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The four men connected with The Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement by a Swedish court on Friday, delivering a symbolic victory in the entertainment industry’s efforts to put a stop to the sharing of copyrighted material on the internet.
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BTW, a friend has just pointed out that if linking to illegal material is illegal, then google is also illegal. Hehe.
This smells very much of political interferance - wonder what 'favours' were done in order to secure the guilty verdict?
Gah!
I for one am left wondering where the prosecution expects them to get the 30 million kronor they're supposed to pay. Despite the prosecution's ridiculous claim that they all have off shore accounts with millions on kronor in them, the operators of the TPB don't make any money off the site.
you successfully priced yourself out of business and you also provided poor quality choices for music and movies- what did they expect??
did they think people would blindly pay alot of money for crap?
Some might say that i can choose not to buy the music... fine I choose not to buy it. Dont expect me to stop finding and listening to music though.
http://rickfalkvinge.se/2009/04/17/hur-pav...n-piratpartiet/
What about the other bit torrent trackers huh? you cant charge one and send them to prison and not the next!
As people have pointed out yep you can use google to search, stick this in for example
intitle:"index.of" (mp3) "pet shop boys" -html -htm -php -asp -cf -jsp
Well im not going to stop using bittorrent, ive got no qualms atall on downloading films, tv programmes, fiiing BBC!!
these film companies and theyre CGI, CGI more CGI, crap remakes, no ideas, polished to dribble!
I really dont want to see all these fat ass record companies win either with theyre manufactured, talentless, , money money obsessed, image, gormless, young people conning, bling shaking mongoloids!
Incidentally, Google image search has been the subject of a number of cases, including in the states, and has recently been found to infringe copyright by the German courts:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081014/0038512534.shtml
Right, I'm off to report Gothenburg's Art Museum for accessory to theft by telling me where I can steal the "finsk samtida konst" (whatever the fan that is) between now and the 30th of August.
Secondly, because Google images functions as a tool to provide direct access to an image and not to a context or owner. VHW is being a tad facetious but the argument extends to the museum, Google images and to Pirate Bay. They provide these images/files/artworks in a readily stealable form, collected in once place. Whether you choose to steal them is up to you.
For a bit more on how Google images facilitates copyright theft you can read this http://ferenc.biz/articles/who-stole-my-ha...fringement-101/