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Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday
Anonymous Pirate writes "Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty. The four defendants have run the site since 2004 after it was started in 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån. The Swedish public service television announced that they are going to send a live audio stream from the trial. It will be broadcast without editing or translation."
But it's not *entirely* bad for them, assuming the work is quality.
That's it entirely. Copyright violation removes the payment from shit work that didn't deserve it in the first place. 99% of what we are sold in this world is bait and switch - nebulous bullshit promises are made and never followed through on. Media works the same way, which is why the trailers have all the best moments from the movie in them - they want to convince you that the whole movie is that good. Usually, the rest of the movie is shit, and you could have just watched the trailer (which is perhaps why they are so popular.) Most things I only want to watch once. Netflix has been sending me more broken DVDs lately, and it's not like they give you a free rental when that happens - you've just lost a spot. So piracy is actually even better than rental. I don't have enough bandwidth to stream, either (although I do have some broadband finally.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If you hate 'the mafiaa' boycott their movies. that is your right. It is *not* your right to take them for free anyway whilst waving some crap about freedom.
Yes, yes it is. It may however not be legal. But sure, I have the right to do it. The state apparently has the right to incarcerate me for it, in spite of this nation allegedly being founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I absolutely have the right to watch the movies for free anyway. What they do not have is the right to get paid for making movies.
What, you say that saying such a thing doesn't make it so? Saying that I have no right to copy this media doesn't make it so, either. I don't have a legal right, but then, they don't have a legal right to put things in my way to prevent me from exercising my fair use rights. They broke the covenant first and now they want to complain.
The simple truth is that the industry has perverted the very notion of copyright. I believe that this means that the citizenry shouldn't follow that particular contract, either. We were supposed to get stuff released into the public domain after a certain number of years. This is not happening. When copyright is unfucked, perhaps I will observe it more closely. That tree got Sonny just a little too late, and Walt should have been put on ice considerably earlier.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If it weren't for thieving cunting pirates in the first place, you'd not have to piss around with half the stuff you do for legitimate sources.
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Wow,
one counter example?
I bet you could find hundreds, if not thousands of them, and yet it has no relevance to what the primary product is, does it?
How many of the 1.6 million torrents do you truly believe are legit?
If they allow it to be perceived as relevant that they have a few legit torrents, they have lost already. It is much smarter for them to argue that they are not responsible for the links that their social community shares with each-other, because in the end this is what they are, a social network of link sharers (links to personal servers in the form of BT node).
Since they are not even publishing the links themselves they have a strong case, though it still would probably lose in the US (or at least require torrents to be removed as take-down letters are sent).
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Okay then, now that's clear, fuck off asshole.