[PP-discussions] The Pirate Bay down, forever?

[MrNatural]

Bouh, c'est en anglais :D

On 11/12/2014 13:37, Zidjinn PP wrote:
> Pour info.
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> Zid.
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> http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/
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> Just reached me that The Pirate Bay has been raided, again. That
> happened over 8 years ago last time. That time, a lot of people went
> out to protest and rally in the streets. Today few seem to care. And
> I'm one of them.Why, you might ask? Well. For multiple reasons. But
> most of all, I've not been a fan of what TPB has become.TPB has become
> an institution that people just expected to be there. Noone willing to
> take the technology further. The site was ugly, full of bugs, old code
> and old design. It never changed except for one thing -- the ads. More
> and more ads was filling the site, and somehow when it felt
> unimaginable to make these ads more distasteful they somehow ended up
> even worse.The original deal with TPB was to close it down on it's
> tenth birthday. Instead, on that birthday, there was a party in it's
> "honour" in Stockholm. It was sponsored by some sexist company that
> sent young girls, dressed in almost no clothes, to hand out freebies
> to potential customers. There was a ticket price to get in,
> automatically excluding people with no money. The party had a set
> line-up with artists, scenes and so on, instead of just asking the
> people coming to bring the content. Everything went against the ideals
> that I worked for during my time as part of TPB.The past years there
> was no soul left in TPB. The original team handed it over to, well,
> less soul-ish people to say the least. From the outside I felt that
> noone had any interest in helping the community if it didn't
> eventually pay out in cash. The attention for new artists (the promo
> bay) felt more like something TPB had to do in order to keep it's
> street cred. The street cred I personally tried to destroy when being
> part of TPB, multiple times, in order to make sure that people stopped
> idolizing TPB the way they did. Mostly it didn't work though.As a big
> fan of the KLF I once learned that it's great to burn great things up.
> At least then you can quit while you're on top. I think I left TPB
> just a little bit after that top, and not when it's as shitty as it
> was when it was closed today. It feels good that it might have closed
> down forever, just a real shame the way it did that. A planned
> retirement would have given the community time and a way to kick off
> something new, something better, something faster, something more
> reliable and with no chance of corrupting itself. Something that had a
> soul and could retain it.But from the immense void that will now fill
> up the fiber cables all over the world, I'm pretty sure the next thing
> will pan out. And hopefully it has no ads for porn or viagra. There's
> already other services for that. 
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