Recently there have been criminal lawsuits against ThePirateBay owners. But their point is that they just opened an index for the people to upload torrents. If one considers it in such a way, they are completely innocent.Well, it is in such a way. ThePirateBay is simply an index of torrents and nothing more, and it's the users who are the real offenders. The Bit Torrent world is completely an anonymous one. ThePirateBay is just one of the few sites indexing torrents.
There are three stages in the Bit Torrent World:The Uploader, the Torrent indexing site and Trackers, and the Downloader. Which one of them is guilty? Well, all of them. But all have ways and excuses for not being guilty.
There are three stages in the Bit Torrent World:The Uploader, the Torrent indexing site and Trackers, and the Downloader. Which one of them is guilty? Well, all of them. But all have ways and excuses for not being guilty.
- First comes the Uploader of the torrent. He cannot be caught, as he is usually anonymous. There are many sites, like TorrentPrivacy.com that allow anonymous Torrent searching. So, the IP of the Uploader cannot be logged. Moreover, if logged, and an appeal is made to the torrent site, all that it does (if at all it does) is to ban the Uploader' IP address, so that he cannot upload any new torrents. Does that solve the problem? I don't think so.
- Second comes the Torrent indexing sites, and the Trackers. As I already said, they have a point for themselves. They do not do the piracy themselves, but the users of the sites do that.
- Third, the downloaders, are too, like the uploaders, anonymous, and they cannot even be banned. Many features, like 'Protocol Encryption', and softwares like PeerGuardian, Protowall, etc make detection through ISP's even more difficult.
There is even an online Bit Torrent applet (only one that I know- if you know any, please let me know), on BitLet.org that lets you copy the torrent metafile url, and lets you download it online (safe if one hides his IP securely). One can even generate a link to the torrent through this site, to use on his blog or website, and the person can safely call it a "Third Party Link" and dismiss any and all charges.
Thus, to detect and catch the Bit Torrent users is becoming more and more difficult, and they are successfully evading threat. Something needs to be done immediately. But instead of practising piracy, the people shall use free, open source softwares.
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