Pirate Bay guilty

[pr0ficient]

Re: Pirate Bay guilty

Fucking hell ... how the fuck does this work, I don't understand why they're guilty. Why not sue Google? I use it all the time to look for shit on filesharers.

true true

[Corven]

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Anywho... if it weren't for bit torrent, I wouldn't have discovered so many different genres of music, new talent, new artists... its mind blowing what you can find there..

not to mention the countless bootlegs, rarities, demos etc that are never released as albums to buy...

If I like what I hear I support the artist.. its that simple. I don't like it, I get rid of it.

i think that pretty much sums it up on how people get music these days since the internet/download boom and with internet people actually discover more music than they ever would have if we had gone thru the old conventional ways of hanging out at the record store on new release day

the funny thing is that since day 1 the big money corporations (i.e RIAA, MPAA or whoever thats pursuing the lawsuits) never did embrace the internet and think of new ways of making use of the internet to make the money that they claim that they lost and they never once look within and come to terms with the fact that people are not buying CDs are not because of the internet but because of the crap that they put out (i.e the paris hilton album or That's What I Call Hip Hop Vol. 236475)

[dusk]

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^^^ Movies on you pc can be streamed to your TV for better viewing pleasure

Anywho... if it weren't for bit torrent, I wouldn't have discovered so many different genres of music, new talent, new artists... its mind blowing what you can find there..

not to mention the countless bootlegs, rarities, demos etc that are never released as albums to buy...

If I like what I hear I support the artist.. its that simple. I don't like it, I get rid of it.

[chunky]

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I can never be bothered with downloading movies. I'm on Love Film so I just get them from there. I like to watch them on my TV not sat at my PC, I spend enough time there as it is.

[simonr]

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Must admit ... I check stuff out - if it's a keep then I'll buy it !

[hypoluxxa]

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Never used it. I TRY not to steal anyone's "intellectual property" anymore.

[simonr]

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Great point !

[chunky]

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Why not sue Google? I use it all the time to look for shit on filesharers.

That's exactly what I said yesterday when watching the news

[poults]

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Well i think they are based in Sweden where the laws of the UK are not followed.

Who fould follow uk law, they are well dated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8000876.stm

UK copyright laws "needlessly criminalise" music fans and need to be updated, a consumer watchdog says.
UK laws that make it a copyright violation to copy a CD that you own onto a computer or iPod should be changed, says Consumer Focus.

[minimal]

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I guess most of the people involved in these legal procedures don't really fully undestand this phenomena. Free flow of information is here to stay. Trying to shut down pyrate bay looks to me as a symbolic action, they cannot hold back the avalanche!
Even if the site gets shut down, there are many other... not to mention all those more discret p2p programs without ads and pubiclity. You guys know that

[feather]

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Let's hope the appeal happens.

[jeffrey collins]

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That's why I love those countries up there. They are soo against a lot of the laws our country has. Like the RIAA.

[Corven]

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the judgement is based on pressure from American Corporate money ... if the Swedish has it ways with their law the sentence would probably not stick after appeal

[jeffrey collins]

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Well i think they are based in Sweden where the laws of the UK are not followed.

[Jayson]

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What a load of bullshit. Clear case of the judge/jury not knowing how the site works.

"It appears that the court chose to not take any of the technical details into account"


That sums it up pretty well alright.