[ethics404]

• Swedish police has taken over two domains of piratebay - thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se. This move comes right after the Swedish Supreme Court determined that domain names are property that can be seized by the state.

• thepiratebay.org is still working.

• popular torrent websites like Kickass Torrents, ExtraTorrent and Torrentz.eu are already dead.

• Google ad-blocker for Chrome is going to be launched in Feb 15, 2018. Adverts that do not meet the standards of the Coalition for Better Ads, such as pop-up adverts that expand on their own, will get blocked.

• Owner of a torrent site said to TorrentFreak that, "Chrome’s ad-blocker will kill torrent sites. If they don’t at least cover their costs, no one is going to use money out of his pocket to keep them alive."

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/sci...locker/amp

[Pirate]

I didnt even know piratebay was still around. seems surprising

[FunkyG]

I didnt even know piratebay was still around. seems surprising

Same lol, thought they were down long time ago D:

[Mom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge..._headlines

Also
>People using Chrome.

Hilarious. Regardless, piracy will not die in 2018 and I doubt it ever will. It's just submerging away from the mainstream and it'll probably only be for the people who actually don't depend on TPB to torrent things.

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[Blink]

Hilarious. Regardless, piracy will not die in 2018 and I doubt it ever will. It's just submerging away from the mainstream and it'll probably only be for the people who actually don't depend on TPB to torrent things.

Nah
Privacy's already dead dude. The NSA is watching you, your ISP is watching you, and companies are watching you. Walk outside and look up. If you live in a city-ish area, you'll see cameras, tons of them. The government has those too. The government has been using drones as well since 2013. Google and Facebook have been analyzing everything you put through them. Think you can escape Google? You'd have a hard time doing so, since millions of websites use Google Analytics and/or Google AdWords. Even if you did escape Google, you have to escape the NSA. Good luck with that, considering that the NSA is a part of the NIST, which is the group that controls the encryption standards. If they control the encryption, then SSL is useless against them. The NSA has backdoored encryption functions in the past, and there's no reason why they won't do it again.

Privacy is long gone, and Snowden wasn't the beginning or end.

[Mom]

Hilarious. Regardless, piracy will not die in 2018 and I doubt it ever will. It's just submerging away from the mainstream and it'll probably only be for the people who actually don't depend on TPB to torrent things.

Nah
Privacy's already dead dude.  The NSA is watching you, your ISP is watching you, and companies are watching you.  Walk outside and look up.  If you live in a city-ish area, you'll see cameras, tons of them.  The government has those too.  The government has been using drones as well since 2013.  Google and Facebook have been analyzing everything you put through them.  Think you can escape Google?  You'd have a hard time doing so, since millions of websites use Google Analytics and/or Google AdWords.  Even if you did escape Google, you have to escape the NSA.  Good luck with that, considering that the NSA is a part of the NIST, which is the group that controls the encryption standards.  If they control the encryption, then SSL is useless against them.  The NSA has backdoored encryption functions in the past, and there's no reason why they won't do it again.

Privacy is long gone, and Snowden wasn't the beginning or end.

Are you mixing up piracy and privacy? Frankly if it was such a huge deal then it would have all been shut down far sooner. Let's be honest, the government didn't just dig their claws into the whole privacy thing just last year. If they wanted to end piracy and they had this power, they either don't because they need it, they don't because they don't care enough, or they don't because the power isn't actually there. I'm pretty on board with the second bit.

[Blink]

Hilarious. Regardless, piracy will not die in 2018 and I doubt it ever will. It's just submerging away from the mainstream and it'll probably only be for the people who actually don't depend on TPB to torrent things.

Nah
Privacy's already dead dude.  The NSA is watching you, your ISP is watching you, and companies are watching you.  Walk outside and look up.  If you live in a city-ish area, you'll see cameras, tons of them.  The government has those too.  The government has been using drones as well since 2013.  Google and Facebook have been analyzing everything you put through them.  Think you can escape Google?  You'd have a hard time doing so, since millions of websites use Google Analytics and/or Google AdWords.  Even if you did escape Google, you have to escape the NSA.  Good luck with that, considering that the NSA is a part of the NIST, which is the group that controls the encryption standards.  If they control the encryption, then SSL is useless against them.  The NSA has backdoored encryption functions in the past, and there's no reason why they won't do it again.

Privacy is long gone, and Snowden wasn't the beginning or end.

Are you mixing up piracy and privacy? Frankly if it was such a huge deal then it would have all been shut down far sooner. Let's be honest, the government didn't just dig their claws into the whole privacy thing just last year. If they wanted to end piracy and they had this power, they either don't because they need it, they don't because they don't care enough, or they don't because the power isn't actually there. I'm pretty on board with the second bit.

Wow... Yes, I misread. Piracy makes much more sense, with the content of the original post.
That's two confused posts today, and probably the first time that has happened to me.

Piracy isn't gonna die. (yet, who knows what'll happen in the farther future) Torrenting might die sometime in the future, but not as soon as 2018. With sites like 123Movies GoMovies GoStream 123Movies, there isn't any point in torrenting movies. For software though, there aren't many alternatives, so it'll stick around for a while until it becomes obsolete.
Piracy won't die unless the government decides to go really crazy, and they won't do that for a while now.

[thatdude]

If it dies, it will just get resurrected again.

[mothered]

In terms of It's "entirety", piracy will never be eliminated. One site goes down and another comes up just as quick. There's always alternatives and always will be.

This Is hilarious.

Owner of a torrent site said to TorrentFreak that, "Chrome’s ad-blocker will kill torrent sites. If they don’t at least cover their costs, no one is going to use money out of his pocket to keep them alive."

Should I document all available browsers that provide a gateway to torrents? I don't have a spare 30 minutes to do so.

[Mom]

In terms of It's "entirety", piracy will never be eliminated. One site goes down and another comes up just as quick. There's always alternatives and always will be.

This Is hilarious.

Owner of a torrent site said to TorrentFreak that, "Chrome’s ad-blocker will kill torrent sites. If they don’t at least cover their costs, no one is going to use money out of his pocket to keep them alive."

Should I document all available browsers that provide a gateway to torrents? I don't have a spare 30 minutes to do so.

It really gives you an idea on how well these people understand the internet. They get some tiny bit of insight on how it works and then they start making wild claims as if an expert.

They're incompetent. They haven't even caught the elusive hacker 4chayn or found his password app.