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Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway
superapecommando writes "Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Norway (IFPI Norge), have lost two rounds in the Norwegian court system, and have now decided against appealing the case to Norway's supreme court."
nope, their socialest
"How is he exactly doing any of that?"
The increase in price is set by Microsoft at a level that will give them a modest profit once they have covered their own expenses - if they have to employ developers to implement e.g. WGA (a direct backlash against pirated copies of windows) then their own expenses will rise - and so will the price we pay for it.
If in addition some of the people who pirate windows would pay for it if they were unable to pirate it (as assuredly a small proportion of them would), then that's a reduction in profits.
Admittedly it might be a relatively small effect, but it's there. Pirating windows, contrary to what the parent of my post claimed, does not help microsoft. I would expect that it slightly harms everyone but the person receiving windows for free.
"Software developers all have the choice to implement DRM or not, and even those who have software copied may not necessarily choose to implement DRM."
Certainly, but more pirating seems very likely to lead to more DRM. Do you think that Ubisoft would have put their ill-conceived needs-internet-connection DRM on Assassins Creed 2 if they weren't worried about their product being copied?
go away you uppity socialist homophobe
Who gave you the idea that you are entitled to watch back episodes for free? Is that like a basic human right or something? If you don't like their prising, buy the dvd, a tivo, or find another provider (my cable company lets me watch old episodes for free). Just because you think something should cost less, doesn't give you the right to steal it.
Here in the US, the government makes us count our cum loads? Doesnt everyone else in the world do that? If you miss a drop, the terrorists win! FReeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddddumbFAIL.America.broke
Copyright exists to protect intellectual property. It doesn't exist for people to ignore. Er I mean RAH RAH RAH DOWN THE DA MAN. God forbid we actually discuss the benefits of strong intellectual property laws. Or we can just pretend that the open source basement army will one day provide enough software for everyone.