The Pirate Bay To Shut Down Soon As Excipio Starts To Shoot And Kill Torrent Sites?
C. de LacyThe Pirate Bay, a long-running torrent community, has seen it all. Even with Kickass Torrent's eventual demise, The Pirate Bay stood tall, but how long will this last with Excipio around?
A post by Andy from Torrent Freak discussed about how the "copyright trolls" have arrived and will be crashing the torrent community. Specifically in Sweden and possibly with other countries following afterwards, Excipio, an anti-piracy group and with the help of lawyers, are targeting The Pirate Bay users penalty, in cold hard cash.
File-sharing doesn't specifically revolve around sharing and distribution of copyrighted material, but it is a fact that the technology gets used for it most of the time.
This is where the "Copyright Trolls" come into place. Before, the policy was only implemented in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and a number of countries, except Sweden. However, things are going to change and given that The Pirate Bay's home resides in Sweden, things will get ugly from here on.
"One can compare it to a speed camera. In the same way that a speed camera only records those who drive too fast, only those Internet users who share copyrighted material without permission are logged," spokesman Gordon Odenbark stated.
The fine may range around $233 and that would be per film. The group is currently targeting 500 to 1000 file sharers on its onset.
This now shows how copyright trolling works with a "cheap now, expensive later" basis. Now everybody is expected to pay these fines, and with that, legal actions will be taken and will prove to be more problematic than its worth.
It doesn't necessarily mean that The Pirate Bay and several of these torrents sites will completely go down, but if things go crazier than just handing judgment over film thieves to broader scopes like software, music or even mere data, this would leave every torrent site, including The Pirate Bay, with virtually nothing to share.
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