The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 14, 2006 @02:10AM from the arrr-me-hearties dept.

vitaly.friedman wrote to mention a Wired article about The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing crewe out of Sweden that thumbs its nose at the MPAA just for kicks and has yet to be shut down. From the article: "The Pirate Bay's legal adviser, law student Mikael Viborg, said the site receives 1,000 to 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of its four servers. That's bad news for the content industries, which have fired off letter after menacing letter to the site, only to see their threats posted on The Pirate Bay, together with mocking replies. Viborg said that no one has successfully indicted The Pirate Bay or sued its operators in Swedish courts. Attorneys for DreamWorks and Warner Bros., two companies among those that have issued take-down demands to the site, did not return calls for comment."

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Re:socialist-democratic not communist by manthrax3 · 2006-03-14 03:03 · Score: 1, Troll

Of course socialism doesn't truly protect the most important of all rights: the right to earn and keep property.

You can't do a whole lot if you're taxed at 50-60% except hope that some of that money is redistributed to you in a fair way. Fair is subjective, "mine" isn't.