If the police are acting out justice - why do they need to hide it with binbags (or whatever they put over the cameras)? isn't that tampering or destroying potential evidence?
Even pirates still but games, a pirate doesn't strictly steal everything. Usually with games, pirates tend to buy them as the torrents are bugged, need patches, or don't work.
Good games always sell regardless of piracy. WOW, COD4 etc. But with the rehashed sequels and other junk, Im glad that TPB is there to keep the pressure on the developers to actually produce some worthwhile games like Witcher 2.
I love the pirate bay, if it dies i will be very sad. If you dumb-asses out there who are making games and material and trying to sell it for $ think that its bad to sell your material for free then either stop making it or give it away and get your $ from subliminal advertizements inside the game. Either way its going to be pirated anyways.
I'm not an anti-pirate or anything but do you realize it takes millions of dollars just to develop and publish a game even below Call of Duty's level? They aren't going to get that back just from ads...
@dietcoke759 do you realise how many people dont know about torrents for real.. i say out of the whole gaming community... i say less than 20% of people know about torrents for real.... and alot of people dont download game torrents because of their 3+ gig sizes and alot of slow connections cant download those in under the amount of time it takes to go buy the game....we (as in the torrent community) usually.. well..... download "movies" and celebrity "movies" alot lol
Another point here is that the corporate labels know advertising costs. The theoretical amount of money it takes to get a new customer to the point of sale is directly proportional to the media's initial appeal. If a bunch of kids are listening to a new song they got for free then they are in fact advertising that media to potential customers such as their parents. In essence the idiot lawyers that can not make anything on their own should thank the ones they are suing.
@LastCynicStanding After a computer reboot, it seems I can post again. Odd. Sure, the lawyers sue but they are hired by the companies or people who own the content or have rights to it. I wouldn't call the lawyers idiots. I just don't like their motives namely, making money. In all honesty, everything would be nicer if everything could be shared (except personal and private things of course). I think the word is socialism.
@8jwong14 Meh... don't worry about saying the wong thing with me ;p
Referring to the mail I would say that software companies that relentlessly pursue what they deem as lost revenue are the ones making the crap software that makes people want to throw their computer out the window. If they made anything worthwhile then they would be sitting fat happy while working on the next thing instead of trying to count pennies from the last flop. I stare directly at MicroSoft, Adobe, AutoDesk.... ect....
@8jwong14 I guess you could call it socialism. There just are not enough Canadians in the world for socialism to ever work though. As long as the big money countries' citizens are throwing up burglar bars like they do in the US then I think we can forget about ever trying to share anything. I think most people should be focusing on where these companies get off claiming damages on things they had nothing to do with. That might be more beneficial than hashing out the result.
@natlsteel The VCR is a great analogy for this. Everyone who actually had anything to do with the creation of any media worth arguing over the price of has already been paid and is off working on the next thing. The ones crying over this issue are the insanely rich types that feel the need to hold people down. You certainly do not see the developers pushing the US Congress to pimp out their patents to the highest bidder.
Last time a bought a movie was 10 years ago, after I found out that you can watch movies no your computer I never even thought of buying a DVD or some shit like that.
@natlsteel They may not host the files but they support and allow distribution of material intended to be sold. If companies start supporting pirating, then those who previously thought it was wrong would start doing it and the company would not be making more money. With music publishers, they unfairly get a lot of money off artists' work. But what about for other stuff like games? How is a company supposed to develop software or movies, withotu funding aisde from donations?
@8jwong14 People buy things they like. The ones that coined the phrase 'intellectual property' did not have anything to do with the amount of blood and sweat it took to make any of the work in question here. As long as people kowtow to idiot lawyers then development will be stifled. The real roadblocks for developers are the several thousand dollars worth of licenses they need to buy just to legally compile an application written in anything other than notepad.
@LastCynicStanding "People buy things they like." I know many pirates pirate things because they like something and want it. The minority pirate something then buy it. For example, a pirates wants to "try" a game. How many of them will actually stop after the first part or so? Little. Maybe they were too entrenched in the game. But afterwards, they don't feel any need to buy the game anyway.
Anyway, open source for the win. WIth licenses such as gpl, devs can avoid legal troubles.
@8jwong14 I have no clue what you are getting at by suggesting a public license. The fact that depositories such as the one you mention are used to create everything that is slaved to your thumbs really backs up my point here. Media is out there to be enjoyed by all. If you can afford it then you can buy higher quality recordings and better sound equipment. If you are broke then you play pirated games and listen to Pandora. The latter has no effect on the industry such as it is.
@8jwong14 Maybe they don't tend to buy, but chances are they wouldn't have bought it anyway, if it was of marginal interest to them. I don't believe Piracy effects the actual amount people spend on media, at all.
The idea that 1 download = 1 less sale makes little sense to me, I buy based on what I can afford at the time and many people I know spend MORE than they can afford on media each month. I know a few people who do 'download for keeps' but that's not the typical case as far as I see.
Despite various reasons I support TPB, one reason I don't like them is because their legal team seems to be full of ***holes after reading their replies to legal threats. Srue some of the threats by people are meaningless and hold no real power, the legal team is acting like children.
@MyFaceHole not exactly. there servers. think of them almost as an incredibly large hard drive. your email for instance, isnt kept on your computer. if you use gmail (and you almost certainly do considering your commenting from your gmail account right now) then your email files are kept on their server. most people in the regular world just call this "cloud" technology.
It's disingenuous to say these guys are just sharing data. They've used the traffic flow from their website made popular by torrent links to advertise and make millions of dollars.
Essentially, they've become millionaires off of other people's work without giving the original owners of said intellectual property any compensation.
@KevinBusomjack but.. doesn't that make them downright brilliant? I mean, your probably not even a millionaire..... and even if you were I'd tell you to take your opinion and stuff it down your fat throat!! the point is they're rich because they're intelligent. no, they didn't make a blockbuster featuring Diesel and Walker, but they figured out a way to make money off it anyway. thats fucking brilliant.
No it doesn't actually. Stealing other people's work just proves you're too much of an uncreative douchebag to come up with your own material so you have to plagiarize. The only reason they've gotten away with it is because of Sweeden's lax copyright laws. They're not talented, they're not brilliant. They just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
If they were brilliant they would've created a popular website using their own material, not other people's.
@KevinBusomjack They HAVE given credit to authors. every torrent shows you what your downloading and by who. TPB is not selling movies or games or music, its all FREE. they are not making money directly off the products, rather off the people who want them for free. your just one of those who is angry because you cannot figure out how to make money in this new market. its simple really, adapt or die.
The Government is retarded :) TPB is shut down.. umm for 3 days? Government is a complete and utter fail and TPB will most likely always be a website.
@CamiloSanchez1979 They are not target merely for hosting torrents and indexing them. They are targeted largely for facilitating piracy. Anyway, the name The Pirate Bay, shows they clearly advocate piracy of content.
@CamiloSanchez1979 Speaking of that, the pirate bay should try adding to their defence that a torrent file's existance doesn't guarantee that the file exists, because its possible the hash is gibberish or even just corrupted...
@LordFabs how about adding to their defense that one of the arresting officers was wearing a denim jacket in 2006, probably listens to the Beegees too.
You people all all such sheep. When they start saying that downloading pirated things is an act of freedom or "cool" with their tough attitude you all get sucked in thinking you're the rebels of the internet.
It happens all the time, one day you'll love pirating, then the other day you'll make something you want to sell and it'll be stolen. Again and again and again.
@waypastthat Taking the income of multi-billion dollar companies whose profits far exceed their costs does not bother me in the least. Just think of me as a Mosquito and them as the blood source, I can have my fill many times over and they will still have plenty of blood.
Only a small percent of pirated things are from big products. And you wouldn't go out to a store and steal a DVD because they're "getting money anyway." Don't be so ignorant.
@waypastthat I only download movies and nothing else. Look at it like this. Avatar cost 240 million to make, another 150 million for promotion and it grossed 2.7 billion worldwide and from that about 20% goes to the cinemas, so that is 540 million, divided among thousands of cinemas worldwide. That leaves the movie studio with about 2.2 Billion, which is 11 times more than they spent and they bitch about piracy? Not to mention DVD sales. Fuck Them.
bringing a small army which can take over a banana republic just to stop some potential income lose
of course they did it under american pressure
if only this kinda effort was put into stopping REAL criminals like rapists and robbers...
well i guess that for the rich elite it doesn't matter if people are hurt so long they can make lotsa money and if someone interfears.... get a whole army after him
The officers in the video are the same type of people that joined the nazi party in the early years. "Oh, we are just doing are job", "We are following the law". Sure, so were the nazi's when they burned books and then jews. One of the officers in question even appears to have a hitler mustache?
Long live TPB? Fuck that. Long live RELOADED Long live Razor1911 Long live ViTALiTY Long live Kingdom-Releases Long live aXXo Long live 2Lions-Team Long live SANTi Long live djDEVASTATE - They upload the stuff we love, not TPB. - FUCK DMCA. FUCK ANTI-PIRACY. -
lololol If they are trying to be inconspicuous they are EPICALLY failing. I see handcuffs on that one guy, why the hell would you take pictures of servers, and then they spray paint the cameras. FAIL
thats a bank, an there are the piratebay servers. but the banks in sweden have a good protection provision, so the police wasnt allowed to introduce the bank and piratebay are free once ^^ good idea to have servers under with law protected area
@zacdee316 hahaaah :P yeah thats funny as the words within the swedish language gets confused with sexual shit in america :P and yeah slut doesnt mean Whore, it means "end" as where
that was 2 years ago i believe... goto piratebay . org / legal you'll luagh like hell and get you answer in one of the responses to a company that threatened to sew but got denied
I can see the frustration some producers have, I fully understand their issue. But it is totally the producers fault that their stuff gets shared online. 200 Euro for the basic Windows Vista ? And you can only use it on 1 Computer ? We all know that nobody who has a normal job can effort this. If all producers would lower their prices by 50%, there would be alot less piracy since people are surely willing to pay something for their product. But not 1/3 of their monthly salary
@ViXan01 youre right mate except the companys goal is not to reduce piracy but to maximize profit... and thats what theyre achieving - even with the less customers - with that high price. believe me its not a coincidence vista and w7 for example is so expensive. and then its still better to fight against piracy without lowering prices
@Baalika i honestly dont think windows should be worth $230 if it would be a low price like 80$ everyone would buy it. who the hell can afford 200 dollers just for 1 thing. + you have other software and hardware you need to buy! you know how much food i can buy wih 200 dollers?!
@ViXan01 exactly, by the way you can buy the "license" code for windows 7 for like $5, but get a reccomended seller as they somtimes sell the same code loads of times, this is legal, because you have a legal license. i asked microsoft about these licences snd they did everything to avoid answering if it was illegal, besause they want you to buy there full price licenses.
at the end of the day which is worse? downloading a movie from someone sharing the file or walking into a department store with a gun/knife and robbing a shop for a disc.
Anyways, I belive that most companies that sell copyrighted material include an extra dollar or so in the price of an item to account for losses due to piracy.
I don't know what the deal is. You could find get any microsoft software you wanted via bitorrent and other means, yet look where they are today.
And I'm not saying that I would go and download some random shareware.
I was at a computer show back in 1995, and we came across the booth for the BSA - the Business Software Alliance - the very anti-piracy software interest group. I had asked one of their representatives "If software piracy was to come to a complete halt, would the price of software go down?" Which the representative responded with a stern "No".
I really didn't believe her answer at first, it just didn't make sense - but it does make sense - it means software companies would make more profit.
I suppose companies like adobe and microsoft can try justify their high prices by piracy. However, once they can charge a certain price for a license, why would they lower their prices if their own costs went down due to a lack of piracy?
Once the price is at a certain point, it will likely not go down regardless of the amount of piracy.
Well, Adobe moniters yoou the first maybe thirty minutes after installing software to make sure you are the only one who used the serial at least for the multi sets like web and design. And digidesign made it so to run Pro Tools, you would have to have specific hardware.
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Not many consider that the PB founders actually are transferring money from artists directly into their own pockets by making zillions on advertising dollars.
The police concluded in an investigation in 2006 that tpb brings in around 1.2 million SEK ($150 000) from ads.
The tpb lawyer counted the revenue closer to 725 000 SEK ($100 000) while the sites expenses are estimated to be around 800 000 SEK ($110 000)
As one of the owners said: "It's not free to operate a Web Site on this scale. If we were making lots of money I wouldn't be working late at the office tonight, I'd be sitting on a beach somewhere, working on my tan."
How scary is that, that the first thing the fuzz are trained to do is eliminate possible evidence. They just cover up the cameras, like it's part of their job.
"Ok, Now we enter... ok good, and cover anything that could record, or show what we're doing... ok, now we bring the pain..."
i =''[ on this day when i wondered why the site didnt load i watched the news on g4 the nxt day. why is everyone so pissed off about piracy? would u rather then be into other illegal activities such as robing banks or terrorism? think about it!
Good luck in destroying the video / music / games industry. Most of the people who work at least in games industry (as I do) is SICK to hear from our bosses that we can't have a 100e raise because of sales have dropped because of piracy. It's sad because more and more art directors, concept and texture artists, modelers, are getting more and more frustrating about having to work on something which will be 95% stealed. Thanks, swedish LAWS! I just wonder... there's any swedish games on TPB?
"have a 100e raise because of sales have dropped because of piracy"
That's interesting seeing as the gaming industry is expected to be a $68 billion industry by 2012 (which would mean an annual growth rate of around 10.3%)
If games are selling bad than companies should try not to release bad console ports on pc, or unfinished games, and they should not promise what they cannot keep.
dude i totally agree, example, the guy who did the voice acting for the million dollar GTA4 game got paid only 100,000 dollars for the whole thing, and grand theft auto 4made millions and millions of dollars.
Dude, chill out, don't swear so much, and find a job where you will NOT work with bytes... :) And of course it's not just Sweden, who said otherwise? I was making a comment to THIS video, which, in this case, it's about TPB, dumb cretin...
And one more thing, it doesn't matter what the price is... Even 5€ games end up being 99% pirated. I'm outta here, have fun entertaining for free, WTF... After all it's a sick world, where each one is trying to deceive others...
But if the games would be half the price they are now I would buy ALL of my games and I buy most of my games now too especially the ones that I want to play online
No sense in covering the cameras... we already know what you look like... dumb asses.
LiezerZero 2 months ago
TPB is the only thing i like about sweden, plus Dice. Peace from Finland!
HotLoverYogy69 3 months ago
extremezone...
morzloks 3 months ago
I like how the guy with the camera is taking pictures even though there is a sign clearly stating not to.
Leivthious 4 months ago
Big Difference in this kind of stuff
Copy and Pasting: Not stealing
Taking things (No copying): Stealing
Zombiepwnage117 4 months ago
Think I'll download something in sympathy
twexl 4 months ago 3
Kinda boring vid but raises the question....
How come you can still use tpb if they got raided ?
And also how do they make the money to pay for all those servers ?? The advertising space can't be worth that much
Tbp 4eva
BroncoBill321 4 months ago
@1:40 is that guy taking a piss on a server? LOL
MrPMonkeyD 4 months ago
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How is the site still running and I wonder what was so horrific that made then cover the cam
Dfontana766 5 months ago
piracy is not theft it's piracy
theft removes the original
piracy makes a copy
there is having your numberplate stolen and there is having your numberplate cloned
andy11894 5 months ago 15
@andy11894 it's copyright infringement
stonedcj 5 months ago
@andy11894 Oh really, did pirates just clone all the riches they obtained at sea and let the owners keep the originals?
I'm a strong proponent of TPB but your definition of piracy is the dumbest thing i've ever heard.
uglyd0g 3 months ago
@uglyd0g There is also a difference in digital piracy, and in physical piracy.
BetWinston 2 months ago
If the police are acting out justice - why do they need to hide it with binbags (or whatever they put over the cameras)? isn't that tampering or destroying potential evidence?
bazzatron666 5 months ago
They are pissed at the fact that despite being out 2 months, there is no dvdrip of Thor available...
tool2342 5 months ago 2
@tool2342 LOl there is a thor rip been for quiet sometime lolz
kornickronic 4 months ago
Maybe they're complaining about the recent upload quality of Horrible Bosses A-7 V-6 M-9
Lmao, long live TPB and all who seed.
1Joeyknuckles 5 months ago 2
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if you all want free stuff, just use open source.
phantom1000A 5 months ago
They covered the camera, while they downloaded a torrent.
adamski895RS 6 months ago 6
Even pirates still but games, a pirate doesn't strictly steal everything. Usually with games, pirates tend to buy them as the torrents are bugged, need patches, or don't work.
BananaPhoneBanana 6 months ago
Good games always sell regardless of piracy. WOW, COD4 etc. But with the rehashed sequels and other junk, Im glad that TPB is there to keep the pressure on the developers to actually produce some worthwhile games like Witcher 2.
PlancksTime 6 months ago 2
I love the pirate bay, if it dies i will be very sad. If you dumb-asses out there who are making games and material and trying to sell it for $ think that its bad to sell your material for free then either stop making it or give it away and get your $ from subliminal advertizements inside the game. Either way its going to be pirated anyways.
MyFaceHole 6 months ago
@MyFaceHole
I'm not an anti-pirate or anything but do you realize it takes millions of dollars just to develop and publish a game even below Call of Duty's level? They aren't going to get that back just from ads...
dietcoke759 6 months ago
@dietcoke759 do you realise how many people dont know about torrents for real.. i say out of the whole gaming community... i say less than 20% of people know about torrents for real.... and alot of people dont download game torrents because of their 3+ gig sizes and alot of slow connections cant download those in under the amount of time it takes to go buy the game....we (as in the torrent community) usually.. well..... download "movies" and celebrity "movies" alot lol
MaruSims 5 months ago
Haha, wow did they bring enough guys. i mean hell, it took 5 guys to bring down Al Capone. I think they left the kitchen sink at the office.
SolaceG 6 months ago
Fucking police, nothing will ever stop the pirate bay
QuikDJ 6 months ago
Like out-of-laws covering the cameras.
emmaurilio 6 months ago
fucking pigs they cover the cam cuz they know theyre full of shit and guilty as sin
TomaCukor 6 months ago
where is this place?
mitchg2008 7 months ago
@mitchg2008 They were swedish police so I'm guessing it is deep in the Congo
MrGoochable 7 months ago
@MrGoochable No, I mean where in Congo eg. The airport, the guys house.
mitchg2008 7 months ago
LOL. SLUT. LOL. LOL. SLUT. -___-
Schiumo 7 months ago
lol when i read TPB i thought it was trailer park boys.
vancouverdogdowncast 8 months ago
XD se filmens slut
poop333x2 8 months ago
0.o why do people have such long comments???
flumpypigskin 8 months ago
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@flumpypigskin they think people care what they think
calfan3 7 months ago
Another point here is that the corporate labels know advertising costs. The theoretical amount of money it takes to get a new customer to the point of sale is directly proportional to the media's initial appeal. If a bunch of kids are listening to a new song they got for free then they are in fact advertising that media to potential customers such as their parents. In essence the idiot lawyers that can not make anything on their own should thank the ones they are suing.
LastCynicStanding 8 months ago
@LastCynicStanding After a computer reboot, it seems I can post again. Odd. Sure, the lawyers sue but they are hired by the companies or people who own the content or have rights to it. I wouldn't call the lawyers idiots. I just don't like their motives namely, making money. In all honesty, everything would be nicer if everything could be shared (except personal and private things of course). I think the word is socialism.
8jwong14 8 months ago
@8jwong14 Meh... don't worry about saying the wong thing with me ;p
Referring to the mail I would say that software companies that relentlessly pursue what they deem as lost revenue are the ones making the crap software that makes people want to throw their computer out the window. If they made anything worthwhile then they would be sitting fat happy while working on the next thing instead of trying to count pennies from the last flop. I stare directly at MicroSoft, Adobe, AutoDesk.... ect....
LastCynicStanding 8 months ago
@LastCynicStanding I like to call Microsoft Micro$oft and Windows as Window$.
8jwong14 8 months ago
@LastCynicStanding And "wong thing"? -.- By the way, your arguments are really good and well thought out.
8jwong14 8 months ago
@8jwong14 I guess you could call it socialism. There just are not enough Canadians in the world for socialism to ever work though. As long as the big money countries' citizens are throwing up burglar bars like they do in the US then I think we can forget about ever trying to share anything. I think most people should be focusing on where these companies get off claiming damages on things they had nothing to do with. That might be more beneficial than hashing out the result.
LastCynicStanding 8 months ago
@LastCynicStanding I don't quite get some of your references including the Canadian one. I'm just 15...
8jwong14 8 months ago
@natlsteel The VCR is a great analogy for this. Everyone who actually had anything to do with the creation of any media worth arguing over the price of has already been paid and is off working on the next thing. The ones crying over this issue are the insanely rich types that feel the need to hold people down. You certainly do not see the developers pushing the US Congress to pimp out their patents to the highest bidder.
LastCynicStanding 8 months ago
1:43 don't drop the soap, bitch!
electricmaster23 8 months ago
DO WHAT YOU WANT CUZ A PIRATE IS FREE!!!
pumpkinsoul12 8 months ago 3
Last time a bought a movie was 10 years ago, after I found out that you can watch movies no your computer I never even thought of buying a DVD or some shit like that.
RedOrangeSystem 8 months ago 2
@RedOrangeSystem Be careful man. Today I got a notice that I would receive a fine of $250,000 if I torrented one more thing.
watertower7 8 months ago
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ThePirateBay has now been blocked by my ISP, I think... :(
xxdeejinxx 8 months ago
TPB must be rich organisation :D
Cipirano 8 months ago
@natlsteel They may not host the files but they support and allow distribution of material intended to be sold. If companies start supporting pirating, then those who previously thought it was wrong would start doing it and the company would not be making more money. With music publishers, they unfairly get a lot of money off artists' work. But what about for other stuff like games? How is a company supposed to develop software or movies, withotu funding aisde from donations?
8jwong14 8 months ago
@8jwong14 People buy things they like. The ones that coined the phrase 'intellectual property' did not have anything to do with the amount of blood and sweat it took to make any of the work in question here. As long as people kowtow to idiot lawyers then development will be stifled. The real roadblocks for developers are the several thousand dollars worth of licenses they need to buy just to legally compile an application written in anything other than notepad.
LastCynicStanding 8 months ago
@LastCynicStanding "People buy things they like." I know many pirates pirate things because they like something and want it. The minority pirate something then buy it. For example, a pirates wants to "try" a game. How many of them will actually stop after the first part or so? Little. Maybe they were too entrenched in the game. But afterwards, they don't feel any need to buy the game anyway.
Anyway, open source for the win. WIth licenses such as gpl, devs can avoid legal troubles.
8jwong14 8 months ago
@8jwong14 I have no clue what you are getting at by suggesting a public license. The fact that depositories such as the one you mention are used to create everything that is slaved to your thumbs really backs up my point here. Media is out there to be enjoyed by all. If you can afford it then you can buy higher quality recordings and better sound equipment. If you are broke then you play pirated games and listen to Pandora. The latter has no effect on the industry such as it is.
LastCynicStanding 8 months ago
@8jwong14 Maybe they don't tend to buy, but chances are they wouldn't have bought it anyway, if it was of marginal interest to them. I don't believe Piracy effects the actual amount people spend on media, at all.
The idea that 1 download = 1 less sale makes little sense to me, I buy based on what I can afford at the time and many people I know spend MORE than they can afford on media each month. I know a few people who do 'download for keeps' but that's not the typical case as far as I see.
Larazoma 7 months ago
wait so do they just like "snatch " the ppl when the cam cant see and then cover it?
22869334 8 months ago
Despite various reasons I support TPB, one reason I don't like them is because their legal team seems to be full of ***holes after reading their replies to legal threats. Srue some of the threats by people are meaningless and hold no real power, the legal team is acting like children.
8jwong14 9 months ago
are those super computers!?
MyFaceHole 9 months ago
@MyFaceHole not exactly. there servers. think of them almost as an incredibly large hard drive. your email for instance, isnt kept on your computer. if you use gmail (and you almost certainly do considering your commenting from your gmail account right now) then your email files are kept on their server. most people in the regular world just call this "cloud" technology.
sio5RCA 9 months ago
if it exists there will always be a way for it to get on the internet
ZombieWolfe 9 months ago
It's disingenuous to say these guys are just sharing data. They've used the traffic flow from their website made popular by torrent links to advertise and make millions of dollars.
Essentially, they've become millionaires off of other people's work without giving the original owners of said intellectual property any compensation.
They're just as bad as plagiarists.
KevinBusomjack 9 months ago
@KevinBusomjack but.. doesn't that make them downright brilliant? I mean, your probably not even a millionaire..... and even if you were I'd tell you to take your opinion and stuff it down your fat throat!! the point is they're rich because they're intelligent. no, they didn't make a blockbuster featuring Diesel and Walker, but they figured out a way to make money off it anyway. thats fucking brilliant.
tofemaster 9 months ago
@tofemaster
No it doesn't actually. Stealing other people's work just proves you're too much of an uncreative douchebag to come up with your own material so you have to plagiarize. The only reason they've gotten away with it is because of Sweeden's lax copyright laws. They're not talented, they're not brilliant. They just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
If they were brilliant they would've created a popular website using their own material, not other people's.
KevinBusomjack 9 months ago
@KevinBusomjack They HAVE given credit to authors. every torrent shows you what your downloading and by who. TPB is not selling movies or games or music, its all FREE. they are not making money directly off the products, rather off the people who want them for free. your just one of those who is angry because you cannot figure out how to make money in this new market. its simple really, adapt or die.
tofemaster 8 months ago
@tofemaster Well said. Adapt or die, this is market evolution.
madedownunder 8 months ago
Hahhaahaha har dom inget bättre för sig?
LOOKHEREF0RFUN 10 months ago
3 Days later and its fully running
Sweddish Police= n00bs
mujrfster1234 10 months ago 3
Stupid bloody idiots, what were the killing the camera with? A fucking plastic bag?
Default486 10 months ago
IDK whether to like or dislike
You torrgs know what I mean
WritingYouAgain 11 months ago
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CJWOLF1985 11 months ago
yeah long live pirate bay amen :)
CJWOLF1985 11 months ago 2
@CJWOLF1985 May I ask why you use TPB. Why don't you instead buy the stuff you want?
8jwong14 9 months ago
Cops = lulz Killers
RenyRuIez 1 year ago
You call this a raid?
Looked like some kids playing a prank.
I was expecting something more like the Matrix Lobby scene...
You know a couple of dudes decked out in black trench coats wielding dual submachine guns and turning office corridors into dust.
omglollmao123 1 year ago 3
that video was really really not waht i expected.
naniekso 1 year ago
in reality i my self am piratebay when i seed lol!
kevingp12 1 year ago
The Government is retarded :) TPB is shut down.. umm for 3 days? Government is a complete and utter fail and TPB will most likely always be a website.
SOF006 1 year ago
Getting busted for indexing torrents (pretty much text files) ? ..LOL..try again
CamiloSanchez1979 1 year ago 75
@CamiloSanchez1979 They are not target merely for hosting torrents and indexing them. They are targeted largely for facilitating piracy. Anyway, the name The Pirate Bay, shows they clearly advocate piracy of content.
8jwong14 8 months ago
@8jwong14 as long as the technology allows it there will be piracy. They are not facilitating anything that can't be done with current technology
CamiloSanchez1979 8 months ago
@CamiloSanchez1979 Speaking of that, the pirate bay should try adding to their defence that a torrent file's existance doesn't guarantee that the file exists, because its possible the hash is gibberish or even just corrupted...
LordFabs 8 months ago 27
@LordFabs how about adding to their defense that one of the arresting officers was wearing a denim jacket in 2006, probably listens to the Beegees too.
SolaceG 6 months ago
@LordFabs They did :P
budyboy4404 3 months ago
LOLZ! look at the fat stupid pigs try to 'undermastand technologiez'. You can't suppress information. You can't suppress the Internet.
chronicleone 1 year ago
I would like to thank you for wasting 5:46 of my life
Timster480 1 year ago
@Timster480 Don't forget the time you spent writing that comment!
TheHalfFinn 1 year ago
@Timster480 Yup, the internet makes you watch things without choice nowadays, doesn't it?
synthead 1 year ago
i miss pirate bay
haider7869 1 year ago
@haider7869 Its still there
TheFamilyPants 1 year ago
You people all all such sheep. When they start saying that downloading pirated things is an act of freedom or "cool" with their tough attitude you all get sucked in thinking you're the rebels of the internet.
It happens all the time, one day you'll love pirating, then the other day you'll make something you want to sell and it'll be stolen. Again and again and again.
You're all so awesome taking people's income.
waypastthat 1 year ago
@waypastthat Taking the income of multi-billion dollar companies whose profits far exceed their costs does not bother me in the least. Just think of me as a Mosquito and them as the blood source, I can have my fill many times over and they will still have plenty of blood.
CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago 2
@CainmosniMirrored
Only a small percent of pirated things are from big products. And you wouldn't go out to a store and steal a DVD because they're "getting money anyway." Don't be so ignorant.
waypastthat 1 year ago
@waypastthat I only download movies and nothing else. Look at it like this. Avatar cost 240 million to make, another 150 million for promotion and it grossed 2.7 billion worldwide and from that about 20% goes to the cinemas, so that is 540 million, divided among thousands of cinemas worldwide. That leaves the movie studio with about 2.2 Billion, which is 11 times more than they spent and they bitch about piracy? Not to mention DVD sales. Fuck Them.
CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago
@CainmosniMirrored I'm not talking specifically about movies nor about you so those statistics are completely useless in my point.
waypastthat 1 year ago
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CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago
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@waypastthat If you want to defend greed that is totally up to you.
CainmosniMirrored 1 year ago
@waypastthat TPB is just an indexing service. If they were to arrest someone that would be Bram Cohen not for pirating, but for being smart.
CamiloSanchez1979 1 year ago 2
those shelves? are those servers?
lighterinthestorm 1 year ago
To all the pirates
Stay notorious..
mattricard1 1 year ago
HA HA it says slut when the camera's are taken
SmellyAmpitz 1 year ago
I wonder if someone is wearing CAMO after 3:00 into the video, i don't see ANYBODY
Putrid186 1 year ago
this is so weak
bringing a small army which can take over a banana republic just to stop some potential income lose
of course they did it under american pressure
if only this kinda effort was put into stopping REAL criminals like rapists and robbers...
well i guess that for the rich elite it doesn't matter if people are hurt so long they can make lotsa money and if someone interfears.... get a whole army after him
AlexNOSAM 1 year ago 2
@AlexNOSAM it's a group of geeks the police have sent, have you seen Swedish special forces teams? there CRAZY!
zaknology 1 year ago
the ship will never sink. never ever forever
hiroicman 1 year ago
The officers in the video are the same type of people that joined the nazi party in the early years. "Oh, we are just doing are job", "We are following the law". Sure, so were the nazi's when they burned books and then jews. One of the officers in question even appears to have a hitler mustache?
PiratePlanetTV 1 year ago 2
Impressive server room, i had no idea...
Long live the flagship!
LocustsOfSteel 1 year ago
This sucks, I wanted SWAT siege and TPB admins firing AK47s.
SpyWhoLovedHimself 1 year ago 2
@SpyWhoLovedHimself lol
Theoli265dk 1 year ago
i saw this in another data center, except it was DEA and FBI, sucks...
roofy2k 1 year ago
GlobalMusicStage 1 year ago 4
@GlobalMusicStage
Without sites liek TPB they wouldnt be able to upload it, retard :S
TheMaraudingGuy 1 year ago
@TheMaraudingGuy do you even know how a torrent works? i guess not.
YairGeva7 1 year ago
@TheMaraudingGuy you dont 'upload' torrent data, you upoload the torrent files but they only link to data elsewhere hence Peer-To-Peer sharing
WENAVIGATE 1 year ago
File sharing will never die. We will win the war because we are smarter than the feet kissing duds corporations hire.
jeabo0adhd 1 year ago
The're just so fascinated with PirateBay that they created a reason just to conggratulate & meet their heroes from pirate Bay. ;)
mkainamatube 1 year ago
YAR HAR FIDDLE LE DEEE
BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT WITH ME
DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE!
Talamare2k4 1 year ago
viva la pirates!
NebPWN 1 year ago
Long live TBP!
ideeman1994 1 year ago
not all of us zillionire whatsoever...what we pay for everthing?
MegaTechstuff 1 year ago
lololol If they are trying to be inconspicuous they are EPICALLY failing. I see handcuffs on that one guy, why the hell would you take pictures of servers, and then they spray paint the cameras. FAIL
CoDWaWMapReviews 1 year ago
I bet they shat their pants
313c7r0idPu153 1 year ago
it wont play wtf
Misha070 1 year ago
thats a bank, an there are the piratebay servers. but the banks in sweden have a good protection provision, so the police wasnt allowed to introduce the bank and piratebay are free once ^^ good idea to have servers under with law protected area
plutik666 1 year ago
yea pretty much, that was there server room in the 2nd video, where all the info for tpb was stored.
who cares, tpb won the court case, haha good for them.
Z0mbieKangar00 1 year ago 2
I like the sign that says no cameras.
baweee1 2 years ago 30
I'm guessing "Slut" Means End.
I translated the whole thing using Google Translate.
It says "This copy should not be used for evidence purposes.
For more information, see the film's end."
So I'm guessing that the Swedish Police shouldn't have been there.
zacdee316 2 years ago 2
@zacdee316 hahaaah :P yeah thats funny as the words within the swedish language gets confused with sexual shit in america :P and yeah slut doesnt mean Whore, it means "end" as where
"Slutet" would mean, The ending
mantheman100 2 years ago
does that camera say slut?
UnthrownWaffle 2 years ago 4
slut is swedish for end
ClearChrome 2 years ago 4
Does that mean i CANT get screwed by em??
12fig 2 years ago 2
yes, but as i said it means end
ClearChrome 2 years ago
I know I didn't reply. That's the original post. I don't know why it did that.
UnthrownWaffle 2 years ago
nxt time they should hide he cams XD
547212436 2 years ago
wtf? why cover cam???
547212436 2 years ago
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keep the piratebay a live so sign up at theghostbay(dot)org
theklad007 2 years ago
FUC POPLICE FUCK POLICE FUC!(fuck tha police)
Popshotdude 2 years ago 6
so what does this mean is the site being monitered know is it still save to use or what
justonelife1 2 years ago
that was 2 years ago i believe... goto piratebay . org / legal you'll luagh like hell and get you answer in one of the responses to a company that threatened to sew but got denied
WARDOG4491 2 years ago
tpb,simply just runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
: )
mladen3103 2 years ago
I can see the frustration some producers have, I fully understand their issue. But it is totally the producers fault that their stuff gets shared online. 200 Euro for the basic Windows Vista ? And you can only use it on 1 Computer ? We all know that nobody who has a normal job can effort this. If all producers would lower their prices by 50%, there would be alot less piracy since people are surely willing to pay something for their product. But not 1/3 of their monthly salary
ViXan01 2 years ago 130
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200 euros is 1/3 of your monthly salary?
wow where do you work?
1337Jonathan 2 years ago
@ViXan01 youre right mate except the companys goal is not to reduce piracy but to maximize profit... and thats what theyre achieving - even with the less customers - with that high price. believe me its not a coincidence vista and w7 for example is so expensive. and then its still better to fight against piracy without lowering prices
Baalika 1 year ago
@Baalika i honestly dont think windows should be worth $230 if it would be a low price like 80$ everyone would buy it. who the hell can afford 200 dollers just for 1 thing. + you have other software and hardware you need to buy! you know how much food i can buy wih 200 dollers?!
903harman 1 year ago
@ViXan01 exactly, by the way you can buy the "license" code for windows 7 for like $5, but get a reccomended seller as they somtimes sell the same code loads of times, this is legal, because you have a legal license. i asked microsoft about these licences snd they did everything to avoid answering if it was illegal, besause they want you to buy there full price licenses.
madbab00n 1 year ago
@ViXan01
They have to make money too.
To be honest, I just don't give a fuck.
LamentOfInnocence1 1 year ago
LONG LIVE TPB
FIGHT FOR FREE USAGE
sameersajja 2 years ago 27
Ahahahahahah thats funny and most opf what people said is total BS
mcfilthynasty 2 years ago
long life to thepiratebay
banghund 2 years ago 7
Screw the police TPB! LONG LIVE!
ekstaasikontiainen 2 years ago 128
does this mean u cant get stuff from there any more or that is be watched or something
justonelife1 2 years ago
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at the end of the day which is worse? downloading a movie from someone sharing the file or walking into a department store with a gun/knife and robbing a shop for a disc.
both have the same result; free movie.
glaven916 2 years ago
"both have the same result; free movie. "
No, the first option gives you a free movie.
The second means you get a free movie and the owner looses his movie.
If I download a movie you get a copy of it but it's not like someone else looses his copy whenever i download something.
jimmyn89 2 years ago 3
Anyways, I belive that most companies that sell copyrighted material include an extra dollar or so in the price of an item to account for losses due to piracy.
I don't know what the deal is. You could find get any microsoft software you wanted via bitorrent and other means, yet look where they are today.
And I'm not saying that I would go and download some random shareware.
filtrete867 2 years ago
I was at a computer show back in 1995, and we came across the booth for the BSA - the Business Software Alliance - the very anti-piracy software interest group. I had asked one of their representatives "If software piracy was to come to a complete halt, would the price of software go down?" Which the representative responded with a stern "No".
I really didn't believe her answer at first, it just didn't make sense - but it does make sense - it means software companies would make more profit.
TBDFTG 2 years ago
Interesting. I guess that does make sense.
I suppose companies like adobe and microsoft can try justify their high prices by piracy. However, once they can charge a certain price for a license, why would they lower their prices if their own costs went down due to a lack of piracy?
Once the price is at a certain point, it will likely not go down regardless of the amount of piracy.
filtrete867 2 years ago
Well, Adobe moniters yoou the first maybe thirty minutes after installing software to make sure you are the only one who used the serial at least for the multi sets like web and design. And digidesign made it so to run Pro Tools, you would have to have specific hardware.
SoadBYOB9 2 years ago
Long live the pirate bay
santa844 2 years ago 6
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Not many consider that the PB founders actually are transferring money from artists directly into their own pockets by making zillions on advertising dollars.
animateclay 2 years ago
The police concluded in an investigation in 2006 that tpb brings in around 1.2 million SEK ($150 000) from ads.
The tpb lawyer counted the revenue closer to 725 000 SEK ($100 000) while the sites expenses are estimated to be around 800 000 SEK ($110 000)
As one of the owners said: "It's not free to operate a Web Site on this scale. If we were making lots of money I wouldn't be working late at the office tonight, I'd be sitting on a beach somewhere, working on my tan."
jimmyn89 2 years ago 2
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I'll tell you how that works.
Have 2 ads on a page.
You look at a page.
The Pirate bay earns 2 cents for they showing you those 2 ads.
Times those page views by the amount of people looking at the site each day and you get the amount of money earned.
If someone clicks on the ad then Pirate Bay gets 5 cents as they are passing on a customer to the ad site.
so not hard to make big money.
You also have people sending them money AKA donations.
zagan1 2 years ago
Long live The Pirate Bay.
Thumbs0nFire 2 years ago 2
heh... im surprised they didnt go in there with their guns out and start shooting at all the dangerous pirate servers
yarrr
hosenose99 2 years ago
How scary is that, that the first thing the fuzz are trained to do is eliminate possible evidence. They just cover up the cameras, like it's part of their job.
"Ok, Now we enter... ok good, and cover anything that could record, or show what we're doing... ok, now we bring the pain..."
TheXeno16 3 years ago 3
i =''[ on this day when i wondered why the site didnt load i watched the news on g4 the nxt day. why is everyone so pissed off about piracy? would u rather then be into other illegal activities such as robing banks or terrorism? think about it!
largehashbrowns 3 years ago
Good luck in destroying the video / music / games industry. Most of the people who work at least in games industry (as I do) is SICK to hear from our bosses that we can't have a 100e raise because of sales have dropped because of piracy. It's sad because more and more art directors, concept and texture artists, modelers, are getting more and more frustrating about having to work on something which will be 95% stealed. Thanks, swedish LAWS! I just wonder... there's any swedish games on TPB?
Caesaurus 3 years ago
Yeah, there is.. All games made by Dice (which is currently Swedish, but was bought by EA later on). All battlefield games for example.
maxen992 3 years ago
"have a 100e raise because of sales have dropped because of piracy"
That's interesting seeing as the gaming industry is expected to be a $68 billion industry by 2012 (which would mean an annual growth rate of around 10.3%)
If games are selling bad than companies should try not to release bad console ports on pc, or unfinished games, and they should not promise what they cannot keep.
jimmyn89 2 years ago 3
"I just wonder... there's any swedish games on TPB? "
Plenty of them, and Swedish gaming industry is growing rapidly.
jimmyn89 2 years ago
Goodness knows who you work for, but my experience has always been that business types treats us like shit.
generally if you are a creative you always get paid late, get ripped off much more often and, in some cases, never get paid at all.
Most companies treat their artists and writers like crap, for that reason I think they deserve to get ripped off.
3 TV series that I wrote are available on youtube and I'd be horrified if the production company had them pulled.
We're not all jobsworths.
EnormousHuntBall 2 years ago
dude i totally agree, example, the guy who did the voice acting for the million dollar GTA4 game got paid only 100,000 dollars for the whole thing, and grand theft auto 4made millions and millions of dollars.
detroitboy2009 2 years ago
Yeah but if you stop selling a copied disc for 60 fuckin bucks maybe ppl will stop pirating!!!! And its not just Sweden you fuckin racist
FiredZer0 2 years ago
Dude, chill out, don't swear so much, and find a job where you will NOT work with bytes... :) And of course it's not just Sweden, who said otherwise? I was making a comment to THIS video, which, in this case, it's about TPB, dumb cretin...
Caesaurus 2 years ago
And one more thing, it doesn't matter what the price is... Even 5€ games end up being 99% pirated. I'm outta here, have fun entertaining for free, WTF... After all it's a sick world, where each one is trying to deceive others...
Caesaurus 2 years ago
But if the games would be half the price they are now I would buy ALL of my games and I buy most of my games now too especially the ones that I want to play online
FiredZer0 2 years ago 3
piratbyran should invest in some mics.
exwanged 3 years ago