Pirate Bay Judge Exposed as Member of Pro-Copyright Groups
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/pirateconflict.html
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The upshot is that the judge in the case has flagrant conflicts of interest in the outcome of the case and should have recused himself but did not.
And so the law is a whore, again. Same as it ever was...
I wish I could claim surprise but I am not surprised at all. This case has stunk like this from the first:
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Pirate Bay Investigator Rewarded by Warner Bros.?
http://www.p2pon.com/2008/04/25/pirate-bay-investigator-rewarded-by-warner-bros/
Showing posts with label The Pirate Bay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Pirate Bay. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Pirate Bay: Guilty!
Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10224201-93.html
In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial, many Swedish law experts say they consider Friday's high-profile guilty verdict severe but fair. Very few had predicted the verdict before it was handed out.
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My prediction was this:
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-innocent-or-guilty-090303/
They will be found guilty. The copyright monoliths will therefore get the outcome they wanted and their much desired publicity.
The case will then be vacated on appeal with almost no fanfare except via geek-media on the internet.
Win-Win.
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But here's the real problem with the whole thing and why The Pirate Bay is really just a scapegoat. "Normals" simply don't understand the following information.
A lot of the MPAA/RIAA excitement on this matter stems from file sharing online - they really hate that because it occurs without any money going to them. The Pirate Bay was found guilty of facilitating the criminal act of file sharing. What they specifically do is give people somewhere to post links (called "torrents") to the media actually housed on the millions of computers used by the users posting the actual links. The Pirate Bay itself does not house media nor do they generate any torrents, they just provide somewhere to exchange those links called torrent files. In all reality they are just a search engine for files of various types - a user searchs for torrents linking to what they want.
I know of a different site that allows something very similar: Google.
Let's say I wanted to piss off the RIAA and link you to a nice and tasty file of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The RIAA would object because this would happen without any money going to them. How could I do this?
Enter the following search in Google:
intitle:"index.of" (mp3) stairway.to.heaven -htm -html -php --asp -cf -jsp
Here's is the actual returned result set:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=intitle:%22index.of%22+(mp3)+stairway.to.heaven+-htm+-html+-php+--asp+-cf+-jsp&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Of those returned results, here's a likely good hit (number 8):
http://hobojeu.free.fr/d-a/ost/stairway%20to%20heaven/
I just used Google to help me link you to an "illicite" MP3 file. I didn't post that file there, but I used a Google link to find it. Sound familiar?
Is Google now guilty of the same crime as The Pirate Bay? Inquiring minds want to know...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10224201-93.html
In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial, many Swedish law experts say they consider Friday's high-profile guilty verdict severe but fair. Very few had predicted the verdict before it was handed out.
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My prediction was this:
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-innocent-or-guilty-090303/
They will be found guilty. The copyright monoliths will therefore get the outcome they wanted and their much desired publicity.
The case will then be vacated on appeal with almost no fanfare except via geek-media on the internet.
Win-Win.
------
But here's the real problem with the whole thing and why The Pirate Bay is really just a scapegoat. "Normals" simply don't understand the following information.
A lot of the MPAA/RIAA excitement on this matter stems from file sharing online - they really hate that because it occurs without any money going to them. The Pirate Bay was found guilty of facilitating the criminal act of file sharing. What they specifically do is give people somewhere to post links (called "torrents") to the media actually housed on the millions of computers used by the users posting the actual links. The Pirate Bay itself does not house media nor do they generate any torrents, they just provide somewhere to exchange those links called torrent files. In all reality they are just a search engine for files of various types - a user searchs for torrents linking to what they want.
I know of a different site that allows something very similar: Google.
Let's say I wanted to piss off the RIAA and link you to a nice and tasty file of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The RIAA would object because this would happen without any money going to them. How could I do this?
Enter the following search in Google:
intitle:"index.of" (mp3) stairway.to.heaven -htm -html -php --asp -cf -jsp
Here's is the actual returned result set:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=intitle:%22index.of%22+(mp3)+stairway.to.heaven+-htm+-html+-php+--asp+-cf+-jsp&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Of those returned results, here's a likely good hit (number 8):
http://hobojeu.free.fr/d-a/ost/stairway%20to%20heaven/
I just used Google to help me link you to an "illicite" MP3 file. I didn't post that file there, but I used a Google link to find it. Sound familiar?
Is Google now guilty of the same crime as The Pirate Bay? Inquiring minds want to know...
Friday, February 27, 2009
P2P File Sharing is Really NOT the Problem
This article is by far the best article I have ever read explaining why file sharing on the Internet is actually not the problem the various entertainment industry groups claim of it:
How To Kill The Music Industry
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-kill-the-music-industry-090227/
If you look at their annual reports you can plainly see that the music industry vastly overstates their claimed sales declines. Markets do not grow forever and Jens Roland's article does a good job of explaining what people are doing with their money instead of buying music and going to the movies.
A few weeks back a younger relative of mine - approx age 20 - put a question to me that had been perplexing him: "Why would you want to own a CD or DVD?"
Maybe that's an even pithier answer to what ails the RIAA and the MPAA. Any intelligent reply to that question would open up the door to a new business model. The business model of selling physical, easily damaged media that must occasionally be replaced or updated to a new media player is ABSOLUTELY over. Dead. Gone. Paul is buried...
We are going to have all kinds of digital media on tap sooner or later. Either the consumers will work it out for themselves or the industry can take part also, the choice is theirs.
But let's make one thing abundant clear: entertainment industry gatekeepers have become entirely superfluous.
How To Kill The Music Industry
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-kill-the-music-industry-090227/
If you look at their annual reports you can plainly see that the music industry vastly overstates their claimed sales declines. Markets do not grow forever and Jens Roland's article does a good job of explaining what people are doing with their money instead of buying music and going to the movies.
A few weeks back a younger relative of mine - approx age 20 - put a question to me that had been perplexing him: "Why would you want to own a CD or DVD?"
Maybe that's an even pithier answer to what ails the RIAA and the MPAA. Any intelligent reply to that question would open up the door to a new business model. The business model of selling physical, easily damaged media that must occasionally be replaced or updated to a new media player is ABSOLUTELY over. Dead. Gone. Paul is buried...
We are going to have all kinds of digital media on tap sooner or later. Either the consumers will work it out for themselves or the industry can take part also, the choice is theirs.
But let's make one thing abundant clear: entertainment industry gatekeepers have become entirely superfluous.
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