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Re: The Pirate Bay: Is it illegal to point?

JD — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:16 -0000

The thing is, when they do go after people or sites like this, they just piss off more people and cause more people to go over to the dark side and never spend a penny again on a movie or song.

They (officials, artists, movie studios, etc) should embrace this tool. If I were to use it, I would be more likely to go out and buy an "official" copy of the movie or CD or mp3 because I was able to test it and see if it was to my liking.

They're cutting off their noses to spite their face, if you ask me. And they're doing it all in the name of greed. They'd make more money if they'd let people do what THEY want to do, not what they are FORCED to do.

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noob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:54:46 -0000

TPB will win eventually.

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MANEDD — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:01:00 -0000

Although its stealing, it's free, everyone loves a freebee, most people use this website, I can't say I use it >>>wink wink<<< but if they close this site, another 50 will open, there's no point, the only way they will be able to stop all p2p is to close the internet??

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austin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:56:45 -0000

i love piratebay it dosent hert enything if they do get sewd there are still thosends of more just like it ther fing stuped

Re: The Pirate Bay: Is it illegal to point?

Rick — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:37:56 -0000

That kind of "pointing" has been ruled illegal in several European courts as aiding and abetting copyright infringement, and I don't see why Sweden would be so very different. What's relevant here is "intent". And it's going to be hard for the PB guys to credibly deny their intent...

Then again, it's never been quite clear to my why they felt so safe in Sweden, and why it has taken so long for them to be prosecuted. There must be some kind of loophole in Swedish law.

Personally, I hope they win, but I find it hard to believe that under current copyright laws Pirate Bay can be legal in any western country.

What's more worrying, if PB goes down it might trigger the next fase in the P2P arms race, like with Napster and Kazaa before. The ultimate result will inevitably be an anonymized, end to end encrypted, zero point of failure. 'all the data is in the clound' p2p network, with implications for law enforcement (ie, making it damn near impossible) well beyond mere copyright infringement.

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mathewi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:26:02 -0000

Thanks, Corvida.

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Corvida — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:16:58 -0000

Great perspective about the challenges. Linked to it on my blog.

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mathewi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:45:02 -0000

That's a good point, Matt -- Songbird arguably engages in contributory
infringement as well, at least as much as Songza or Seeqpod. And so does
the Yahoo music player they recently introduced that adds a javascript
player to any page with mp3 files in it.

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Matt_ — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:42:00 -0000

the same can be said for the Qtrax Browser ...the Songbird browser they use scrapes every web page it visits for audio files and automatically pops up a very easy to use download manger .