The Pirate Bay Trial (now in perspective!)
Mar 16/09
If you are a dedicated torrent user or at all interested in the future of file-sharing and you HAVEN'T been following TPB trial, Torrent Freak has an excellent summary of the trial (which is one of the longest ever in Swedish history), and I highly recommend checking it out. It's got be to at least as influential as the Napster trial in terms of copyright infringement lawsuits:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9
Not to reiterate the many (highy valid) points made in the comment sections of all these articles, I will stick to one new point. There is a serious problem with the way emphasis is placed on these kinds of issues (i.e. copyright infringement). I don't want to get political, but why is TPB being sued for hosting torrents that *may* have had a negative impact on the entertainment industry, while the moronic American capitalists who came up with the nonsensical idea of derivatives and have directly damaged most industries in countries across the globe walk free with their pockets full? Where is the justice in that? It's like saying wikipedia has caused book, bibliography, and encyclopedia sales to decline. Why do people resist sharing information? We should be embracing the age of communication. It's unbelievable how poorly designed not just the physical, but the political and economic worlds really are.
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9
Not to reiterate the many (highy valid) points made in the comment sections of all these articles, I will stick to one new point. There is a serious problem with the way emphasis is placed on these kinds of issues (i.e. copyright infringement). I don't want to get political, but why is TPB being sued for hosting torrents that *may* have had a negative impact on the entertainment industry, while the moronic American capitalists who came up with the nonsensical idea of derivatives and have directly damaged most industries in countries across the globe walk free with their pockets full? Where is the justice in that? It's like saying wikipedia has caused book, bibliography, and encyclopedia sales to decline. Why do people resist sharing information? We should be embracing the age of communication. It's unbelievable how poorly designed not just the physical, but the political and economic worlds really are.
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