Nice
ad hominem there, HarryT.
Even if they go to jail for one year, they'll be martyrs of the new movement. Actually, I think a single year of jail would be a very good advertisment for these guys. Good job.
Meanwhile,
Pirate Bay Supporters Throw Street Party in Moscow
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The organizers of ‘The Street Pirate Party’ are confident that the final verdict in the trial will demonstrate the relevance of justice not only to The Pirate Bay, but also file-sharing as a whole. “The trial of the Pirate Bay is an excellent example of how ugly, stupid companies motivated only by their greed and inertia, want to prevent people sharing music, movies, or anything, on a purely altruistic basis,” they said in a statement.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-s...moscow-090416/
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It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, Monticello, August 13, 1813