With 'Kickass' Gone, Is 'The Pirate Bay' Next?
C. de LacyWith the news about Kickass being taken down due to legal actions and the arrest of the alleged owner Artem Vaulin, what should torrent users expect to happen with other popular torrent sites like The Pirate Bay?
The Pirate Bay increased its traffic after the takedown of the world's most popular torrent site Kickass. This is good and everything with both users and those behind the site's activity, but how long will it stay?
In a nutshell, Kickass was taken down in cooperation with Facebook and Apple which suffered the most from Kickass not adhering to DMCA rules in a number of ways and with a criminal complaint directly pointed to the founder's location via IP address track down.
Some users may think that The Pirate Bay may suffer the same consequences. For those who just recently got into BitTorrents, The Pirate Bay also had its fair share of legal notices and trouble with its domains more than Kickass had dealt with.
The most recent involvement of The Pirate Bay to such legal situations was on 2012, where the Supreme Court of Sweden that ordered the site to change its domain from .org to .se. It prevented the site from US laws taking control over it.
After roughly a year, The Pirate Bay changed to .gl domain due to the anticipation of a possible take down by the Swedish government for its .se but eventually got back to .se due to Greenald's violation as well.
Up to this day, The Pirate Bay is still active and is one of the longest standing BitTorrent site in the planet. Kickass, being taken down could be seen in the industry's point of view as "just another minor change."
There are too many loopholes in how the internet works and in a manner, there's really no way that any authority from any part of the world can strike it down. Piracy is a sad, but undeniable fact of life for most internet users.
We've seen rapidshare, megaupload, isohunt and other several sites going down one after another. Still, other alternatives or even better and authority-proof sites come out of nowhere.
The Pirate Bay will definitely stay looking at these facts and Kickass may even come out of nowhere once more.
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