The Web Wont Be Free Forever?

dalebert · Postby **dalebert** » September 29th, 2009, 6:58 am

Its just a matter of time i believe that this will take place. BO will have a hand in it...... :evil:

http://www.businessinsider.com/barry-di ... deo-2009-9

Mole_J · Postby **Mole_J** » September 29th, 2009, 9:18 am

I am not buying this

People will not pay for content if there is a free alternative. So they have to get rid of the free alternative. The power that be may try to do this, but I don't think they can succeed.

They have gone after http://www.thepiratebay.org. The owners have been taken to trail, found guilty, and sentenced to a year and jail and pay $4.5 million. They are appealing, but the site is still up and running.

dalebert · Postby **dalebert** » September 29th, 2009, 11:08 am

I went and checked out the web site u listed...not sure what it was about.....can u give me the cliff notes as to what it is....?

Mole_J · Postby **Mole_J** » September 29th, 2009, 1:29 pm

It is a bit-torrent site where people can illegally download music, movies, games, and software. All you need is a bit-torrent program to download everything.

Bit-torrents are small files like a road map. It tells your computer where to download pieces of the file. The pieces of data come from a lot of different computers around the world, so the file is not in a central location like with Napster. Then once your computer has downloaded all the data the bit-torrent program puts all the data together and you have your music, videos, movies, games, or software.

Since the data is not centralized, the laws in some countries make it very hard to shut down these sites.

The owners of Piratebay argue that they do not have the files on their servers, they are like Google and give the information to people. According to them if you shut down Pirate Bay you would also have to shut down Google, since Google can give people illegal information also.

They have put servers in a bunch of countries. Even the owners do not know where the servers are located.

dalebert · Postby **dalebert** » September 30th, 2009, 5:12 am

Mole_J wrote:It is a bit-torrent site where people can illegally download music, movies, games, and software. All you need is a bit-torrent program to download everything.

Bit-torrents are small files like a road map. It tells your computer where to download pieces of the file. The pieces of data come from a lot of different computers around the world, so the file is not in a central location like with Napster. Then once your computer has downloaded all the data the bit-torrent program puts all the data together and you have your music, videos, movies, games, or software.

Since the data is not centralized, the laws in some countries make it very hard to shut down these sites.

The owners of Piratebay argue that they do not have the files on their servers, they are like Google and give the information to people. According to them if you shut down Pirate Bay you would also have to shut down Google, since Google can give people illegal information also.

They have put servers in a bunch of countries. Even the owners do not know where the servers are located.

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