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Interview With Suren Ter From 'You Have Downloaded'

Posted by Unknown on from the you're-all-criminals-but-i-like-you-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Suren Ter discusses privacy, piracy, and the future of filesharing. Suren produced the virally popular YouHaveDownloaded.com, which displays all downloads on the public BitTorrent network associated with an IP address." When asked about his views on piracy: "Just like I told a French journalist and to the lady at the Washington Post, pirates are thieves and they do steal. Yeah yeah, 'when I steal your DVD, you have no DVD, but when I copy a file, you still have a file' — I get that BS. We all know that it’s BS too. However, SOPAs and PIPAs create tyranny. If given the choice between thieves and tyranny, I’d rather stay with the thieves."

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  1. Calling it like it is. by celtic_hackr · · Score: 1, Troll

    I expect to get flamed and modded down for this. But if I had any mod points right now, I'd mod Suren +5 insightful.
    Well except, I could only mod him +1 insightful.

    And except for the fact that making copies of music/movies you own and sharing with others isn't really piracy, but sharing with unlimited strangers is simply wrong, and y'all know it is. Whether you will admit it or not.

    And except for the fact that breaking DRM to make legitimate copies of your stuff is totally not piracy and should by all accounts be a fair use right. Oh wait it is, except for that vile DMCA.

    So, perhaps the Movie and Music industry brought some of this "piracy" on themselves. Still doesn't make filesharing of others copyrighted work right. I too prefer the "piracy" over tyranny. Until such time as media companies figure this out, they won't see one penny from me.

  2. Re:Nobody has a right to a monopoly by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 1, Troll

    it is a right. Copy -right-.

    I disagree with the premise that copying is stealing but it really is a, "It's not a tragedy of the commons, it's a tragedy of you're a dick." situation.

    I think it's important to keep the distinction between piracy and theft clear, because theft is just an absurdly loaded word when in this context, but, let's not get crazy here. It's a goddamned dick move.

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