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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Well well, this is good news  The Swedish courts have just invigorated the file-sharing movement and turned the founders of the Pirate Bay into Rock Stars. Plus all the major media coverage (5 minute segment on Ch5 News in UK explaining in detail how to get "free stuff") and what you've got here is nothing but an EPIC win on the part of the Pirate Bay. They'll never see a day of jail, never pay a penny in compensation, and this will get thrown out in the Swedish higher courts just as it should have been thrown out in the first place.
Congratulations Major Media Corporations, you've just given the file sharing movement its biggest moment in the sun. This is the equivalent of arresting Mick Jagger for smoking pot. And we all know how that event turned a whole generation off the music of the Rolling Stones and smoking pot, don't we? |
Really, you want to see them turned into rock stars simply because they’re breaking the law – wow, that strikes me as dangerously irresponsible and shortsighted. Given the ubiquity of digital media, and the increasing saturation of filesharing outlets, your little dream world may very well end with writers and musicians unable to ply their trades – filesharing may save you a little money, but ultimately, that savings comes at the expense of the person responsible for writing that book, making that music, filming that movies, creating that piece of software, etc.