Comments on: Sweden formally charges The Pirate Bay

By: x

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:31:01 +0000

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3878830/Fedora-8-dvd-i386

Here’s Fedora 8.

This is a hint.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:18:09 +0000

I dont use TPB at all, or any torrent sites for that matter, but i believe in TPB, sure, they are openly flouting laws, and, if every artist did like radiohead/nin, i think tpb would still exist and still wouldnt give a fuck. what i’m saying is, their morals may be questionable, but, supporting them is the biggest way to make a point known to the big 4 & Mpaa/Riaa, which is why i will happily donate to them should they be found guilty

By: p2p downloader

p2p downloader — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:51:58 +0000

I forgot to say about DRM: the fact that it’s crackable won’t matter too much when the infrastructure to support it and force it on users is in place.

By: p2p downloader

p2p downloader — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:49:19 +0000

TPB won’t win. Once they’re gone, all the other torrent indexers will begin dropping like flies, as they didn’t have the kind of protection that TPB had. TPB are the big site currently propping up all the others.

The media corps have zillions in cash and are able to manipulate their government, as you know. In turn, the American government, being the big bully superpower that they are, are able to strongarm/extort/whatever foreign governments into doing their bidding, eventually.

The TPB *openly* flouts copyright and its founders have gone on TV to say they don’t give a shit about it. TPB links to thousands of copyright torrents, dwarfing the links to Linux distributions, Little Jonny’s Bath Song etc which don’t have this copyright problem.

Like Jammie Thomas, they aren’t gonna actually prove any losses from this activity. They will simply pass a sentence to shut them down. It is then only a matter of time before the rest of the torrent sites fold. Corrupton at its best.

Another front being faught, is of course getting ISPs such as Comcast to block bittorrent traffic. This has already been happening and will continue to grow and will become a major problem for p2p users in 2008.

Lastly, DRM has not gone away, no way. Not on music and certainly not off video. When the big media corporations have achieved their goals of successfully demonizing p2p, shutting TPB etc, chucking people in jail for circumvention and the like *worldwide* we will then see the re-emergence of even more draconian DRM on everything. A truly horrible parasite will be born.

And the sheeple will buy it. In droves. Given nowhere to go for ‘unauthorised’ content, the sheeple will simply turn to the only sources available and eagerly lap up the shit that is spoon-fed them and will happily have their rights extorted back to them for money.

It’s happening all around you right now. If you can’t see this, then you have your head stuck in the sand, my friends.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:21:07 +0000

“. . .and will expose the capitalists for what they areâ¦ greedy!”

Capitalism is like communism, a system like any other with advantages and drawbacks.
What is wrong is not with these systems themselves but with what some individuals do with it.

It seems that there is always some parasites messing up societies for personal profit. These pests can be found in companies such as Vivendi/Universal, Sony/BMG EMI Time Warner, Fox. . . RIAA/MPAA. This is where we have to spray.

Let’s take every thing from them! Their homes their cars their assets. . .

EVERYTHING!

BOYCOTT THE RIAA/MPAA!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:07:53 +0000

I say we all do as much as possible to support them.

Agree!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:26:41 +0000

In the unlikely event that they do loose, I say we all do as much as possible to support them.
Maybe donate to pay their fees, showing that we don’t mind paying if we think we are paying decent people, with societies best interests at heart.
There would be a global uproar if they do loose, but enough of that, they will win, and will expose the capitalists for what they are… greedy!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:14:57 +0000

The pirate bay can run anywhere from virtually any server and can be spread across the world many time.
So it is not going to bring down the pirate Bay.

Also it is not going to make us go and buy music and movies because we are boycotting.

On the contrary It will help us recruit more boycotter!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:08:26 +0000

The traitor Gottfrid Svartholm is now the public enemy number two after Ben Laden in Sweden to be neutralized by any mean by any Swedish Citizen.

The question is howmuch this parasite got from the four majors to do this?

By: Andrey

Andrey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:07:35 +0000

It’s not on their legal threats page yet.