ineffective.
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How many years they been trying to shut these guys down. It's like war on drugs.
 
Just like prohibition - make something "illegal" and there is always a way found around those blocks. All these blocks do is improve people's knowledge of Proxies, VPNs, etc. Which then allows them to do a lot more dodgy stuff out of sight.

Whereas the movie companies could just have setup cheap streaming and not charge $20 for a BlueRay
 
BlueMeanie said:
Whereas the movie companies could just have setup cheap streaming and not charge $20 for a BlueRay
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I think they are trying to push prices up to $30+. Releases have been a but pricier lately and I think it has a correlation with less people going to the movies. They are going to use it as an excuse to raise prices, when they should probably be going down slightly now that the BluRay has matured.
 
Gets worse over this side of the pond, those $20 BluRay prices become £20 in the UK. Which means we also get stitched up on the exchange rate too. ($1 = £1.70 so that price should be £12) And by the time they make it to Australia - *if* they make it - the costs have gone up even more.

Shows how out of touch the movie industry is. Any margin they can grab, they go and grab.
 
What are people downloading? I haven't thought of a single movie worth downloading in over a year. I go to Redbox and flip through the first few pages and walk away. I've done that for six months.
 
Fooshnik said:
What are people downloading? I haven't thought of a single movie worth downloading in over a year. I go to Redbox and flip through the first few pages and walk away. I've done that for six months.
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I have only seen maybe 3 movies over the last 2 years worth a damn. Really disappointing. There is a reason everyone is stealing movies these days.
 
BlueMeanie said:
Just like prohibition - make something "illegal" and there is always a way found around those blocks.
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The interesting thing about the prohibition is that it actually created more of a drinking market than existed previously, as it became a bit of a renegade culture to go to a speak easy and felt exciting and naughty to socialize with others against the system.

Its what I like to call the stolen french fry effect. Put some french fries in front of someone, and if they aren't particularly hungry, they'll ignore it. However, if its someone else's french fries and they appear to be enjoying it and explicitly tell you you can't have one, and then turn their head... man that french fry is tantalizing and delicious!

Regarding cheap streaming services, Netflix and Amazon are pursuing that, but unfortunately they are meeting roadblocks from various competing industries.
 
A bunch of lawyers and executives who know nothing about IT or the culture of the internet try to stop people from doing things they have been doing for 15 years and fail.

HOW COULD THIS BE?
 
I don't know about you guys, but I use TPB to legally download Linux builds! :D So I don't see what the big deal is about them being kept online. :p
 
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