As Expected, IFPI 'Advertising' Helps Boost BitTorrent Search Site
from the the-definition-of-insanity dept
For a group that claims it's focused on "educating" people, the recording industry seems amazingly thickheaded in learning lessons itself. Just last week the IFPI succeeded in having an Israeli court demand that Israeli ISPs block bittorrent search site HttpShare. As we noted in that post, this would likely act as tremendous advertising for HttpShare -- and, indeed, that's exactly what has happened. The site claims that traffic has jumped, even requiring the site owners to upgrade the hardware hosting the site -- all thanks to a little "IFPI Advertising."
What's most stunning, however, is that the IFPI didn't realize this would happen. After all, it's happened again and again and again. In fact, just a month ago, a similar action in Denmark over the Pirate Bay greatly increased traffic to the site. Hell, the Pirate Bay first came to international attention (beyond a much smaller niche group of users) after the IFPI pressured gov't officials to take the site down. Of course, rather than recognize this, the IFPI and the RIAA (and the MPAA at times as well) always claim that each of these "shut downs" is a "significant blow" against piracy. Apparently, they never consider what happens next. Makes you think that the execs and lawyers at the recording industry probably aren't very good chess players.
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by Anonymous Coward on Mar 12th, 2008 @ 7:44pm
Chess? Serious?
How good do they play Twister??
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Slow Learners by Joe on Mar 12th, 2008 @ 8:02pm
Not so good at whack-a-mole either.
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Not a clue by SSX on Mar 12th, 2008 @ 8:37pm
But they seem to be very adept at hangman. At least the part of the game involving hanging themselves.
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For their mentality by WorkingInDust on Mar 12th, 2008 @ 9:21pm
Chutes and Ladders seems a bit more fitting for them considering their level of intelligence
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Manchurian Candidates Committing Streisand Effects by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mar 12th, 2008 @ 9:56pm
...while the rest of us watch the show and chuckle.
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by inc on Mar 12th, 2008 @ 10:14pm
Thanks IFPI.. got a new torrent site
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never heard of it til today by mike allen on Mar 13th, 2008 @ 1:32am
subject line says it all!!!!!!!!
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Wow, more torrent sites by ah irony on Mar 13th, 2008 @ 3:44am
Heh, yet another one who found out about them through IFPI advertising. Noticed they even opened an English discussion forum due to all the influx of international people thanks to it.
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Of course it's a significant blow... by Lisa Westveld on Mar 13th, 2008 @ 4:05am
These significant blows are very useful to boost piracy and thus provide the RIAA with proper evidence of how bad things are. They need more pirates so they can justify their own actions. First the piracy problem in Israel was just a minor thing, not worth much attention. After this blow it suddenly becomes much more popular to visit a piracy site and thus they create the evidence that shows how much piracy there is. They promote piracy so they can make a better case against it.
Pretty smart strategy, if you ask me. Very successful too. Now they can push governments and ISPs into introducing packet filtering to fight copyright violations at the core. This is exactly what they want.
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Re: Of course it's a significant blow... by Anonymous Coward on Mar 13th, 2008 @ 6:51am
"Pretty smart strategy, if you ask me. Very successful too. Now they can push governments and ISPs into introducing packet filtering to fight copyright violations at the core. This is exactly what they want."
Even if that's the case and various government to introduce packet filtering it won't stop copyright violations. All it will do is push it deeper underground with much better methods of hiding what's actually being transmitted.
I agree that piracy is in the best interests of these agencies, without it they'd be out of a job.
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by Anonymous Coward on Mar 13th, 2008 @ 12:21pm
Checkers.
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A significant blow...Really? by Fushta on Mar 14th, 2008 @ 3:51pm
Can you plug up the holes in a dam with your fingers?
How many fingers/toes does the entertainment industry have left?
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by Anonymous Coward on Mar 18th, 2008 @ 10:33am
cool...I'll have to check that site out
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