Has anyone else been following the Isohunt saga, for those not in the know isohunt is a file sharing site that recently got closed down in the US, so it changed ownership and moved to a .to site which they then closed down too AFAIK, probably without any legal reason, I'm sorry but the law doesn't move that fast, that was CIA/government hijinks. And now it's apparently about to open up again under different ownership somewhere else. I really do like the Americans (by which I mean lawyers) spirit for trying and failing to control freedom of information; whilst I am not entirely sure file sharing is legal, one thing I do know is you cannot police the interweb, it's a bit like religion, the more you try to repress it the stronger it grows. I think this will just escalate until the site has 20 locations in 20 different countries under 20 different owners. Hell I don't even use Isohunt but I am finding this hilarious, these days I just buy shit, although I will admit I might of had some knowledge of the site in the past, I smoked but I didn't inhale. So what are you going to do next US: police our thoughts, clearly you can't police the world, can't police the internet, and should know better than to even try.
Don't share files people it's probably illegal and you will get done up like a fish that is a smoked herring. But if you don't need to download files 'cause you made a shed load of money last year, sit back grab a bunch of popcorn and be entertained. 'Cause this shit is better than 24.
Seriously though there are a hundred cases now of sites being shut down and just reopening. So either they come to a deal with these sites whereby they can operate, or they just operate anyway under the radar. Isohunt is just a case in point there are far more sites that supposedly got shut down still out there.
I would genuinely have sympathy for media companies if their profits hadn't been growing year in year out and despite the recession, if anything file sharing is probably exposing more people to the markets than they otherwise would... So anyway what are your thoughts on this issue?