The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media

Join the Pirate Party writes "Having found the necessary proof via the leaked MediaDefenders documents, the Pirate Bay is filing suit against the big record and movie labels operating in Sweden who have allegedly been paying professional hackers, saboteurs and DDoSers to destroy their trackers. They also claim to have filed a police report."

Comments

Re:Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, so is fucking twelve year old kids in Thailand. That doesn't make it right.

Re:Finally

[morcego]

Uh, no, a "relaxed" attitude towards copyright may merely indicate a recognition of the fact you can't "own" information like you can physical property.

Considering people "own" the land, I'm yet to see the point in this. Also, it is possible to copyright a novel, or a business trade secret. How about that secret recipe for turning bullshit into aluminum ? All of those can be defined as "owning" information.

I agree they don't have a communist attitude toward copyright but you sir, certainly have.

Re:Heh

[Hubbell]

What about the humanity of those who were brutally murdered or tortured to death? All you bleeding heart pieces of shit never take into account the victims of those who are sentenced to death. You don't get the death penalty for robbing a store or beating someone up. You have to brutally murder or torture someone before the death penalty is even CONSIDERED. Once you take the life of another person, you forfeit all rights including the right to live if you ask me. You've proven yourself to be a worthless piece of shit who doesn't deserve to live after committing the act of murder.

Re:Finally

[morcego]

"Land" is a physical object. It is *fundamentally different* to information (or "data", or "ideas", or whatever else you want to call "intellectual property").

Exactly. What gives you the right to own the land ? Did you create it ?

"Land" ownership is just as arbitrary as "intellectual property". Specially "ownership" of an IP one didn't create.

Also, it is possible to copyright a novel, or a business trade secret. How about that secret recipe for turning bullshit into aluminum ? All of those can be defined as "owning" information.

I'm not quite sure I see your point.

See above.

How's that, exactly ? Communism dicates that physical property is not owned by the individual, but the collective. This is an intrinsically different position to take than "information cannot be owned".

There is no such thing as physical property. Communism dictates that is is not private property. Physical or not. Since you believe in "ownership", you can't claim something cannot be owner. The best you can do is to say it should be "owned by everyone", or "by the public", whatever.

Btw, can you please give US your phone number, SSN, bank account data and PIN ? Those are just information and, by your definition, you can't own them.