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Four Indicted in Pirate Bay Case
paulraps writes "Suddenly the founders of the Pirate Bay are not so hearty. The four men behind the popular file-sharing site were indicted in Sweden on Thursday on charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law. And this is more than just a shot across the bows. The prosecutor reckons that they can be hooked for 'promoting other people's copyright breaches' but there will be no walking the plank: instead, they face fines of up to $200,000 and the confiscation of all their hardware. 'The Swedish prosecutor listed dozens of works that had been downloaded through The Pirate Bay site, including The Beatles' Let It Be, Robbie Williams' Intensive Care and the movie Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire. Plaintiffs in the case include Warner, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, Universal and EMI.'"
BAH!!!
countries - country's
what evs
While it's admittedly not a lot it does represent many many hours of work (hundreds actually), and, in fact several xboxes were partially disassembled for the component library:
xbx.networkboy.net
I make that site free of charge.
whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
hooray for the url: tag's innate mangling ability of anything without www or http leading it....
proper link
whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
That's how normal A anchor tags work in HTML. If you don't tell it specifically that you're sending someone to a separate site with a properly formed HTTP:// link, it assumes you are making a relative link to a file on the same domain.
Shinma
Mark, I don't think I'm one of the ones "driving you crazy". I tend to agree with you. Sites like "Pirate Bay" never cease to amaze me, really, because they run such large, "out in the open/in your face" operations, pretending they're invincible.
I'm among the first to argue that *ethically speaking*, I have no problem with "casual piracy", more accurately labeled as "non-profit copyright infringement". I'd also be a big advocate for some serious change in our current copyright law. (I've said for years, copyright shouldn't be protecting people's works from infringement for nearly as long as it does right now. Look how often a software publisher quits offering a title because it's for an obsolete game system or piece of hardware, and yet - it's still illegal to copy it for someone wanting it for collector's purposes?)
In the U.S., it wasn't until President Clinton signed changes into law in the late 90's that copyright infringement was even considered a CRIMINAL act, if it couldn't be shown that there was an *intent of financial gain* from said infringement. I think that was a VERY bad move.
Still, the law is what the law is. People wishing to smoke marijuana despite it being illegal don't openly flaunt it, walking down the street with a joint in their mouth. Yet, that's exactly what sites like Pirate Bay were doing with their web sites.