The Pirate Bay Seeks Interesting Route To "Pay" Fine

Drivintin is one of many who have written to tell us about how The Pirate Bay has taken an interesting approach to the 30 million SEK fine levied in their recent court case (which they said they wont pay). "The bill inspired anakata to devise a plan involving sending money to Danowsky's law firm, but not to pay the fine of course which they say will never be paid. Anakata's clever plan is called internet-avgift, internet-fee in English. Anakata encourages all Internet users to pay extremely small sums around 1 SEK (0.13 USD) to Danowsky's law firm, which represented the music companies at the Pirate Bay trial. The music companies will not benefit from this, instead it will cost them money to handle and process all the money."

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Re:Awesome

[Joebert]

How do YOU know what their intent is? Are you psychic or something?

When you watch 999 lemmings jump off a cliff you don't have to be psychic to predict that the reason that 1000th lemming is climbing the mountain, is to jump off a cliff.

The vast majority of people do things because, on some level, they believe those are the most correct things to do -- their reasoning may be as simple as "they're bastards, so I'll be a bastard too", but even that, in a way, is acting out of some sense of fairness and justice.

And those are called civilized people.

Encouraging the masses to inflict harm on a law firm however, is hardly civil. What about the people who depend on that law firm to eat, who had nothing at all to do with the trial ?

Yes, they're weaseling around with the legal system. Then again, the legal, and corporate, system is weaseling around with fair use, the human right to share and create, etc. Backlashes should be expected.

Using that sort of logic with fair use, it would also be true that every one of us here have a human right to pimp your mom out on the corner. That's everyones' pussy, we all have a right to share it. The shit getting slapped out of her should be expected when she doesn't want to act right.