The Pirate Bay's ebook section is much better. And much cheaper too.

Don't worry, this is only the penalty for the fools that actually pay for crippled content. Ebooks are much easier to crack than it is to scan and OCR paper books, and the resulting files are small. Distribution via torrent/usenet/sneakernet is efficient. I now carry a library on my phone.

The biggest advantage of eMule is that the search function is also completely decentralized if you're on the KAD network. So blocking central search engines like TPB, as they do in some countries, will be ineffective.

I don't care, I download my ebooks,music, films and series from torrents and eMule. This has the advantage that I can read the ebooks on both my phone and my tablet and share them with someone else without havving to deal with DRM, and watch my video without being pestered with unskippable commercials or warnings from foreign police organizations like the FBI. And The Pirate Bay does not do any geoblocking.

> So if you store information on your own computer and you get a warrant to search your data you have to show your data. No, in most EU countries (except the UK AFAIK) we do have functional laws against self incrimination and you can tell the government to go find the data itself. If they can't find it or can't decrypt it they are out of luck.

And the other platforms can use standard protocols. I use my own secure mailserver, and my Nokia and Android phone can easily connect to it.

I mean mostly parents censoring their children, or some xian fundamentalists here who have a social pressure to procure internet from a provider who censors (although this kind of censoring is being made illegal in The Netherlands due to a change in law).

Because the filtering is probably be done by someone other than the person who wants to see it.

"It was clear Sweden was a US puppet state long before that when the Swedish police raided TPB at the request of US authorities" Yes, anyone remember how the Swedes changed their laws about how anyone could view papers sent to their parliament when the scientology cult got involved andf bribed some US senators to interfere.

The adult industry won't be so stupid as to move to .xxx domains since there are fat too many prudes who would find this too easy to filter for others. My guess is that .xxx will be mostly registered by non-adult companies who want to prevent others from registering their name.xxx.

I feel a lot safer when I get protected against bullies like the USA as long as they still have the money to fund all those wars (I expect a financial breakdown of the USA a la USSR within my lifetime). Forcing laws like ACTA down our throats is clearly an act of aggression.

Finally, we know who the traitors who sell their country to the US are. Now we can round them up and fire and sue them, or even lower ourselves to the US level and execute them.

Printing or copying a book is usually more expensive than just buying it, and then I didn't consider the time it takes. However, with tablets becoming more popular, I find that downloading digital copies of books (from sites that don't charge any money) and just don't print them but read them from the screen replaces buying physical books.

Maybe the question should not be when you can download the (blueprints of) a car from TPB but those of machine guns. Some pistols (like the Glock) are already made mostly of plastic, criminals and ;ynch mobs will just love it when they can print heavy artillery and ammo. Gunpowder is easy to make, I experimented already with that when I was a kid.

I hope this will lead to more and more releases of applications outside Google market. I don't want a Google account but even some Open Source apps I want to run (Groundhog usenet reader) are only available through the market.