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Then there's all the abandoned work, or other things nobody cares about commercially. Why does society need to lose access to those too, just because they were in the same place as a Justin Bieber song? |
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The judge decided that they were breaking UK copyright law. This was a civil case, therefore the only question the judge was required to answer was whether or not they were breaking civil law. It would need a criminal trial to determine whether or not they're breaking criminal law, and since the sites in question lie outside the jurisdiction of the British legal system, that's unlikely to occur.
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You and I would say there's nothing wrong with a content creator choosing to use alternative means of distribution if they wish. However, the entrenched distribution industry would strongly disagree. Piracy is just a red herring, eliminating competition is the real goal. |
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If creators want to distribute their own content legally, they don't need to use places like ThePirateBay to do it. Sticking to music, what %age of music content on TPB do you think is legally distributed by its owner? |
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What other site has anywhere near the same footfall as TPB had in its unrestricted days? There's no point having something free if nobody ever sees it.
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