Comments on: New Swedish anti-p2p law

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 30 May 2005 13:12:59 +0000

i live in a nearby country Estonia where only downloading of music and movies for personal usage is legal – could EU force us to make everything illegal? i heard Netherlands is pretty liberal about it where even uploading is legal.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 May 2005 22:18:36 +0000

Please don’t be confused by the translation of AntipiratbyrÃ¥n (anti piracy bureau). This organisation is in no way connected to the government and is funded only by the entertainment cartels. Basicly it’s MPAA and RIAA in Sweden. Henrik Ponten is their head legal council, who for some peculiar reason doesn’t have any higher education in the subject (revieled by Swedish PiratbyrÃ¥n (Piracy Bureau) who runs Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site still online (?). PiratbyrÃ¥n’s Rasmus Fleischer is, btw, was recently ranked as the 10th most important IT-personality here in Sweden by technical weekpaper Ny Teknik).

// Stormmind

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 May 2005 13:09:19 +0000

All that is crap.

RIAA, and all other asshole rich organization, star, etc make me vomit.
They never have sufficiently money.

Also P2P is good for crap agency like CIA, FBI, etc who want control everything, everybody on this planet.

The only place where they are some freedom again is Internet. The rest belong to fucking rich who want control all.

So why not say P2P is guilty of all and so make control all.

The ONLY thing againts “piracy” is put price lower.
And the fact that asshole RIAA or other spy everybody on Internet will not sell more stuff.

The real idea behind that is CONTROL everybody.

Also I find a lot idiot that 100, 200, few asshole politician have power to decide for million of people.

REAL piracy is to take something where the value is 1 cent and sell that $US 20.
Like asshole music, movies, software do.

Again just sell in a good price (not make 50%, 100%,…,2000% or more profit) and people will buy.

Sell CD/DVD at $2US and you will see people buy a lot.

Also another way is put minimum salary at $US 20/hour.
But sure fucking asshole rich NEVER want that.
They want people live in shit. They feel happy to see people die.

NOTHING change. Except technologies.
Human are same idiot that in past…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 May 2005 01:59:28 +0000

well it’s always been illegal to upload and host files on web in sweden nothing changed there. They only thing it does is to make it illegal to download and to break copy protection on dvds but the law says you can make one copy so that really makes it meaning less. I might be wrong but to take civil action against someone in sweden first there has to be some criminal charges and, if police don’t actively inforce the law nothing will happen. Alot of this is just to come into compliance with the eu directive and if the sweden society does not care not alot can happen even with this new law. I believe the piratebay is still ok as long as there host keeps their balls.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 May 2005 11:15:32 +0000

http://linuxreviews.org/news/2005/02/10_way_to_go_sweeden/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 May 2005 02:04:00 +0000

I don’t think that it will be a problem. In the case of a torrent site EUCD (I believe that the new sweden act is based on that) is still “normal”.

But in most filesharing cases the practice is different from law. In the case of piratebay, they just offer a communication service. As one of my dc hub op. friend said: “how should I know, wheter he [the uploader] had distribution rights from Dreamworks or not”.

Only from changing the law the practice will not change. (I hope)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:40:54 +0000

Just like everyone else, their days are numbered – but enjoy it while it lasts. Then move on.

One day, they might find out what those “retractable batons” actually feel like.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:36:59 +0000

I urge all Swedes to start sending cheques to the pertinent institution. Royalties for downloads have been set at $5.00/month by Yahoo. So make out a cheque for that many crowns and mail it off to your government.

Perhaps p2pnet could coordinate this with its Swedish readers? If it takes off their, perhaps we could do the same thing in Canada.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:27:15 +0000

So does this mean that Pirate Bay will now be under fire from the RIAA and MPAA???
So we wont get to see them make fun of legal threat letters anymore? T_T