The Pirate Bay - a step in the right direction?
 

In case anyone is interested,

I recently sent a polite complaint to the Pirate Bay about a torrent hosted on Pirate Bay servers which enables people to receive a copy of my content without my permission.

Within a few hours after sending the complaint, the link to download the torrent was not available.

To my great surprise, Pirate Bay did even more than that. They deleted his username too. All his torrents (hundreds) were gone. The person was uploading torrents daily during the previous few weeks with links to screen capture previews on blogspot. Also on blogspot were ads next to the previews.

I also complained to blogspot. As of today, his blog on blogspot was also deleted. But it took blogspot at least several days to do it.

I am still surprised that PB removed so many torrents.

Is it because PB does not allow porn torrents?

Or they do not allow torrents if people try to profit by sending some traffic to other sites with ads (such as a link to a preview on blogspot with blogspot ads)?

Or PB has decided to become more responsible like rapidshare? Now they remove a torrent if anyone complains?

Or what?

They're probably just trying to avoid more lawsuits.

I'm not sure why they did it, but it is a step in the right direction. Maybe it was because it is porn, maybe they are just sick of the lawsuits, maybe they are trying to fix their images, who knows. It is good news though.

interesting, things could be automated like YT now

probably

It's not because they don't allow porn:

http://thepiratebay.org/browse/501

Perhaps it was because I did not threaten PB. I did not send a DMCA. I wrote a simple, polite request from a small,humble producer.

It is also possible that the torrent creator was "dangerous". I checked a few torrents in order to find any common ip addresses, such as a common seed ip address but I did not find anything common ip's. Maybe the torrent creator owns a bot net and seeds from zombies. Just my guess. Maybe he was inserting something harmful into the torrents or maybe not. I watched while he would upload a new porn torrent every 5-20minutes and the total download size was often more than 1GB. He had a massive amount of porn and was uploading porn torrents very rapidly. obviously a professional. My guess is he was doing it purely for financial gain. Perhaps spam is not so profitable now due to the bad economy and he switched to sending torrent traffic to blogspot ads. I can only guess.

You think that the fact that they are currently trying to Sue Sweden for Human Rights Violations, indicates a step in the right direction? you have to be out of you mind to even say that - or at least really really missinformed

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-b...ations-090625/

It's because they know eventually someone else will upload/seed your content