The very nature of the Internet favors not only the birth but also the rise of online piracy. You may have heard about the shutdown earlier this month of the Pirate Bay, the world's largest piracy site by traffic. In particular, the Swedish police raided the site where the servers of the popular website were housed.σελίδαs "after years of research and data gathering", as she announced (although this is disputed), even arresting some people who seem to have been involved in its operation. 
At the same time, other websites of similar content like EZTV also broke down their operation, making many talking about a comprehensive anti-piracy action, which at last brings impressive results.
Immediate ... cloning
All this, however, has little to do with reality. And this is because the truth is that no arrest and no "closure" can prevent - or even limit as it seems - online piracy. In particular, the "closed" Pirate Bay already cloned (i.e. transferred) its entire database to another well-known website from where it practically continues its operation unhindered. Another method used by Internet pirates is to transfer servers to others countries with different cybercrime and copyrights legislation – the Pirate Bay itself had temporarily opened the very day after the intervention, with a Costa Rican "flag". And of course as a last resort there are always proxy servers. To put it as simply as possible, we are talking about electronic "middlemen", who intervene between the ordinary user and the pirated site, directing the former to find what he is looking for, without even directly entering the pirated website...
In short, the very nature of the Internet is such that it favors the birth and growth of piracy. The data, άλλωστε, που πρόσφατα δημοσιεύτηκαν για το 2014 από την ιστοσελίδα torrentfreak.com και αφορούν τις παράνομα κατεβασμένες σειρές της χρονιάς, δείχνουν γενική άνοδο της κίνησης δεδομένων, παρά τα διάφορα νομικά μέτρα που εφαρμόστηκαν εφέτος διεθνώς (βλ. Βρετανία, Ιταλία) για την καταπολέμησή της. Πρωταθλητής, βέβαια, και εκεί είναι το φαινόμενο «Game of Thrones», το οποίο μάλιστα είχε περισσότερα παράνομα κατεβάσματα παρά νόμιμους τηλεθεατές, ενώ ακολουθούν τα επίσης δημοφιλέστατα «The Walking Dead» και «Big Bang Theory".
Convictions and maneuvers
It becomes clear, then, that it is one thing to condemn piracy, which indeed deprives their legal owners of huge sums of copyright, and another to realize a reality in which there is (many) room for maneuver. Americans, as pioneers in marketing and advertising, have already begun to take initiatives in this direction by increasingly adopting the transition to legal - and low-cost - data traffic on the Internet. After all, as President Obama himself stated two months ago, "the access of anyone, anywhere to the Internet cannot be restricted or censorship".
Source: kathimerini.gr
