torrentfreak.com — Yesterday several entertainment industry insiders explained how piracy was responsible for the downfall of their industries. Today, Kristoffer Schollin from Gothenburg University explains that BitTorrent is not evil, while media professor Roger Wallace informs the court that the file-sharing is actually beneficial to the entertainment industry.
Feb 26, 2009 View in Crawl 4
irfanfarukiFeb 27, 2009
I am with guys from pirate bay here.<a class="user" href="http://www.irfanfaruki.com/">http://www.irfanfaruki.com/</a>
rickcarsonFeb 27, 2009
Robert Asprin writes:"PLEASE HELP FIGHT INTERNET PIRACY. Scanning and uploading this novel to the internet without the author's permission is not an act of flattery. It is an act of theft. It is not only disrespectful to the author; it violates the author's copyright and takes money from the author's pocket by disseminating copies for which no royalties are paid."I know writing != music, but I think the situations are similar enough that it is relevant.
jburgos314Feb 27, 2009
TPB is the pepsi one of evil, just one calorie, but not evil enough.
init100Feb 28, 2009
"i don't see how getting copyrighted content that you would normally have to pay for, for free, can be legal."It isn't."i would think its just like a drug deal in terms of legality where both the buyer and the seller are responsible for the event."And they are. The content uploader (seeder) and the content downloader (leecher) are both committing a crime. But since The Pirate Bay is none of these parties, the question remains if they are actually liable. And that is what the court is supposed to decide.
init100Feb 28, 2009
I hope that you realize that anyone asking to be dugg up is invariably going to be dugg down.
init100Feb 28, 2009
"its foolish to say the Pirate Bay isn't guilty of Copyright infringement."It isn't foolish, it's true. The Pirate Bay is not guilty of copyright infringement, and that is not what they are charged with. They are charged with assisting making available copyrighted works without permission from the copyright holder. Note that this isn't the same as, and less serious than, assisting copyright infringement.They were charged with assisting copyright infringement at first, but the prosecutor quickly cut those charges when he realized how the technology works, and that they wouldn't be able to prove such an act.