Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched

gwoodrow writes "Forbes has a brief article about, essentially, the ultimate futility of fighting online pirates. From the article: 'As the world's largest repository of BitTorrent files, ThePirateBay.org helps millions of users around the world share copyrighted movies, music and other files — without paying for them ... That's illegal, of course — at least it is in the U.S. But when Time Warner's (nyse: TWX — news — people ) Warner Bros. studio accused them of breaking U.S. copyright law in 2005, the pirates gleefully reminded the movie company that they didn't live in America, but rather in the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls.' The article also touches on the many YouTube clones and AllofMP3.com."

Comments

That's because...

[u-bend]

...there aren't enough experienced online ninjas.

Re:That's because...

[Alex P Keaton in da]

Only if they share Arrrrgh! Rated movies....

obviously...

[porkmusket]

...it's because they all listen to MC Hammer. Without DRM, of course.

Where?

[jimbo3123]

the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls.'
North Korea?

Re:Where?

[Anonymous Coward]

he is referring to the land one enters when they masturbate.

Re:Where?

[Anonymous Coward]

the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls.' North Korea?

Cute blond girls? North Korea???? You must be an american...

Re:Where?

[Anonymous Coward]

In North Korea, only vikings, reindeer, the Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls use torrent websites.

can't the submitter

[Anonymous Coward]

at least remove the stock ticker info when copying?

Re:can't the submitter

[LordLucless]

Dude, it's an article about web piracy. He's just practicing what he preaches.

Re:Article is flawed.

[WED Fan]

Put down the bottle, man. What the hell does Alcoh...al..alcho...boozers anoni...anon..an...dammit, what dows AA have to do with copyw...copir...copyrit...that stuff anyhow?

huh?

[Vexorian]

The pirates were living in the land of vikings

Shouldn't the vikings do something ?

....

Should I point out thepiratebay doesn't really host any copyrighted material or did that argument get old already?

Re:huh?

[WED Fan]

Shouldn't the vikings do something ?

Have you ever been to Minnesota? It's not like they have anything going on at the moment. I heard they were planning to invade Wisconsin, but then someone mentioned a problem they had with lactose, so it was called off in favor of a quilting bee and a curling contest.

Minnesota, more Canadian than Canada.

Re:Please everyone:

[Anonymous Coward]

BYTE ME

Oh, now I get it

[texastexastexasdfw]

That sort of touching! I was thinking either the pirates were very ticklish or there were sanitary issues involved.

I'm moving

[aegisalpha]

"the pirates gleefully reminded the movie company that they didn't live in America, but rather in the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls."

I'm moving. Vikings, blonde girls, AND pirates? Irresistible!

Re:I'm moving

[Anonymous Coward]

They have Anus Borealis there? I'm going too!

lost money

[crAckZ]

so has anyone said how much money is lost by this. i know i would be pissed if i was a multimillionaire and i could not afford another ferrari or mansion for my collection. now they are going to have to rough it.

Thank you!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you Forbes! I didn't know about "sites like Alluc.org, VideoHybrid.com, Peekvid.com, TVlinks.co.uk and YouTVPC.com"!

Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder?

[Anonymous Coward]

Didnt Dubya go to war for 30 pieces of silver?

Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder?

[coren2000]

*pinky finger to mouth*

Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder?

[BosstonesOwn]

Fine sand in Iraq and Saudi Arabia ! No way , the army recruitment center told me it was like Miami Beach there. And he even said I could play FPS games all day and night !

Re:Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder?

[zullnero]

It would be hilarious if they did try to collect that 1.65 trillion. I can just imagine it:

AllOfMp3/PirateBay/et al: "We don't charge anything near that for our service, we just make enough on ad banners to justify paying for most of our server accounts and bandwidth"

RIAA: "Then we will force you all into servitude for the rest of your lives, and your children's lives!"

AllOfMp3/PirateBay/et al: "But we're geeks! There's a very high likelihood that we won't ever have kids!"

RIAA: (thinking) "Hmm...this may be true, and if it is, we'll probably only be able to collect on several million, and that's nowhere near 1.65 trillion...guess we'll have to go back to backdooring college kids and grannies computers again, and up the ante to 150k per file"

The scariest, yet most hilarious, thing about that is that from all indications, that could actually happen. (I say hilarious, because it shows exactly how insane and out of touch with reality the RIAA really is)

Re:Who's the victim here?

[Myopic]

when did the entertainment industry stop being about entertainment, and more about milking every cent out of it they can.

Like political conservatives, you are pining for a bygone era which never existed.

Re:That's because... Noooo, not the answer.

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of website clickthru black spiral do you have to dance down to find that kind of perversion?

No, seriously, and can you provide links? Closest I found was a DVD Rip (on-topic, haha!) of Lovely Leprosy Lesbian Lickdown. ;-D

I ALMOST posted this non-AC, but fuck, I freak even myself out sometimes, can't be doin that to the masses. Well, not under my ACTUAL handle.