The Pirate Bay Down, But Piracy Up

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A new report by McAfee showed that when The Pirate Bay went down, piracy actually increased. To be precise, the number of websites offering pirated content increased dramatically when The Pirate Bay was down in the month of August, and this may yield some clues as to what will happen when (or if) The Pirate Bay shuts down for good.

McAfee cited the fact that because content is now stored in a distributed form through the BitTorrent networks, shutting down a large website like The Pirate Bay does nothing to actually stop the further distribution of the content. The Pirate Bay does not even host the content itself, merely the torrent files.

And with The Pirate Bay down, many sees it as a opportunity to become the new TPB, and new websites spring up quickly to take advantage.

It shows just how difficult it is to try and stop online piracy, and with new technologies that offers anonymous downloading capabilities through encryption, even just tracking the number of illegal downloads will be a difficult task in the future.

More:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/st...014239,00.html