{"id":2814,"date":"2016-07-23T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2024-01-30T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:37:38","slug":"utter-futility-legal-attack-kickasstorrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/utter-futility-legal-attack-kickasstorrents\/","title":{"rendered":"The utter futility of the legal attack on KickassTorrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The operator of the torrent site KickassTorrents has been arrested in Poland on an extradition request from Hollywood, and the domains seized. This action, while deplorable, shows that the copyright industry is still some fifty years behind reality in its thinking: there are no central chokepoints you can control on the Internet, and the net reacts to any censorship like this with antifragility \u2013 hardening and decentralizing the damaged part.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The old monopolized copyright industry is thinking in terms of central chokepoints, just like the Catholic Church was 500 years ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/history-media-control-media-blackouts-coups\/\">trying<\/a> to crush the printing press and its users. But just like the printing press, the Internet is decentralized, so it\u2019s easy to circumvent chokepoints \u2013 and this has been predictable for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, when a lot of the shared culture was still music in the form of mp3 files, activists theorized that it would only be ten years before a typical mobile phone would be able to carry an amount of data that, for all intents and purposes, was all music in existence at the time. Ten years later, we can observe that this has come true (again, for all practical intents and purposes). It can also be observed that it\u2019s trivial to construct an anonymous phone-app-based mesh file sharing network that operates over some lightweight channel like Bluetooth \u2013 you\u2019d have sharing swarms forming spontaneously in every subway car, in every caf\u00e9, in every crowd, with each individual sharer completely unidentifiable. Therefore, anybody carrying a mobile phone has access to all the world\u2019s culture, even if they don\u2019t know when and where they acquired it. How would you possibly go about stopping a decentralized, invisible phenomenon like that if you were trying to protect a crumbling centralized monopoly?<\/p>\n<p>The only reason such mesh networks aren\u2019t already in widespread use is that it\u2019s marginally \u2013 <em>marginally<\/em> \u2013 more convenient to use a torrent site than to tell an app what you\u2019re looking for and what you\u2019re sharing while you\u2019re carrying around your phone all day anyway. But just as the shutdown of Napster spurred a flurry of development of more decentralized sharing, the developer community today would respond similarly if there was ever an existential threat to torrenting. If built today, sharing of knowledge and culture would happen untraceably, anonymously, uncensorably, and decentralized \u2013 using an additional fifteen years of liberty and free speech technologies that didn\u2019t exist when torrenting was developed in 2001, fifteen years ago. This was before Facebook, Twitter, and the iPhone!<\/p>\n<p>Pretending that it\u2019s useful to shut down a torrent site in order to prevent people from sharing, even a large site like KickassTorrents, is slightly more futile than King Knut <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_Canute_and_the_waves\">ordering<\/a> the sea tide to not come in anymore. The world just doesn\u2019t stop rotating because an obsolete monopolized industry wants it to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This does not take into account the fact that sharing culture and knowledge for nonprofit, altruistic purposes between individuals is currently illegal.<\/strong> This column does not go into the question of ethics, merely cause and effect. Besides, the law is generally a poor metric of ethics. Most of history\u2019s worst mass crimes have been legal at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This also does not take into account the fact that any torrent engine is, or can be, used to distribute protected speech as well as independent works.<\/strong> Most of the indie music upstarts distribute their works through various torrent engines such as The Pirate Bay. I\u2019ve also personally used it to distribute political material. Such speech, which has a <em>very<\/em> high level of protection, is collateral damage to an attempt to protect somebody\u2019s bottom line here.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy and free speech remain your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operator of the torrent site KickassTorrents has been arrested in Poland on an extradition request from Hollywood, and the domains seized. 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