news.bbc.co.uk— A court in Sweden has handed down its verdict on four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's biggest file-sharing website.
Apr 17, 2009View in Crawl 4
A year each, just for providing infrastructure. What crazy logic was the judge working to? As some of you posted above, this is not going to solve the problem of copyright violation, or even help to solve it. It's only going to contribute further to the bad reputations that the Hollywood studios are garnering for themselves, whilst making more criminals out of movie fans. Reduce your prices studios, provide simultaneous release dates for cinema and online. We will pay as long as your product is priced fairly, I promise you.
Not really. They knew it was coming, they alluded to it many times in interviews despite torrentfreak's incredible pandering to digg's users.It took some pretty serious denial to pretend they weren't heavily invested in copyright infringement, facilitating it, and profiting from it.
audi0Apr 17, 2009
double f**k
Closed AccountApr 17, 2009
f**k that, this is not the direction in which the world should be going at the moment.
xidaneApr 17, 2009
f**k THE MPAAf**k THE RIAA AND <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbPSYuHAdTg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbPSYuHAdTg</a>
baskinghoboApr 17, 2009
I hear an orgy coming
suneetmisraApr 17, 2009
A year each, just for providing infrastructure. What crazy logic was the judge working to? As some of you posted above, this is not going to solve the problem of copyright violation, or even help to solve it. It's only going to contribute further to the bad reputations that the Hollywood studios are garnering for themselves, whilst making more criminals out of movie fans. Reduce your prices studios, provide simultaneous release dates for cinema and online. We will pay as long as your product is priced fairly, I promise you.
benologistApr 17, 2009
Not really. They knew it was coming, they alluded to it many times in interviews despite torrentfreak's incredible pandering to digg's users.It took some pretty serious denial to pretend they weren't heavily invested in copyright infringement, facilitating it, and profiting from it.