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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.'"
Rephrase:
The blindingly obvious facts are that the people using TPB torrents clearly value all of the media that those ZOMG EEVIL FASCIST MAFIAA BULLY BOYS are creating, because they're downloading it at a rate of terabytes per day. As their products aren't necessary to life and are clearly for entertainment value, all of your whiny, breast-beating claims of ZOMZOMG PRICE-FIXING DEFRAUDING FRAUDITUDE amount to exactly JACK fucking SHIT. You don't need their products to live, you just want to have them for free and then want to whine that your precious freedoms are being ripped from you when you can no longer gank them under the guise of YAAARGH DIGITAL FREEDOMZ FOR TEH TRUE ARTISTZ!
If you meet me for lunch and I have a side order of fries, and tell you to help yourself, that's sharing.
if I go out to work each day and work my ass off to make movies, and you go work as a plumber, and then I see you watch the movies I work at for free, yet expect me to pay you if you do some plumbing, then that isn't sharing, its called 'freeloading' or 'leeching'.
But any sensible discussion about the moral rights to other peoples hard work here is fruitless. Someone has already been modded up for using the term 'MAFIAA', so its all downhill hero-worship of TPB from here on.
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That has got to be one of the lamest arguments I have ever heard.
.torrent files is a small, arguably incidental, part of what it does; the Pirate Bay uses advertising for the *almost* exclusive purpose of facilitating file-sharing of copyrighted materials.
.torrent files on the site that allow the sharing of files without copyrights, but that's not the reason for the vast majority of traffic on the The Pirate Bay.
Google's referencing of copyrighted
True, there's probably some
Go ahead, mod me flaimbait now.
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Sorry dude but I don't think you could pay someone to copy that painting. It looks like something I would have done in grade school. I understand art is in the eye of the beholder but...DAMN!
This is pointless. Other than being an ass, I don't see any point to your comments. You continue to fail to post any actual links to law, court cases or legal analysis that back up your wild hypotheses. Please enjoy your fantasy.
If you'd like to actually DISCUSS this instead of being an ass, please feel free to get back to me.
Bullshit.
Marijuana is a *controlled* substance because it is a mind-altering substance like other illegal and some legal drugs (Oxycotin, morphine, coke, etc.). It's been only been deemed legal for people with a prescription to use it. People that are terminally ill. People that will not drive under it's influence and kill others because their are stoned out of their mind.
Furthermore, pott is more damaging to your lungs than smoking a pack of cigarettes,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7217601.stm
And it is addictive.
Hell, most sane nations are now in process of getting rid of all the cigarettes as the damage to society mounts.
Only substance that then remains is alcohol though that has its benefits in *small* amounts and just as bad as controlled substances in medium/large quantities... (see drunk driving or http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080130.wsaskgirl0130/BNStory/National )
Anyway, anyone possessing controlled substances without a permit should be jailed for a long, long time. To facilitate people killing themselves, *free* access to these substances should be provided in monitored environments where they can take as much as they want. They will only be released once *sober*. And all people driving intoxicated killing others should be charged with *exactly* the same crimes as other murderers.