I'm afraid you're preaching to the choir there, Rox. Not that there's anything wrong with that, ofcourse, as it's always nice to hear some eloborate on their opinion, no matter how similar it is. Now that we're being grammar-nazis, I thought I'd bring up the point that what The Pirate Bay engaged in wasn't piracy. It also…
MS took care of the game pirating problem when they decimated the PC market in order to make the Xbox a success. No game, no pirate, no problem. Oh wait but games drive PC sales and PC sales drive windows sales... ahh crap... I could give a rats ass about music piracy, I think its been dead for a while. Maybe I'm just out…
People bother me. Not the pirates, but rather the people who are expecting 6000 dollars for software (that costs them remarkably less to make a copy of) or 60 dollars for a game that, again, costs under a dollar to make. People are obsessed with money, and they really need to realize that it doesn't matter much. Our money…
if this law passes, i am a criminal for borrowing you my dvd, or letting someone else watch it with me. libraries are dens of criminal activity too. technically, they will be able to sue everyone who buys their dvds, or music cd's or whatever. here's an analogy to pirating: a person buys the dvd. he borrows it to some guy,…
Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail. Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit. Let's draw out the distinction. The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for....violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.…
There is an essential problem, I feel, with scale when it comes to copyright infringement like that of the Pirate Bay. There's a lot of shit on Pirate Bay that is *borderline* illegal (due to its very nature) even before you worry about corporations and the RIAA and all of that. That doesn't get chased, because it's still…
I like file sharing. I like pirate bay. I enjoyed the attitude they held for the law. It certainly isn't an attitude that I myself flaunt publicly, but I'm glad we live in a world where people can have these kinds of attitudes, and they can express it however they please, even if it pisses people off, and even if it ends…
It's about time, tbh. I don't feel sorry for them at all, even though they'll be appealing and will drag that on for the next couple of years. Apparently something was leaked from the court, so they're now able to sue for defamation of character or something as ridiculous as that. It's not the piracy that pisses me off…
I just read an article, in swedish unfortunately, but in short it says that the judge was biased and involved in several movements/organizations that share opinions with the anti-piracy maffia(prosecutor, hollywood, ipfi, apb etc.). The judge failed to mention this even though the defending side prior to the trial pointed…
In a similar vein, the guy from TV-Links was arrested for owning a site that linked to youtube (and other privately-owned, public websites), yet there isn't anyone going after google about it. Not fair, tbh. I think in the Pirate Bay's case, it's the point that they've developed the website and the infrastructure for…