Comments on: The Pirate Bay: the verdict doesn’t matter

By: Boocock

Boocock — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:17:05 +0000

What about the sheer robbery of the record companies constantly re-releasing old recordings on so called compilation albums just to get more money from gullible punters. “Pirates” who share there purchases are no different to “law abiding citizens” who lend each other their toys, clothes, etc, etc. get a life you low grade American morons, Why is it always the damn yanks who have to rip off the rest of the world? Come to Oz mates and we’ll show you what we do with low-lifes……..

By: ChÃ©

ChÃ© — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:40:01 +0000

Dave’s right!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:30:12 +0000

What we’re seeing are the death throes of an industry that cannot adapt. Many artists think that record companies make them rich – they don’t. Their popularity is what makes people want to watch them and listen to them. A record company’s primary purpose is marketing – everything else, including distribution, is a product of that marketing. Artists PAY record companies to market and distribute, and if the record company fails, they come after the artist.

So-called “piracy” takes over the distribution aspect of the recording industry. Pirates perform a valuable service – distributing media at their own expense, rather than the artist’s. Forcing pirates to remain anonymous has hindered the music industry’s ability to profit from this distribution method. Look at axxo. Pirates love to download and share authentic axxo rips due to their consistently high quality. People search for “axxo” when trying to discover new media! There is absolutely no reason why the recording industry couldn’t do the same thing, sharing under their own labels. This could be the cornerstone of a label’s marketing approach, but instead of adopting it, they’ve sandbagged it.

People will always want merchandise of popular artists, whether that merchandise is a CD, autographed CD, t-shirts, etc. People will always want to see live performances of popular artists. The recording industry can create plenty of revenue streams and slash their own costs just by utilizing the goodwill of consumers to build the all-important popularity of the artist.

By: Sir Sabre

Sir Sabre — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:29:06 +0000

All if this ‘Copyright’ law they are trying to push on us is ridiculous. If this is what they deem illegal, then that is the same for my Digital TV PVR. I record TV episodes, Movies, anything I want, and YES…I do show them publicly because my friends come over and watch them for FREE!! So I must be a so called “pirate” also.

Time to sue all the Cable, Satellite companies, TiVo, all the manufacturers… it will have to be everybody if this is to be a fair judgment. We do not build the tools to “Pirate” the product in question, the manufacturers do, so where does it end?

It never will…….

By: catflap

catflap — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:51:50 +0000

not “bullifying”…i mean “nullifying”.

but bullying does come into it.

freudian slip?

By: catflap

catflap — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:50:36 +0000

whatever the outcome, if it’s possible in swedish law, i think either party will appeal based on the timing of the new legislation, or call it an unsafe ruling (as is sometimes done in the UK), bullifying the judgment and causing a retrial.

also, i hope some interested parties (EFF, pirate party, etc.) can contest the law based on it being enacted while the court is in recess.