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Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown
Several sources are discussing the recent attempted shutdown of The Pirate Bay by Swedish authorities. It seems that following the recent court defeats and the pending civil actions, Swedish authorities threatened TPB's main bandwidth supplier with a hefty fine in order to get them shut down. Not surprisingly TPB has relocated and is back online although the tracker still seems to be down. As a gesture of their "appreciation" TPB plans on sending a mocking t-shirt to the people believed responsible for the takedown attempt.
I know, because we only use TPB for Linux distros, right?
You're a pirate and you steal movies, music, programs, and games.
At least fucking admit to it.
You cannot get around that with technical reasonings like "but we dont host the files, we just provide .torrent files".
You can not get around that with technical reasonings like "but I did not stab anyone, I just sold him the knife".
More correct analogy would be "but I did not stab anyone, I just gave the movement to the knife. It wasn't me who stabbed him, it was the knife!"
So I can come over to your house and use your computer and try out various Linux distros and OSS apps?
Sharing is caring.
Right, you steal them. That's what he said.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Let me fix this for you.
The law is nothing more than a legislative grant to content owners to use criminal laws to preserve their own ability to recover the money it cost to produce, distribute, and promote, the copy-written materials I think should should be free.
The law is widely misused and doesn't do anything to all me to continue taking other people's content while giving nothing of value back myself. Let's face it, I want a free lunch. It's just a bad law that won't go away.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill