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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. |
Did you see the interview with one of the founders of "The Pirate Bay" on last night's BBC News, Moejoe?
Quote: "I don't care about the law. If I see something I want, I take it. Because I can."
That doesn't strike me as the attitude of a "rock star"; more the attitude of a spoiled kid (and three of them are just kids) who has never had to learn the realities of life: that you can't have everything that you want, instantly. That you have to work and save up your money and BUY stuff that you want.
These are not "heroes". They're a group of kids who want "to get free stuff". And now they've learned that there are consequences to their actions, and that they are not "above the law", as they so obviously consider themselves to be. Perhaps, after their prison sentences, they'll grow up a bit and learn that you can't take whatever you want, just because you "can".