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The four men behind the popular file-sharing site are accused of helping millions of Internet users illegally download protected movies, music, and computer games.
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I Have To Say That I Truly Dislike Sites That Ask To Register Just To Allow A Stupid Comment...Cavemen Mentality To My Oppinion. But I Did. Simply To Reply To You...'N' Your Ignorant, [Maybe Arrogant?] Comment.
To Begin With...I'm An "Artist." 'N' A Musician To Be More Specific.
So Before You Even Begin To Roll Out Your MEANINGLESS RANT OF ISH, Think Twice...That's If You Are Capable Of Doing It. Obviously You Already Lack The Knowledge. 'N' Whoever Has It. Will Definitely Notice It....'N' Maybe Calmly Laugh [In Silence] About U...?
Please Do Yourself A Favor 'N' Let Those Who Truly Know Speak The Truth...[Instead Of Trowing A Bunch Of Speculation] Meanwhile Open Ur Ears 'N' Learn.
...I Don't Have To Write A Book Nor A Speech To Prove The TRUTH Of This Matter.
NIKKI SIXX [From Motley Crue] Has Done It Already...
1 : Stop By Any Book Store 'N' Grab A Copy Of His Book ["The Heroin Diaries"] For Five Minutes
2 : Go To Page> 211 [Continued From July 7TH]
That Will Be Enough To Make U "MythicalMe" Look Like A Tool.
The Pirate Bay...? How Many Times They Have To Do Pointless Acts Against Them To Lear That They Won't Stop Unpaid Downloads, Replicas, Etc?
How Many More Years Does The Stupid Record Industry Need To Learn That They 'R' Outdated...?
That Nobody Wants A Stupid CD.
That Their Business Model Is From 2 Centuries Ago...
That Their Time Is Up...
That Ppl Have The Money 'N' The Ultimate Word...
That They Were The Ones Who Pissed Off Not Hundreds But Millions Of Ppl Not From One Nation But From Arround The World By Using Their Oppression Via RIAA...
We Are All Feed Up With U...And I Hope That U Waste The Last Resources [Savings] Fighting The Ppl Who Put The Money In Ur Pockets Untill The Day U Fade Out For Good.
Erase The Pirate Bay...Another Website Will Emerge
U Killed Napster 'N' There Was: "Grokster, Kazaa, WinMX, Morpheus, Bearshare, Name It."
U Killed Suprnova 'N' There Was: "Demonoid, TPB, IsoHunt, SeedPeer, TorrentReactor, Name It."
If U Kill Joost There Will Be MiniJoost.
If You Kill Pandora, There Will Be Myantdora.
If U Kill Utorrent, There Will Be Vuzee, 'N' Streamlucie.
Please Kill Bit Torrent...I Can't Wait To See Te Next Maravell That Will Emerge Because Of That.
:::::U CAN'T STOP EVOLUTION...NO MATTER HOW MUCH $$$ WASTE...:::::
IS NOT LIKE A WAR...GET IT TROUGH UR THICK SKULL.
...A Stupid Corporation Fighting Against The Planet Earth....lmao.
Have You Stopped To Look At The Numbers???
As well, why should one company like Microsoft make such an insane profit for what is essentially a rather mediocre, bug-riddled software suite? They have the cheek to charge hundreds of dollars for their software while getting THE PUBLIC to do all their product beta-testing!
I think that the internet and file-sharing in general have become the 'great leveler' -- bringing a level of equality to the entire array of social/economically disparate peoples.
Incredible advances paid to actors and artists of often relatively dubious talent, heavily-marketed by studio fatcats and the tight-knit, wealthy kabal of record labels could support thousands of struggling, equally talented artists -- with the added benefit of bringing to light talent we might never get to see/hear otherwise.
I think these guys are heroes -- they have helped us all expose each other to more choices, and they are setting the standards and raising the bar for 21st business.
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Good luck to them. If they lose, we could start to see web search engines and directories being prosecuted for linking to websites that contain copyrighted images, for instance.
800 million people will go to bed hungry tonight
The US supports dictators, giving them money to 'fight terrorism', whilst at the same time claiming to champion democracy.
Millions do not have access to clean water
close to 1000 people die from HIV/AIDS in ONE country in Africa every day
Millions of people have no access to education, and no hope for the future
But the full force of the law is descending on some Swedish guys who offer free music
Why? Because Hymie and his buddies at the RIAA have had it so good for so long, they have become like Robert Mugabe, just the thought of losing it ever is anathema.
The problem is lawyers will do anything for money, especially in the US.
Lincoln would turn in his grave.
Two I also have a major problem shelling out 10 to 17 dollars for an album if the artists, producers, mixers, and engineers are going to receive such a small profit. Perhaps if the record labels weren't so interested in spending millions of dollars promoting s#!t music, and actually focused on putting the product out there (these promotions bleed down too radio and television), and I mean all of their product, not just the newest jailbait teen in a bikini, perhaps we could see a rebirth of music.
Every last flipping bit of complaining in here has one underlying truth: I want what I want, and I don't want to pay for it, so I will come up with all kinds of bilge to justify it.
Cool!
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/17/business/EU-Sweden-Pirate-Bay.php
Yup, I enjoy watching free movies, I'm a damn thief and I'm guilty. There, I've said it. I'm not in denial. The Europeans stole the land of my forefathers and now I'm taking it back, one or two movies at a time on a daily basis. If they would just put all the movies up on some streaming site for free, I wouldn't bother to download them. Unfortunately some of the streaming sites video quality sucks and the quantity of selections aren't much better.
So no matter what they do to those Swedish guys, it's not gonna stop file sharing. It'll just pop up in some other form. Theft has been going on since Adam stole the fruit off the tree in the Garden of Eden. The temptation to steal is just too great to put a stop to. I'd like to see if North Korea decided to host some file sharing site and what anybody could do to stop them.
There is nothing good in all of this. Can't we all share along ? ? :P
Pirate Bay has nothing to do with whether or not those torrents are legal or how legal is even parsed in definition over borders. In fact, they presume they are legal torrents and explicitly, in their TOS, state the torrents are required to be legal. Because of the volume and resources required to monitor torrents in question is impossible to regulate or control, that doesn't mean the MPAA/RIAA can make a legal case to throw the "baby out with the bathwater", and credibly vilify The Pirate Bay for the actions of a few.
They know this, and yet pathologically continue to go after these tracker sites with the same fallacious arguments, and baseless charges.
Pirate Bay has nothing to do with whether or not those torrents are legal or how legal is even parsed in definition over borders. In fact, they presume they are legal torrents and explicitly, in their TOS, state the torrents are required to be legal. Because of the volume and resources required to monitor torrents in question is impossible to regulate or control, that doesn't mean the MPAA/RIAA can make a legal case to throw the "baby out with the bathwater", and credibly vilify The Pirate Bay for the actions of a few.
They know this, and yet pathologically continue to go after these tracker sites with the same fallacious arguments, and baseless charges.
Say you lose a job at one of the thousands of film/record/software companies (out of work people already run into millions in this recession). Sites like Pirate Bay destroy not one but countless industries in the entire chain of companies that work with them. There are thousands of businesses that are affected when one major goes down. Even newspapers and related industries to them are all part of the huge ENTERTAINMENT WORLD INDUSTRY that is a complex and busy world. The online service YOU use is even affected every time someone puts up a site to give away the money you pay that is intended for the company that needs it to protect the chain that feeds it. Don't forget that companies born purely out of the investment from the majors are also in the chain. Where do you think the money Film/Music and Software companies puts INTO companies that work with those companies comes from?
So when you say "any kind is meant to be shared" and "the more you givbe the more you get" then pray that when you turn up for work on Monday that you do not get told "sorry but we haev to ask you to go due to lack of sales" Who do you blame for that? If you are one of the THOUSANDS of companies in the entertainment world then you need to go looking for any area that is taking your income in HUGE amounts at a point source.
Why do you think they called themselves PIRATE Bay?
But you need a job, right. Your family has to eat, right? We are in RECESSION. There are roughly a thousand people like you looking for the same job. So you decide that setting up your own business might work. Hey software is a good route, right? At home. Easy hours. Sadly, Pirate Bay will offer a service to take your hard-earned work and provide the means to give it away to anyone for nothing.
So are Pirate Bay and sites like them, born out of greed or freedom of liberty? What do you believe in? The owners of Pirate Bay and their word or their bank accounts? Think. How do the owners of Pirate Bay feed themselves? Lets see. In less than ten years with the MILLIONS of incomes that the owners of Pirate PAY are already accumulating in their offshore bank accounts (trust their greed, they have many accounts already), they will not hesitate to laugh while they sip their champagne on their yachts sticking their finger up at the system that made them rich. YOU.
Back to today. Supposing you are the court in Sweden Supposing you motion to join with the European Court System and the US Judicial System and get granted an international order to seize peoples computers. Supposing the courts begin looking at all the emails they have been sending and who they have been talking to as evidence of their 'aiding and abetting' criminality. It will not happen? You need to look at the landmark cases that ARE happening in the US today and now. Try telling your unqualified opinions to the people sitting in jail today with 300,000 dollar fines round their necks. They will pay for ever for copyright infringement because distributing illegal work is a CRIMINAL offence.
The point is that unless you STOP downloading the pirate junk, protect youselves and your families and wake up and smell the coffee it might be too late when the next level comes. Because anyone who does not want a police state should think if they contribute to the need for there to be one in the first place.
ITS YOUR WORLD. DON'T PIRATE IT. PROTECT IT.
Copyright enforcement is no longer practical in technical and legal costs. Too many people do not want it and are able to break it and distribute.
Future Video (movie/TV) will rely on Internet fundraising from the public PRIOR to production. But unlike PBS, commercial video will allow the public to put money against specific actors, directors, genre, basic plotlines, and combinations of the same -- as well as specific projects.
The funding public will be given powers previously reserved to executive producers and studio boards. Ranking and veto over auditions for specific key roles. Basic costume decisions for expensive costume dependent productions. Insight into cost tradeoffs (certain actors may already be paided for this type role by another fund).
Lots of legal issues to resolve for special situations. Enforcing the offered terms for which fund were collected. What to do with funds for dead actors,directors, and writers...probably a ranked vote to transfer to divide funds to next most similar actor & actor-genre combinations
I have been copying digital media since before there was even the idea of "Pirating". I'm talking about the early 80's. This is not something new, it won't go away! Sure thepiratebay has made pirating much easier and accessible, but you should have seen the intricate ways that we networked computers, and shared software back in the day. Thank you piratebay!
- by Dico31 September 16, 2009 6:11 PM PDT
- Piracy will always be, people will be always sharing among themselves. I have never use Pirate Bay more are less and i end up got the latest movies and such from friends in my neighbourhood. The only illegal tendency is that it is over the internet where everyone can get a hold of anything.
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