Let’s say you’re not about to pay $30 for the Blu-ray edition of Blade Runner or Transformers, especially after you’ve already seen the film a dozen or more times on regular DVD. But now that The Pirate Bay, as far as I’m concerned, long gone, what are you gonna do? Will its “reboot” cause you to change your pirating ways, or will you merely move on to the next service and/or Web site?
Back when Napster was shut down, in 1999, there was no such thing as the iTunes Store. At the time, you couldn’t legally download the latest Hit_Album; Napster was a service all to itself. That’s not the case now, in the year 2009. Services like iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and whatnot make it easy to watch or listen to plenty of content, 100 percent on the up and up. So, if The Pirate Bay does, indeed, go away, you actually have the option of going legit, an option that didn’t really exist ten years ago. But will you?
Me? I’d probably buy a Kindle and read books in my free time. Books > movies.
Pirate Bay going down really doesn’t change the lay of the land much. Taking their torrents out of the mix will doubtfully have much of an effect on torrent traffic or peer to peer file sharing overall.
I too would read more.
I guess I’m in the minority, but I just don’t feel the need to pirate things to begin with. The fall of Pirate Bay, or any other torrent site for that matter, won’t affect my life a bit.
die.
Rip copyrighted songs off youtube videos :-P
If there is a demand there will be a supply.
Sure, those in the U.S. can happily traipse over to Hulu or the plethora of other services available to Americans.
The rest of the world however will continue to be met with ‘The content you are trying to access is not licensed for the region you are currently in’.
We don’t have those choices available to us.
That is so true – exactly the case here in Australia. We generally have to wait forever to get things, especially (it may sound petty) an extra week to a month for PSN content, and not to mention outrageous pricing in comparison to the US. So i’ll continue in my ways of, er, buying things, and be happy!
Totally agree, is ridiculous that here in Colombia I keep getting messages like “This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions. ” from Youtube, and that I have to wait 2 months after its release date to see 24 or transformers and even worst: wait 6 months after the release of a retail dvd in order to be able to buy it in my country. I’m a Systems Engineer and I’m a Pirate just and simply because I have to, because I don’t like to wait, and because I believe that it isn’t fair. And be sure, as long as we have to buy things months after it’s release and pay twice the price for it, we will keep inventing new ways to go around unfairness and we will not give up.
well, you Colombian claw23 guy, the problem with your “it’s not fair” argument is that the shows and videos, and games, and anything else that are made in the US, are meant for the citizens of the US first. Sorry that you don’t get to see the newest episode of 24 when we do, it’s not your show. You get Telemundo or some damn thing, but we don’t. be happy with what you have and stop crying, OR, move your ass to the US.
Japan puts out a LOT of stuff that we Americans would LOVE to have, but we can’t get it because…….. IT’S MEANT FOR JAPANESE PEOPLE. but it’s not fair right?
you see!! is thanks to people like you that piracy prevails. keep up with the good work.
Claw23 That is the best thing I heard all morning. Not your hardships or anything but how you openly admit that yes Im a pirate. Me too. But mostly cause im cheap, lazy, and impatient.
The writer of this article is to say the least not very well informed as evidence by the following quote “now that The Pirate Bay, as far as I’m concerned, long gone” . Look just go to the website http://www.thepiratebay.org and try and I garuntee it is up and running.