Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Pirate Bay Court Loss Won't Stop the Flow of Files

Posted by timothy on from the magic-eight-ball-seems-to-be-working dept.

Adrian Lopez writes "According to PC World, 'Hollywood may have won a battle, but the war against piracy is far from over. Unauthorized file sharing will continue (and likely intensify), if not through The Pirate Bay, then through dozens of other near identical swashbuckling Web sites. ... What Hollywood needs to remember is sites like The Pirate Bay are like weeds. When you try to kill one, they grow back even stronger. In this case, The Pirate Bay already moved most of its servers to the Netherlands, a move that could keep the site running even if The Pirate Bay loses its appeal.'"

10 of 358 comments (clear)

  1. Hooray! by h4rm0ny · · Score: 5, Funny


    I can look forward to a future with no more big-budget movies or mainstream e-books. What a relief!

    --

    Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
    1. Re:Hooray! by MR+LOLALOT · · Score: 5, Funny

      OMFG people will stop buying bottled water!!!!

    2. Re:Hooray! by HertzaHaeon · · Score: 5, Funny

      True, but parchment was the death of the stone tablet industry back in the day. They must still be hurting, I guess.

    3. Re:Hooray! by GrpA · · Score: 5, Funny

      True, but parchment was the death of the stone tablet industry back in the day. They must still be hurting, I guess.

      No they just updated their business model...

      And they're so popular that people are dying just to get one...

      Unless you prefer cremation of course.

      GrpA

      --
      Enjoy science fiction? "Turing Evolved" - AI, Mecha, Androids and rail-gun battles. What more could you want?
    4. Re:Hooray! by Kamineko · · Score: 2, Funny

      Boo urns!

      (sorry)

    5. Re:Hooray! by icannotthinkofaname · · Score: 2, Funny

      And record profits are bad when they're unreasonably high... Noone should make millions from doing a small amount of work, payment should be proportional to the level of effort required to do the work and should cease when someone stops working. In most other industries this is already the case.

      Payment proportional to effort? Are you serious? So, say some musical artist is some kind of natural. He takes a couple days, writes out a song, practices for maybe three more days, and has it perfect. Ends up being absolutely beautiful. It's nothing to this guy. And then some other musical artist doesn't get an inspiration for a couple of weeks. He takes ten days to write out the final version of the song. He practices for a month before he can do it perfectly. There's some portion of the population that it just doesn't appeal to.

      Seems clear that the first artist put less effort into making his work, and the second artist, who's quality of work isn't quite as high, has put in a lot more effort. So, who gets paid more? Would you really call the lower-quality work deserving of higher reward?

      I'd like to see you justify that.

      --
      Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
  2. Can anybody see ... by mystuff · · Score: 5, Funny

    The irony of moving your weeds to the Netherlands ...

  3. Re:A move would be pointless by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could just get a boat but the problem would still be running a line to it. Since they have so much money I recommend they build a huge spindle in high Earth orbit, right near the rastafarian outpost.

    --
    http://michaelsmith.id.au
  4. Oblig by Thoughts+from+Englan · · Score: 2, Funny

    The more you tighten your grip, Hollywood, the more systems will slip through your fingers.

    --
    That was supposed to be "Thoughts from England" ... Oh well.
  5. Re:Reason this article was posted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Long live the leeches! FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights!

    You should start a record company.