The very nature of the Internet favors not only its birth, but also its flourishing online piracy. You may have heard about the closure early in the month Pirate bay, the largest data traffic, pirate site in the world. In particular, the Swedish police raided the area where the servers of the popular website were housed "after years of research and data collection", as she announced (although this is disputed), even arresting some people who seem to be involved in its operation. 
At the same time, others websites of similar content such as EZTV have also been shut down, leading many to talk of a comprehensive crackdown on piracy, which is finally yielding 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 is understood, then, that it is one thing to condemn piracy, which in fact deprives its rightful owners of huge sums of copyright, and it is another to realize a reality in which there is (much) room for maneuver. Americans, as pioneers in marketing and advertising, have already begun to take initiatives in this direction, increasingly adopting the transition to legal internet - and at low cost - data traffic. After all, as President Obama himself stated two months ago, "anyone's access to the Internet anywhere can not be restricted or censored."
Source: kathimerini.gr
