OK, now it is obvious. The Pirate Bay will die. Even if the founders of the biggest file torrent search engine are very skilled in searching and finding new ways of distribute there stuff, once all way will finally barred. We now these process from the past: Do you remember napster, kazaa and e-mule. All these file sharing pages had to walk there long way to the graveyard. But please also remember what happened meanwhile this long trip: The time where the courts, the police and at least the concerned industries (in this case mostly the music and the film industry) are distracted from the fight against the old project is always the time for a new project to develop unnoticed. After napster came kazaa, after kazaa e-mule and so on. But this time it seems to be different.
The new way of distributing files, the bit-torrent system and the development of search engines offers new opportunities. Nowadays it isn’t necessary to visit a page, like the still existing mininova which collect bit torrent links. It is much easier. Just type in a name of a file and the word “torrent” or “free download” in the input field in google You can find a lot of god replies. This is related to the google-way of thinking. Googles search engine algorithm based on the “wisdom of the crowd”-sys
tem. The mass of people decide what is important wand what is not. The more people link in there comments to a page, the higher is the ranking. The interesting point about this is, that so much people link and use the torrent pages that there are always on top. It is a huge group of people, who download torrents or link to one torrent page. And this seems to be as impossible to stop as the thought to shut down google because of the possibility to break copyright law with its engine.
By the way. Shut down google would be a great idea in the view of the old elite. Google is doing a lot of stuff, which afford the use and distribute of free material is the internet. Google books is only one example, but a god one. In this case the court is on the side of the shared knowledge maintainer. They let google digitalise and distribute books from different authors without asking them about there personal copyrights. The american court used a law which is called the fair use. It says that knowledge which is important for the society has to be shared. This is like a containment of the personal copyright.
Something like that is exactly what we need nowadays. For sure we need a new system of copyright. The remix culture is not made for personal rights. The generation internet wants to have everything available at every time. Personal thoughts have to be shared with other people to make the society more intelligent – make them smarter. And that of course make the individual smarter, who now how to handle this new distribution ways of information. Privacy was yesterday, today is social haven! The old elite is scared about that. They try to stop the progress, but on the other hand they forget that the the future is written. The google-system has graduate, now can the real future begin.
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