In other words, the RIAA is helping pedophiles and terrorists all over the planet (hey, why should terrorhype and thinkofthechildren only be used by the adversaries of privacy?). Not only against certain interest groups and minorities, but against the majority of people on this planet.

And thus will protect invariably those that use those channels to distribute data that can be used for (or is by its very nature) a crime. If now file sharing is criminalized, people will quickly pick up obfuscation mechanisms to protect themselves against the recording industry. Should someone (ab)use a P2P network to transfer data that doesn't only infringe copyright but actually contains something that would interest a general attorney (not only because of lobbying of certain interest groups but because it is the G.A.'s biz, because it DOES actually affect every citizen if a crime of this kind if committed), it's fairly easily possible to find source and destination. So following the trail of 'really' criminal data is quite possible for the police. Simple reason: It increases traffic by a multiple, depending on the number of hosts you route it through, it can three, four or tenfold. With data retention and easier access to user data, users will switch to tools that reroute the traffic through multiple nodes from source to destination, so following it becomes near impossible.Д¬urrently, people don't use it. P2P links directly from source to destination. Right now, it's quite possible to follow the trail of data. Andersson put it quite directly, and straight to the point: Bending over to the recording industry will do more harm than good in the long run. I've simplified a little, and coloured heavily with my own opinion, but I just wanted to present a little more background for those who don't really give a fuck about all this but will insist on commenting anyway. TPB is actually pretty strict and even-handed anyway, but this may have meant to serve as a bit of a warning from the Govt to anyone looking for inappropriate material: If you're after kiddy porn, TPB is not the place to look, and nor is Sweden. They have shown that they're not afraid to exercise a little force to keep ThePirateBay in line (albeit unnecessarily, in my opinion), and I daresay they've not harmed their cause at all in this regard. They were just saying 'Yes, you know our laws and do not flout them, but don't push it'.ДЄnd in this case, it seems that this is indeed what happened. Most people suspect this was just a muscle-flexing on the part of the Swedish government - possibly under pressure from US and other governments, and ultimately from the MPAA, RIAA and other non-US affiliated organisations - and that it would come to nothing. Therefore there are no grounds for blacklisting.

Since it is a forum on which anyone can post links to content, this is the most active policy it is possible to enforce. TPB stated that they do not hold such links, and if any are reported they are immediately investigated and removed. The government was proposing to have most of the major Swedish ISPs blacklist the site for having such links. To put it in perspective: the supposed issue was that thePirateBay held links to child-porn, which is illegal in Sweden (there are forms of content that are illegal, but only some to which it is illegal to simply link).

Simple dns plus pirate bay