Early Pirate Bay Server Immortalized In Museum

Nerval's Lobster writes "One of the first servers used by notorious torrent tracker The Pirate Bay has ended up at the Computer Museum in Linköping. A picture of the exhibit sent to TorrentFreak shows the server in its original tower casing. The hardware will headline an exhibit on 50 years of file sharing. As the exhibit notes, The Pirate Bay is one of the focal points for the file-sharing phenomenon, used to share both copyrighted works (such as music and movies) and free-for-all material (open-source Linux distributions and the like). The sharing of the former has created a worldwide cat-and-mouse game, with governments doing their best to block file-sharing sites, capture their servers, and prosecute their operators. 'In less than ten years The Pirate Bay has become a contemporary historical phenomenon, due to its distinguished position in the file-sharing debate,' according to the museum exhibit. 'The discussions that have sprung from this simple computer server concerns serious subjects as freedom of speech, global democracy and of course the sole existence of copyright.'"

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All creative works have copyright

[Vainglorious Coward]

share both copyrighted works (such as music and movies) and free-for-all material (open-source Linux distributions and the like).

It seems the author missed the opportunity to learn even the basics of copyright from this exhibit : all creative works automatically acquire a copyright. The Linux system has copyrights.

The Linux Kernel is *NOT* "free for all".

[sconeu]

It is copyrighted, and distributed under the GPL v2.

Re:The Linux Kernel is *NOT* "free for all".

[AK Marc]

That's "free for all". The only way to protect your work from having someone else copyright it then force you to pay for what you created is to copyright it first. If copyright (and software/business patents) didn't exist, then there'd be no GPL, no in fact, as the law wouldn't allow it, and not in theory, as it wouldn't be needed.