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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."
They're back!
FINALLY!
For at least a week we've had to endure a Slashdot that hasn't been Australia-focused, but at last the agony ends!
Thank God that kdawson has returned and brought with him his precious policy of promoting Australia in any and every way possible.
While he was absent, fuckers like timothy were promoting their OWN pet causes instead of the One True Cause: AUSTRALIA!
YEEEESSSSS!!!
Soon ALL Americans will know just how FUCKING FANTASTICALLY AMAZING AUSSIE IS and will respect and admire us!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!
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?
It is *not* your right to take them for free anyway whilst waving some crap about freedom.
Yes it is.
See how that works? A meaningless assertion is replaced by another meaningless assertion.
We're way past your simplistic view of the world. The fact that you spam your views continuously, have done so for a long time now and have not progressed in your views at all suggests you don't give a crap what anybody else thinks. Well guess what? Many of us now don't give a crap what you think. You're probably just a shill anyway given your consistent attempts to push simplistic and self-serving RIAA/MPAA propaganda.
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Scientific, evidence based IP law. Now there's a thought.
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?