There was this time when The Pirate Bay (TPB) was the place for music, movies, porn, games. Some of you will remember that they went to the extent of making themselves a nation. Other torrent sites came up later, but some of them were blocked.

Question is, can anyone stop piracy?

No, because pirates (rather, piracy providers) are smarter than governments. As long as you have a network of wires and cables, pirates will exist.

You’ll see the gravity of the situation when you realise that many governments over many years have tried to block TPB, and they’ve failed.

In 2012, something new happened: “The world's most famous BitTorrent site... switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world.”

At TechTree, we don’t endorse piracy — but we must salute an entity that, in anonymity, has evaded worldwide opposition.

Try it now: thepiratebay.org. Error 404: Not found. But then try thepiratebay.se. There you go. One day, the .se site won’t work; one day, the .am site will. One day, something else.

The point here is, this is the true spirit of the Internet: You can’t block anything, whether it is child porn or rape scenes or fake news or real news. In that sense, yes, we love TPB. That was how the Internet was made, and that’s still how it is — authorities notwithstanding.

Tags : BitTorrent, Pirates, piracy