Pirate Bay founders convicted

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amen to that

They were convicted for a crime they themselves have not committed.

By the same token, and extension, Google are guilty by providing search engine links to torrent sites, and the music industry is guilty of damaging the hearing of anyone that should listen to a record too loud and just as liable for prosecution.

It’s a really quite bizarre conviction.

Truly is sad, fucking entertainment industry like they dont make enough money. A recent study shows that people that illegally download music, movies etc spent more money on legal downloads of entertainment. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4718249.stm) So what the fuck are they bitching about. This shit really pisses me off.

That’s like taking Totally Crap offline ‘cause I post a link with child porn:p
Technically it’s not their fault that someone is posting illegal shit on their site:p

They got what they deserved, they created a site designed to aid piracy.

This has already gone straight to appeal. It could keep going for years. There’s certainly nothing in Swedish law to justify the punishment they got for this crime even if they do stay guilty.

At the end of the day, the Pirate Bay stays on line and is on decentralised servers.

In reality, the best outcome for the music/movie cartels will get is that they will inadvertantly give a lot of publicity to file sharing, they will become even more hated by their own customers, and the next generation of P2P clients arriving will have more encryption and obfuscation that ever before, and will be totally decentralised.  Just look at the way things like Oneswarm is going.  Once again the media cartels will crow about a great battle victory, but it’s actually another step towards them losing the war as the technology moves further and further away from being controlled by anyone or any organisation.

Ask the music/movie/games industry one question

Ask the technology advances and downloading gets easier. Do you think that more or less people will download music/movies/games

Fucking idiots

Spotify has it right on the money

All your going to do is get Chinese language websites taking up the strain

Vive la revolution

Hmmm… Why don’t they try going after Russian or Chinese sites??? Haha - fuckers…

Time for the Bay to move to Malaysia!

To be fair they prob should be convicted and their attitude after the conviction was announced will have done nothing to help their case one bit!

tbp continually waves their dicks in government and industry faces and they do sort of reap what they sow.

file sharing is definitely the future, though. I agree with jd. nobody likes “the establishment” anyway.