https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14107262 The future of illegal torrent websites doesn't look good. As torrent websites continue to disappear, the founder of The Pirate Bay believes the trend is the just the beginning. While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: "We have already lost." [...] Take the net neutrality law in Europe. It's terrible, but people are happy and go like "it could be worse." That is absolutely not the right attitude. Facebook brings the internet to Africa and poor countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of poor people. [...] Well, I have given up the idea that we can win this fight for the internet. The situation is not going to be any different, because apparently that is something people are not interested in fixing. Or we can't get people to care enough. Maybe it's a mixture, but this is kind of the situation we are in, so its useless to do anything about it. We have become somehow the Black Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail. We have maybe half of our head left and we are still fighting, we still think we have a chance of winning this battle. Peter Sunde recently on... Why we need to fight for both transparency and privacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMdv7R9aSU4 Film: "Snowden" https://blog.brokep.com/2016/09/19/snowden-filmtal/ How The Internet Broke Politics, AnCap, etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjgql0ie6g https://torrentfreak.com/