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- Sk8SkaNJ, on 02/04/2008, -9/+246yeah, wrong topic.
- doshindude, on 02/04/2008, -3/+219Ah, playing dumb, one of the best, most successful strategies ever.
- Shootfast, on 02/04/2008, -3/+180Depends where you get your games... Aarrghhhh!
- iceman0113, on 02/04/2008, -1/+131http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/the-pirat ... direct link to the full article
- ClockworksNine, on 02/04/2008, -6/+109Alberto Gonzales is living proof of this.
- buildbyflying, on 02/04/2008, -4/+107there's nothing wrong with paying for things, but there's also nothing wrong with sharing either. Instead of incriminating potential buyers -- the system needs to be reinvented to take into consideration that the model has changed. No software is worth a thousand dollars and no mp3 is worth 99 cents if it's not yours to keep.
- Silvarant, on 02/04/2008, -9/+97Hopefully Pirate Bay wont go down like demonoid, i really miss all the content they had up, especially the comics
- Protoss, on 02/04/2008, -3/+81TPB was already brought down...but back up within days. You really cannot defeat these pirates.
- d0onut, on 02/04/2008, -0/+75Wow. They're really putting up a fight..
- isunktheship, on 02/04/2008, -5/+77Oh *****, who let "The Man" in here?
- nirvanix, on 02/04/2008, -15/+82If I could download a high quality movie for $5-10, I'd gladly pay over and over again. The RIAA just doesn't get it because they are a group of grasping old *****.
- mrASSMAN, on 02/04/2008, -3/+61That's more of a reaction to a painful bout of constipation.. should be "ARRR!!"
- sovietninja, on 02/04/2008, -4/+49Of course the Assman would be well experienced and versed in the sounds of the....... nevermind.
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -3/+48Good going. Pirate Bay will never die as long as these guys are still alive.
Thank you to the TB for making the Internet even more awesome:) - inactive, on 02/04/2008, -1/+46Respect to the Pirate Bay for not selling out and putting a heck of a fight.
- masterc, on 02/04/2008, -4/+44Because most of the money doesn't actually go to who deserves it? It ends up going to the studios and record labels, not the actors / musicians. It's much more beneficial to a music artist, for example, to buy their CDs at their concert so they actually get the money.
- ToadLeg, on 02/04/2008, -3/+421) they could get a different domain
2) that could only possibly apply to Sweden
3) someone else would buy it and redirect to the new domain
4) there are many other torrent sites
5) their new servers could act as if they are unaffiliated with ThePirateBay
6) how could they "seize a domain" recognized by other countries?
7) they couldn't seize the IP of a server in a different country
"what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." - mrgoat, on 02/04/2008, -2/+37If you search for *.mp3 on google you can find a place to download it illegally.
Isn't that what the piratebay do? Link to where you might be able to download something illegally?
When are the MPAA and RIAA going after google then? - FTLJohnson, on 02/04/2008, -0/+35So, because Britney can only afford 3 new houses, 5 new SUVs, and 12 divorces... instead of 5 New Houses, 9 SUVs, and 26 divorces... We're going to kill the business altogether and end up with two idiots on cable access to entertain us?
Hrm, I guess "Red Green" and "Harold Green" are going to continue getting my money voluntarily... Good thing I saw some of their content for free on Digg a few days ago... and then told a few friends... or I might not have bought that book... and they might not have bought a DVD set of the Red Green show... Hell... I bet if some people hadn't seen it for free online about a week ago... This post wouldn't even make sense to them... but it's great that through the miracle of the internet, artists reach audiences they never before could have dreamed of, where free promotion brings in a hell of a lot more money than the days of the luddites, when people had to buy your stuff to find out if they even liked it. It's nice sometimes to have a buyers market, where the sellers are eager to please... - McMaster88, on 02/04/2008, -1/+31If there was a service where you paid $10-$15 a month, for UNLIMITED and DRM FREE (literally just like it is now, just its illegal) I would see that as a good investment. And you may be thinking, $10-$15 for a person to download movie and music unlimited, that sounds like a bad idea thats barely any money at all. But thats $10-$15 more than they are making off of me now...
- strictnein, on 02/04/2008, -1/+31Why would the RIAA care about what you do with a movie?
- mrASSMAN, on 02/04/2008, -5/+31Yes, I would.
- Sil369, on 02/04/2008, -6/+32They really be pirates...arrr...
- TxAggie08, on 02/04/2008, -3/+28Trust me, if I download final cut pro 2, the programmers didn't lose a dime, because there is no way I would have bought it.
- mrASSMAN, on 02/04/2008, -1/+26He plays dumb unintentionally.
- cnot3, on 02/04/2008, -2/+26Yarrr, takin ter the open seas are they?
- allyant, on 02/04/2008, -9/+33"If I could download a high quality movie for $5-10"
I still wouldn't. - lotticasio, on 02/04/2008, -1/+24haha I love the internet, you can say whatever you want to justify anything, say something idealistic and do the opposite. Yes when movies cost 5$, I too will buy them instead of downloading them from the pirate bay, *wink* *wink*.
- isunktheship, on 02/04/2008, -2/+24First, and my answer is probably similar to others, "they aren't worth THAT much".
A second answer, "free > not free", why would we pay even if we did like it, there's enough money being made, piracy has been around for centuries.
Yo ho ho! - Auraness, on 02/04/2008, -1/+22Aw... This means they won't even have a treasure map? How am I going to get rich now?
- simplistics06, on 02/04/2008, -0/+20why is there 4chan in my digg
- isunktheship, on 02/04/2008, -3/+23Hahaha I love these guys, brilliant strategy! They have made it possible for people to share files, but they did not force people to share illegal content. The servers were theres, but who's are they now? Not theirs! The Fine - a measly $100k, which if paid is negligible in comparison to a fine in the U.S, plus they have clean records, so if they are sentenced nothing still may come of it.
I think thats good game, well done sirs. - RadiatedAnt, on 02/04/2008, -2/+22This news almost brought a tear to my eye :*)
- aywwts4, on 02/04/2008, -0/+19Napster hurt the least, It's death lead to the golden age of filesharing.
If they never took napster down we might still be using centralized trackers with a true one peer to one peer System (Not the current PPPPPPPPPPP2PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP systems we use, the death of napster introduced the golden age of music, movies, games, books, and porn, all being shared at once, between thousands of users simultaneously, with decentralized trackers much more immunne to litigation.
The death of napster was the best thing to happen to piracy since dual cassette tape decks. If napster did not die, we might not be using bittorent and getting 1000KBPS+ speeds on our linux distributions today. (In conclusion, thank you RIAA) (I do miss oink though, very good community and I never got invited to the new party) - Kurlumbenus, on 02/04/2008, -0/+18They DO want it hard enough.
- LMaxey, on 02/04/2008, -0/+17Mr. President are you high or just stupid?
...I assure you, I am not high. - Slade605, on 02/04/2008, -2/+18Aarrr, Me buried treasure/server
- qwerty121, on 02/04/2008, -3/+19This is why TPB is the biggest tracker. They may get a lot of money of ads but they spend it on new servers and features and they aren't stupid and they don't get scared from one notice from those RIAA etc pricks etc.
BTW: Any mirror of the original article, the digg effect seems to have occured, - achalhoub, on 02/04/2008, -0/+15What legal authorities are doing to the Pirate bay is just stupid. While they at it, why don't they ban DVD players since they can be used to view copied DVDs or ban the telephone since you can talk about confidential information through it? They are communication mediums too aren't they?
That's just the dumb ape way out. Kill the messenger - offput, on 02/04/2008, -0/+15I completely agree with you, which is why I use file sharing as a means of discovery. I spend an absurd amount of my money on buying TV boxsets, DVDs and CDs, but I'm also an avid bittorrenter, and the former is a direct consequence of the latter.
- hobbitsareneat, on 02/04/2008, -3/+17Hey it's mudkip.
- lotticasio, on 02/04/2008, -3/+17Hey man, Im fighting soulless corporations that profit from their products, and the only way to win is to steal and watch movies because being a whore of consumerism and freedom fighter of the internet isnt cheap.
- Vaelkar, on 02/04/2008, -0/+13RIAA = RECORDING. INDUSTRY. ASSOCIATION. (of) AMERICA.
Where do you see movie in that?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpaa - Hangly, on 02/04/2008, -0/+13Nothing I download is sold anywhere near me (and some isn't even sold at all.) The shrinkwrapped box distribution model just isn't designed to provide much variety.
- knightboat, on 02/04/2008, -3/+16Shut up.
- mikesbaker, on 02/04/2008, -1/+14dugg for the pirate bay map
- ninja0, on 02/04/2008, -0/+13google would just buy the RIAA and shut them down. :)
- blacklilyninja, on 02/04/2008, -2/+14*****
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -0/+12Yeah, I don't think I'm going to pay for 500+ albums.
- Palastanga, on 02/04/2008, -0/+12What about thepiratepay.org domain name?
Surely legal action could mean that the domain name could be seized and redirected to www.riaa.com - I'd like to know the safeguards they have for this. Do they have multiple domains and DNS servers ready to deal with such a situation? -
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