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Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale
suraj.sun writes "The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the Pirate Bay. A couple of weeks back the Global Gaming Factory, a Swedish software company, announced that it would acquire the Pirate Bay for $7.8 million. Since then the company has been touting a new business model and even hiring executives, such as Wayne Rosso, the former Grokster president, to legally obtain content from film and music industries. What remains to be seen is how that sale might be affected by attempts by the music industry to collect the $3.6 million damages that a Swedish court awarded it in April. Alex Jacob, a spokesman for the IFPI, said that the group has always intended to collect the damages award, but now, should the sale go through, music execs know that the original Pirate Bay operators have access to the money." According to CNet, the four original Pirates claim they no longer own the company and that no money from the sale will go to them.
You forgot porn. Why does everyone forget porn? Porn is the driving force behind thousands of years of technological and artistic advancement of mankind. It is most amusing to me that in medical science, people try to "cut the head off of the body" and treat the mind and body as separate items. Likewise, people constantly try to cut the penis off of the body. Human sexuality is probably the single most defining aspect of who we are as humans whether of the male or female gender (or somewhere in between), we define ourselves by sexual identity and role and appearance and function. Our bodies by virtue of our very biochemical make-up sends messages of attraction and arousal to our mind and body on a constant basis. Porn is but a reflection of our humanity just as all other things are, but I hold that porn is, in fact, a tremendous, controlling and driving portion of ourselves.
The denial of porn is a costly one as Sony well understands. Betamax, a superior technology to VHS, was killed by their denial of porn. No other factor in the demise of Betamax was as significant as the fact that porn was only available on VHS. Sony nearly made that same mistake with Blu-ray before someone stepped in with a history lesson. And denying that porn is a huge part of how the internet is used is a rather powerful omission of truth.