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The piratebay owners found guilty
« on: April 17, 2009, 09:22:35 AM »
Well I can't say I'm happy or sad about this. Part of me thought they might actually have a compelling case but when I saw the images a while back of them setting there in court looking like they were on spring break out for lunch I sort of figured they didn't have much of a chance. It's one thing to operate a web site that is in a gray area but to go into court to defend yourself with an obvious "I don't really care" attitude then you get what you have coming.

To everyone who has an attitude about downloading illegal content and tries to justify it then we now have a legal case bigger than any other to point to.

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"The Stockholm district court has today convicted the four people charged with promoting other people's infringement of copyright laws," the court said in a statement.

The four defendants in the case, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, were each sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.56 million) in damages.

http://www.thelocal.se/18908.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8003799.stm
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    Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
    « Reply #1 on: April 17, 2009, 10:02:04 AM »
    That is an interesting case.  Thanks for posting.

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    Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
    « Reply #2 on: April 17, 2009, 10:17:21 AM »
    what a stark contrast to their posts claiming "YOU'LL NEVER CATCH US. STOP TRYING".


    ha ha ha. Guess they were wrong.


    But- why does it say, on the site, "Epic win"? That doesn't make sense... Unless it's some metaphorical pithy form of winning that involves losing first... but I'm probably breathing far more literative essay into it then it deserves.
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    Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
    « Reply #3 on: April 17, 2009, 10:43:11 AM »
    I can see, the site is still up: http://thepiratebay.org/
    They say:
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    Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
    « Reply #4 on: April 17, 2009, 01:29:46 PM »
    It's called arrogance. The same arrogance they displayed in court and it cost them one year in prison and 30 million kronor ($3.56 million) in damages.

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      Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
      « Reply #5 on: April 17, 2009, 02:48:57 PM »
      So like are people still allowed to use torrents from this site?

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      Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
      « Reply #6 on: April 17, 2009, 03:07:00 PM »
      I'm simply curious why the site is up.

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      Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
      « Reply #7 on: April 17, 2009, 03:28:22 PM »
      I'm not a layer but I "think" that as long as the case in in appeals then their assets, website included, will still be in the control of the owners and not the court or lawyers or whoever.

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      Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
      « Reply #8 on: April 17, 2009, 04:54:40 PM »
      Here is a good write up on what happened and where things now stand. The Pirate Bay Verdict and the Future of File Sharing

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        Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
        « Reply #9 on: April 17, 2009, 08:42:55 PM »
        I don't see why people need to keep taking thepiratebay to court.  It is only a website!  I mean, it may have illegal movies,operating systems, ect, but isn't that what their site is know for?
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        Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
        « Reply #10 on: April 17, 2009, 08:44:54 PM »
        wow. I'm not sure how to respond to that while still being polite.
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          Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
          « Reply #11 on: April 17, 2009, 08:48:09 PM »
          Thank god maybe the will go after limewire next. If you don't work for it than you should not own it. Except if it is in the gnu public license.
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          Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
          « Reply #12 on: April 17, 2009, 08:52:39 PM »
          I don't see why people need to keep taking thepiratebay to court.  It is only a website!  I mean, it may have illegal movies,operating systems, ect, but isn't that what their site is know for?

          So I guess that same logic can apply to certain forbidden types of pornographic imagery?


          "I don't know why they keep taking child porn sites to court, it is only a website! I mean it may have illegal images but isn't that what the site is for?"



          It's also a similar reason they still charge people with murder for killing a person with a gun. I'm sure you find that a bit ridiculous since you know- "handguns are made for killing- they ain't no good for nothing else." <---(can anybody place this quote ;D)?
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            Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
            « Reply #13 on: April 17, 2009, 09:07:04 PM »
            Well, okay so child porn is a bad thing.  But it's not like I have ever downloaded anything fro the pirate bay!  I wouldn't know what it is really like!  Same with child porn!  I've never sen it before!
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            Re: Thepiratebay owners found guilty
            « Reply #14 on: April 17, 2009, 09:16:24 PM »
            Well, okay so child porn is a bad thing.  But it's not like I have ever downloaded anything fro the pirate bay!  I wouldn't know what it is really like!  Same with child porn!  I've never sen it before!


            What you said was basically, if something was designed for something,  that "something" cannot be illegal, regardless of what it is.


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