The Swedes Come Down Hard On The Pirate Bay
Pirate Bay is a website that serves up "torrents." If you know what a torrent is you get it. If you don't, you probably should. Supposedly, bitTorrent traffic (the protocol, like web traffic, or IM traffic) make up nearly 50% of all Internet data transfer? bitTorrent is why Chinatown can bring you the freshest movies for 5 bucks a DVD. Copyrights just ain't what they used to be with the web, we all know that, but so much more influential to all of this is bitTorrent.
So the media companies drive the government to crack down on the infringement and go after the guys serving up the "torrents" which are used by would be pirates to connect to peers and get their new release or the entire discography of Billy Joel. But to me, it's like the drug problem, go after the pushers all you like, but at the end of the day, Johnny is going to get his fix somehow. Big media might need to change the way it thinks about content control, distribution, and how advertising needs to change.
Curious? www.utorrent.com and then to www.mininova.org
