The Pirate Bay in Legal Soup, Owners Fined and Jailed

[mtosev]

does anyone remember suprnova.org? it was a slovenian site and the guy got a house raid and after that he abandoned the site

 

[DrPepper]

Morals are not a set of rules written in stone, my morals are clearly different to yours which one of us is wrong?

Yeah but thats pretty much capitilism's morals.

 

[DaMulta]

I think gamecopyworld has more of a right of being sued then piratebay.

 

[mtosev]

For the last time...The server is located in Africa someplace so they CAN'T shut it down.
Most of the servers like the pirate bay server are located in countries like that.

am i stupid or something? Whois says the server is in Sweden?
http://www.whois.net/whois/thepiratebay.org

 

[DaedalusHelios]

I think gamecopyworld has more of a right of being sued then piratebay.

Ssssshhhhh don't talk about Gamecopyworld

Thats rules one through three to GameCopyWorld.

am i stupid or something? Whois says the server is in Sweden?
http://www.whois.net/whois/thepiratebay.org

I am sure they have more than one.

 

[KainXS]

not too sure about cracks, theres not anything wrong with using them unless you pirated the game, I remember when I had oblivion when I first got it back in the the far far away, the game would crash when I tried to start it, take out the cd and it would say put in the cd, crack to the rescue.

 

[tomkaten]

The way I see this, most people who seem to support these "pirates" are often those who are sick of living in a world where we're constantly lied to, where vendors advertise 90% chemical "potato-chips" as the ideal food for your kid, where McDonald's sells Happy Meals to children and openly lie in those sheets of papers attached to the tray about their "natural" products. Riiight...

I'm one of those people I've mentioned. I'm sick of false commercials, of companies praising movies and software that I would never spend a dime on, of these recording moguls thinking they own this world and of governments condoning their actions.

You have to be a fucking cynic to want to be able to rip me of my money by openly lying to me, but at the same time expect me to be the model citizen and just spend, spend, spend on every piece of worthless material out there.

The matter is a lot more complex, I know, but I just had to get that off my chest.

 

[Polarman]

1 organization down, 1 million to go.

 

[KainXS]

The way I see this, most people who seem to support these "pirates" are often those who are sick of living in a world where we're constantly lied to, where vendors advertise 90% chemical "potato-chips" as the ideal food for your kid, where McDonald's sells Happy Meals to children and openly lie in those sheets of papers attached to the tray about their "natural" products. Riiight...

I'm one of those people I've mentioned. I'm sick of false commercials, of companies praising movies and software that I would never spend a dime on, of these recording moguls thinking they own this world and of governments condoning their actions.

You have to be a fucking cynic to want to be able to rip me of my money by openly lying to me, but at the same time expect me to be the model citizen and just spend, spend, spend on every piece of worthless material out there.

The matter is a lot more complex, I know, but I just had to get that off my chest.

its funny you mentioned potato chips, I bought a big bag of sour cream chips for a dollar 25 yesterday and the dam bag had like 6 chips in it, i was so mad

no joke, it seems thats the case nowadays, gettin ripped off is normal now

I reemember when i was young you couldn't download anythin cause AOL always kicked you off though, these are the times I guess

 

[1c3d0g]

Good that their in jail.
Its their site, they own it and made it and SHOULD take responsibility.
If illegale stuff is on there, they should remove it.


BTW, what is the point of torrents anyway?
What legal purpose does it serve that you can not do in another way?

How much did they pay you to write this crap? Do you seriously think that one lousy court ruling is going to end file-sharing? You are as delusional as your corporate puppets are. :shadedshu

P.S. I'm a pirate too...whoohoo...careful...

 

[pantherx12]

Just saw the bbc report on this, I was very disappointed and a bit miffed was very sensationalist and biased.

Bad beeb.

 

[alexp999]

How much did they pay you to write this crap? Do you seriously think that one lousy court ruling is going to end file-sharing? You are as delusional as your corporate puppets are. :shadedshu

P.S. I'm a pirate too...whoohoo...careful...

Please dont make this personal.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so long as what is said does not violate any forum rules.

 

[mtosev]

something is seriously wrong with Sweden http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/04/04/swedish-pirates-to-run-in-eu-elections/

i LoLeD

 

[MoonPig]

My dad randomly mentioned this today, so i looked on the news and they exaggerated everything, haha.

5mins later i was on the site watching the videos they had uploaded about the trial.

Their right though, their not going to go down for it. If they did, you could just sue Google.com for linking to torrents.

 

[IcrushitI]

My dad randomly mentioned this today, so i looked on the news and they exaggerated everything, haha.

5mins later i was on the site watching the videos they had uploaded about the trial.

Their right though, their not going to go down for it. If they did, you could just sue Google.com for linking to torrents.

Big difference, goggle has millions to pay for the best lawyers. Goggle can stall this untill the New World Order comes about. The big question here is who appoints the Judges their seats. Here in Canada the Government of the day appoints the Federal and Supreme Court judges without even a committee to check their credentials. Provincially, again, its the government of the day. The people have no say. So depending if the government of the day happens to be from the left or the right that is the decisions that will come down. Many many years ago Democracy meant something other then what it means today. Once the people have used their democratic right to vote which is about all that is left of peoples democracy the dictatorship at the top runs the show after that. Break time.

 

[alexp999]

Wow since when did it become Goggle?

Sorry couldnt help myself. It will be interesting to see how this progress, I believe they are appealing.

 

[ascstinger]

I'd be more supportive of the proceedings if the money were to go to the people who created the content, not a few rich fatcat's in Publishing/Production HQ.

Maybe they're just jealous of everyone else getting government handouts

 

[Relayer]

Awarded 3.5 million? Where did that figure come from? If Pirate Bay is indeed liable for the losses incurred do to people using their service, seems to me the amount would be much higher than that.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

from henry morgan days til now, im going to port royal tonight!

 

[Easy Rhino]

I would like to know how much the RIAA, MPAA and software companies have spent on lawyers, media coverage, etc. These pirate bay guys will go to jail, they will get out early and they will be unable to pay that massive fine.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

I would like to know how much the RIAA, MPAA and software companies have spent on lawyers, media coverage, etc. These pirate bay guys will go to jail, they will get out early and they will be unable to pay that massive fine.

massive waste of time ftl?

 

[Braveheart]

ok so hypothetically speaking...say i just pirated a very expensive software product off of piratebay...will it now be easier for the Gmen to come get me cause they are knockin' up their site?

 

[Salsoolo]

they need to understand that every pirated mp3 isnt a lost sale.
so we should expect their revenue go up then?!

 

[tkpenalty]

The days of internet freedom are limited now, with countries adopting anti-piracy legislation and undemocratic (for those who are in a democracy) content filtering.



Pirates Versus Ninjas.

 

[r9]

This thread is so F$#%#$%UP. This is so 50:50 situation. I definitely have no firm opinion. I could argue both ways.
What about this: The companies make the money they make. They charge 50$ for a game and make profit of 50 milions. They invested half of that for creating the game so they are happy. But those 50 mil come from 10% that bought the game other 90% pirated the game because of the price. If the game costed 10$ then 50% would buy the game. And now everything is the same just the pirating is less by 50%. But the reality is that companies like every one to buy the game at 50$ so they could earn 1000% instead of 100% whitch is enough.
And some people can afford the software but like to use pirated software so they could feel smart. But if you pirate something that is 5$ instead of 50$ there is not much satisfaction in that.