The "Lernaia Hydra" of online piracy and reality

The very nature of the Internet favors not only its birth, but also its flourishing piracy. You may have heard about the closure early in the month Bay, του μεγαλύτερου από άποψη of data, pirate site in the world. In particular, the Swedish police raided the site where the servers of the popular website were housed "after years of research and data gathering", as it announced (although this is disputed), even arresting some people who seem to have been involved in the its operation. online hydraAt 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 the servers to other countries with different cybercrime and copyrights legislation – the Pirate Bay itself had temporarily opened the very day after the attack, with a "flag" of Costa Rica. 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 a nutshell, the very nature of the Internet is such that it favors both birth and the edge of piracy. The data, however, recently published for 2014 from the torrentfreak.com website and related to the illegally down series of the year, show a general increase in data traffic, despite the various legal measures applied internationally this year (see Britain, Italy) for the fight against it. Champion, of course, and there is the "Game of Thrones" phenomenon, which even had more illegal downloads than legitimate viewers, followed by the most popular "The Walking Dead" and "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 subject to restriction or censorship'.

Source: kathimerini.gr

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