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- depro9, on 05/23/2008, -5/+417The hackers of planet earth are far smarter than any silly greedy government. They built this ***** & they will continue to exploit this ***** long after we are all dead. Someone should tell these fools whats up lol.
- mark076h, on 05/23/2008, -8/+257LONG LIVE THE PIRATE BAY!!!!!!!!
- tj111, on 05/23/2008, -6/+251The only "Pirate Bay Killer" would be the abandonment of all these archaic IP protection laws.
- cypherpunks, on 05/23/2008, -20/+211DIGG UP!
- NikoKun, on 05/23/2008, -4/+158How horrifying... Corporate greed knows no limits, the freedom and rights of civilians are nothing more than a nuisance to them, and they want to destroy that.
- sniffer, on 05/23/2008, -9/+136Obligatory ***** THE RIAA AND ALIKES!!!!!!!!
- ZaZ2137, on 05/23/2008, -11/+138WE MUST STAND AND FIGHT! FOR THE PIRATE BAY! FOR FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!
- leszek, on 05/23/2008, -1/+114What is this doing in the Linux/Unix Category ?
- scaaven2, on 05/23/2008, -2/+92They can't ban anonymizers because it's technically impossible. Any proxy server anywhere in the world will suffice, and there's nothing they can do about it.
- Iamien, on 05/23/2008, -2/+87If pirate bay goes down, if it can go down. There will be no less than 20 new sites emerging. Its called Innovation, it cannot be stopped.
- RogerStrong, on 05/23/2008, -1/+75The original SF film, "The 'Voyage to the Moon" ("le Voyage dans la lune") (1902) is probably still the poster child for movie piracy.
An American thief named Thomas Edison obtained a copy, had more copies made, and started showing it across the US. Edison made a fortune, while the film-maker went bankrupt. - nekroskoma, on 05/23/2008, -1/+69i love wikileaks
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -1/+65They had VHS tapes of Star Wars in 1977 shot in the theater... this battle has been going on for a long, long time and I suspect will never go away.
- m0tbaillie, on 05/23/2008, -0/+57Oh no, not...not...LEGISLATION.
...because as we all know, the illegality of file-sharing on the Internet has stopped millions from downloading. - theandy1, on 05/23/2008, -1/+57I find it so funny how bad piracy has been handled. Years ago when I heard about the imminent shutdown of Napster approaching my attitude was "I better get everything I can while I'm still able to". Since then every file sharing method has been threatened and my attitude remains the same because of the threats. My hard drives wouldn't be near as full if they hadn't made me paranoid.
- blacklilyninja, on 05/23/2008, -0/+52George Orwell said it best
unpersons - kalle86, on 05/23/2008, -1/+51Pirate Bay's servers run Linux?
- Leetamus, on 05/23/2008, -8/+54I think piracy is capitalism at it's finest. If you're movie sucks I'm likey to just steal it and watch it on a hungover sunday - if it's worth it I support the creator. You can no longer sell total crap when paying is optional which is good for a competitive marketplace.
- geometry, on 05/23/2008, -0/+42Intellectual Property != Private Property
If you steal my car I have no more car. If you can magically make a copy of it then I don't care.
This from a person who works as a software engineer and sells product which I know is often pirated. Do we chase down the people we know are pirating our software, no. We spend the time making our products better so the large percentage of people do actually pay for it. - xirtap, on 05/23/2008, -1/+40And thus, thepirateship.com was born. Crossing oceans and blockages all across the world.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -1/+39So Hollywood and Adobe think because I can't get on TPB I am going to "rush out" and buy it? Are you freaking crazy? I will get by with the gimp and ripping DVD's from the Video shop you retards! I refuse to spend more than $10 on a film and I am not spending $800 on Adode when the gimp is free. GFU
- mCanada, on 05/23/2008, -3/+40I find it interesting that this is surfacing as legislation in Canada coincidentally comes up in the form of a new American DMCA at the same time. Coincidence? FTA: these members seem to have their hands dirty on this one : Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA)
- Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)
- Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)
- Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
- Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN
in Canada the new DMCA legislation is being brought forward by Jim Prentice. It would be interesting to see who's having lunch with each other.
facebook group for more info -- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6315846683 - Shootfast, on 05/23/2008, -3/+40It affects our ability to download "Linux ISO's"
- t0x2c, on 05/23/2008, -3/+38TONIGHT WE DINE IN 4CHAN
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -2/+33DUGG UP!
- Strungout, on 05/24/2008, -1/+29Pirate Bay goes down and 5000 other sites rise from the ashes. There are legitimate uses for torrents, but let's be honest, the majority of the people who use Pirate Bay do it because they can get free *****.
Though the argument can be made that people who pirate stuff, probably weren't going to buy it if that option didn't exist. - Phusion, on 05/23/2008, -1/+29I figured after all these raids and whatnot on pirate groups and torrent servers, they would eventually make some kind of strongarm move against countries that didn't adhear to the US's ***** IP laws. Here we go....
- Cryoniq, on 05/23/2008, -17/+43Allright.. well then.. we kick out Microsoft totaly and take back Volvo, and chock the prices at IKEA, and no more fracking swedish jummy food or knäckebröd from us. And then we will kill Hollywood with making Pirate Bay governal and go multipeer on US sorry azzes. If they want war.. we give them war.. :)
- sputza, on 05/23/2008, -0/+25Big business runs most governments now. Sad.
- Snokage, on 05/23/2008, -6/+30terrorist! arrest him now!
- neko, on 05/23/2008, -0/+24Oh, yeah, there'll always be ways to pirate stuff. The point is, there just aren't enough laws in the world where the USA is allowed to tell you what you can and can not do. They hate our freedom!
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+23Holy crap... that's actually true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Di ... - that sucks... SCREW YOU EDISON! YOU HAVE DOOMED US ALL TO A POSSIBLE NATION WITHOUT PIRACY MAYBE!!!!!
- iDe1337, on 05/23/2008, -0/+22That and that torrents are completely legal when used for legit reasons which should put a hole in the TPB killing gov plan. I legally download all my anime through torrents because it's about 50x faster.
- antonio97b, on 05/24/2008, -0/+22Our packets will block out the sun!
- bjornski, on 05/23/2008, -0/+22Yeah, and arrest those ***** who borrow a CD or movie from their friends without paying the copyright holders too!
Time to start cracking down on used game/movie sales too! How DARE those people think they have a right to watch something without giving Viacom and Sony their cut EVERY TIME IT'S PLAYED!
Don't worry. We'll be coming to a day where we'll have the balance duducted from our "credit chips" every time we turn on a TV, radio or computer.
Time to start busting those ***** who save pictures they see on the internet too! Those are someone's content! How DARE you think you have a right to have a copy on your hard drive without paying for it! - TheGuruStud, on 05/24/2008, -0/+20He also took credit for Tesla's work and conspired against Tesla with the gov't (if I remember correctly about the gov't part). He was just a no good SOB.
- NikoKun, on 05/23/2008, -1/+21And besides, they want to "ban the use of various anonymization tools"... -_-
Anonymity on the internet, is a very valuable RIGHT. It's as important as our rights to privacy.
And they want to take that away.
Frankly, on the internet... Banning the kinds of tools they're talking about... Is impossible. Regardless of the law, millions of people will still continued to use such tools, to protect their privacy on the net. - RogerStrong, on 05/24/2008, -0/+20When A. G. Bell didn't get a British patent for the telephone, Edison patented it there as his own invention. He later lost the court case.
And of course the light bulb that Edison patented and claimed to have invented, was earlier patented in Britain by Joseph Swan. It appeared in a Scientific American article, which Edison subscribed to. A similar bulb has also been patented in Canada - Edison simply bought the patent. - delafield, on 05/23/2008, -1/+20Easy - it has to do with freedom and copyright law (think GPL and Linux). I say this becasue I just finished reading "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity." You can get the book (creative commons) at
http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
Several mentions of the GPL in that book. - jp12380, on 05/23/2008, -3/+22The government and corporation want full control of everything. What about freedom? Nope greed rules this world and our country! Wow, just wow.
I think they should also implement the death for speeding rule. No exceptions 1 MPH and you need to go to the guillotine, oh and all of your money and assets need to go to the government as well after all that is the least they deserve. - thirteenthcor, on 05/24/2008, -1/+20It IS about the people who made teh intarwebs. They want to BAN passive software. The Internet is one of the last few bastions of security of identity, The people in power want a peek at what we have, because they are angry that we have hid something from them, something they don't want to understand, just keep us from being safe.
This is deeper than just simple Torrent files....
Because were will it stop? It will stop when we have no freedom to hide, and we are scared. The Government is O U R S!! Not theirs. - K4emic, on 05/23/2008, -1/+20Banning multi-region DVD players? How the hell are warner bros. gonna get the last few buck out of my wallet now?
Someone in the states started bleeding inside his brain when he proposed this. How the hell are they ever going to enforce this worldwide? Like picking up quarters on the bottom of the sea - Guarded by sharks.
Also: Where did mr. Freedom of speech go? Propaganda-guy is here, he's a real *****. - ninja0, on 05/24/2008, -1/+20HAHA that was awesome. True though... see gov't? TPB does have legal downloads too :P
- Tryptomine, on 05/23/2008, -0/+19The problem is buying CDs usually supports the label, not the artist (or hardly at all). I don't think anyones against supporting artists we enjoy, but hell, downloading the album and mailing them a check directly will do far more then buying any CD.
And how can you not know how to use torrents? - twiztidsinz, on 05/23/2008, -0/+19Just like they cant kill off Piracy and File Sharing in general..
- FFandMMfan, on 05/24/2008, -3/+21DO WHAT YA WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE!
- budgeysmuggler, on 05/23/2008, -1/+19This is the future of the internet get used to it. these ***** have been trying to get a leg over you and me and anyone else who craves uncensored free speech and expression. This is their ultimate goal. How can our benevolent leaders operate in an environment where their actions can be so easily called to account. That is clearly unacceptable.
- JohnboiWaltune, on 05/24/2008, -0/+18Where do I get the torrent of that?
- NikoKun, on 05/23/2008, -0/+18I wasn't necessarily talking about piracy... Because what they are doing in this case, will have a lot of collateral damage, in terms of our rights, and fair use. And it is THAT, which they don't give a ***** about...
- thirteenthcor, on 05/24/2008, -0/+17Thanks for shedding light on Edison stealing Tesla's work.
People need to know this. HE stole other peoples ideas and claimed them as if HE invented them, when in reality he only held the patents as per contractual agreement. -
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