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Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal
Hodejo1 writes "Yesterday was a big day for the Pirate Bay when half of the charges against them were dropped leaving only the lesser charges of assisting making copyrighted material available in place. TorrentFreak is following the English twitter feed of the trial in the wee hours of the night, documenting more missteps by the prosecution. 'The Pirate Bay trial is moving forward rapidly and again the day in court has ended early. On the third day the prosecution presented the amended charges. The defendants all called for acquittal while Carl Lundström's lawyer scored points with the already legendary "King Kong" defense.'"
I hate to say it, but realmolo is probably right. Odds on "weapons of mass destruction" being found in Sweden sometime in the very near future just shot up by 1000%.
I hope you honestly believe that. I would love to think you're that retarded.
Legal or illegal is an open question but to me it's pretty clear cut that what they are doing is immoral. Without massive amounts of illegally shared content they wouldn't have the traffic that they can sell to advertisers. If they were refusing to take any payment for their service except to cover the costs they might have a case that they are engaged in some kind of anti-copyright crusade (which is bullshit and it would still be wrong even if it was true), but by profiting the alleged millions from other people's work, frankly they are just scum.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
so how about you try and address the point?
They *do* have the ability to remove torrents. They *know* they are linking to copyrighted material, and they *do* refuse to remove those ones.
Simply put, that's case over, guilty as fuck.
Even google respond to DMCA requests. they will happily remove links from search results if you send a DMCA request. This little *fact* escapes the majority of pro-piracy geeks who always wail along the lines of "they will have to sue teh google too!!!!"
Not so.
TPB is the only website that is actively refusing to honour legit DMCA removal requests. They are out on their own with nobody else to compare themselves to.
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Of course not. Stupid fucking moron.
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Has anyone been prosecuted under the DMCA for pointing yet? The only people who might have been ended up losing their case for an entirely different reason, mainly because they were idiots that tried to destroy evidence on the internet, which is NEVER a good idea.