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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."
Since when has it been up to you to decide the worth of a piece of work that could have taken up months of the artists' time and effort to make?
methinks I have picked up a moderation abuser today
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
During the last 8 years, that definitely would have been true. Now, it's too early to tell whether our new President really is as different as his fans believe, or if he's really the same ol' politics as usual. While I'm no fan of his, I was hoping that Obama would at least have tried legalizing or at least decriminalizing marijuana, since it's costing our country many billions of dollars in enforcement and prison costs, but according to his website, he has no interest in doing this, so I'm leaning towards "politics as usual".
As a libertarian, I was hoping that maybe Obama would at least fix some of the stupid things the Republicans have been doing, such as the War on Drugs and the embargo on Cuba, and maybe the oversized military, but so far I'm not seeing any evidence of that. Instead, I see a giant "stimulus package" which is really just a giant pork barrel, plus supposed tax cuts. This is just like the Republicans: spend tons of money on pork, and pay for it by printing more money. Where's the change?