p2pconsortium.com — The battle over legal filesharing is hotter than ever in Sweden - 13 MPs from the main ruling party have already joined the copyright rebels in Europe's leading pirate country. "The copyright lobby realized they were under serious attack and mounted every piece of defense they could muster", tells Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Pirate Party.
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Closed AccountJan 14, 2008
Grow up.
teamtomatoJan 14, 2008
I'm not sure why more people don't call the Pirate Bay out on their ridiculous moralizing; the technology came first, the technology makes file sharing possible, and people engage in it. The Robin Hood posturing comes second, as justification for the theft that is taking place. There's an implicit acknowledgment that file sharing is in fact theft in the name of the company (organization? clubhouse?), and it's left to the supporters to justify it by excoriating corporate greed. I think these people need to think about who is being greedy, when they're amassing tens of thousands of free, stolen media files to - what? Watch? Listen to? Most likely bitch about to their other Internet "pirate" buddies? It's like a vast network of Simpsons Comic Book Guys, whose obesity is a metaphor for the sense of entitlement that is so clumsily veiled as outrage over "corporate greed". So the music industry is wrecked, for better or worse, with the television and film industry possibly to follow. Fine. But how much has music or film itself been devalued by the advent of file-sharing? When you can download or copy whole discographies in a matter of minutes, for free, as opposed to building a collection gradually, you not only haven't spent any $$$, you haven't spent, or invested, any emotional (or intellectual) capital. You got it easily, and for free, which, believe me, is NOT how these things were produced. There is no honor in that whatsoever - just a hard drive crammed with files. So who's being heroic, and who's being greedy?
init100Jan 15, 2008
Why, isn't he allowed to have an opinion that you don't approve of? He is working to change the law legally. What's wrong with that?
scantron27Jan 21, 2008
i wish we had a pirate party