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 "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 mode of. 
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 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 short, the very nature of the Internet is such that it favors the birth and growth of piracy. The elements, after all, which recently published for 2014 by the website torrentfreak.com and concerning the illegally downloaded series of the year, show a general increase in data traffic, despite the various legal measures implemented this year internationally (see Britain, Italy) to combat it. Champion, of course, and there is the "Game of Thrones" phenomenon, which even had more illegal downloads than legal viewers, while the also popular "The Walking Dead" and "Big Bang Theory" follow.
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. The Americans, as pioneers in issues marketing and advertising, have already begun to take initiatives in this direction by increasingly adopting the transition to legal online - and low cost - data traffic. After all, as President Obama himself stated two months ago, "the access of anyone, anywhere to the Internet cannot be restricted or censored."
Source: kathimerini.gr
