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..................................., - Nekura20x6, on 06/14/2009, -5/+171Stealing is wrong, so to prove my point I'm going to steal your designs!
This is the same insane logic that causes pro-lifers to murder doctors. "What you're doing is so bad that the only thing that can counter it is copying the exact thing that I'm very much against!" - O8SERVER, on 06/14/2009, -2/+95***** the Anti-Pirate Bay!
- trakie, on 06/14/2009, -1/+68id probably get one of these to wear so i can be almost as cool as the people who use drugs and wear D.A.R.E. shirts
- mai9, on 06/14/2009, -3/+60it's good they take ideas from The Pirate Bay.
Like Stephen Colbert said to an homophobic: we're angry to the ones that turns us on.
Happy pirating anti-pirates. - PlusTheBear, on 06/14/2009, -1/+55***** you?
- superkendall, on 06/14/2009, -4/+53It's all true, I downloaded a movie last night and this morning Universal Studios closed down! Thousands out of work, all because of my selfish "victimless actions".
Shame the movie wasn't any good and I have to grab another tonight. - AGONYTUESDAY, on 06/14/2009, -0/+48heh... i don't understand how the "Who's Laughing Now" shirts are a jab at the pirate bay. maybe TPB should sell those too...
- thetron, on 06/14/2009, -1/+48Good idea. Be funny if the real pirate bay started selling the same shirts on the website
- TSK05, on 06/14/2009, -0/+28It's not really infringing on anything, nothing on TPB's site is copyrighted according to TPB: http://www.unleashthebats.co.uk/emails.html
- TSK05, on 06/14/2009, -3/+30Next you'll be telling us that wars for peace don't work.. But he's actually not stealing anything because TPB said nothing on their site is copyrighted (and even if it was, copyright infringement is not equivalent to stealing): http://www.unleashthebats.co.uk/emails.html
- JasonHaley, on 06/14/2009, -0/+23Ok I just went through some more of the shirts and with shirts that say "All your shirts are belong to us", and "Who's laughing now" ..I'm thinking that whoever made this site is just a massive troll wanting attention. The site is too trollish to be true for me. I'll need a face to blame this on before I believe it any further.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -1/+23Thank you Lars
- eltoxico, on 06/14/2009, -0/+21***** the RI-Double-A!
- the8thbit, on 06/14/2009, -1/+22Funny? That would be AWESOME.
- TDDebug, on 06/14/2009, -3/+22A t-shirt "infringing" on TPB's copyrights and trying to call TPB thieves?
Is this guy retarded? - deadguysleeps, on 06/14/2009, -0/+19the weird thing is that the pirate bay used HTTPS for its logo download section:
https://thepiratebay.org/downloads
and Digg still doesn't offer HTTPS for its login ? oh, cmon! - Natendo64, on 06/14/2009, -0/+18Someone needs to parody this mockery.
- PlusTheBear, on 06/14/2009, -5/+22***** you too.
- stuffradio, on 06/14/2009, -3/+18Hey you, where are you going with my roll of cheese!?
- WilliamAdama, on 06/14/2009, -1/+16Tbh, I may just make my own pirate bay t-shirt now because the shirts being sold by http://www.bytelove.com/ (t-shirt website for the pirate bay) are a scam price. 29 Euros... I love their logo and it would make such a cool t-shirt, but I'm not paying them that much.
- isny, on 06/14/2009, -0/+15I'm starting the Anti-Anti-Pirate Bay.
- JasonHaley, on 06/14/2009, -1/+15"In fact Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak that he has sent an email to the people who run the site, pointing them to some high-quality logos they can use for their shirts."
... and yet they still didn't get the whole point of TPB! How greedy do you have to be when someone not only offers you something for FREE but even goes though the trouble of emailing it to your inbox and yet you still rather steal it?? As long as people are greedy, they'll never *get* it. - greevar, on 06/14/2009, -0/+14***** the R-I-Double-A!
***** the M-P-Double-A!
***** the suits from the BSA!
And ***** them all for the DMCA! - the8thbit, on 06/14/2009, -1/+15Everything is automatically copyrighted- it's an inherent law. This is why the public commons and the GNU GPL exist. They emulate an environment in which the creator holds little or no copyright, through copyright.
- kibiz0r, on 06/14/2009, -0/+13Satire is fair use.
Who cares, anyway? This is the biggest story we're ever going to see from them. - TDDebug, on 06/14/2009, -0/+13Notice the quotes?
He *thinks* he's infringing. - ghostofreddit, on 06/14/2009, -0/+12I'd just paint a comma in there so it said " *****, The Pirate Bay!"
- insomniacpyro, on 06/14/2009, -1/+13“Jobs are being lost, mortgages defaulted on, kids pulled out of school – the consequences are widespread."
The Pirate Bay is pirating the US economy?
Also, who the hell pulls their kids out of school? Let alone HOW?! Public schools literally won't let you take your kid off of the Attending list unless you move or he/she is dead, or you put them INTO a private school. If you pull your kid out of school because your lame ass can't get a job, at least it's comforting that with whatever schooling they had, they'll be smarter than you. - malex, on 06/14/2009, -0/+9Regardless of your opinion of copyright violation, these shirts are just poorly designed.
"Who's laughing now" and an All Your Base joke from eight years ago? The logos aren't even modified for parody. There is no meaning or intention being communicated. I couldn't even tell that these are anti-Pirate Bay if I hadn't read the article.
This couldn't be the product of an International Coalition of Artists, unless they collectively lack the talent of a first-year Graphic Design student. - j035u5, on 06/14/2009, -1/+9You cant put the genie back in the bottle though. People will always illegally download it now, its a force of habbit. look at when people release albums free, like NIN or Radiohead, people go "oh cool" then go download it from TPB. Which by the way saves the artist hosting fees anyway so who cares.
Plus, touring is not the only source of income, there's merch, airplay, people do still buy downloads. Frankly I dont have a lot of sympathy for artists, if they are doing something that they love doing for free, and love people hearing then why cant they just keep a day job like they did before they got signed? Never mind the fact that you're not talking about making a living, you're talking about making a fortune. I have friends who make a living playing weddings and high end bars, so the idea of people not making money from selling out a big venue seems like a lie to me.
The bottom line is, if you want to make money as a band, don't expect to be living in a mansion, most bands will only make money for a few months because peoples tastes change, and most bands only make 1 good album.
Why am I feeding the trolls? - inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8No no no, you don't understand - to some people, hypocrisy IS justice.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8Or if they got a bunch of those shirts and gave them away for free.
- eanbowman, on 06/14/2009, -0/+7But... But, I don't want to ***** them. Long distance relationships never work. :C
- AGONYTUESDAY, on 06/14/2009, -0/+7i COULD remove the "*****" and other anti-piratebay words from the shirts because I work at a t-shirt printing company, and we have dry cleaning fluid, all to get inexpensive piratebay shirts, but I think I'll go over to TPB and buy one to spite non-pirates, even though they cost more money...
- maffiou, on 06/14/2009, -0/+7Yep I'm getting one of those for when the verdict is reversed: That's going to be sweeeeeet
- PercyKittenz, on 06/14/2009, -2/+9"Piracy is killing the creative industries."
Well, maybe... But what's probably killing it a lot more is copyright. Creativity has never suffered from artists being able to freely reuse other ideas and works.
And while there might not always be people willing to buy one person's work, there will be plenty of people willing to give theirs away for free. Between the free content from podcasts, web comics, and YouTube videos, free media is outnumbering traditional media by a landslide. - synthsrkl, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6www.thepiratebay.org/downloads
and the money made from selling t-shirts goes to the pirate bureau - bstew22, on 06/14/2009, -1/+7can we stop saying "fail" now?
- gemlarin, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6The flash porn ad's on the site are a nice touch. ***** retard.
- tacojohn48, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6If you download that movie instead of pay for it how will Daddy be able to buy me another Hummer?
- rossnyc, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Hmm...Now I may have to buy a real TPB shirt.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5The Pirate Bay is a pretty cool guy - eh makes a lot of money from teeshirts and don’t care about copyrights or nothing, or so they say.
- falafelkiosken, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Jobs are getting lots because the media industry don't know how to adjust to the current situation, just like the big American car manufactors.
- mastern, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Lawyer head pops in: every "fixed" work has an inherent copyright - even if they don't register that work with the government for statutory protection. Thus these pictures, fixed in a file on the TPB website, have a copyright. By reproducing the logo, the anti-pirates are technically violating TPB's copyright (or the copyright of who ever made the logo and gave it to them).
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5They're kind of missing the point. Even if they sold the exact same shirts as TPB for much cheaper (which they don't), that's not why people buy TPB gear. They buy pirate bay gear to support the pirate bay. This is quite ironic because it's the same principle that musicians SHOULD be relying on. If someone likes an artist's music, they'll buy their CD even though they can get it for free, because it supports the artist.
- raydeen, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5"... the site is much less useful than the original and doesn’t have any torrents."
That's a rather obvious statement. - eanbowman, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4Wow, the ad dissing Radiohead at the bottom made the whole thing unfunny to me. I mean I can take a joke but it seems pretty ill-conceived. It makes it look like the butthurt ramblings of a wannabe.
The rest of it was good lulz though. Isn't it great how the t-shirt designs feature a blurry red no symbol that probably was rendered on there in 72dpi using the Photoshop stencil? It makes it look like an authentic ripoff. :P - BoneheadFarker, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4"Copyright insures that the creator of the given peace of music, art etc. will be able to show his work to the public without the fear of someone stealing or copying his work, because copyright insures that you will be able to take action if your work is used without your permission."
...which should only be granted for a limited time, allowing society to use old ideas to create new ideas after things entered the public domain. Originally the limit was 25 years. Plenty of time for you to make money off your copyright. Now it's so ridiculously long and continuously extended that copyright is essentially meaningless. Never-ending copyrights stifle creativity, because a major source of inspiration is prior art. Everything created has a little piece of the past embedded in it. Even if it legitimately doesn't, someone will think it does and will sue to protect their 100 year old copyright. You can't do much creating when you're being sued for copyright infringement.
Copyrights are not the problem. Eternal copyrights are the problem... - DrCyclops, on 06/14/2009, -1/+5"Jobs are being lost, mortgages defaulted on, kids pulled out of school[...]"
Also, the VCR will put the American film industry out of business, the inheritance tax causes farmers to lose their farms, and welfare queens make millions of dollars a year by having lots of illegitimate babies. -
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