The Pirate Bay Returns – Buccaneers or John Paul Jones?

In the rapidly changing world, our information based societies are now faced with questions that demand greater public debate to set the standards as pertains to this developing internet medium and our actions and interactions thru it.

From a widely dug post on Torrent Freak The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing, I learned that the notorious Pirate Bay was back online after Swedish authorities pulled their plugged Monday August 24th.

Unlike Google or Wikipedia who have positioned themselves as the guardians of information on the interent, The Pirate Bay takes a bold and unique approach to standing their ground in their defense.

The Pirate Bay is, was, now again “is” theworld’s largest BitTorrent tracking service.

Pro-Privacy or Pro-Piracy

Their story underlies the argument of whether file sharing is a legal activity protected by privacy laws or is it a matter of blatant piracy of other’s copyrighted material.

A highly charged and largely followed story, the case for and against The Pirate Bay is not yet over.

Although some internet voices call for TPB to go quietly into that good night, others see this as a battleground over the freedom of expresson and information.

In The Lobby, a blog about European affairs, they write,

“Ironically however, much of the technology that is being hailed as tools of freedom of expression and for allowing cheap global access to culture (for example the use of Twitter in Iran and Google books etc) is under attack by regulators. Wired magazine reports that President Obama’s top anti-trust official is gunning for Google, something The Lobby thought the EU could do in the future, Twitter is attracting attention from the US Federal Trade Commission, and over here in Europe we’ve already seen a lot of debate being generated over the pros and cons of the EU Telecoms Package.“

Freedom of expression, of cultural and information exchange?

These questions demand greater public debate as we set the standards that pertain to this developing medium and our actions and interactions thru it.

Follow The Pirate Bay story on Google News here.
Read my previous post on The Priate Bay here and here.

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Amos White is an Social Media Marketing Evangelist and public speaker.
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The Pirate Bay Adds User Deletion Interface

The Pirate Bay adds “user deletion” to its bittorrent file sharing service.

The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced today it is adding a user deletion interface.

The user deletion feature comes in the wake the recent announcement of the potential sale and subsequent of death of The Pirate Bay by Global Gaming Factory X.

Interface Add Meets User Privacy Concerns

User concerns over privacy rights over their accounts forced The Pirate Bay to take the precautionary measure of adding the feature.

Mounting Business Pressures Force Sale

On their blog today, The Pirate Bay cited mounting operational costs to maintain and grow the file sharing service.

“We need to keep the site going and this is the only working alternative. We cannot finance the growth of the site anymore and we cannot back down. The only way is up and this is the only route to that place.”

Read More on The Priate Bay Blog: http://thepiratebay.org/blog/165

Amos White is an Internet Marketing Evangelist and public speaker.
Follow Amos on Twitter @Mos42 and on his blog http://amoswhite3.wordpress.com.

No Retrial for The Pirate Bay. Plans to sue the Swedish Government. – The Next Web

No Retrial for The Pirate Bay. Plans to sue the Swedish Government. – The Next Web.

File sharing or copy right infringement?

The world renown Priate Bay Four lost their legal appeal today for seeking a retrial in their copyright infringement case.

In an offensive legal move, The Pirate Bay will now file charges against Sweden for violation for Human Rights.

Read full article here.