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- inactive, on 05/24/2008, -3/+160You should be free to link to whatever the ***** you want. It's hosting things that should be the illegal part. Even hosting and distribution is a grey area.
- StatiK69, on 05/24/2008, -1/+103Here's a better idea; create a site to search torrent sites that in turn hold the way to get to the files. Oh wait, Google does that already. I'd like to see the MPAA/RIAA go after Google or Microsoft.
- carlonchox911, on 05/24/2008, -3/+96***** THE MPAA
- FallOutBoyTonto, on 05/24/2008, -2/+61thanks for the free publicity of the little sites, never heard of these before and I just may check them out now
- inactive, on 05/24/2008, -2/+57By this logic they should also be suing Google because they link to www.thepiratebay.org which contains links to movies and tv shows.
- dleesgeetar, on 05/24/2008, -3/+42so true, this is seriously messed up, they could fine about a million websites right now . . .
- DeFex, on 05/24/2008, -1/+39Fine the government for making roads which lead to banks which people rob! damned enablers.
- skywake, on 05/24/2008, -0/+32I'd like to see them try
*finds link to major movie on Pirate Bay*
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4172905/Iron.Man.2008. ...
***** them.... - portnoy, on 05/24/2008, -1/+28Interesting, I wonder if this means that movies can be fined huge amounts if they refer to "illegal" activities even though they may not actually be breaking any laws themselves? This could be an interesting precedent.
- lucidguru, on 05/24/2008, -2/+27Nice... this sounds like a very slippery slope... I bet diggers will be getting into trouble in no time.
- Falldog, on 05/24/2008, -0/+21Great news. I'm going to celebrate by downloading a movie.
- Murdats, on 05/24/2008, -1/+21actually TPB only contains links to files that contain metadata that can be used to find the tv and movies.
- TexasMd91, on 05/24/2008, -4/+23So what stops people from changing their pages content to pirated movies after I link to them?
What stops someone who got frontpage on digg to change to a pirated movie the next day? Digg CANNOT control what that site does. So why should we be fined? - robeph, on 05/24/2008, -2/+20What worries me is this. The MPAA is paving the way so that any detractor of the MPAA who is discussing their activities could be shut down. Let me give an example. Lets say blogger john writes a small one piece about the MPAA and their attempts to use various methods to rid themselves of thepiratebay, now by mentioning piratebay since it is a website known by it's url www.thepiratebay.com the act of simply LINKING to this copyright infringing site could be an act of contributory infringement, thus allowing loop hole access to a stifling of free speech in the digital age where the names of parties involed are most often their urls which creates implicit linkage
- twiztidsinz, on 05/24/2008, -3/+21Buried as Douchebag
- Daggity, on 05/24/2008, -0/+14Reminds me of Atlas Shrugged, where the government created a number of laws that they /wanted/ the people to break, so that they could extort whatever they want from the victims.
- frelk, on 05/24/2008, -4/+17I sent my copy of Herstein's Topics in Algebra and my copy of Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis from California to my new place in New York and the Post Office stole both and pretended that the labels fell off. I wrote on the cardboard with magic marker in both cases! Why is the post office stealing my favorite undergraduate math textbooks!?!?
- inactive, on 05/24/2008, -2/+15www.sidereel.com
www.surfthechannel.com
I'm Canadian. - da_bradler, on 05/24/2008, -1/+14I hope you're happy, you just made Yahoo cry by not including them.
- MickJT, on 05/24/2008, -0/+13Google links to thepiratebay which links to metadata which uses their tracker to link to the actual people hosting the file.
I should be sued for mentioning Google. - higgy345, on 05/24/2008, -1/+13shhhh usenet doesn't exist.
- MikeCrazy, on 05/24/2008, -3/+15THIS IS *****!!!
They'll go after the people who link these vids are little'ol nerds. But they won't go after site like Youtube, Megavideo, Google, ETC who actually make theorectical millions. LOL from SouthPark - apmtt, on 05/24/2008, -0/+11Or 10.
- lacreme, on 05/24/2008, -2/+13What the *****? Sure it may be MrBabyMan's submission but this is a very good news article and burying it will only prevent word of the MPAA's ***** actions from getting spread.
- McMaster88, on 05/24/2008, -0/+11I have been celebrating for almost 5 years now!
- footodors, on 05/24/2008, -1/+11Cinematube site from last year: http://web.archive.org/web/20070824044921/http://c ...
C'mon, these greedy bastards were so obviously playing with fire! Look at all the ads. - Inflammo, on 05/24/2008, -0/+10Just seeing that logo scared the ***** out of me
- smoothmann, on 05/24/2008, -4/+13Shut the ***** up
- xhazerdusx, on 05/24/2008, -0/+9... I dont get it.
- Professr, on 05/24/2008, -2/+10Don't give them any ideas...
- AzzX, on 05/24/2008, -1/+9Shouldnt Google, Yahoo and Microsoft be hit with the same fine?
And DIGG for that matter. - twiztidsinz, on 05/24/2008, -1/+9But they aren't the one posting the torrents, they are simply indexing them.
That'd be like fining the the manufacturer of a gun and the store that it was bought in when it's used in a robbery or murder.
What people choose to do with is their own choice.
Gun's don't kill people, people kill people.
Torrent's don't steal, people steal. - KiraDnote, on 05/24/2008, -0/+8Then maybe the law needs to be updated so that nobody can stifle your freedom of speech, etc.
- rootsthatruin, on 05/24/2008, -0/+8Why don't they just host their sites in Malaysia like I do?
...Er... - PhillAholic, on 05/24/2008, -0/+8Yea, the RIAA can attempt to do whatever the hell they want. But by deciding cases in their favor the government is then stepping in and denying our free speech.
- Murdats, on 05/24/2008, -0/+7yes, you dont think google links to child porn? they may try and prevent it, but unless you want people to filter everything that goes onto their sites then it is unrealistic to control who links to what.
- da_bradler, on 05/24/2008, -4/+11www.thepiratebay.org
uh oh, is digg going to get sued now? - diggcommentguy, on 05/24/2008, -0/+7Is this a quote from a movie or something? Whatever it is, it's pretty great.
- dvrchatter, on 05/24/2008, -1/+7Sorry, but I don't speak douche.
- Emachine, on 05/24/2008, -6/+12go to www.google.com and type in the name of your favorite tv show and "filetype:torrent"
Isn't Google linking to copyright infringing materials?
Edit: BTW, MrBabyMan, please go get some sleep. - najdorf, on 05/24/2008, -2/+8Freedom of speech repression.
- skywake, on 05/24/2008, -2/+8don't get me wrong... I buy my movies, music and games. The only things I download off torrent sites are TV shows that never air in Australia (because our stations love their reality TV) and Linux isos. I just think its ridiculous that I have to be treated like a criminal because some ***** up the top thinks we are all criminals.
Threatening people with fines and throwing "piracy is a crime" warnings in everyones faces will only make the "problem" worse. Now we can't even mention or link to these sites that everyone knows exist without facing a risk of a lawsuit? How is this helping? - nullx42, on 05/24/2008, -0/+6*pours some Diet pepsi on the ground for another lost comrade*
- diggcommentguy, on 05/24/2008, -0/+6too bad it takes diet coke for a reaction.
- Sawta, on 05/24/2008, -1/+7They're talking about a court case involving the internet. Logic need not apply.
- whoreable, on 05/24/2008, -0/+5The engine does. The game is meh. The alien levels in the single player were horrible.
- damanh4x, on 05/24/2008, -1/+6is google, yahoo, microsoft, or ask.com being fined too?
- dualaudi, on 05/24/2008, -0/+5I think they have tried to sue google and lost... anyone else hear of that?
- inactive, on 05/24/2008, -2/+7http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3376603/Steal_This_Mov ...
Btw, anyone seen Crysis? That game kicks ass! -
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