Guilty as charged

I really feel bad for the creators of TPB, they are just the figureheads for the revolution in the mass media market. Maybe if Sony, Warner Bros. etc had taken their lead in the first place, these file-sharing websites would not be as popular as they are now.

Fire-sharing websites such as TPB provide a higher quality product than DVD/BluRay and CD producers do, for free, without hassling DRMs, without restrictions on when or where it can be installed, etc. It is fairly obvious why they are becoming more popular. Unlike TPB, Sony/Warner/etc are treating their paying customers like criminals and it is really backfiring. The media industry has nobody to blame but itself for this blatant extortion of customers.

I can't wait for this to be appealed. The prosecution originally had to cut out over half of the charges against TPB just because of how asinine this case is =\. There is no copyrighted material on TPB, merely links to access it from somewhere else. This would be like fining a person who gives a thief directions to a bank. Hopefully the court system over there repeals this decision made on political and not judicial grounds.
 
I was going to post but "There is no copyrighted material on TPB, merely links to access it from somewhere else. This would be like fining a person who gives a thief directions to a bank." summed up anything and everything I could possibly say.

I don't really know what grounds they're being held and I doubt that they'll end up imprisoned.
 
Copyright law is so inconsistent; someone in America was recently acquitted even though they had material in their shared folder because "making something available does not constitute distribution," yet these people are jailed when they're not even in possession of anything illegal.

I know, different country, but still.
 
Ok, so why aren't the trying to sue google?
I'm sure you can find copyrighted content using their search engine -.-
 
Intellectual property/copyright is fundamentally illegitimate; ideas are not property and can never be property.

With that said, the Internet has essentially screwed it over, and it's on its way out.
 
The Swedish Pirate Party has gained 2500 members just today - and the number's still rising. They're aiming for the European Parliament this summer.
 
I read an article that pointed out to me one (fairly commonsense) application of using music piracy for gain - aiming your concerts at places with the most downloads of any given band. Something like full legality could only accelerate something like this.

As far as legal applications of video media, places like my college have such a 1990s approach to our A/V libraries that it is sickening. I mean I guess you could make schools get paid streaming as some middle ground, but there are so many times in a mere three years of school that videos have utterly fucked up and time has been wasted fixing it (often because of having to use bad programs that are encouraged hand in hand with things like these piracy laws)...

This is just so asinine. They will probably at least get out of the damages part in the appeal, I would guess.
 
In certain applications, torrents and so forth serves as free market research. I consume a lot of anime/games/other forms of Japanese media. Much of this media is untranslated. Why? Because it was decided, for whatever reason, that said media would not be worth the effort to sell in America. However, torrents and other forms of downloading can allow companies to assess the potential market for future products, and thus allow them to better decide whether to release a game in the North American market.
 
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