Judge Sentences Pirate Bay Employees

#1 garmanma

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Posted 23 April 2009 - 04:20 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20090417/bs_nf/...1o7f7Y9bR4jtBAF

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Posted 23 April 2009 - 05:29 PM

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Posted 23 April 2009 - 07:08 PM

Sounds like they are going to fight it to the bitter end.

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Posted 23 April 2009 - 08:09 PM

id like to make sure that people know that I do not support piracy, never would. but this story also deserves the appropriate breaking news: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090423/tc..._20090423161048

interesting information.

keep in mind, that pirated software makes up a huge amount of the malware that we see here, im only in training now, but i can see an obvious trend

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Posted 23 April 2009 - 09:26 PM

Judge Norstroem may have been biased.

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Norstroem is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association,

Bad mistake by prosecutors.

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Posted 24 April 2009 - 08:59 AM

its a shame ='/ although there are rumours about a retrial

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Posted 24 April 2009 - 12:49 PM

Although I don't use torrents, I'm still sad to see them get in trouble like this...

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Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay makes it possible to skirt copyright fees and share music, film and computer game files using bit torrent technology, or peer-to-peer links offered on the site. None of the material can be found on The Pirate Bay server itself.

If this is the case, they can't really get in trouble... They aren't hosting the files, they simply index the torrents.

What makes me mad is there are quite a few torrent sites out there that make you pay for membership and Pirate Bay is free (from what I know) and those other sites aren't getting in trouble at all!

If Pirate Bay moves to an Offshore Host (if they aren't on one already) they probably wouldn't have this going on...

I also hear that BitTorrent is run by the government... They should've noticed downloads from all these other servers... Goes to show you what a crappy government we got.

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Posted 24 April 2009 - 01:57 PM

dancingcactus27, on Apr 24 2009, 01:49 PM, said:

I also hear that BitTorrent is run by the government... They should've noticed downloads from all these other servers... Goes to show you what a crappy government we got.

im not sure where you heard that, but its incorrect.

wikipedia said:

Programmer Bram Cohen designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation on July 2, 2001.[2] It is now maintained by Cohen's company BitTorrent, Inc. There are numerous BitTorrent clients available for a variety of computing platforms. According to isoHunt, the total amount of shared content is currently more than 1.1 petabytes.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)

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Posted 24 April 2009 - 02:12 PM

Ye well the trial-outcome surprised alot of people and it seems the judge wasnt fair either. As the judge was member of anti-piracy groups. There are rumours about a retrial, which is likely to come.

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Posted 25 April 2009 - 01:03 AM

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Posted 25 April 2009 - 11:13 PM

I was reading an article during trial that the prosecution dropped half of what they were suing for because they didn't understand the technology. And they brought up the fact that google can be used as a bit torrent search engine.

Its like suing google for having an index of some identity theft site. Google has no hand in the identity theft site just index's it.

I hope they get a retrial. That is ridiculous.

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Posted 26 April 2009 - 12:01 AM

Next thing you know everybody will be getting sued for using Google.

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Posted 26 April 2009 - 10:53 PM

Eh, I don't like that site very much...

Technically, they aren't moving the data, and therefore they should not be able to be sued by law. It is just an index. They are being charged for copyright infringement though, which if they delved into the law, they might be able to sneak around it.

I like to see people reap their rewards, but I know many people pirate things for different reasons, especially software/games. The internet is changing times, to say the least.

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Posted 28 April 2009 - 08:35 AM

Even if they take down TPB there's always going to be a new site coming up. Didn't they get the point when metallica started all that napster bullbleep. The public is ALWAYS going to find a way to share music, movies, and other data. It's just the way it is. I just think it's such a waste of more money to try and stop them. Because if i can't find something on TPB, ill just go to demonoid, or torrentspy or torrentz.com...the possibilities are endless.

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Posted 28 April 2009 - 10:14 AM

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Torrentspy is down for more than a year already my friend xD, but ye there are tons of alternatives, however ive read that the piratebay TRACKER tracks about 90% of the torrent-p2p, someone would have to take that over.

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