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The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair

Posted by Zonk on from the everybody's-a-little-bit-famous dept.

koregaonpark writes "Via the TorrentFreak site, an article in the latest issue of Vanity Fair about BitTorrent, movie piracy and The Pirate Bay. The Vanity Fair piece is lengthy, and covers the MPAA's struggle to stamp out piracy, Hollywood's increasing losses, and how the 'heartfelt testimony of Ben Affleck, a man who was paid $12.5 million to star in Gigli,' didn't help one bit. 'Pirates of the Multiplex' covers the saga of Pirate Bay in a very high-level, mass-market fashion. Did you ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?"

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  1. oblig. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't feel like buying the magazine, anyone have a .torrent?

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  2. Ben Affleck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah I'm sure Ben Affleck is eating TV dinners because of Pirates Bay. I wish someone would smack that arrogant jack ass.

    1. Re:Ben Affleck by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

      If we got rid of copyright, the GPL would be redundant. And you also wouldn't need it.

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  3. Venn Diagrams. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Did you ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?"

    Since when do geeks read Vanity Fair?

  4. Bah by Gerocrack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for the article on Slashdot to come out in Cosmo.

    1. Re:Bah by Coucho · · Score: 1, Funny

      Cover of Cosmo: Slashdot nerds reveal all! Page 28! *turn to page 28* *blank page*

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  5. Yes by robably · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?
    Yes, but I make lists of these things.

    Neal Stephenson interviewed in Carpet Steaming News about his cat hair problem.
    Jerry Garcia interviewed about curtains through a medium in Woman's Own.
    Tony Blair interviewed about cheese through a trumpet in Lego Builders Weekly.
    George W Bush interviewed upside-down from a flying carpet through a Chinese pipe in Hanglider's Review.

    Actually, no. What a bloody stupid question.
  6. Re:Annoying pointlessly multi-page articles. by anonicon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why on earth /. doesn't just link to these where available, I will never know...

    Because the users who submit the articles either don't know or don't care about the uni-page alternative when they're sending their story link in, and the editors are still coming down off last weekend's methamphetamine bender with a gaggle of prostitutes, a case of tequila, and a goat named Rhonda.

  7. No, that's the whole point... by solevita · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you ever think you'd be reading about TPB in Vanity Fair?

    The news would be pretty dull if I expected all of it. I guess that's why they call it "news".
  8. I sure do! by Stoutlimb · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Would daddy give his daughter The Little Mermaid on a DVD written with a Sharpie?"

    I sure do! It helps daddy save up for the pony.

  9. Re:You can't stop commoditizing of an item by dwandy · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they ever upgrade the software, they recognize that you've already paid for a license and sell you the upgrade for less than a new copy.
    so I should get a discount on Balboa since I paid to see Rocky?
    Oh wait, you said "upgrade".
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