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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. Re:Answer: No. by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Troll

    gay ones

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  2. It's OK To Steal from the Rich by ThinkFr33ly · · Score: 1, Troll

    It seems to be a fairly common sentiment that while stealing is a bad thing, stealing from the rich is OK.

    If you honestly think that movie stars get paid too much, don't steal the resulting work, just don't buy it.

    How much a DVD costs is determined by what people are willing to pay for it. Period. You can whine a cry about these idiot movie stars making 50x what you make, but if you go buy their movies anyway then you're just being stupid.