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| They broke no Swedish law, so why have they been arrested! |
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| Suprnova died, so we all switched to Torrentspy, Mininova, The Pirate Bay and others...There are hundreds of trackers and they only took one down. The swedish government is a Bush-licking whore, alwyas has been. |
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| Don't worry, they will be released and the site will be back up and running in no time. They've done nothing illegal |
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| Without limit pushers, there would bo no one pushing the limit, live would stagnate and degerate back to the bog from which it came. e-mail @ w1riter@yahoo.com |
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| I don't see why people can't just pay for movies, games etc. Get off of your computers and get a job. |
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| Give us a decent prize and no drm, and we will gladly pay for the stufff. |
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| Interesting how the swedish (S)ocialHypocrits think Democracy is negotiable. IT IS NOT!!! This is fascism in a nutshell. All you papers right about the Piratebay going down. How about the fact that the police confiscated the servers from isthe****.net and piratbyran.org and birdie.net and planka.nu and all other CO-Location servers which was CLEARLY MARKED as NOT having anything to do with this. I love the way media chooses not to inform about the demise of democracy.
I'm gonna vote for the Pirateparty, NOT because of copyright issues (which I couldn't care less about) simply because they're the ONLY democratic party in Sweden. |
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| All people are so naive. Its like going to the supermarket with the xeroxmachine and copy the magazines you want. Cant you get that thats not acceptable. That sites like this should be removed from the surface of earth. And that the price of a Hollywood movie would be reduced if everyone pays the price. If you want lower prices, then start pay the price. And I bet you would feel much better if you knew you didnt brake any laws. |
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| Regardless of our personal feelings about (illegal) downloading, there's no real legal reason why thepiratebay was taken down. All i can assume is that some far-reaching, law-indifferent organisation like the MPAA put huge amounts of pressure on the Swedish government. My hope is that the swedish people and their political party (Piratpartiet or 'pirate party') will sue and get the site back online with a vengeance. Not coz i like downloading movies, but because you just shouldn't put money over law... |
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| Its not the copyright law which is getting questioned ( Comment #8 ) its the reasoning behind closing the site.
Do car sales people get arrested for providing means for a ram raid ? exactly the same here.
I do not know Swedish law, however if it is similar to UK they authorities only have a limited time to withhold the hardware, and unless they find any illegal content ( which Im sure the Pirate Bay Boys are careful enough not to have on the servers! ) the equipment must be returned, in full working unaltered order. |
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| To #8...you're looking at it wrong. It's not like copying magazines at the supermarket. It's like arresting the people at Xerox for making the copy machine, or maybe the cabbie who drove you to the store.
If laws arent broken, dont make arrests. If you want to arrest people, make laws that forbid what theyre doing. And if the industry wants to curb piracy, start putting media in a format that doesnt piss people off through pricing and limiting our use of it. I don't see too many media execs suffering from lost profits... |
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| http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7610.cfm
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| The more people who pay for the item at a higher price, the lower it will become. Simple Economics surely? Pirating is causing everyone to pay the higher price, and the sooner someone sorts it out, the better. |
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| Unbelievable to see the swedish police, on the cam photage from the raid, covering the cameras before they go to action. You only do that if you need to cover up, or am I stupid and missing somehting here. This is a truely fascist tendency that must be stopped. Sad part is that the current government will use the same fascist actions to stay in power over this election as well. Makes one start to believe in armed revolution. |
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| Vive La Piratebay !
So what if a few thousand internet savvy users share files. The moneygrabbing western comglomerates who make millions from overcharging and globalising these markets should stop complaining & give a thought to those not fortunate enough to afford their extortionate fees. I say "Let the People Share". Open source and sharing knowledge without boundaries is the way forward to an equal & balanced world. Bushism & Bill-Gatesosophy only leads to wealth disparity and inequality around the globe.
Why dont these big media companies stop moaning, if the Bay & other torrent portals didnt host their files then how would the poorer masses ever see what they have to sell. They may lose a little revenue in the short term but in the longer term their audiences & potential markets will increase as those underprivaleged masses who cannot afford their prices, will learn about and experience their products and acknowledge the original source. After all, even the internet in its early days was a bit of an underground movement until 'http' made it Big Business & just look how much more money this has generated for western economies and industry.
Peace . |
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| COMMENTOR #8, you spelled "BREAK" incorrectly as "BRAKE." May want to learn proper usage of the English language, it really makes your comment more effective. The "brake" you described is used to slow the effective speed/inertia of an item/object. Your usage of "brake" is counterproductive...you are slowing the laws you seem are so protective of your financial well being. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want these people to stop downloading movies. The effect of that would be that it would lower the ticket prices, thereby reducing the revenue produced per movie. What does this mean for you? Well, from the looks of your inability to use proper English, it would appear this would result in a pay-decrease since I am probably right in my assumption that you are the ticket collector at the movie theatre. Just a hunch, but I think it's pretty likely. |
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