"Should these guys have gone to goal? Yeah. They did break the law and steal a companies product."
Actually - the founders of the Pirate Bay stole Nothing! Zip! Zilch! - they created a means for the actual thieves (The public at large) to find copyrighted material - maybe not morally right, but not actually stealing on their behalf.
Also funny how the judge in the case just happened to be a member of two copyright associations - no trial bias there whatsoever.
And who really won? The MPAA or RIAA? Not one bit - not until they get the gawd knows how many other torrent trackers closed down (Thats all the Pirate Bay were - not theives -information sharers, them and thousands of other torrent trackers.)And even then - what about the myriad of file download sites (Rapidshare, etc etc.)
Its a crusade, just like the whole sue Napster users thing was! "The Man" winning nothing, wasting a lot of taxpayer dollars in trial money and making more people hate them. That's winning?
Other than disagreeing on this view - nice blog and great work - keep it up! :
AlexBlom
· 6 months ago
Alex,
Yes and no. I think creating the means (and we all know the purpose was for pirated material) can be just as bad.
More importantly, whether you agree with the entertainment industries business model or not, it is still theft. Power to the people and everything else I think still confuses and clouds the central issue - people are stealing their stock. You can't expect anybody to turn around and say 'well thats ok'.
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Actually - the founders of the Pirate Bay stole Nothing! Zip! Zilch! - they created a means for the actual thieves (The public at large) to find copyrighted material - maybe not morally right, but not actually stealing on their behalf.
Also funny how the judge in the case just happened to be a member of two copyright associations - no trial bias there whatsoever.
And who really won? The MPAA or RIAA? Not one bit - not until they get the gawd knows how many other torrent trackers closed down (Thats all the Pirate Bay were - not theives -information sharers, them and thousands of other torrent trackers.)And even then - what about the myriad of file download sites (Rapidshare, etc etc.)
Its a crusade, just like the whole sue Napster users thing was! "The Man" winning nothing, wasting a lot of taxpayer dollars in trial money and making more people hate them. That's winning?
Other than disagreeing on this view - nice blog and great work - keep it up! :
Yes and no. I think creating the means (and we all know the purpose was for pirated material) can be just as bad.
More importantly, whether you agree with the entertainment industries business model or not, it is still theft. Power to the people and everything else I think still confuses and clouds the central issue - people are stealing their stock. You can't expect anybody to turn around and say 'well thats ok'.