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The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report I just read in Mashable, Pirate Bay is coming to Facebook. Writer Ben Parr says that The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to 'Share on Facebook.' Once posted to a profile, the Facebook member's friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided he or she already has a torrenting client installed. I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then — armed with Facebook's data — sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it."
"And its still their job to find out how to do that. Back in the 50s, they were able to sell copies of stuff, since copying was hard. In 2009, neither copying nor distribution is hard any more, so people make their copies themselves and distribute them. If the artist completely used to rely on selling copies to make a living, he now has to adapt. IF he refuses to, he'll have to go flip burgers."
so don't complain when companies/artists do figure out how to make a profit by creating DRM like services that make it difficult for you to share it or you have less quality music and movies because it is no longer profitable.
Also, if you agree with this, you also agree to people violating the GNU (after all, source code is out there for free, if a person can't protect it, I should be able to sell it or add it to my proprietary app without giving back to the community).
"Since i do the copying and the distribution myself, i dont have to pay."
That's the keyword "copying". The difficult part is creating it, which you don't have the skills to actually do (otherwise, you wouldn't be copying it).
"But I have the luck that its not you laying out our ethics code."
Oh? It's a criminal offense in the US. So more people believe this than you think.
"Since you have to call for physical violence and violent anal rape of anybody who doesnt agree to your ageing ideology, you lose."
Companies will adapt. Eventually, all software will be services. You will no longer be able to download most commercial packages. Look at thinks like turbo-tax.
There is also a new service being tested that will allow users to play games online without ever having to install it (it's all run over the internet and the video is streamed).
People like you drove companies to this point. Enjoy the future you have created.