The Pirate Bay 10 주년

The Pirate Bay 가 탄생 10주년 기념 파티를 연다고 합니다. 탄생 10주년과 함께 The Pirate Browser 도 제공한다고 하네요. 이 브라우저를 통해 감시를 피할 수 있다고 합니다. The Pirate Bay 는 항상 불법 콘텐츠 공유 때문에 여러 정부 기관의 감시와 견제를 받아왔습니다. 하지만 사람들에게 공유할 수 있는 자유 또한 중요하지요. 어떻게 보면 온라인을 통한 불법 공유는 도둑행위와 비슷하다고도 할 수 있지만 우리는 공유하는 것을 그렇게 인식하고 있을까요? 이 기사를 보면서 불법 콘텐츠 유통이냐 공유할 수 있는 자유냐에 대한 논란이 어떻게 진행될 지 참 궁금합니다.

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The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With New Web Browser

 

KRIS HOLT for The Daily Dot 21 hours ago

 

 

The world's most notorious file-sharing service wasn't supposed to last this long.

"Not because of cops, mafiaa or corrupt politicians," the admins of the Pirate Bay admittedFriday in a typo-ridden post. "But because we thought that we'd eventually be to old for this shit. But hey, running this ship makes us feel young."

Indeed, to commemorate its 10th anniversary, Pirate Bay launched a new browser to help web users access the site and others like it in regions where they're blocked.

The Pirate Browser is a bundle of the Tor routing client and the Firefox Portable browser without "bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap."

While Tor typically is used to allow anonymous web browsing, the aim here is to enable users to circumvent any barriers put in place by Internet providers (ISPs) or government entities. The U.K.'s High Court, for instance, forced ISPs to bar users from accessing the Pirate Bay andmajor BitTorrent sites, such as KickassTorrents.

Presumably, the Windows browser also affords citizens access to communities like Twitter andFacebook in countries in which they are blocked.

"It's a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible," the Pirate Bay said on its blog.

Meanwhile, the Pirate Bay is celebrating its birthday with a party tonight in Sweden tonight, and rightfully so: The site almost didn't make it to the milestone.

The Pirate Bay shunted its servers around Scandinavia to evade lawsuits before dropping into Iceland. It's battled through police raids. Sweden, where the Pirate Bay was established, jailed and fined its cofounders, and copyright holders have, for years, battled to remove illegal content.

H/T Parity News

Image: Will Clayton/Flickr

http://mashable.com/2013/08/10/pirate-bay-10th-anniversary/