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<\/a>The Pirate Bay may have been sunk, but pirates have not be deterred<\/p><\/div>\n
So The Pirate Bay remains down, perhaps forever.\u00a0If it stays down, then it will something that rights holders have wanted for a very long time. Or is it? According to the latest piracy stats, piracy remains eerily steady following TPB closure<\/a>, with a small drop, and then almost back to where it was immediately.<\/p>\n There may be many reasons why closing the world’s biggest piracy website seems to have had no effect on piracy. The fact that there are many other major torrent sites, like isoHunt and KickassTorrents, still operating normally may have something to do with it. The numerous TPB mirror sites that have been set up since its (temporary?) demise, including one opened by isoHunt (which itself is a re-launch of the shuttered original isoHunt), have also helped to keep torrent traffic high.<\/p>\n And even if the piracy rate drops, there’s no guarantee this will actually lead to any noticeable financial benefits for\u00a0rights holders. I mean, that’s the point of anti-piracy, right?<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n Sticky tape defeats DRM (and not for the first time either)<\/p><\/div>\n A couple of quick story roundups. Remember the DRM protected coffee pod? The DRM has been broken<\/a>, and\u00a0anyone can do it with scissors and sticky tape. Apparently, the DRM only consists of a special ink placed on official pods, with the machine featuring\u00a0an ink reader to authenticate the pods. Cut out the part with the ink from a used official pod, secure it over the ink reader with tape, and now all unofficial third-party pods will work. Doesn’t really get any\u00a0easier than this, does it?<\/p>\n The next couple of stories are all related to the Sony Pictures hack (what isn’t, these days). We start with leaked information showing the MPAA’s plans to destroy the Internet’s naming back bone<\/a>, the DNS (Domain Name System). DNS works because every other DNS mirror in the world shares and distributes the same set of data, essentially. The MPAA however wants certain ISPs to start messing around with DNS filtering, which could lead\u00a0some DNS servers having vastly different data than others, thus breaking how the\u00a0naming system syncs and refreshes itself all around the world.<\/p>\n This is all part of the MPAA’s plans to revive\u00a0hugely controversial parts of SOPA, not by legislation, but through other means. These other means are explained by Google in a new blog post<\/a>, where the search giant (who recently ended all cooperation with the MPAA, again due to information gleamed from the leaked data) accused the MPAA of heading a witch hunt, which included lobbying\u00a0state attorneys general and building legal cases, against\u00a0the company.<\/p>\n This particular feud\u00a0could get nasty.<\/p>\n Blu-ray revenue has hardly grown over the last year, and may have actually declined<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>