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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.'"
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.
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.