Just in case you thought maybe, just maybe, all of those RIAA and MPAA lawsuits were slowing downloaders just a little, here comes some news from Wired.com:
"…lawsuits have continued to drive more users to The Pirate Bay, which today boasts 1 million unique visitors a day. The Pirate Bay’s legal adviser, law student Mikael Viborg, said the site
receives 1,000 to 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of its four servers."
"That’s bad news for the content industries, which have fired off letter after menacing letter to the site, only to see their threats
postedon The Pirate Bay, together with mocking replies….no one has successfully indicted The Pirate Bay or sued its operators in Swedish courts…"
The Pirate Bay’s seeming immunity (is credited) to the basic structure of the BitTorrent protocol. The site’s Stockholm-based servers provide only torrent files, which by themselves contain no copyright data — merely pointers to sources of the content. That makes The Pirate Bay’s activities perfectly legal under Swedish statutory and case law…"
